arXiv:2609.18139v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) locates a target in satellite imagery using drone or street-view queries. Existing methods train separate de...
By Xuyu Fan, Qi Ming, Zhu Han, Liuqian Wang, Siyuan Cao, Xiaohan Zhang, Xudong Zhao, Mingjing Zhao, Yuhan Zhang
Cross-view geo-localization is challenging due to drastic viewpoint changes and large appearance discrepancies between street-level and satellite imagery. Although existing methods often use geometric warping to expose co-visible cues, such transformations rely on restrictive spatial assumptions and inevitably introduce severe visual distortions under view-dependent visibility, yielding noisy supervision and fragile correspondences.
arXiv:2606. 30576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) aims to locate a target object from a query view (e.
By Liyao Wang, Ruipu Wu, Haojun Xu, Lei Shi, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu
UniGeo is a multimodal large language model designed for text-guided drone geo‑localization, enabling the identification of target regions in large image galleries from natural‑language descriptions. It integrates geo‑semantic understanding, cross‑view semantic generation, and candidate‑level verification within a shared vision‑language framework, establishing stable correspondences among local scene elements, spatial relations, and language. A multi‑stage training strategy progressively refines geo‑semantic learning, cross‑view mapping, and fine‑grained verification, yielding significant performance gains on GeoText‑1652, with R@10 and mAP improvements of 13.59 and 2.83 percentage points respectively.
By Jiahao Wen, Hang Yu, Zhedong Zheng
IVSGround introduces a lightweight view selector that learns to choose the most informative camera views for vision‑language model (VLM) based 3D visual grounding, replacing heuristic view selection. The selector is trained via a two‑stage rejection sampling process that uses feedback from a reasoning VLM to generate supervision signals. Experiments on ScanRefer and NR3D demonstrate that IVSGround consistently improves grounding accuracy over existing zero‑shot pipelines, underscoring the importance of selecting where to look for effective 3D visual grounding.
By Tsung-Chih Chiang, Hsuan-Kung Yang, Jou-Min Liu, Ting-Ru Liu, Chun-Wei Huang, Quan Kong, Chun-Yi Lee
arXiv:2608. 09270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained cross-modal understanding in drone views is essential for aerial vision-language navigation.
By Jiahui Cui, Yan Zhao, Kan Wei, Enze Zhu, Peirong Zhang, Lei Wang, Yiru Wang
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial promise in spatial understanding. Existing works typically incorporate prior knowledge extracted from a pre-trained foundation model to further enhance the spatial awareness of MLLMs.
arXiv:2607.20116v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, diff...
By Xin Li, Siyuan Duan, Shang Wang, Zhimin Mao, Bingliang Hu, Geng Zhang
arXiv:2606.08918v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Worldwide image geo-localization aims to determine where on Earth a single image was captured. However, visually similar scenes may lie thousands o...
By Junchao Cui, Xuanzi Ma, Wenqi Shi, Nan Wu, Biru Zhu, Xiangyang Luo
Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, acquisition-time and imaging-platform differences between UAV and reference imagery induce substantial cross-domain appearance and viewpoint shifts, challenging robust six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) pose estimation.
arXiv:2601. 19099v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision--language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on many multimodal benchmarks but remain brittle on spatial reasoning tasks that require aligning abstract overhead representations with egocentric views.
By Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Igor Molybog
arXiv:2604.13183v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Generalizable cross-view geo-localization aims to match the same location across views in unseen regions and conditions without GPS supervision. It...
By Hongyang Zhang, Yinhao Liu, Haitao Zhang, Zhongyi Wen, Zhenyu Kuang, Shuxian Liang, Xian-Sheng Hua