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High-resolution images for remote sensing applications are often not affordable or accessible, especially when in need of a wide temporal span of recordings. Given the easy access to low-resolution (LR) images from satellites, many remote…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-19 Matheus Barros Pereira , Jefersson Alex dos Santos

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated effective perception and reasoning capabilities on general-domain tasks, leading to growing interest in their application to Earth observation. However, a systematic benchmark for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Ronghao Fu , Haoran Liu , Weijie Zhang , Zhiwen Lin , Xiao Yang , Peng Zhang , Bo Yang

Recent advances in natural-domain multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated effective spatial reasoning through visual and textual prompting. However, their direct transfer to remote sensing (RS) is hindered by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Yaqian Ning , Tong Zhang , Yin Zhuang , Shijian Lu , He Chen , Jun Li , Xuerui Mao

Recent advances in reinforcement learning (RL) have delivered strong reasoning capabilities in natural image domains, yet their potential for Earth Observation (EO) remains largely unexplored. EO tasks introduce unique challenges, spanning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Mustansar Fiaz , Hiyam Debary , Paolo Fraccaro , Danda Paudel , Luc Van Gool , Fahad Khan , Salman Khan

Semantic segmentation of remote sensing images plays a vital role in a wide range of Earth Observation applications, such as land use land cover mapping, environment monitoring, and sustainable development. Driven by rapid developments in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Libo Wang , Sijun Dong , Ying Chen , Xiaoliang Meng , Shenghui Fang , Songlin Fei

Existing visual perception systems focus on region-level segmentation in single-turn dialogues, relying on complex and explicit query instructions. Such systems cannot reason at the pixel level and comprehend dynamic user intent that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Dexian Cai , Xiaocui Yang , Yongkang Liu , Daling Wang , Shi Feng , Yifei Zhang , Soujanya Poria

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have undergone rapid development in advancing geospatial scene understanding. Recent studies have sought to enhance the reasoning capabilities of remote sensing MLLMs, typically through cold-start…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Di Wang , Shunyu Liu , Wentao Jiang , Fengxiang Wang , Yi Liu , Xiaolei Qin , Zhiming Luo , Chaoyang Zhou , Haonan Guo , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

The Reference Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) task generates segmentation masks for specified objects in images based on textual descriptions, which has attracted widespread attention and research interest. Current RRSIS methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shuyang Li , Shuang Wang , Zhuangzhuang Sun , Jing Xiao

Existing reasoning segmentation approaches typically fine-tune multimodal large language models (MLLMs) using image-text pairs and corresponding mask labels. However, they exhibit limited generalization to out-of-distribution scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Song Wang , Gongfan Fang , Lingdong Kong , Xiangtai Li , Jianyun Xu , Sheng Yang , Qiang Li , Jianke Zhu , Xinchao Wang

As hubs of human activity, urban surfaces consist of a wealth of semantic entities. Segmenting these various entities from satellite imagery is crucial for a range of downstream applications. Current advanced segmentation models can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Yu Wang , Yi Wang , Rui Dai , Yujie Wang , Kaikui Liu , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansheng Li

Segmentation models can recognize a pre-defined set of objects in images. However, models that can reason over complex user queries that implicitly refer to multiple objects of interest are still in their infancy. Recent advances in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Jerome Quenum , Wen-Han Hsieh , Tsung-Han Wu , Ritwik Gupta , Trevor Darrell , David M. Chan

Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Zhenhua Ning , Zhuotao Tian , Shaoshuai Shi , Guangming Lu , Daojing He , Wenjie Pei , Li Jiang

Despite recent progress in text-prompt-based medical image segmentation, these methods are limited to single-round dialogues and fail to support multi-round reasoning, which is important for medical education scenarios. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Qinyue Tong , Ziqian Lu , Jun Liu , Rui Zuo , Zheming Lu , Yueming Jin

This work tackles the problem of geo-localization with a new paradigm using a large vision-language model (LVLM) augmented with human inference knowledge. A primary challenge here is the scarcity of data for training the LVLM - existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ling Li , Yu Ye , Yao Zhou , Bingchuan Jiang , Wei Zeng

Recent segmentation models couple large language models (LLMs) with mask decoders to ground complex language expressions into masks, yet their instructions remain target-referential: they describe, constrain, or imply the region to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yuchen Guo , Junli Gong , Hongmin Cai , Yiu-ming Cheung , Weifeng Su

The application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing (RS) image understanding has achieved notable progress, demonstrating the basic ability to recognize and describe geographical entities. However, existing RS-VLMs are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Xianzhi Ma , Jianhui Li , Changhua Pei , Hao Liu

While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly advanced remote sensing interpretation, enabling them to perform complex, step-by-step reasoning remains highly challenging. Recent efforts to introduce Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Lang Sun , Ronghao Fu , Zhuoran Duan , Haoran Liu , Xueyan Liu , Bo Yang

We present SegLLM, a novel multi-round interactive reasoning segmentation model that enhances LLM-based segmentation by exploiting conversational memory of both visual and textual outputs. By leveraging a mask-aware multimodal LLM, SegLLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 XuDong Wang , Shaolun Zhang , Shufan Li , Konstantinos Kallidromitis , Kehan Li , Yusuke Kato , Kazuki Kozuka , Trevor Darrell

Video reasoning segmentation (VRS) endeavors to delineate referred objects in videos guided by implicit instructions that encapsulate human intent and temporal logic. Previous approaches leverage large vision language models (LVLMs) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Sitong Gong , Lu Zhang , Yunzhi Zhuge , Xu Jia , Pingping Zhang , Huchuan Lu

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation provides a flexible and fine-grained framework for remote sensing scene analysis via vision-language collaborative interpretation. Current approaches predominantly utilize a three-stage pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Keyan Chen , Chenyang Liu , Bowen Chen , Jiafan Zhang , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi