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Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) estimates a camera's location by matching a street-view image to geo-referenced overhead imagery, enabling GPS-denied localization and navigation. Existing methods almost universally formulate CVGL as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunus Talha Erzurumlu , Jiyong Kwag , Alper Yilmaz

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) aims to accurately localize street-view images through retrieval of corresponding geo-tagged satellite images. While prior works have achieved nearly perfect performance on certain standard datasets, their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Le Wu , Lv Bo , Songsong Ouyang , Yingying Zhu

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…

In this paper, we propose a novel multimodal framework, Multimodal Language-Guided Network (MMLGNet), to align heterogeneous remote sensing modalities like Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) and LiDAR with natural language semantics using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Aditya Chaudhary , Sneha Barman , Mainak Singha , Ankit Jha , Girish Mishra , Biplab Banerjee

Gaze estimation methods commonly use facial appearances to predict the direction of a person gaze. However, previous studies show three major challenges with convolutional neural network (CNN)-based, transformer-based, and contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xinyuan Zhao , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Sarah A. Alkhodair , Reem Kateb

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) estimates the location of a ground image by matching it to a geo-tagged aerial image in a database. Recent works achieve outstanding progress on CVGL benchmarks. However, existing methods still suffer from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Chen Chen , Safwan Wshah

Drone-view geo-localization (DVGL) aims to match images of the same geographic location captured from drone and satellite perspectives. Despite recent advances, DVGL remains challenging due to significant appearance changes and spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Ke Li , Di Wang , Xiaowei Wang , Zhihong Wu , Yiming Zhang , Yifeng Wang , Quan Wang

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 geo-localization (CVGL) aims to establish spatial correspondences between images captured from significantly different viewpoints and constitutes a fundamental technique for visual localization in GNSS-denied environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hongying Zhang , ShuaiShuai Ma

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

Geolocation is a fundamental component of route planning and navigation for unmanned vehicles, but GNSS-based geolocation fails under denial-of-service conditions. Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL), which aims to estimate the geographical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianwei Zhao , Qiang Zhai , Pengbo Zhao , Rui Huang , Hong Cheng

Aerial-ground localization is difficult due to large viewpoint and modality gaps between ground-level LiDAR and overhead imagery. We propose TransLocNet, a cross-modal attention framework that fuses LiDAR geometry with aerial semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Phu Pham , Damon Conover , Aniket Bera

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Mi , Chang Xu , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Syrielle Montariol , Wen Yang , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

Cross-View Geo-Localization tackles the challenge of image geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments, including disaster response scenarios, urban canyons, and dense forests, by matching street-view query images with geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Panwang Xia , Lei Yu , Yi Wan , Qiong Wu , Peiqi Chen , Liheng Zhong , Yongxiang Yao , Dong Wei , Xinyi Liu , Lixiang Ru , Yingying Zhang , Jiangwei Lao , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang

The majority of point cloud registration methods currently rely on extracting features from points. However, these methods are limited by their dependence on information obtained from a single modality of points, which can result in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yifan Xie , Jihua Zhu , Shiqi Li , Pengcheng Shi

Determining the precise geographic location of an image at a global scale remains an unsolved challenge. Standard image retrieval techniques are inefficient due to the sheer volume of images (>100M) and fail when coverage is insufficient.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Philipp Lindenberger , Paul-Edouard Sarlin , Jan Hosang , Matteo Balice , Marc Pollefeys , Simon Lynen , Eduard Trulls

In the pursuit of robust and generalizable environment perception and language understanding, the ubiquitous challenge of dataset bias continues to plague vision-and-language navigation (VLN) agents, hindering their performance in unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Liuyi Wang , Zongtao He , Ronghao Dang , Mengjiao Shen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Classification and identification of the materials lying over or beneath the Earth's surface have long been a fundamental but challenging research topic in geoscience and remote sensing (RS) and have garnered a growing concern owing to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Danfeng Hong , Lianru Gao , Naoto Yokoya , Jing Yao , Jocelyn Chanussot , Qian Du , Bing Zhang

Learning interpretable multimodal representations inherently relies on uncovering the conditional dependencies between heterogeneous features. However, sparse graph estimation techniques, such as Graphical Lasso (GLasso), to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Fei Wang , Yutong Zhang , Xiong Wang

Navigation of a mobile robot is conditioned on the knowledge of its pose. In observer-based localisation configurations its initial pose may not be knowable in advance, leading to the need of its estimation. Solutions to the problem of…

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