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Vision-language models (VLMs) often struggle with geometric reasoning due to their limited perception of fundamental diagram elements. To tackle this challenge, we introduce GeoPerceive, a benchmark comprising diagram instances paired with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hao Yu , Shuning Jia , Guanghao Li , Wenhao Jiang , Chun Yuan

AI-driven geometric problem solving is a complex vision-language task that requires accurate diagram interpretation, mathematical reasoning, and robust cross-modal grounding. A foundational yet underexplored capability for this task is the…

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Geospatial reasoning requires solving image-grounded problems over the complex spatial structure of a scene. However, developing this capability is hindered by the cost of annotating a vast and combinatorial question space. We propose GeoX,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Kyeongjin Ahn , Seungeon Lee , Krishna P. Gummadi , Meeyoung Cha

Generative recommendation with large language models (LLMs) reframes prediction as sequence generation, yet existing LLM-based recommenders remain limited in leveraging geographic signals that are crucial in mobility and local-services…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Dongyi Lv , Qiuyu Ding , Heng-Da Xu , Zhaoxu Sun , Zhi Wang , Feng Xiong , Mu Xu

Traditional methods for reasoning segmentation rely on supervised fine-tuning with categorical labels and simple descriptions, limiting its out-of-domain generalization and lacking explicit reasoning processes. To address these limitations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yuqi Liu , Bohao Peng , Zhisheng Zhong , Zihao Yue , Fanbin Lu , Bei Yu , Jiaya Jia

Vision Language Models (VLMs) are good at recognizing the global location of a photograph -- their geolocation prediction accuracy rivals the best human experts. But many VLMs are startlingly bad at \textit{explaining} which image evidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Mohit Talreja , Joshua Diao , Jim Thannikary James , Radu Casapu , Tejas Santanam , Ethan Mendes , Alan Ritter , Wei Xu , James Hays

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) frequently hallucinate due to their reliance on fragile, linear reasoning and weak visual grounding. We propose Visual Attention Reasoning (VAR), a reinforcement learning framework that reformulates…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wei Cai , Jian Zhao , Yuchen Yuan , Tianle Zhang , Ming Zhu , Haichuan Tang , Xuelong Li

Large vision language models exhibit notable limitations on Geometry Problem Solving (GPS) because of their unreliable diagram interpretation and pure natural-language reasoning. A recent line of work mitigates this by using symbolic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Tianyun Yang , Yunwen Li , Ziniu Li , Zhihang Lin , Ruoyu Sun , Tian Ding

Spatio-temporal reasoning in vision-language models requires visual representations that preserve physical geometry rather than merely semantic appearance. Recent multimodal models incorporate geometric information through structural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Deshui Miao , Xingsen Huang , Yameng Gu , Xin Li , Haijun Zhang , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet their capacity for image-grounded geolocation in open-world conditions, a task that is challenging and of demand in real life, has not been comprehensively evaluated. We present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhaofang Qian , Hardy Chen , Zeyu Wang , Li Zhang , Zijun Wang , Xiaoke Huang , Hui Liu , Xianfeng Tang , Zeyu Zheng , Haoqin Tu , Cihang Xie , Yuyin Zhou

Worldwide image geolocalization aims to predict precise GPS coordinates for images captured anywhere on Earth, which is challenging due to the large visual and geographic diversity. Recent methods mainly follow two paradigms:…

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Traditional visual grounding methods primarily focus on single-image scenarios with simple textual references. However, extending these methods to real-world scenarios that involve implicit and complex instructions, particularly in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Sule Bai , Mingxing Li , Yong Liu , Jing Tang , Haoji Zhang , Lei Sun , Xiangxiang Chu , Yansong Tang

Humans can perceive and reason about spatial relationships from sequential visual observations, such as egocentric video streams. However, how pretrained models acquire such abilities, especially high-level reasoning, remains unclear. This…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Baining Zhao , Ziyou Wang , Jianjie Fang , Chen Gao , Fanhang Man , Jinqiang Cui , Xin Wang , Xinlei Chen , Yong Li , Wenwu Zhu

This paper introduces GeoChain, a large-scale benchmark for evaluating step-by-step geographic reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Leveraging 1.46 million Mapillary street-level images, GeoChain pairs each image with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Sahiti Yerramilli , Nilay Pande , Rynaa Grover , Jayant Sravan Tamarapalli

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah

Reinforcement learning (RL) post-training substantially improves remote sensing vision-language models (RS-VLMs). However, when handling complex remote sensing imagery (RSI) requiring exhaustive visual scanning, models tend to rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Gaozhi Zhou , Hu He , Peng Shen , Jipeng Zhang , Liujue Zhang , Linrui Xu , Zeyuan Wang , Ziyu Li , Xuezhi Cui , Wang Guo , Haifeng Li

Recent learning-based visual localization methods use global descriptors to disambiguate visually similar places, but existing approaches often derive these descriptors from geometric cues alone (e.g., covisibility graphs), limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Son Tung Nguyen , Alejandro Fontan , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Medical Image Grounding (MIG), which involves localizing specific regions in medical images based on textual descriptions, requires models to not only perceive regions but also deduce spatial relationships of these regions. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Huihui Xu , Yuanpeng Nie , Hualiang Wang , Ying Chen , Wei Li , Junzhi Ning , Lihao Liu , Hongqiu Wang , Lei Zhu , Jiyao Liu , Xiaomeng Li , Junjun He

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…

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