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Image geolocalization is the task of identifying the location depicted in a photo based only on its visual information. This task is inherently challenging since many photos have only few, possibly ambiguous cues to their geolocation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-08 Paul Hongsuck Seo , Tobias Weyand , Jack Sim , Bohyung Han

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) is fundamental for precise localization and navigation in GPS-denied environments, aiming to match ground or UAV imagery with satellite views. Existing approaches often rely on global feature alignment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Hongyang Zhang , Maonnan Wang , Ziyao Wang , Hongrui Yin , Man On Pun

Estimating the location where an image was taken based solely on the contents of the image is a challenging task, even for humans, as properly labeling an image in such a fashion relies heavily on contextual information, and is not as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Jesse M. Johns , Jeremiah Rounds , Michael J. Henry

Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels? In general, the problem seems exceptionally difficult: it is trivial to construct situations where no location can be inferred. Yet…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-09 Tobias Weyand , Ilya Kostrikov , James Philbin

The dominant CNN-based methods for cross-view image geo-localization rely on polar transform and fail to model global correlation. We propose a pure transformer-based approach (TransGeo) to address these limitations from a different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Sijie Zhu , Mubarak Shah , Chen Chen

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

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

Visual Geo-localization (VG) refers to the process to identify the location described in query images, which is widely applied in robotics field and computer vision tasks, such as autonomous driving, metaverse, augmented reality, and SLAM.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Chen Mao , Jingqi Hu

Cross-view geo-spatial learning consists of two important tasks: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) and Cross-View Image Synthesis (CVIS), both of which rely on establishing geometric correspondences between ground and aerial views. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yancheng Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Zonglin Lyu , Safwan Wshah , Chen Chen

Visual localization is a fundamental task that regresses the 6 Degree Of Freedom (6DoF) poses with image features in order to serve the high precision localization requests in many robotics applications. Degenerate conditions like motion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Yuchen Yang , Xudong Zhang , Shuang Gao , Jixiang Wan , Yishan Ping , Yuyue Liu , Jijunnan Li , Yandong Guo

Predicting the geographic location (geo-localization) from a single ground-level RGB image taken anywhere in the world is a very challenging problem. The challenges include huge diversity of images due to different environmental scenarios,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Shraman Pramanick , Ewa M. Nowara , Joshua Gleason , Carlos D. Castillo , Rama Chellappa

Visual localization and mapping is the key technology underlying the majority of mixed reality and robotics systems. Most state-of-the-art approaches rely on local features to establish correspondences between images. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Mihai Dusmanu , Ondrej Miksik , Johannes L. Schönberger , Marc Pollefeys

For high-level geo-spatial applications and intelligent robotics, accurate global pose information is of crucial importance. Map-aided localization is a universal approach to overcome the limitations of global navigation satellite system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Yuxuan Zhou , Xingxing Li , Shengyu Li , Chunxi Xia , Xuanbin Wang , Shaoquan Feng

Natural image matting aims to estimate the alpha matte of the foreground from a given image. Various approaches have been explored to address this problem, such as interactive matting methods that use guidance such as click or trimap, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Qinglin Liu , Xiaoqian Lv , Wei Yu , Changyong Guo , Shengping Zhang

With the development of the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and DeepFakes, AI-synthesized images are now of such high quality that humans can hardly distinguish them from real images. It is imperative for media forensics to develop…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Yan Ju , Shan Jia , Lipeng Ke , Hongfei Xue , Koki Nagano , Siwei Lyu

Cross-View Geo-Localisation is still a challenging task where additional modules, specific pre-processing or zooming strategies are necessary to determine accurate positions of images. Since different views have different geometries,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Fabian Deuser , Konrad Habel , Norbert Oswald

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has become a part of our daily life with the primary goal of providing geopositioning service. For an unmanned aerial system (UAS), geolocalization ability is an extremely important necessity which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Jianli Wei , Deniz Karakay , Alper Yilmaz

Current global re-localization algorithms are built on top of localization and mapping methods andheavily rely on scan matching and direct point cloud feature extraction and therefore are vulnerable infeatureless demanding environments like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Nikolaos Stathoulopoulos , Anton Koval , George Nikolakopoulos

Hierarchical visual localization methods achieve state-of-the-art accuracy but require substantial memory as they need to store all database images. Direct 2D-3D matching requires significantly less memory but suffers from lower accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Son Tung Nguyen , Alejandro Fontan , Michael Milford , Tobias Fischer

Generalizable cross-view geo-localization aims to match the same location across views in unseen regions and conditions without GPS supervision. Its core difficulty lies in severe semantic inconsistency caused by viewpoint variation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Hongyang Zhang , Yinhao Liu , Haitao Zhang , Zhongyi Wen , Zhenyu Kuang , Shuxian Liang , Xiansheng Hua