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Grounding language to a navigating agent's observations can leverage pretrained multimodal foundation models to match perceptions to object or event descriptions. However, previous approaches remain disconnected from environment mapping,…

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Aligning ground-level imagery with geo-registered satellite maps is crucial for mapping, navigation, and situational awareness, yet remains challenging under large viewpoint gaps or when GPS is unreliable. We introduce Wrivinder, a…

A semantic map of the road scene, covering fundamental road elements, is an essential ingredient in autonomous driving systems. It provides important perception foundations for positioning and planning when rendered in the Bird's-Eye-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Siyu Li , Kailun Yang , Hao Shi , Jiaming Zhang , Jiacheng Lin , Zhifeng Teng , Zhiyong Li

Recent advances in deep-learning based methods for image matching have demonstrated their superiority over traditional algorithms, enabling correspondence estimation in challenging scenes with significant differences in viewing angles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Rahul Deshmukh , Avinash Kak

Multi-modal remote sensing images are vital for Earth observation, yet complete paired observations are often scarce in practice. Existing generative methods commonly address this problem through isolated pairwise modality translation, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhiping Yu , Chenyang Liu , Jinqi Cao , Qinzhe Yang , Siwei Yu , Zhengxia Zou , Zhenwei Shi

Satellites continuously generate massive volumes of data, particularly for Earth observation, including satellite image time series (SITS). However, most deep learning models are designed to process either entire images or complete time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Leandro Stival , Ricardo da Silva Torres , Helio Pedrini

Localization in GNSS-denied and GNSS-degraded environments is a challenge for the safe widespread deployment of autonomous vehicles. Such GNSS-challenged environments require alternative methods for robust localization. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Shounak Sural , Ragunathan Rajkumar

The overdraw problem of scatterplots seriously interferes with the visual tasks. Existing methods, such as data sampling, node dispersion, subspace mapping, and visual abstraction, cannot guarantee the correspondence and consistency between…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Zeyu Li , Ruizhi Shi , Yan Liu , Shizhuo Long , Ziheng Guo , Shichao Jia , Jiawan Zhang

Self-supervised learning holds great promise for remote sensing, but standard self-supervised methods must be adapted to the unique characteristics of Earth observation data. We take a step in this direction by conducting a comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Antoine Labatie , Michael Vaccaro , Nina Lardiere , Anatol Garioud , Nicolas Gonthier

We present MatSwap, a method to transfer materials to designated surfaces in an image photorealistically. Such a task is non-trivial due to the large entanglement of material appearance, geometry, and lighting in a photograph. In the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Ivan Lopes , Valentin Deschaintre , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Raoul de Charette

In this paper, we propose OpenSatMap, a fine-grained, high-resolution satellite dataset for large-scale map construction. Map construction is one of the foundations of the transportation industry, such as navigation and autonomous driving.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Hongbo Zhao , Lue Fan , Yuntao Chen , Haochen Wang , yuran Yang , Xiaojuan Jin , Yixin Zhang , Gaofeng Meng , Zhaoxiang Zhang

Multimodal remote sensing image (MRSI) matching is pivotal for cross-modal fusion, localization, and object detection, but it faces severe challenges due to geometric, radiometric, and viewpoint discrepancies across imaging modalities.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Peihao Wu , Yongxiang Yao , Wenfei Zhang , Dong Wei , Yi Wan , Yansheng Li , Yongjun Zhang

This paper introduces BIMCaP, a novel method to integrate mobile 3D sparse LiDAR data and camera measurements with pre-existing building information models (BIMs), enhancing fast and accurate indoor mapping with affordable sensors. BIMCaP…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Miguel Arturo Vega Torres , Anna Ribic , Borja García de Soto , André Borrmann

Aircraft-based surveying to collect airborne electromagnetic data is a key method to image large swaths of the Earth's surface in pursuit of better knowledge of aquifer systems. Despite many years of advancements, 3D inversion still poses…

A large variety of geospatial data layers is available around the world ranging from remotely-sensed raster data like satellite imagery, digital elevation models, predicted land cover maps, and human-annotated data, to data derived from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Arjun Rao , Esther Rolf

We propose a weakly supervised approach for creating maps using free-form textual descriptions. We refer to this work of creating textual maps as zero-shot mapping. Prior works have approached mapping tasks by developing models that predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Aayush Dhakal , Adeel Ahmad , Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Hannah Kerner , Nathan Jacobs

Image inpainting is an underdetermined inverse problem, which naturally allows diverse contents to fill up the missing or corrupted regions realistically. Prevalent approaches using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Yingchen Yu , Fangneng Zhan , Rongliang Wu , Jianxiong Pan , Kaiwen Cui , Shijian Lu , Feiying Ma , Xuansong Xie , Chunyan Miao

Integration of aerial and ground images has been proved as an efficient approach to enhance the surface reconstruction in urban environments. However, as the first step, the feature point matching between aerial and ground images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Qing Zhu , Zhendong Wang , Han Hu , Linfu Xie , Xuming Ge , Yeting Zhang

Planet-scale photo geolocalization is the complex task of estimating the location depicted in an image solely based on its visual content. Due to the success of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), current approaches achieve super-human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Jonas Theiner , Eric Mueller-Budack , Ralph Ewerth

Generation of maps from satellite images is conventionally done by a range of tools. Maps became an important part of life whose conversion from satellite images may be a bit expensive but Generative models can pander to this challenge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Vaishali Ingale , Rishabh Singh , Pragati Patwal