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Image geolocalization, in which an AI model traditionally predicts the precise GPS coordinates of an image, is a challenging task with many downstream applications. However, the user cannot utilize the model to further their knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Ron Campos , Ashmal Vayani , Parth Parag Kulkarni , Rohit Gupta , Aizan Zafar , Aritra Dutta , Mubarak Shah

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

Recently spatial-temporal intelligence of Visual-Language Models (VLMs) has attracted much attention due to its importance for autonomous driving, embodied AI and general AI. Existing spatial-temporal benchmarks mainly focus on egocentric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Qinghongbing Xie , Zhaoyuan Xia , Feng Zhu , Lijun Gong , Ziyue Li , Rui Zhao , Long Zeng

Web search engines have long served as indispensable tools for information retrieval; user behavior and query formulation strategies have been well studied. The introduction of search engines powered by large language models (LLMs)…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Albatool Wazzan , Stephen MacNeil , Richard Souvenir

With the rapid rise of Artificial Intelligence Generated Content (AIGC), image manipulation has become increasingly accessible, posing significant challenges for image forgery detection and localization (IFDL). In this paper, we study how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Shaofeng Guo , Jiequan Cui , Richang Hong

Visual Geo-localization (VG) is a critical research area for identifying geo-locations from visual inputs, particularly in autonomous navigation for robotics and vehicles. Current VG methods often learn feature extractors from geo-labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Jiuhong Xiao , Gao Zhu , Giuseppe Loianno

Vision Large Language Models (VLMs) combine visual understanding with natural language processing, enabling tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and video analysis. While VLMs show impressive capabilities across domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Ahmed Sharshar , Latif U. Khan , Waseem Ullah , Mohsen Guizani

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across a broad range of tasks but their knowledge and abilities in the geographic and geospatial domains are yet to be explored, despite potential wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jonathan Roberts , Timo Lüddecke , Rehan Sheikh , Kai Han , Samuel Albanie

This paper presents novel benchmarks for evaluating vision-language models (VLMs) in zero-shot recognition, focusing on granularity and specificity. Although VLMs excel in tasks like image captioning, they face challenges in open-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Zhenlin Xu , Yi Zhu , Tiffany Deng , Abhay Mittal , Yanbei Chen , Manchen Wang , Paolo Favaro , Joseph Tighe , Davide Modolo

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across multimodal tasks, yet exhibit systematic spatial reasoning failures, achieving only 49% (CLIP) to 54% (BLIP-2) accuracy on basic directional relationships. For safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Muhammad Imran , Yugyung Lee

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown a promising ability in image geolocation, but they still lack structured geographic reasoning and the capacity for autonomous self-evolution. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenjie Yang , Yutian Jiang , Yutong Deng , Chenyu Wu

Geographic privacy or geo-privacy refers to the keeping private of one's geographic location, especially the restriction of geographical data maintained by personal electronic devices. Geo-privacy is a crucial aspect of personal security;…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yifan Yang , Siqin Wang , Daoyang Li , Yixian Zhang , Shuju Sun , Junzhou He

Previous methods for image geo-localization have typically treated the task as either classification or retrieval, often relying on black-box decisions that lack interpretability. The rise of large vision-language models (LVLMs) has enabled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ling Li , Yao Zhou , Yuxuan Liang , Fugee Tsung , Jiaheng Wei

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at complex visual tasks such as VQA and chart understanding, yet recent work suggests they struggle with simple perceptual tests. We present an evaluation of vision-language models' capacity for nonlocal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Shmuel Berman , Jia Deng

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

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models…

Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications such as disaster management, traffic planning, embodied navigation, world modeling, and geography…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Azmine Toushik Wasi , Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy , Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy , Kinga Tshering , S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan , Wahid Faisal , Tasnim Mohiuddin , Md Rizwan Parvez

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on complex tasks involving visual input with natural language instructions. However, it remains unclear to what extent capabilities on natural images transfer to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Chenhui Zhang , Sherrie Wang

The advent of large vision-language models (LVLMs) represents a remarkable advance in the quest for artificial general intelligence. However, the model's effectiveness in both specialized and general tasks warrants further investigation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yao Jiang , Xinyu Yan , Ge-Peng Ji , Keren Fu , Meijun Sun , Huan Xiong , Deng-Ping Fan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have recently emerged as powerful tools, excelling in tasks that integrate visual and textual comprehension, such as image captioning, visual question answering, and image-text retrieval. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Ilias Stogiannidis , Steven McDonagh , Sotirios A. Tsaftaris