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Recent advances in image understanding have enabled methods that leverage large language models for multimodal reasoning in remote sensing. However, existing approaches still struggle to steer models to the user-relevant regions when only…

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This paper addresses the problem of very large-scale image retrieval, focusing on improving its accuracy and robustness. We target enhanced robustness of search to factors such as variations in illumination, object appearance and scale,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Syed Sameed Husain , Miroslaw Bober

Remote sensing scene classification (RSSC) is a critical task with diverse applications in land use and resource management. While unimodal image-based approaches show promise, they often struggle with limitations such as high intra-class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinjin Cai , Kexin Meng , Baijian Yang , Gang Shao

The Reference-based Super-resolution (RefSR) super-resolves a low-resolution (LR) image given an external high-resolution (HR) reference image, where the reference image and LR image share similar viewpoint but with significant resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Haitian Zheng , Mengqi Ji , Haoqian Wang , Yebin Liu , Lu Fang

Semantic maps allow a robot to reason about its surroundings to fulfill tasks such as navigating known environments, finding specific objects, and exploring unmapped areas. Traditional mapping approaches provide accurate geometric…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Felix Igelbrink , Lennart Niecksch , Marian Renz , Martin Günther , Martin Atzmueller

Semantic labeling for very high resolution (VHR) images in urban areas, is of significant importance in a wide range of remote sensing applications. However, many confusing manmade objects and intricate fine-structured objects make it very…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Yongcheng Liu , Bin Fan , Lingfeng Wang , Jun Bai , Shiming Xiang , Chunhong Pan

Understanding mid-level road semantics, which capture the structural and contextual cues that link low-level perception to high-level planning, is essential for reliable autonomous driving and digital map construction. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xiyan Liu , Han Wang , Yuhu Wang , Junjie Cai , Zhe Cao , Jianzhong Yang , Zhen Lu

Though semantic segmentation has been heavily explored in vision literature, unique challenges remain in the remote sensing domain. One such challenge is how to handle resolution mismatch between overhead imagery and ground-truth label…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Scott Workman , Armin Hadzic , M. Usman Rafique

Localizing desired objects from remote sensing images is of great use in practical applications. Referring image segmentation, which aims at segmenting out the objects to which a given expression refers, has been extensively studied in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhenghang Yuan , Lichao Mou , Yuansheng Hua , Xiao Xiang Zhu

Online high-definition (HD) map construction is crucial for scaling autonomous driving systems. While Transformer-based methods have become prevalent in online HD map construction, most existing approaches overlook the inherent spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Tianhui Cai , Yun Zhang , Zewei Zhou , Zhiyu Huang , Jiaqi Ma

The field of building detection from remote sensing images has made significant progress, but faces challenges in achieving high-accuracy detection due to the diversity in building appearances and the complexity of vast scenes. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Ziyue Huang , Mingming Zhang , Qingjie Liu , Wei Wang , Zhe Dong , Yunhong Wang

The remote sensing image change detection task is an essential method for large-scale monitoring. We propose HSANet, a network that uses hierarchical convolution to extract multi-scale features. It incorporates hybrid self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Chengxi Han , Xiaoyu Su , Zhiqiang Wei , Meiqi Hu , Yichu Xu

Human-centric perceptions play a crucial role in real-world applications. While recent human-centric works have achieved impressive progress, these efforts are often constrained to the visual domain and lack interaction with human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jie Huang , Ruibing Hou , Jiahe Zhao , Hong Chang , Shiguang Shan

Remote sensing (RS) cross-modal text-image retrieval has attracted extensive attention for its advantages of flexible input and efficient query. However, traditional methods ignore the characteristics of multi-scale and redundant targets in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Zhiqiang Yuan , Wenkai Zhang , Kun Fu , Xuan Li , Chubo Deng , Hongqi Wang , Xian Sun

Referring segmentation grounds natural-language queries to pixel-level masks, but extending it to complex scenarios with multiple instances, cross-category groups, or open-ended target sets remains challenging. Previous Large Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Zhixiong Zhang , Yizhuo Li , Shuangrui Ding , Yuhang Zang , Shengyuan Ding , Long Xing , Yibin Wang , Qiaosheng Zhang , Jiaqi Wang

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

The development of large language models (LLMs) has greatly advanced the field of multimodal understanding, leading to the emergence of large multimodal models (LMMs). In order to enhance the level of visual comprehension, recent studies…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Ao Zhang , Yuan Yao , Wei Ji , Zhiyuan Liu , Tat-Seng Chua

Visual prompt learning, as a newly emerged technique, leverages the knowledge learned by a large-scale pre-trained model and adapts it to downstream tasks through the usage of prompts. While previous research has focused on designing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Ziqing Yang , Zeyang Sha , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Semantic map models visualize systematic relations among semantic functions through graph structures and are widely used in linguistic typology. However, existing construction methods either depend on labor-intensive expert reasoning or on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Zhu Liu , Zhen Hu , Lei Dai , Yu Xuan , Ying Liu

To better understand scene images in the field of remote sensing, multi-label annotation of scene images is necessary. Moreover, to enhance the performance of deep learning models for dealing with semantic scene understanding tasks, it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Xiaoman Qi , PanPan Zhu , Yuebin Wang , Liqiang Zhang , Junhuan Peng , Mengfan Wu , Jialong Chen , Xudong Zhao , Ning Zang , P. Takis Mathiopoulos