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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…

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Geometric information in the normalized digital surface models (nDSM) is highly correlated with the semantic class of the land cover. Exploiting two modalities (RGB and nDSM (height)) jointly has great potential to improve the segmentation…

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Multimodal fusion of remote sensing images serves as a core technology for overcoming the limitations of single-source data and improving the accuracy of surface information extraction, which exhibits significant application value in fields…

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Fine-tuning large language models (LMs) for individual tasks yields strong performance but is expensive for deployment and storage. Recent works explore model merging to combine multiple task-specific models into a single multi-task model…

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Accurate crop mapping fundamentally relies on modeling multi-scale spatiotemporal patterns, where spatial scales range from individual field textures to landscape-level context, and temporal scales capture both short-term phenological…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Wenyuan Li , Shunlin Liang , Keyan Chen , Yongzhe Chen , Han Ma , Jianglei Xu , Yichuan Ma , Shikang Guan , Husheng Fang , Zhenwei Shi

Large language models (LLMs) are being used in data science code generation tasks, but they often struggle with complex sequential tasks, leading to logical errors. Their application to geospatial data processing is particularly challenging…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Yuxing Chen , Weijie Wang , Sylvain Lobry , Camille Kurtz

A robust Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for Earth Observation should maintain consistent interpretation and reasoning under realistic input variations. However, current Remote Sensing MLLMs fail to meet this requirement. Trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Rui Min , Liang Yao , Shiyu Miao , Shengxiang Xu , Yuxuan Liu , Chuanyi Zhang , Shimin Di , Fan Liu

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

Remote sensing image plays an irreplaceable role in fields such as agriculture, water resources, military, and disaster relief. Pixel-level interpretation is a critical aspect of remote sensing image applications; however, a prevalent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Kaiyu Li , Ruixun Liu , Xiangyong Cao , Xueru Bai , Feng Zhou , Deyu Meng , Zhi Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have exhibited remarkable performance in various visual tasks, yet still struggle with spatial reasoning. Recent efforts mitigate this by injecting geometric features from 3D foundation models, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Zhaochen Liu , Limeng Qiao , Guanglu Wan , Tingting Jiang

Vision-language models (VLMs) are emerging as powerful generalist tools for remote sensing, capable of integrating information across diverse tasks and enabling flexible, instruction-based interactions via a chat interface. In this work, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Aysim Toker , Andreea-Maria Oncescu , Roy Miles , Ismail Elezi , Jiankang Deng

Remote sensing lightweight foundation models have achieved notable success in online perception within remote sensing. However, their capabilities are restricted to performing online inference solely based on their own observations and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Zhechao Wang , Peirui Cheng , Pengju Tian , Yuchao Wang , Mingxin Chen , Shujing Duan , Zhirui Wang , Xinming Li , Xian Sun

Current Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) in Earth Observation typically neglect the critical "vertical" dimension, limiting their reasoning capabilities in complex remote sensing geometries and disaster scenarios where physical spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuran Hu , Zhitong Xiong , Zhongcheng Hong , Yifang Ban , Xiaoxiang Zhu , Wufan Zhao

This work tackles the problem of geo-localization with a new paradigm using a large vision-language model (LVLM) augmented with human inference knowledge. A primary challenge here is the scarcity of data for training the LVLM - existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Ling Li , Yu Ye , Yao Zhou , Bingchuan Jiang , Wei Zeng

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in vision and visual-language tasks within the natural image domain. Owing to the significant diversities between the natural and remote sensing (RS) images, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Wei Zhang , Miaoxin Cai , Tong Zhang , Yin Zhuang , Xuerui Mao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have undergone rapid development in advancing geospatial scene understanding. Recent studies have sought to enhance the reasoning capabilities of remote sensing MLLMs, typically through cold-start…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Di Wang , Shunyu Liu , Wentao Jiang , Fengxiang Wang , Yi Liu , Xiaolei Qin , Zhiming Luo , Chaoyang Zhou , Haonan Guo , Jing Zhang , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Liangpei Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI), offering new capabilities in data processing, spatial analysis, and decision support. This paper examines the open-source paradigm's critical role in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Xiao Huang , Zhengzhong Tu , Xinyue Ye , Michael Goodchild

In recent years, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in visual question answering tasks. However, directly applying existing fine-tuning methods to remote sensing (RS) images often leads to issues such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Qigan Sun , Chaoning Zhang , Jianwei Zhang , Xudong Wang , Jiehui Xie , Pengcheng Zheng , Haoyu Wang , Sungyoung Lee , Chi-lok Andy Tai , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

Worldwide image geolocalization, which aims to predict the GPS coordinates of any image on Earth, remains challenging due to global visual diversity. Recent generative approaches based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Large…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Tung-Duong Le-Duc , Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son , Minh-Son Dao

Recent advances in remote sensing have led to an increase in the number of available foundation models; each trained on different modalities, datasets, and objectives, yet capturing only part of the vast geospatial knowledge landscape.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Joelle Hanna , Damian Falk , Stella X. Yu , Damian Borth