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Image geolocalization is the task of identifying the location depicted in a photo based only on its visual information. This task is inherently challenging since many photos have only few, possibly ambiguous cues to their geolocation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim , Bohyung Han

Cross-view UAV geolocalization is fundamentally a challenging large-scale image retrieval task, aiming to determine the geographic coordinates of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) queries by matching them against an extensive geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bowen Liu , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Derong Xu , Jiawei Cheng , Jiancheng Dong , Xiao Han , Zimo Zhao , Chao Zhang , Bowen Yu , Fangyu Hong , Xiangyu Zhao

Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, which dividing the Earth surface into grid cells and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhongliang Zhou , Jielu Zhang , Zihan Guan , Mengxuan Hu , Ni Lao , Lan Mu , Sheng Li , Gengchen Mai

In this work, we present a camera geopositioning system based on matching a query image against a database with panoramic images. For matching, our system uses memory vectors aggregated from global image descriptors based on convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Raffaele Imbriaco , Clint Sebastian , Egor Bondarev , Peter de With

Due to the advances in mobile computing and multimedia techniques, there are vast amount of multimedia data with geographical information collected in multifarious applications. In this paper, we propose a novel type of image search named…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Jun Long , Lei Zhu , Chengyuan Zhang , Zhan Yang , Yunwu Lin , Ruipeng Chen

Fine-grained recognition distinguishes among categories with subtle visual differences. In order to differentiate between these challenging visual categories, it is helpful to leverage additional information. Geolocation is a rich source of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Grace Chu , Brian Potetz , Weijun Wang , Andrew Howard , Yang Song , Fernando Brucher , Thomas Leung , Hartwig Adam

This paper presents a new approach for the challenging problem of geo-locating an image using image matching in a structured database of city-wide reference images with known GPS coordinates. We cast the geo-localization as a clustering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Eyasu Zemene , Yonatan Tariku , Haroon Idrees , Andrea Prati , Marcello Pelillo , Mubarak Shah

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

The standard approach for visual place recognition is to use global image descriptors to retrieve the most similar database images for a given query image. The results can then be further improved with re-ranking methods that re-order the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Gustav Hanning , Gabrielle Flood , Viktor Larsson

We demonstrate how language can improve geolocation: the task of predicting the location where an image was taken. Here we study explicit knowledge from human-written guidebooks that describe the salient and class-discriminative visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Grace Luo , Giscard Biamby , Trevor Darrell , Daniel Fried , Anna Rohrbach

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

We examine the challenge of estimating the location of a single ground-level image in the absence of GPS or other location metadata. Currently, geolocation systems are evaluated by measuring the Great Circle Distance between the predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Michael J. Bianco , David Eigen , Michael Gormish

Video geolocalization is a crucial problem in current times. Given just a video, ascertaining where it was captured from can have a plethora of advantages. The problem of worldwide geolocalization has been tackled before, but only using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Parth Parag Kulkarni , Gaurav Kumar Nayak , Mubarak Shah

In this paper, we address the problem of global-scale image geolocation, proposing a mixed classification-retrieval scheme. Unlike other methods that strictly tackle the problem as a classification or retrieval task, we combine the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Panagiotis Galopoulos , Symeon Papadopoulos , Ioannis Kompatsiaris

In human reading and communication, individuals tend to engage in geospatial reasoning, which involves recognizing geographic entities and making informed inferences about their interrelationships. To mimic such cognitive process, current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yibo Yan , Joey Lee

Cross-view geo-localization aims at establishing location correspondences between different viewpoints. Existing approaches typically learn cross-view correlations through direct feature similarity matching, often overlooking semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Zhenyu Kuang

Precise estimation of global orientation and location is critical to ensure a compelling outdoor Augmented Reality (AR) experience. We address the problem of geo-pose estimation by cross-view matching of query ground images to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun , Kshitij Minhas , Han-Pang Chiu , Taragay Oskiper , Mikhail Sizintsev , Supun Samarasekera , Rakesh Kumar

We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-10-14 Scott Workman , Richard Souvenir , Nathan Jacobs

In this paper, we address the problem of cross-view image geo-localization. Specifically, we aim to estimate the GPS location of a query street view image by finding the matching images in a reference database of geo-tagged bird's eye view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-24 Yicong Tian , Chen Chen , Mubarak Shah

Aerial image analysis at a semantic level is important in many applications with strong potential impact in industry and consumer use, such as automated mapping, urban planning, real estate and environment monitoring, or disaster relief.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Dragos Costea , Marius Leordeanu