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Geolocation is now a vital aspect of modern life, offering numerous benefits but also presenting serious privacy concerns. The advent of large vision-language models (LVLMs) with advanced image-processing capabilities introduces new risks,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Yi Liu , Junchen Ding , Gelei Deng , Yuekang Li , Tianwei Zhang , Weisong Sun , Yaowen Zheng , Jingquan Ge , Yang Liu

Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based intelligence. While recent advances in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyao Li , Runlong Yu , Qikai Hu , Bowei Li , Min Deng , Yang Zhou , Xiaowei Jia

The application of machine learning (ML) in a range of geospatial tasks is increasingly common but often relies on globally available covariates such as satellite imagery that can either be expensive or lack predictive power. Here we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Rohin Manvi , Samar Khanna , Gengchen Mai , Marshall Burke , David Lobell , Stefano Ermon

Personalized recommendation of Points of Interest (POIs) plays a key role in satisfying users on Location-Based Social Networks (LBSNs). In this paper, we propose a probabilistic model to find the mapping between user-annotated tags and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Mohammad Aliannejadi , Fabio Crestani

Humans subconsciously engage in geospatial reasoning when reading articles. We recognize place names and their spatial relations in text and mentally associate them with their physical locations on Earth. Although pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zekun Li , Wenxuan Zhou , Yao-Yi Chiang , Muhao Chen

The swift advancement and widespread availability of foundational Large Language Models (LLMs), complemented by robust fine-tuning methodologies, have catalyzed their adaptation for innovative and industrious applications. Enabling LLMs to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Eren Unlu

The rapid advancement of multimodal large language models (LLMs) has opened new frontiers in artificial intelligence, enabling the integration of diverse large-scale data types such as text, images, and spatial information. In this paper,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Long Yuan , Fengran Mo , Kaiyu Huang , Wenjie Wang , Wangyuxuan Zhai , Xiaoyu Zhu , You Li , Jinan Xu , Jian-Yun Nie

Global geolocation, which seeks to predict the geographical location of images captured anywhere in the world, is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we introduce an innovative interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyang Dou , Zipeng Wang , Xumeng Han , Guorong Li , Zhipei Huang , Zhenjun Han

Answering real-world tourism questions that seek Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendations is challenging, as it requires both spatial and non-spatial reasoning, over a large candidate pool. The traditional method of encoding each pair of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Haonan Li , Martin Tomko , Timothy Baldwin

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), offering new capabilities in data processing, spatial analysis, and decision support. This paper examines the open-source paradigm's critical role in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiao Huang , Zhengzhong Tu , Xinyue Ye , Michael Goodchild

The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has transformed information access, with current LLMs also powering deep research systems that can generate comprehensive report-style answers, through planned iterative search, retrieval, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Bruno Martins , Piotr Szymański , Piotr Gramacki

This paper proposes MapGPT which is a novel approach that integrates the capabilities of language models, specifically large language models (LLMs), with spatial data processing techniques. This paper introduces MapGPT, which aims to bridge…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-19 Ashley Fernandez , Swaraj Dube

Applying AI foundation models directly to geospatial datasets remains challenging due to their limited ability to represent and reason with geographical entities, specifically vector-based geometries and natural language descriptions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuhan Ji , Song Gao , Ying Nie , Ivan Majić , Krzysztof Janowicz

Recent advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have demonstrated its substantial potential in various fields. However, its application in port logistics remains underexplored. Ports are complex operational environments where…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Minseop Kim , Jaeeun Kwon , Hanbyeol Park , Kikun Park , Taekhyun Park , Hyerim Bae

The resurgence and rapid advancement of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in 2023 has catalyzed transformative shifts across numerous industry sectors, including urban transportation and logistics. This study investigates the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Shaowei Ying , Zhenlong Li , Manzhu Yu

Indoor navigation presents unique challenges due to complex layouts and the unavailability of GNSS signals. Existing solutions often struggle with contextual adaptation, and typically require dedicated hardware. In this work, we explore the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Alberto Coffrini , Paolo Barsocchi , Francesco Furfari , Antonino Crivello , Alessio Ferrari

Visual instruction tuning large language model(LLM) on image-text pairs has achieved general-purpose vision-language abilities. However, the lack of region-text pairs limits their advancements to fine-grained multimodal understanding. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Shilong Zhang , Peize Sun , Shoufa Chen , Min Xiao , Wenqi Shao , Wenwei Zhang , Yu Liu , Kai Chen , Ping Luo

Pretrained language models (PLMs) often fail to fairly represent target users from certain world regions because of the under-representation of those regions in training datasets. With recent PLMs trained on enormous data sources,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Fahim Faisal , Antonios Anastasopoulos

Georeferencing text documents has typically relied on either gazetteer-based methods to assign geographic coordinates to place names, or on language modelling approaches that associate textual terms with geographic locations. However, many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Aneesha Fernando , Surangika Ranathunga , Kristin Stock , Raj Prasanna , Christopher B. Jones

In recent years, the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) has attracted increasing attention due to their potential in a variety of practical applications. The application of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jinzhou Lin , Han Gao , Xuxiang Feng , Rongtao Xu , Changwei Wang , Man Zhang , Li Guo , Shibiao Xu