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
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:2512.02697v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Cross-view geo-localization infers a location by retrieving geo-tagged reference images matching a query image. However, the traditional satellite-...
By Zixuan Song, Jing Zhang, Di Wang, Zhiming Luo, Wenbin Liu, Haonan Guo, En Wang, Bo Du, Liangpei Zhang
S$^3$Geo introduces a structure‑semantic synergistic learning framework for cross‑view geo‑localization, combining a Decoupled Query Pooling module to capture local structural patterns, an optimal‑transport based contrastive learning scheme for soft cross‑view correspondences, and a Semantic Knowledge Distillation strategy from a frozen CLIP teacher to embed semantic priors. The method jointly models fine‑grained structural and semantic information, enabling robust matching between images from vastly different viewpoints such as drone and satellite views. Experiments on University‑1652 and SUES‑200 datasets show that S$^3$Geo outperforms state‑of‑the‑art approaches without increasing inference complexity.
By Ziqian Mo, Hill Zhang, Haosheng Tan, Ling Li, Jiaheng Wei
arXiv:2608.28891v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Pixel-level cross-view geo-registration aims to align a query image (e.g., drone) to a geo-referenced satellite map so that every query pixel can be ma...
By Qingyang Liu, David G Shatwell, Parth Parag Kulkarni, Mubarak Shah
arXiv:2610.01098v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Illusory matches between distinct yet visually similar 3D surfaces--doppelgangers--remain a fundamental obstacle for large-scale, in-the-wild 3D recons...
By Hanyuan Xiao, Gonglin Chen, Haolin Xiong, Wenbin Teng, Haiwei Chen, Yajie Zhao
arXiv:2608.21136v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recently, open-vocabulary zero-shot 3D scene understanding using vision foundation models has emerged as a promising alternative to data-intensive supe...
By Jie Xu, Na Zhao
Indoor visual relocalization plays a critical role in emerging spatial and embodied AI applications. However, prior research was predominantly devoted to low-level vision schemes, struggling to perceive scene semantics and compositions, which limits both interpretability and applicability.
Cross-modal place recognition (CMPR) aims to identify the same location across heterogeneous sensing modalities, such as vision and LiDAR. Existing methods commonly bridge the modality gap using complex alignment modules, multi-stage training, or full fine-tuning of pretrained backbones.
arXiv:2602.14929v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Aligning ground-level imagery with geo-registered satellite maps is crucial for mapping, navigation, and situational awareness, yet remains challen...
By Chandrakanth Gudavalli, Tajuddin Manhar Mohammed, Abhay Yadav, Ananth Vishnu Bhaskar, Hardik Prajapati, Cheng Peng, Rama Chellappa, Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, B. S. Manjunath
GaussianDS introduces a depth‑supervised framework for 3D Gaussian Splatting that jointly optimizes RGB appearance, depth, and compact semantics from scratch. By arranging multi‑view images into a pose‑aware pseudo‑video and propagating view‑consistent masks via SAM2, the method aligns semantic lifting with geometric cues, using depth supervision and edge‑aware refinement to curb semantic drift and boundary leakage. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on LERF and 3D‑OVS benchmarks while preserving high‑fidelity reconstruction and enabling downstream tasks such as 3D object removal.
By Yufei Zhang, Chenlu Zhan, Hongwei Wang
arXiv:2604. 02546v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pretraining 3D encoders by aligning with Contrastive Language Image Pretraining (CLIP) has emerged as a promising direction to learn generalizable representations for 3D scene understanding.
By Ye Mao, Weixun Luo, Ranran Huang, Junpeng Jing, Krystian Mikolajczyk