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Geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location where an image was captured using observable visual evidence. Traditional methods achieve impressive results through large-scale training on massive image corpora. With the emergence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jinnao Li , Zijian Chen , Tingzhu Chen , Changbo Wang

In this paper, we propose to go beyond the well-established approach to vision-based localization that relies on visual descriptor matching between a query image and a 3D point cloud. While matching keypoints via visual descriptors makes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Qunjie Zhou , Sérgio Agostinho , Aljosa Osep , Laura Leal-Taixé

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah

The problem visual place recognition is commonly used strategy for localization. Most successful appearance based methods typically rely on a large database of views endowed with local or global image descriptors and strive to retrieve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Arsalan Mousavian , Jana Kosecka

Re-localizing a camera from a single image in a previously mapped area is vital for many computer vision applications in robotics and augmented/virtual reality. In this work, we address the problem of estimating the 6 DoF camera pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Mohammad Altillawi , Zador Pataki , Shile Li , Ziyuan Liu

Geolocation, the task of identifying the geographic location of an image, requires abundant world knowledge and complex reasoning abilities. Though advanced large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown superior aforementioned capabilities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Yushuo Zheng , Huiyu Duan , Zicheng Zhang , Xiaohong Liu , Xiongkuo Min

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a part of our daily life with the primary goal of providing geopositioning service. For an unmanned aerial system (UAS), geolocalization ability is an extremely important necessity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jianli Wei , Deniz Karakay , Alper Yilmaz

Cross-view geo-localization infers a location by retrieving geo-tagged reference images that visually correspond to a query image. However, the traditional satellite-centric paradigm limits robustness when high-resolution or up-to-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zixuan Song , Jing Zhang , Di Wang , Zidie Zhou , Wenbin Liu , Haonan Guo , En Wang , Bo Du

We study the image-based geolocalization problem, aiming to localize ground-view query images on cartographic maps. Current methods often utilize cross-view localization techniques to match ground-view query images with 2D maps. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Mengjie Zhou , Liu Liu , Yiran Zhong , Andrew Calway

We present a novel approach to geolocalising panoramic images on a 2-D cartographic map based on learning a low dimensional embedded space, which allows a comparison between an image captured at a location and local neighbourhoods of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Noe Samano , Mengjie Zhou , Andrew Calway

Reliable image geolocation is crucial for several applications, ranging from social media geo-tagging to fake news detection. State-of-the-art geolocation methods surpass human performance on the task of geolocation estimation from images.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Apostolos Panagiotopoulos , Giorgos Kordopatis-Zilos , Symeon Papadopoulos

Visual localization to compute 6DoF camera pose from a given image has wide applications such as in robotics, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc. Two kinds of descriptors are important for the visual localization. One is global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Pengju Zhang , Yihong Wu , Bingxi Liu

Global visual geolocation predicts where an image was captured on Earth. Since images vary in how precisely they can be localized, this task inherently involves a significant degree of ambiguity. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nicolas Dufour , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton , Loic Landrieu

Image geo-localization is the task of predicting the specific location of an image and requires complex reasoning across visual, geographical, and cultural contexts. While prior Vision Language Models (VLMs) have the best accuracy at this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheyuan Zhang , Runze Li , Tasnim Kabir , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Text-guided image retrieval is to incorporate conditional text to better capture users' intent. Traditionally, the existing methods focus on minimizing the embedding distances between the source inputs and the targeted image, using the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Junyang Chen , Hanjiang Lai

Accurate and robust image-based geo-localization at a global scale is challenging due to diverse environments, visually ambiguous scenes, and the lack of distinctive landmarks in many regions. While contrastive learning methods show…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Boyi Chen , Zhangyu Wang , Fabian Deuser , Johann Maximilian Zollner , Martin Werner

Visual relocalization, which estimates the 6-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) camera pose from query images, is fundamental to remote sensing and UAV applications. Existing methods face inherent trade-offs: image-based retrieval and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Boni Hu , Zhenyu Xia , Lin Chen , Pengcheng Han , Shuhui Bu

This paper studies image-based geo-localization (IBL) problem using ground-to-aerial cross-view matching. The goal is to predict the spatial location of a ground-level query image by matching it to a large geotagged aerial image database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Liu Liu , Hongdong Li

Geo-localization from a single image at planet scale (essentially an advanced or extreme version of the kidnapped robot problem) is a fundamental and challenging task in applications such as navigation, autonomous driving and disaster…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sania Waheed , Na Min An , Michael Milford , Sarvapali D. Ramchurn , Shoaib Ehsan

We address the problem of ground-to-satellite image geo-localization, that is, estimating the camera latitude, longitude and orientation (azimuth angle) by matching a query image captured at the ground level against a large-scale database…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Dylan Campbell , Piotr Koniusz , Hongdong Li