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This paper proposes a novel method for vision-based metric cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) that matches the camera images captured from a ground-based vehicle with an aerial image to determine the vehicle's geo-pose. Since aerial images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Street-view imagery provides us with novel experiences to explore different places remotely. Carefully calibrated street-view images (e.g. Google Street View) can be used for different downstream tasks, e.g. navigation, map features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Wenmiao Hu , Yichen Zhang , Yuxuan Liang , Yifang Yin , Andrei Georgescu , An Tran , Hannes Kruppa , See-Kiong Ng , Roger Zimmermann

Precise, pixel-wise geolocalization of astronaut photography is critical to unlocking the potential of this unique type of remotely sensed Earth data, particularly for its use in disaster management and climate change research. Recent works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Gabriele Berton , Gabriele Goletto , Gabriele Trivigno , Alex Stoken , Barbara Caputo , Carlo Masone

The goal of cross-view image based geo-localization is to determine the location of a given street view image by matching it against a collection of geo-tagged satellite images. This task is notoriously challenging due to the drastic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-12 Aysim Toker , Qunjie Zhou , Maxim Maximov , Laura Leal-Taixé

Land use and land cover mapping from Earth Observation (EO) data is a critical tool for sustainable land and resource management. While advanced machine learning and deep learning algorithms excel at analyzing EO imagery data, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Babak Ghassemi , Cassio Fraga-Dantas , Raffaele Gaetano , Dino Ienco , Omid Ghorbanzadeh , Emma Izquierdo-Verdiguier , Francesco Vuolo

With the widespread availability of cellphones and cameras that have GPS capabilities, it is common for images being uploaded to the Internet today to have GPS coordinates associated with them. In addition to research that tries to predict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-18 Kevin Tang , Manohar Paluri , Li Fei-Fei , Rob Fergus , Lubomir Bourdev

Street-level geolocalization from images is crucial for a wide range of essential applications and services, such as navigation, location-based recommendations, and urban planning. With the growing popularity of social media data and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yunus Serhat Bicakci , Joseph Shingleton , Anahid Basiri

In this work we present a novel approach to joint semantic localisation and scene understanding. Our work is motivated by the need for localisation algorithms which not only predict 6-DoF camera pose but also simultaneously recognise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-24 Ignas Budvytis , Marvin Teichmann , Tomas Vojir , Roberto Cipolla

The choice of representation for geographic location significantly impacts the accuracy of models for a broad range of geospatial tasks, including fine-grained species classification, population density estimation, and biome classification.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Aayush Dhakal , Srikumar Sastry , Subash Khanal , Adeel Ahmad , Eric Xing , Nathan Jacobs

While integrating multiple modalities has the potential to improve environmental monitoring, current approaches struggle to combine data sources with heterogeneous formats or contents. A central difficulty arises when combining continuous…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Valerie Zermatten , Chiara Vanalli , Gencer Sumbul , Diego Marcos , Devis Tuia

Global localisation from visual data is a challenging problem applicable to many robotics domains. Prior works have shown that neural networks can be trained to map images of an environment to absolute camera pose within that environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

Accurately determining the geographic location where a single image was taken, visual geolocation, remains a formidable challenge due to the planet's vastness and the deceptive similarity among distant locations. We introduce GeoLocSFT, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Qiang Yi , Lianlei Shan

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are highly effective on a variety of graph-related tasks; however, they lack interpretability and transparency. Current explainability approaches are typically local and treat GNNs as black-boxes. They do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Han Xuanyuan , Pietro Barbiero , Dobrik Georgiev , Lucie Charlotte Magister , Pietro Lió

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

Accurate localization is crucial for various applications, including autonomous vehicles and next-generation wireless networks. However, the reliability and precision of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as the Global…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-20 Gouranga Charan , Tawfik Osman , Ahmed Alkhateeb

Fine localization in autonomous driving platforms is a task of broad interest, receiving much attention in recent years. Some localization algorithms use the Euclidean distance as a similarity measure between the local image acquired by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-12 Samuel Todd Flanagan , Drupad K. Khublani , Jean-Francois Chamberland , Siddharth Agarwal , Ankit Vora

Estimating the location where an image was taken based solely on the contents of the image is a challenging task, even for humans, as properly labeling an image in such a fashion relies heavily on contextual information, and is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jesse M. Johns , Jeremiah Rounds , Michael J. Henry

With the expanding application scope of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the demand for stable UAV control has significantly increased. However, in complex environments, GPS signals are prone to interference, resulting in ineffective UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mingkun Li , Ziming Wang , Guang Huo , Wei Chen , Xiaoning Zhao

This paper addresses the challenge of learning a local visual pattern of an object from one image, and generating images depicting objects with that pattern. Learning a localized concept and placing it on an object in a target image is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Mehdi Safaee , Aryan Mikaeili , Or Patashnik , Daniel Cohen-Or , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) aims to match images of the same location captured from drastically different viewpoints. Despite recent progress, existing methods still face two key challenges: (1) achieving robustness under severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Xiaowei Wang , Di Wang , Ke Li , Yifeng Wang , Chengjian Wang , Libin Sun , Zhihong Wu , Yiming Zhang , Quan Wang