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The application of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in remote sensing (RS) image understanding has achieved notable progress, demonstrating the basic ability to recognize and describe geographical entities. However, existing RS-VLMs are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Xianzhi Ma , Jianhui Li , Changhua Pei , Hao Liu

In this work, we investigate the use of OpenStreetMap data for semantic labeling of Earth Observation images. Deep neural networks have been used in the past for remote sensing data classification from various sensors, including…

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Multimodal remote sensing data, acquired from diverse sensors, offer a comprehensive and integrated perspective of the Earth's surface. Leveraging multimodal fusion techniques, semantic segmentation enables detailed and accurate analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xianping Ma , Xiaokang Zhang , Man-On Pun , Bo Huang

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) is critical for ecological monitoring, urban planning, and disaster management, requiring precise segmentation of objects in remote sensing imagery guided by textual descriptions. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Tianxiang Zhang , Zhaokun Wen , Bo Kong , Kecheng Liu , Yisi Zhang , Peixian Zhuang , Jiangyun Li

Recent advances in prompt learning have allowed users to interact with artificial intelligence (AI) tools in multi-turn dialogue, enabling an interactive understanding of images. However, it is difficult and inefficient to deliver…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Tong Zhang , Jun Li , Yin Zhuang , Xuerui Mao

Remote sensing imagery, despite its broad applications in helping achieve Sustainable Development Goals and tackle climate change, has not yet benefited from the recent advancements of versatile, task-agnostic vision language models (VLMs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhecheng Wang , Rajanie Prabha , Tianyuan Huang , Jiajun Wu , Ram Rajagopal

Geometric Problem Solving (GPS) poses a unique challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), requiring not only the joint interpretation of text and diagrams but also iterative visuospatial reasoning. While existing approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shichao Weng , Zhiqiang Wang , Yuhua Zhou , Rui Lu , Ting Liu , Zhiyang Teng , Xiaozhang Liu , Hanmeng Liu

Large Vision--Language Models (LVLMs) hold great promise for advancing optical remote sensing (RS) analysis, yet existing reasoning segmentation frameworks couple linguistic reasoning and pixel prediction through end-to-end supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Xu Zhang , Junyao Ge , Yang Zheng , Kaitai Guo , Jimin Liang

Foundation models have the potential to transform the landscape of remote sensing (RS) data analysis by enabling large computer vision models to be pre-trained on vast amounts of remote sensing data. These models can then be fine-tuned with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Caleb S. Spradlin , Jordan A. Caraballo-Vega , Jian Li , Mark L. Carroll , Jie Gong , Paul M. Montesano

Recent advances in MLLMs are reframing segmentation from fixed-category prediction to instruction-grounded localization. While reasoning based segmentation has progressed rapidly in natural scenes, remote sensing lacks a generalizable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Lifan Jiang , Yuhang Pei , oxi Wu , Yan Zhao , Tianrun Wu , Shulong Yu , Lihui Zhang , Deng Cai

Geospatial technologies are becoming increasingly essential in our world for a wide range of applications, including agriculture, urban planning, and disaster response. To help improve the applicability and performance of deep learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Matias Mendieta , Boran Han , Xingjian Shi , Yi Zhu , Chen Chen

Spatiotemporal fusion aims to improve both the spatial and temporal resolution of remote sensing images, thus facilitating time-series analysis at a fine spatial scale. However, there are several important issues that limit the application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Houcai Guo , Dingqi Ye , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate exceptional semantic reasoning but struggle with 3D spatial perception when restricted to pure RGB inputs. Despite leveraging implicit geometric priors from 3D reconstruction models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Jiaxin Zhang , Junjun Jiang , Haijie Li , Youyu Chen , Kui Jiang , Dave Zhenyu Chen

In remote sensing, we are interested in modeling various modalities for some geographic location. Several works have focused on learning the relationship between a location and type of landscape, habitability, audio, textual descriptions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Aayush Dhakal , Subash Khanal , Srikumar Sastry , Adeel Ahmad , Nathan Jacobs

General-purpose foundation models have led to recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. In remote sensing, self-supervised learning (SSL) and Masked Image Modeling (MIM) have been adopted to build foundation models. However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Fan Liu , Delong Chen , Zhangqingyun Guan , Xiaocong Zhou , Jiale Zhu , Qiaolin Ye , Liyong Fu , Jun Zhou

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has become a powerful paradigm for learning from large, unlabeled datasets, particularly in computer vision (CV). However, applying SSL to multispectral remote sensing (RS) images presents unique challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Tom Burgert , Leonard Hackel , Paolo Rota , Begüm Demir

The multi-modal remote sensing foundation model (MM-RSFM) has significantly advanced various Earth observation tasks, such as urban planning, environmental monitoring, and natural disaster management. However, most existing approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Yingying Zhang , Lixiang Ru , Kang Wu , Lei Yu , Lei Liang , Yansheng Li , Jingdong Chen

Subsurface geomodeling plays a critical role in reservoir characterization, uncertainty quantification, and subsurface flow prediction. However, integrating heterogeneous sources of geological information, including conceptual geological…

Geophysics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jiayuan Huang , Suihong Song , Tapan Mukerji

Prior studies on Remote Sensing Foundation Model (RSFM) reveal immense potential towards a generic model for Earth Observation. Nevertheless, these works primarily focus on a single modality without temporal and geo-context modeling,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xin Guo , Jiangwei Lao , Bo Dang , Yingying Zhang , Lei Yu , Lixiang Ru , Liheng Zhong , Ziyuan Huang , Kang Wu , Dingxiang Hu , Huimei He , Jian Wang , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang , Yansheng Li

The characteristics and determinants of health and disease are often organised in space, reflecting our spatially extended nature. Understanding the influence of such factors requires models capable of capturing spatial relations. Though a…