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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

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

Cross-view geo-localization aims at establishing location correspondences between different viewpoints. Existing approaches typically learn cross-view correlations through direct feature similarity matching, often overlooking semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Zhenyu Kuang

We propose an accurate and interpretable fine-grained cross-view localization method that estimates the 3 Degrees of Freedom (DoF) pose of a ground-level image by matching its local features with a reference aerial image. Unlike prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zimin Xia , Chenghao Xu , Alexandre Alahi

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

Camera geo-localization from a monocular video is a fundamental task for video analysis and autonomous navigation. Although 3D reconstruction is a key technique to obtain camera poses, monocular 3D reconstruction in a large environment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-28 Kazuya Iwami , Satoshi Ikehata , Kiyoharu Aizawa

The task of large-scale retrieval-based image localization is to estimate the geographical location of a query image by recognizing its nearest reference images from a city-scale dataset. However, the general public benchmarks only provide…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-10 Yixiao Ge , Haibo Wang , Feng Zhu , Rui Zhao , Hongsheng Li

The task of cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the geo-location (GPS coordinates) of a query ground-view image by matching it with the GPS-tagged aerial (satellite) images in a reference dataset. Due to the dramatic changes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Bin Sun , Chen Chen , Yingying Zhu , Jianmin Jiang

Image geolocalization, the task of identifying the geographic location depicted in an image, is important for applications in crisis response, digital forensics, and location-based intelligence. While recent advances in large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Lingyao Li , Runlong Yu , Qikai Hu , Bowei Li , Min Deng , Yang Zhou , Xiaowei Jia

Worldwide image geolocalization-the task of predicting GPS coordinates from images taken anywhere on Earth-poses a fundamental challenge due to the vast diversity in visual content across regions. While recent approaches adopt a two-stage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Pengyue Jia , Seongheon Park , Song Gao , Xiangyu Zhao , Sharon Li

Ground-based whole sky cameras have opened up new opportunities for monitoring the earth's atmosphere. These cameras are an important complement to satellite images by providing geoscientists with cheaper, faster, and more localized data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-10 Soumyabrata Dev , Bihan Wen , Yee Hui Lee , Stefan Winkler

We examine the challenge of estimating the location of a single ground-level image in the absence of GPS or other location metadata. Currently, geolocation systems are evaluated by measuring the Great Circle Distance between the predicted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Michael J. Bianco , David Eigen , Michael Gormish

This work presents a method that is able to predict the geolocation of a street-view photo taken in the wild within a state-sized search region by matching against a database of aerial reference imagery. We partition the search region into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Determining the location of an image anywhere on Earth is a complex visual task, which makes it particularly relevant for evaluating computer vision algorithms. Yet, the absence of standard, large-scale, open-access datasets with reliably…

Visual geolocalization is a cost-effective and scalable task that involves matching one or more query images, taken at some unknown location, to a set of geo-tagged reference images. Existing methods, devoted to semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Boni Hu , Lin Chen , Runjian Chen , Shuhui Bu , Pengcheng Han , Haowei Li

Fine-grained recognition involves the classification of images from subordinate macro-categories, and it is challenging due to small inter-class differences. To overcome this, most methods perform discriminative feature selection enabled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Edwin Arkel Rios , Min-Chun Hu , Bo-Cheng Lai

Cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the location of a query ground image by matching it to a reference geo-tagged aerial images database. As an extremely challenging task, its difficulties root in the drastic view changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Yi Zhou , Safwan Wshah

Global visual geolocation predicts where an image was captured on Earth. Since images vary in how precisely they can be localized, this task inherently involves a significant degree of ambiguity. However, existing approaches are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Nicolas Dufour , David Picard , Vicky Kalogeiton , Loic Landrieu

Visual geolocalization, the task of predicting where an image was taken, remains challenging due to global scale, visual ambiguity, and the inherently hierarchical structure of geography. Existing paradigms rely on either large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Hari Krishna Gadi , Daniel Matos , Hongyi Luo , Lu Liu , Yongliang Wang , Yanfeng Zhang , Liqiu Meng

Geolocating precise locations from images presents a challenging problem in computer vision and information retrieval.Traditional methods typically employ either classification, which dividing the Earth surface into grid cells and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Zhongliang Zhou , Jielu Zhang , Zihan Guan , Mengxuan Hu , Ni Lao , Lan Mu , Sheng Li , Gengchen Mai