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We demonstrate how language can improve geolocation: the task of predicting the location where an image was taken. Here we study explicit knowledge from human-written guidebooks that describe the salient and class-discriminative visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Grace Luo , Giscard Biamby , Trevor Darrell , Daniel Fried , Anna Rohrbach

As cities evolve over time, challenges such as traffic congestion and functional imbalance increasingly necessitate urban renewal through efficient modification of existing plans, rather than complete re-planning. In practice, even minor…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Rui Liu , Steven Jige Quan , Zhong-Ren Peng , Zijun Yao , Han Wang , Zhengzhang Chen , Kunpeng Liu , Yanjie Fu , Dongjie Wang

Recent studies have extended the application of large language models (LLMs) to geographic problems, revealing surprising geospatial competence even without explicit spatial supervision. However, LLMs still face challenges in spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Jinfan Tang , Kunming Wu , Ruifeng Gongxie , Yuya He , Yuankai Wu

Global geolocation, which seeks to predict the geographical location of images captured anywhere in the world, is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we introduce an innovative interactive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Zhiyang Dou , Zipeng Wang , Xumeng Han , Guorong Li , Zhipei Huang , Zhenjun Han

Images shared on social media often expose geographic cues. While early geolocation methods required expert effort and lacked generalization, the rise of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) now enables accurate geolocation even for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinyu Zhang , Yixin Wu , Boyang Zhang , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Tool-augmented Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive capabilities in remote sensing (RS) applications. However, existing benchmarks assume question-answering input templates over predefined image-text data pairs. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Simranjit Singh , Michael Fore , Dimitrios Stamoulis

Although numerous strategies have recently been proposed to enhance the autonomous interaction capabilities of multimodal agents in graphical user interface (GUI), their reliability remains limited when faced with complex or out-of-domain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Pengzhou Cheng , Lingzhong Dong , Zeng Wu , Zongru Wu , Xiangru Tang , Chengwei Qin , Zhuosheng Zhang , Gongshen Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown significant progress in video understanding, yet they face substantial challenges in tasks requiring precise spatiotemporal localization at the instance level. Existing methods primarily rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yiming Zhao , Yu Zeng , Wenxuan Huang , Zhen Fang , Qing Miao , Qisheng Su , Jiawei Zhao , Jiayin Cai , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Yukun Qi , Yao Hu , Xiaolong Jiang , Feng Zhao

A hallmark of advanced artificial intelligence is the capacity to progress from passive visual perception to the strategic modification of visual information to facilitate complex reasoning. This advanced capability, however, remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Jingkun Ma , Runzhe Zhan , Yang Li , Di Sun , Hou Pong Chan , Lidia S. Chao , Derek F. Wong

Recent advances in Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual reasoning tasks. However, geo-localization presents unique challenges, requiring the extraction of multigranular visual cues from images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chun Wang , Xiaojun Ye , Xiaoran Pan , Zihao Pan , Haofan Wang , Yiren Song

Vision-language agents have achieved remarkable progress in a variety of multimodal reasoning tasks; however, their learning remains constrained by the limitations of human-annotated supervision. Recent self-rewarding approaches attempt to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Jiaqi Liu , Kaiwen Xiong , Peng Xia , Yiyang Zhou , Haonian Ji , Lu Feng , Siwei Han , Mingyu Ding , Huaxiu Yao

Automating GUI tasks remains challenging due to reliance on textual representations, platform-specific action spaces, and limited reasoning capabilities. We introduce Aguvis, a unified vision-based framework for autonomous GUI agents that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Yiheng Xu , Zekun Wang , Junli Wang , Dunjie Lu , Tianbao Xie , Amrita Saha , Doyen Sahoo , Tao Yu , Caiming Xiong

Geospatial modeling provides critical solutions for pressing global challenges such as sustainability and climate change. Existing large language model (LLM)-based algorithm discovery frameworks, such as AlphaEvolve, excel at evolving…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Peng Luo , Xiayin Lou , Yu Zheng , Zhuo Zheng , Stefano Ermon

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

Geovisualizations are powerful tools for communicating spatial information, but are inaccessible to screen-reader users. To address this limitation, we present GeoVisA11y, an LLM-based question-answering system that makes geovisualizations…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chu Li , Rock Yuren Pang , Arnavi Chheda-Kothary , Ather Sharif , Henok Assalif , Jeffrey Heer , Jon E. Froehlich

The concept of geo-localization refers to the process of determining where on earth some `entity' is located, typically using Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates. The entity of interest may be an image, sequence of images, a video,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Daniel Wilson , Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

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

Generalization across Agentic tool-calling environments remains a key unsolved challenge in developing reliable agentic reasoning systems. While large language models (LLMs) demonstrate strong performance on isolated benchmarks, their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Vishvesh Bhat , Omkar Ghugarkar , Julian McAuley

Image-goal navigation steers an agent to a target location specified by an image in unseen environments. Existing methods primarily handle this task by learning an end-to-end navigation policy, which compares the similarities of target and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Pengna Li , Kangyi Wu , Shaoqing Xu , Fang Li , Lin Zhao , Long Chen , Zhi-Xin Yang , Nanning Zheng

We present a challenging benchmark for the Open WorLd VISual question answering (OWLViz) task. OWLViz presents concise, unambiguous queries that require integrating multiple capabilities, including visual understanding, web exploration, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Thuy Nguyen , Dang Nguyen , Hoang Nguyen , Thuan Luong , Long Hoang Dang , Viet Dac Lai