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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

This work presents ViGeo, a feed-forward foundation model for recovering spatially dense and temporally consistent geometry from video sequences. Built upon a plain transformer architecture without task-specific architectural modifications,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Zhu Yu , Jingnan Gao , Runmin Zhang , Lingteng Qiu , Zhengyi Zhao , Rui Peng , Yichao Yan , Kejie Qiu , Siyu Zhu , Si-Yuan Cao , Hui-Liang Shen

With the expanding application scope of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the demand for stable UAV control has significantly increased. However, in complex environments, GPS signals are prone to interference, resulting in ineffective UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mingkun Li , Ziming Wang , Guang Huo , Wei Chen , Xiaoning Zhao

Cross-view video geo-localization (CVGL) aims to derive GPS trajectories from street-view videos by aligning them with aerial-view images. Despite their promising performance, current CVGL methods face significant challenges. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Manu S Pillai , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Mubarak Shah

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

Cross-view UAV geolocalization is fundamentally a challenging large-scale image retrieval task, aiming to determine the geographic coordinates of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) queries by matching them against an extensive geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bowen Liu , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Derong Xu , Jiawei Cheng , Jiancheng Dong , Xiao Han , Zimo Zhao , Chao Zhang , Bowen Yu , Fangyu Hong , Xiangyu Zhao

Most existing cross-view object geo-localization approaches adopt anchor-based paradigm. Although effective, such methods are inherently constrained by predefined anchors. To eliminate this dependency, we first propose an anchor-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Xingtao Ling , Chenlin Fu , Yingying Zhu

Cross-view geo-localization has garnered notable attention in the realm of computer vision, spurred by the widespread availability of copious geotagged datasets and the advancements in machine learning techniques. This paper provides a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Abhilash Durgam , Sidike Paheding , Vikas Dhiman , Vijay Devabhaktuni

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) is pivotal for GNSS-denied UAV navigation but remains brittle under the drastic geometric misalignment between oblique aerial views and orthographic satellite references. Existing methods predominantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Minglei Li , Mengfan He , Chunyu Li , Chao Chen , Xingyu Shao , Ziyang Meng

Camera-controllable image editing aims to synthesize novel views of a given scene under varying camera poses while strictly preserving cross-view geometric consistency. However, existing methods typically rely on fragmented geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Hong Jiang , Wensong Song , Zongxing Yang , Ruijie Quan , Yi Yang

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

Object detection is one of the most fundamental yet challenging research topics in the domain of computer vision. Recently, the study on this topic in aerial images has made tremendous progress. However, complex background and worse imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Zongqi Wei , Dong Liang , Dong Zhang , Liyan Zhang , Qixiang Geng , Mingqiang Wei , Huiyu Zhou

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

Cross-view image geo-localization aims to determine the locations of street-view query images by matching with GPS-tagged reference images from aerial view. Recent works have achieved surprisingly high retrieval accuracy on city-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Sijie Zhu , Taojiannan Yang , Chen Chen

Cross-view geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments aims to determine an unknown location by matching drone-view images with the correct geo-tagged satellite-view images from a large gallery. Recent research shows that learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Tongtong Feng , Qing Li , Xin Wang , Mingzi Wang , Guangyao Li , Wenwu Zhu

Cross-view geo-localization plays a critical role in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) localization and navigation. However, significant challenges arise from the drastic viewpoint differences and appearance variations between images. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hongyu Zhou , Yunzhou Zhang , Tingsong Huang , Fawei Ge , Man Qi , Xichen Zhang , Yizhong Zhang

Image geo-localization is the task of predicting the specific location of an image and requires complex reasoning across visual, geographical, and cultural contexts. While prior Vision Language Models (VLMs) have the best accuracy at this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zheyuan Zhang , Runze Li , Tasnim Kabir , Jordan Boyd-Graber

Metric Cross-View Geo-Localization (MCVGL) aims to estimate the 3-DoF camera pose (position and heading) by matching ground and satellite images. In this work, instead of pinhole and satellite images, we study robust MCVGL using holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Junwei Zheng , Ruize Dai , Ruiping Liu , Zichao Zeng , Yufan Chen , Fangjinhua Wang , Kunyu Peng , Kailun Yang , Jiaming Zhang , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Cross-view localization aims to estimate the 3-DoF pose of a ground-view image by aligning it with aerial or satellite imagery. Existing methods typically address this task through direct regression or feature alignment in a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Panwang Xia , Qiong Wu , Lei Yu , Yi Liu , Mingtao Xiong , Xudong Lu , Yi Liu , Haoyu Guo , Yongxiang Yao , Junjian Zhang , Xiangyuan Cai , Hongwei Hu , Zhi Zheng , Yongjun Zhang , Yi Wan

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become key platforms for measurement and tracking in intelligent patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied environments, localization schemes that rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen