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General 3D foundation models have started to lead the trend of unifying diverse vision tasks, yet most assume RGB-only inputs and ignore readily available geometric cues (e.g., camera intrinsics, poses, and depth maps). To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Haosong Peng , Hao Li , Yalun Dai , Yushi Lan , Yihang Luo , Tianyu Qi , Zhengshen Zhang , Yufeng Zhan , Junfei Zhang , Wenchao Xu , Ziwei Liu

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

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-localization aims to determine the geographical location of a query image by matching it against a gallery of images. This task is challenging due to the significant appearance variations of objects observed from variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 YiTong Liu , TianZhu Liu , YanFeng GU

We propose a novel fine-grained cross-view localization method that estimates the 3 Degrees of Freedom pose of a ground-level image in an aerial image of the surroundings by matching fine-grained features between the two images. The pose is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zimin Xia , Alexandre Alahi

Vision-Language Foundation Models (VLFMs) have made remarkable progress on various multimodal tasks, such as image captioning, image-text retrieval, visual question answering, and visual grounding. However, most methods rely on training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Yue Zhou , Zhihang Zhong , Xue Yang

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) matches query images ($\textit{e.g.}$, drone) to geographically corresponding opposite-view imagery ($\textit{e.g.}$, satellite). While supervised methods achieve strong performance, their reliance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Cuiqun Chen , Qi Chen , Bin Yang , Xingyi Zhang

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) involves determining the localization of drone images by retrieving the most similar GPS-tagged satellite images. However, the imaging gaps between platforms are often significant and the variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Zhongwei Chen , Zhao-Xu Yang , Hai-Jun Rong

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

This paper addresses the problem of cross-view image geo-localization, where the geographic location of a ground-level street-view query image is estimated by matching it against a large scale aerial map (e.g., a high-resolution satellite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Liu Liu , Tong Zhang , Hongdong Li

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) between UAV imagery and satellite images plays a crucial role in target localization and UAV self-positioning. However, most existing methods rely on the idealized assumption of scale consistency between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yibin Ye , Shuo Chen , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Jisheng Dang , Qifeng Yu , Xichao Teng , Zhang Li

Current video foundation models, including the strongest self-supervised models such as V-JEPA2, fail to capture how humans organize social information in dynamic scenes. For example, across a range of diverse vision models tested, none…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Kathy Garcia , Leyla Isik

Integration of aerial and ground images has been proved as an efficient approach to enhance the surface reconstruction in urban environments. However, as the first step, the feature point matching between aerial and ground images is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Qing Zhu , Zhendong Wang , Han Hu , Linfu Xie , Xuming Ge , Yeting Zhang

The drone navigation requires the comprehensive understanding of both visual and geometric information in the 3D world. In this paper, we present a Visual-Geometric Fusion Network(VGF-Net), a deep network for the fusion analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Yilin Liu , Ke Xie , Hui Huang

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

Transformer-based general visual geometry frameworks have shown promising performance in camera pose estimation and 3D scene understanding. Recent advancements in Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) models have shown great promise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yangfan Xu , Lilian Zhang , Xiaofeng He , Pengdong Wu , Wenqi Wu , Jun Mao

Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) aims to locate an object of interest in a captured ground- or drone-view image within the satellite image. However, existing works treat ground-view and drone-view query images equivalently,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zhongyang Li , Xin Yuan , Wei Liu , Xin Xu

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) plays a vital role in drone-based multimedia applications, enabling precise localization by matching drone-captured aerial images against geo-tagged satellite databases in GNSS-denied environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jian Sun , Kangdao Liu , Chi Zhang , Chuangquan Chen , Junge Shen , C. L. Philip Chen , Chi-Man Vong

Domain-generalized LiDAR semantic segmentation (LSS) seeks to train models on source-domain point clouds that generalize reliably to multiple unseen target domains, which is essential for real-world LiDAR applications. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Jindong Zhao , Yuan Gao , Yang Xia , Sheng Nie , Jun Yue , Weiwei Sun , Shaobo Xia