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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:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Pengyue Jia , Derong Xu , Yingyi Zhang , Xiaopeng Li , Wenlin Zhang , Yi Wen , Yuanshao Zhu , Xiangyu Zhao

Cross-view geo-localization infers a location by retrieving geo-tagged reference images that visually correspond to a query image. However, the traditional satellite-centric paradigm limits robustness when high-resolution or up-to-date…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Zixuan Song , Jing Zhang , Di Wang , Zidie Zhou , Wenbin Liu , Haonan Guo , En Wang , Bo Du

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved impressive results on single-view vision tasks, but lack the multi-view spatial reasoning capabilities essential for embodied AI systems to understand 3D environments and manipulate objects across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Suchae Jeong , Jaehwi Song , Haeone Lee , Hanna Kim , Jian Kim , Dongjun Lee , Dong Kyu Shin , Changyeon Kim , Dongyoon Hahm , Woogyeol Jin , Juheon Choi , Kimin Lee

Large Vision and Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across various vision-language tasks in natural image domains. However, their application to remote sensing (RS) remains underexplored due to significant domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Sungjune Park , Yeongyun Kim , Se Yeon Kim , Yong Man Ro

Safe UAV emergency landing requires more than just identifying flat terrain; it demands understanding complex semantic risks (e.g., crowds, temporary structures) invisible to traditional geometric sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chunliang Hua , Zeyuan Yang , Lei Zhang , Jiayang Sun , Fengwen Chen , Chunlan Zeng , Xiao Hu

Cross-view geolocalization identifies the geographic location of street view images by matching them with a georeferenced satellite database. Significant challenges arise due to the drastic appearance and geometry differences between views.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Junyan Ye , Zhutao Lv , Weijia Li , Jinhua Yu , Haote Yang , Huaping Zhong , Conghui He

Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in understanding and reasoning about visual content, but significant challenges persist in tasks requiring cross-viewpoint understanding and spatial reasoning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Dingming Li , Hongxing Li , Zixuan Wang , Yuchen Yan , Hang Zhang , Siqi Chen , Guiyang Hou , Shengpei Jiang , Wenqi Zhang , Yongliang Shen , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

This paper presents a framework for the localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in unstructured environments with the help of deep learning. A real-time rendering engine is introduced that generates optical and depth images given a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Timo Hinzmann , Roland Siegwart

This paper tackles the problem of Cross-view Video-based camera Localization (CVL). The task is to localize a query camera by leveraging information from its past observations, i.e., a continuous sequence of images observed at previous time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Shan Wang , Hongdong Li

Cross-view geo-localization is to spot images of the same geographic target from different platforms, e.g., drone-view cameras and satellites. It is challenging in the large visual appearance changes caused by extreme viewpoint variations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Tingyu Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Chenggang Yan , Jiyong Zhang , Yaoqi Sun , Bolun Zheng , Yi Yang

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL), which matches an oblique drone view to a geo-referenced satellite tile, has emerged as a key alternative for autonomous drone navigation when GNSS signals are jammed, spoofed, or unavailable. Despite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Chi-Nguyen Tran , Dao Sy Duy Minh , Huynh Trung Kiet , Nguyen Lam Phu Quy , Phu-Hoa Pham , Long Tran-Thanh

Language-goal aerial navigation requires UAVs to localize targets in the complex outdoors, such as urban blocks based on textual instructions. The indoor methods are often hard to scale to urban scenes due to ambiguous objects, limited…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Haotian Xu , Yue Hu , Chen Gao , Zhengqiu Zhu , Yong Zhao , Yong Li , Quanjun Yin

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) in remote sensing aims to locate a drone-view query by matching it to geo-tagged satellite images. Although supervised methods have achieved strong results on closeset benchmarks, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jun Lu , Zehao Sang , Haoqi Wei , Xiangyun Liu , Kun Zhu , Haitao Guo , Zhihui Gong , Lei Ding

Cross-view geo-localisation (CVGL) aims to estimate the geographic location of a query image by matching it with images from a large-scale database. However, the significant view-point discrepancies present considerable challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hualin Ye , Bingxi Liu , Jixiang Du , Yu Qin , Ziyi Chen , Hong Zhang

Existing image perception methods based on VLMs generally follow a paradigm wherein models extract and analyze image content based on user-provided textual task prompts. However, such methods face limitations when applied to UAV imagery,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Mingning Guo , Mengwei Wu , Shaoxian Li , Haifeng Li , Chao Tao

Large visual language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance in coarse-grained geo-localization at the country or city level, but they struggle with fine-grained street-level localization within urban areas. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Shixiong Xu , Chenghao Zhang , Lubin Fan , Yuan Zhou , Bin Fan , Shiming Xiang , Gaofeng Meng , Jieping Ye

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on spatial reasoning benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether this reflects structured 3D understanding or reliance on statistical shortcuts in natural images. We introduce a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Cheolhong Min , Jaeyun Jung , Daeun Lee , Hyeonseong Jeon , Yu Su , Jonathan Tremblay , Chan Hee Song , Jaesik Park

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) aims to guide agents by leveraging language instructions and visual cues, playing a pivotal role in embodied AI. Indoor VLN has been extensively studied, whereas outdoor aerial VLN remains underexplored. The…

This paper proposes a novel method for vision-based metric cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) that matches the camera images captured from a ground-based vehicle with an aerial image to determine the vehicle's geo-pose. Since aerial images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Cross-view spatial reasoning is essential for embodied AI, underpinning spatial understanding, mental simulation and planning in complex environments. Existing benchmarks primarily emphasize indoor or street settings, overlooking the unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Haotian Xu , Yue Hu , Zhengqiu Zhu , Chen Gao , Ziyou Wang , Junreng Rao , Wenhao Lu , Weishi Li , Quanjun Yin , Yong Li