arXiv:2608. 03826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial and urban applications increasingly require models to compare heterogeneous evidence across street-view imagery, remote-sensing observations, text descriptions, region proposals, and temporal change cues.
By Jiapeng Li, Yong Li, Junjie Zhou, Fan Zhang, Yu Liu
arXiv:2607. 07292v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurately estimating urban carbon emissions is critical for sustainable urban planning, yet many existing approaches remain difficult to apply consistently across cities due to data-source heterogeneity and the lack of fine-grained semantic-temporal context in remote sensing data.
By Zeru Yang, Fang-Ying Gong, Steve H. L. Yim, Chau Yuen
Geospatial and urban applications increasingly require models to compare heterogeneous evidence across street-view imagery, remote-sensing observations, text descriptions, region proposals, and temporal change cues. However, existing multimodal embedding models and benchmarks are still largely designed and evaluated around general-purpose image-text matching, leaving unclear whether unified embedding space can support heterogeneous geospatial tasks involving spatial relationships, fine-grained semantics, and temporal changes.
The paper introduces TIC‑Bench, a new benchmark for evaluating multimodal large language models on deeply interleaved text‑image contexts. It covers logical, temporal, and spatial association tasks, totaling 2,280 questions across eight specific types. The authors benchmarked ten state‑of‑the‑art MLLMs, finding a significant performance gap versus human experts and highlighting persistent challenges in integrating evidence across interleaved visual and textual inputs.
By Zihao Wang, Xi Xiang, Yuwen Sun, Yingyu Li, Yabo Zhang, Yihan Zeng, Fan Li, Wangmeng Zuo
arXiv:2505.12254v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Existing visual place recognition (VPR) datasets predominantly rely on vehicle-mounted imagery, offer limited multimodal diversity, and under...
By Yiwei Ou, Xiaobin Ren, Ronggui Sun, Guansong Gao, Kaiqi Zhao, Manfredo Manfredini
The paper presents a multimodal machine learning framework that classifies Emirati residential architectural styles by combining visual features from images and textual descriptions using OpenAI's CLIP model. The unified 512‑dimensional embeddings are reduced with UMAP, clustered with K‑Means, and then used to train an SVM classifier, achieving a 98% accuracy across eight style clusters. This approach outperforms previous studies and demonstrates the value of integrating visual and textual data for cultural heritage analysis.
By Ahmed Ammar Kubba, Manar Abu Talib, Iman Ibrahim, Qassim Nasir
arXiv:2603. 05997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Irregularly sampled time series (ISTS) are widespread in real-world scenarios, exhibiting asynchronous observations on uneven time intervals across diverse variables.
By Zhi Lei, Chenxi Liu, Hao Miao, Wanghui Qiu, Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo
arXiv:2610.17856v2 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Time-series analysis is increasingly studied in multimodal settings, yet most benchmarks pair temporal signals with text or with visualizations deriv...
By Ziyang Zhang, Shenyi Li, Yilin Wang, Ziyun Cui, Bowen Zhou, Wen Wu, Chao Zhang
arXiv:2507. 00263v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid growth of vacation rental (VR) platforms has led to an increasing volume of property images, often uploaded without structured categorization.
By Vignesh Ram Nithin Kappagantula, Shayan Hassantabar
arXiv:2606. 05702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to interpret complex visual semantics, yet their capacity for chronological reasoning remains under-explored.
By Haoyu Zhou, Qing Qing, Caichong Li, Qixin Zhang, Yongcheng Jing, Ziqi Xu, Juncheng Hu, Xikun Zhang, Renqiang Luo
We formulate computer vision as unified multimodal generation, where heterogeneous visual tasks are expressed in the native text and image generation spaces of a unified multimodal model, without task-specific architectures. Under this formulation, SenseNova-Vision uses natural-language instructions and optional visual prompts to specify tasks, target regions or views, and decoding conventions, and generates responses as text for symbolic outputs, images for dense spatial predictions, or mixed text-and-image outputs for compositional tasks.
The paper reviews recent work on natural language generation from visual events, emphasizing that tasks involving sequences of images or video frames are fundamentally about modeling complex relationships between evolving visual events and the language used to describe them. It surveys five related tasks, examines common modeling and evaluation methods, and highlights shared challenges across these tasks. The authors then outline key open questions and suggest future research directions to address these challenges.
By Aditya K Surikuchi, Raquel Fern\'andez, Sandro Pezzelle