arXiv AI

RRS-10K: A Multitask Vision-Language Model Benchmark for Rare Remote Sensing Image Interpretation

arXiv:2607. 24810v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on general remote sensing tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

More with Less: a Large Scale Remote Sensing VLM with a Simple Recipe

arXiv:2607. 15942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models are increasingly expected to support open-ended reasoning over Earth Observation data and a variety of tasks.

By Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
arXiv AI
Aug 14

LongEarth-R1: Benchmarking and Aligning Vision-Language Models for Long-Horizon Earth Observation Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon Earth observation reasoning requires models to organize multi-stage geographic evolution, localize spatial changes, detect temporal anomalies, and infer future from extended image sequences.

By Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Gui-Song Xia, Mi Wang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

VLM2GeoVec: Toward Universal Multimodal Embeddings for Remote Sensing

The paper introduces RSMEB, a unified benchmark for remote‑sensing multimodal retrieval that evaluates both cross‑modal and interleaved retrieval across 21 tasks under a single ranking protocol. It also presents VLM2GeoVec, an instruction‑conditioned single‑encoder model that embeds image, text, bounding‑box, and geo‑coordinate tokens into one sequence and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on region‑caption, referring‑expression, and semantic geo‑aware retrieval while remaining competitive on conventional tasks. The authors provide code, checkpoints, and data on GitHub to facilitate reproducibility.

By Emanuel S\'anchez Aimar, Gulnaz Zhambulova, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Yonghao Xu, Michael Felsberg
arXiv AI
Jun 9

AgroOmni: A Large-Scale Multi-view Agricultural Dataset for Cross-Scale Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2603. 14342v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern agricultural data is sourced from diverse platforms and spans multiple spatial scales, ranging from ground-level close-up photography to Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) aerial observation and satellite remote sensing imagery.

By Jiarui Zhang, Junqi Hu, Zurong Mai, Yang Liu, Yuhang Chen, Shuohong Lou, Henglian Huang, Hong Cheng, Lingyuan Zhao, Jianxi Huang, Yutong Lu, Haohuan Fu, Juepeng Zheng
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

VPRef: A Cross-Domain Benchmark for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation

The paper introduces VPRef, the first cross‑domain benchmark for Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation, containing 46,972 language‑image‑annotation triplets with a three‑tier linguistic hierarchy. It proposes a parameter‑efficient adaptation method based on the Segment Anything Model and Low‑Rank Adaptation, using pseudo‑label self‑training for visual drift and random multi‑granularity prompt mixing for textual drift. Experiments show the approach improves cross‑domain segmentation while altering only 1.08 % of the base model’s parameters, offering a strong baseline for future research.

By Quanwei Liu, Tao Huang, Jiaqi Yang, Wei Xiang
arXiv AI
Aug 19

Exploring Efficient Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in the Remote Sensing

The paper introduces OVRSISBench, a unified benchmark for open‑vocabulary remote sensing image segmentation, and evaluates existing OVS/OVRSIS models, uncovering their shortcomings in remote sensing contexts. Leveraging insights from this evaluation, the authors propose RSKT‑Seg, a new framework featuring a Multi‑Directional Cost Map Aggregation module, an Efficient Cost Map Fusion transformer, and a Remote Sensing Knowledge Transfer module. Experiments on the benchmark demonstrate that RSKT‑Seg outperforms strong baselines by +3.8 mIoU and +5.9 mACC while achieving twice the inference speed.

By Bingyu Li, Haocheng Dong, Da Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
arXiv AI
Jun 16

FusionRS: A Large-Scale RGB-Infrared Remote Sensing Dataset for Dual-Modal Vision-Language Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 17020v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models have advanced Earth observation understanding, but most existing work remains centered on RGB imagery, leaving the complementary information in infrared data underexplored.

By Jiaju Han, Ben Zhang, Xuemeng Sun, Qike Zhang, Yuxian Dong, Chengyin Hu, Fengyu Zhang, Yiwei Wei, Jiujiang Guo