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The advances in remote sensing technologies have boosted applications for Earth observation. These technologies provide multiple observations or views with different levels of information. They might contain static or temporary views with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Francisco Mena , Diego Arenas , Marlon Nuske , Andreas Dengel

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of the taxonomy and evolution of multimodal foundation models that demonstrate vision and vision-language capabilities, focusing on the transition from specialist models to general-purpose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chunyuan Li , Zhe Gan , Zhengyuan Yang , Jianwei Yang , Linjie Li , Lijuan Wang , Jianfeng Gao

Foundation models constitute a significant advancement in computer vision: after a single, albeit costly, training phase, they can address a wide array of tasks. In the field of Earth observation, over 75 remote sensing vision foundation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Pierre Adorni , Minh-Tan Pham , Stéphane May , Sébastien Lefèvre

Robot vision has greatly benefited from advancements in multimodal fusion techniques and vision-language models (VLMs). We adopt a task-oriented perspective to systematically review the applications and advancements of multimodal fusion…

Foundation models have advanced machine learning across various modalities, including images. Recently multiple teams trained foundation models specialized for remote sensing applications. This line of research is motivated by the distinct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Ani Vanyan , Alvard Barseghyan , Hakob Tamazyan , Tigran Galstyan , Vahan Huroyan , Naira Hovakimyan , Hrant Khachatrian

Effective foundation modeling in remote sensing requires spatially aligned heterogeneous modalities coupled with semantically grounded supervision, yet such resources remain limited at scale. We present GeoMeld, a large-scale multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Maram Hasan , Md Aminur Hossain , Savitra Roy , Souparna Bhowmik , Ayush V. Patel , Mainak Singha , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Muhammad Haris Khan , Biplab Banerjee

Vision foundation models have attracted significant attention for their ability to leverage large-scale unlabeled visual data. This advantage is particularly important in remote sensing, where data acquisition is costly and annotation often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hyobin Park , Minseok Seo , Dong-Geol Choi

In real-world scenarios, achieving domain adaptation and generalization poses significant challenges, as models must adapt to or generalize across unknown target distributions. Extending these capabilities to unseen multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Hao Dong , Moru Liu , Kaiyang Zhou , Eleni Chatzi , Juho Kannala , Cyrill Stachniss , Olga Fink

Recent advances in multimodal large language models(MLLMs) have led to remarkable progress in visual grounding, enabling fine-grained cross-modal alignment between textual queries and image regions. However, transferring such capabilities…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Peirong Zhang , Yidan Zhang , Luxiao Xu , Jinliang Lin , Zonghao Guo , Fengxiang Wang , Xue Yang , Kaiwen Wei , Lei Wang

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) have made remarkable progress on various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However, most methods rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Zhihang Zhong , Xue Yang

Remote sensing data is commonly used for tasks such as flood mapping, wildfire detection, or land-use studies. For each task, scientists carefully choose appropriate modalities or leverage data from purpose-built instruments. Recent work on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Joelle Hanna , Linus Scheibenreif , Damian Borth

The rapid advancement of foundation models has revolutionized visual representation learning in a self-supervised manner. However, their application in remote sensing (RS) remains constrained by a fundamental gap: existing models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Hanbo Bi , Yingchao Feng , Boyuan Tong , Mengyu Wang , Haichen Yu , Yongqiang Mao , Hao Chang , Wenhui Diao , Peijin Wang , Yue Yu , Hanyang Peng , Yehong Zhang , Kun Fu , Xian Sun

In recent years, multi-modal fusion has attracted a lot of research interest, both in academia, and in industry. Multimodal fusion entails the combination of information from a set of different types of sensors. Exploiting complementary…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Siddharth Roheda , Hamid Krim , Benjamin S. Riggan

The exploration of multimodal language models integrates multiple data types, such as images, text, language, audio, and other heterogeneity. While the latest large language models excel in text-based tasks, they often struggle to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Jiayang Wu , Wensheng Gan , Zefeng Chen , Shicheng Wan , Philip S. Yu

With the extremely rapid advances in remote sensing (RS) technology, a great quantity of Earth observation (EO) data featuring considerable and complicated heterogeneity is readily available nowadays, which renders researchers an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Jiaxin Li , Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Jing Yao , Ke Zheng , Bing Zhang , Jocelyn Chanussot

Prior studies on Remote Sensing Foundation Model (RSFM) reveal immense potential towards a generic model for Earth Observation. Nevertheless, these works primarily focus on a single modality without temporal and geo-context modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xin Guo , Jiangwei Lao , Bo Dang , Yingying Zhang , Lei Yu , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Ziyuan Huang , Kang Wu , Dingxiang Hu , Huimei He , Jian Wang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang , Yansheng Li

Multimodal machine learning is a vibrant multi-disciplinary research field that aims to design computer agents with intelligent capabilities such as understanding, reasoning, and learning through integrating multiple communicative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Paul Pu Liang , Amir Zadeh , Louis-Philippe Morency

A robust Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for Earth Observation should maintain consistent interpretation and reasoning under realistic input variations. However, current Remote Sensing MLLMs fail to meet this requirement. Trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rui Min , Liang Yao , Shiyu Miao , Shengxiang Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Shimin Di , Fan Liu

Multimodal remote sensing data, acquired from diverse sensors, offer a comprehensive and integrated perspective of the Earth's surface. Leveraging multimodal fusion techniques, semantic segmentation enables detailed and accurate analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xianping Ma , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Bo Huang

Deep learning methods have revolutionized speech recognition, image recognition, and natural language processing since 2010. Each of these tasks involves a single modality in their input signals. However, many applications in the artificial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Chao Zhang , Zichao Yang , Xiaodong He , Li Deng