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Remote sensing imagery presents vast, inherently unstructured spatial data, necessitating sophisticated reasoning to interpret complex user intents and contextual relationships beyond simple recognition tasks. In this paper, we aim to…

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Recent progress in spatial reasoning with Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly leverages geometric priors from 3D encoders. However, most existing integration strategies remain passive: geometry is exposed as a global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haoyuan Li , Qihang Cao , Tao Tang , Kun Xiang , Zihan Guo , Jianhua Han , JiaWang Bian , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

Multi-spectral imagery plays a crucial role in diverse Remote Sensing applications including land-use classification, environmental monitoring and urban planning. These images are widely adopted because their additional spectral bands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Ganesh Mallya , Yotam Gigi , Dahun Kim , Maxim Neumann , Genady Beryozkin , Tomer Shekel , Anelia Angelova

Grounding natural language queries in graphical user interfaces (GUIs) presents a challenging task that requires models to comprehend diverse UI elements across various applications and systems, while also accurately predicting the spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Zhecheng Li , Guoxian Song , Yiwei Wang , Zhen Xiong , Junsong Yuan , Yujun Cai

Foundation Models (FMs) are increasingly integrated into remote sensing (RS) pipelines. These models include unimodal vision encoders and multimodal architectures. FMs are adapted to diverse perception tasks, such as image classification,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Binger Chen , Tacettin Emre Bök , Behnood Rasti , Volker Markl , Begüm Demir

Land cover maps are a pivotal element in a wide range of Earth Observation (EO) applications. However, annotating large datasets to develop supervised systems for remote sensing (RS) semantic segmentation is costly and time-consuming.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Valerio Marsocci , Nicolas Gonthier , Anatol Garioud , Simone Scardapane , Clément Mallet

Powered by the emerging large language models (LLMs), autonomous geographic information systems (GIS) agents have the potential to accomplish spatial analyses and cartographic tasks. However, a research gap exists to support fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Huan Ning , Zhenlong Li , Temitope Akinboyewa , M. Naser Lessani

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve strong performance by jointly processing inputs from multiple modalities, such as vision, audio, and language. However, building such models or extending them to new modalities often requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Md Kaykobad Reza , Ameya Patil , Edward Ayrapetian , M. Salman Asif

Remote sensing (RS) images are important to monitor and survey earth at varying spatial scales. Continuous observations from various RS sources complement single observations to improve applications. Fusion into single or multiple images…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-30 Hessah Albanwan

The mechanism of connecting multimodal signals through self-attention operation is a key factor in the success of multimodal Transformer networks in remote sensing data fusion tasks. However, traditional approaches assume access to all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Yuxing Chen , Maofan Zhao , Lorenzo Bruzzone

Current point cloud segmentation architectures suffer from limited long-range feature modeling, as they mostly rely on aggregating information with local neighborhoods. Furthermore, in order to learn point features at multiple scales, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhening Huang , Xiaoyang Wu , Hengshuang Zhao , Lei Zhu , Shujun Wang , Georgios Hadjidemetriou , Ioannis Brilakis

Open-vocabulary image semantic segmentation (OVS) seeks to segment images into semantic regions across an open set of categories. Existing OVS methods commonly depend on foundational vision-language models and utilize similarity computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Qinglong Cao , Yuntian Chen , Chao Ma , Xiaokang Yang

Deep learning models are essential for scene classification, change detection, land cover segmentation, and other remote sensing image understanding tasks. Most backbones of existing remote sensing deep learning models are typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Ziyue Huang , Mingming Zhang , Yuan Gong , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang

Unified remote sensing multimodal models exhibit a pronounced spatial reversal curse: Although they can accurately recognize and describe object locations in images, they often fail to faithfully execute the same spatial relations during…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Weiyu Zhang , Yuan Hu , Yong Li , Yu Liu

We propose SpatialLLM, a novel approach advancing spatial intelligence tasks in complex urban scenes. Unlike previous methods requiring geographic analysis tools or domain expertise, SpatialLLM is a unified language model directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jiabin Chen , Haiping Wang , Jinpeng Li , Yuan Liu , Zhen Dong , Bisheng Yang

Cross-view geo-spatial learning consists of two important tasks: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) and Cross-View Image Synthesis (CVIS), both of which rely on establishing geometric correspondences between ground and aerial views. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yancheng Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Zonglin Lyu , Safwan Wshah , Chen Chen

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated substantial progress in task automation and natural language understanding. However, without domain expertise in geographic information science (GIS), they continue to encounter limitations…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Qianqian Luo , Qingming Lin , Liuchang Xu , Sensen Wu , Ruichen Mao , Chao Wang , Hailin Feng , Bo Huang , Zhenhong Du

Large language models (LLMs) have recently been extended to the vision-language realm, obtaining impressive general multi-modal capabilities. However, the exploration of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) for remote sensing (RS) data…

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Modern Earth observation (EO) increasingly leverages deep learning to harness the scale and diversity of satellite imagery across sensors and regions. While recent foundation models have demonstrated promising generalization across EO…