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:2608. 10494v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Earth observation (EO) agents construct scientifically valid tool workflows and ground their conclusions in current geospatial evidence.
By Xin Xiao, Jiang Zhong, Junnan Zhu, Yingchao Feng, Peijin Wang, Yidan Zhang, Kaiwen Wei
arXiv:2606. 11719v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial reasoning remains a persistent challenge for multimodal large language models (MLLMs).
By Enhan Zhao, Wei Wu, Yuanrui Zhang, Xueliang Zhao, Di He
arXiv:2607. 29527v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A defining problem of the Anthropocene is to model the physical Earth and human societies as one coupled system, yet no learned representation spans their observational breadth.
By Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Massimo Tavoni
LT-Mem introduces a volatility‑aware memory evolution framework for lifelong scene understanding, combining spatially aligned instance‑level 3D perception with temporal reasoning. It uses a multi‑session SLAM backbone, a reasoning layer that scores evidence and selects memory actions, and a Tri‑Memory structure (Live, Delta, Meta) to preserve current states and event histories. The accompanying LT‑VQA dataset provides multi‑session recordings, persistent identity annotations, and temporal QA pairs, and experiments show LT‑Mem outperforms baselines while using far fewer tokens.
arXiv:2607. 12177v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The analysis of satellite and aerial imagery has entered a new era with the advent of foundation models.
By Shelley Cazares
arXiv:2512. 05277v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly deployed as the perception and reasoning backbone of autonomous agents acting in the wild, with autonomous driving (AD) being one of the most safety-critical instances.
By Kevin Cannons, Saeed Ranjbar Alvar, Mohammad Asiful Hossain, Ahmad Rezaei, Mohsen Gholami, Alireza Heidarikhazaei, Zhou Weimin, Yong Zhang, Mohammad Akbari
arXiv:2510.13394v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Spatial reasoning ability is crucial for Vision Language Models (VLMs) to support real-world applications in diverse domains including robotics, au...
By Xinmiao Huang, Qisong He, Zhenglin Huang, Boxuan Wang, Zhuoyun Li, Guangliang Cheng, Yi Dong, Xiaowei Huang
arXiv:2607. 08359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables UAV autonomous navigation in unknown environments by mapping language instructions to real-time visual inputs.
By Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu, Wei Zhang, Zhengyu Ma, Huihui Zhou, Yonghong Tian
Beyond perception, reasoning is essential in remote sensing for advanced interpretation, inference, and decision-making. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled tool-augmented agents that leverage external tools to perform complex analytical tasks.
The study evaluates how the length of observation windows affects the performance of Tessera embeddings for land‑use/land‑cover mapping. By freezing the encoder and recomputing embeddings from a full year down to a single day, the authors benchmark linear probes and UNet heads on LUCAS, DynamicEarthNet, and PASTIS‑R datasets. Results show that embeddings are highly task‑dependent: for phenology‑driven classes (PASTIS‑R) they outperform from‑scratch models by ~46%, while for temporally stable classes (DynamicEarthNet, LUCAS) they match only with full supervision, yet remain more label‑efficient across all datasets.
By Julia Guerrero-Viu, Alex L\'opez-Cifuentes, Ignacio P\'erez-Villar, Fabio Pacifici
EgoMemReason is a new benchmark for week‑long egocentric video understanding that focuses on memory‑driven reasoning rather than simple perception tasks. It tests three memory types—entity, event, and behavior—across 500 questions, each requiring evidence from an average of 5.1 video segments and 25.9 hours of backtracking. Evaluation of 17 models shows that even the best achieves only 39.6% accuracy, highlighting the difficulty of long‑horizon memory in multimodal systems.
By Ziyang Wang, Yue Zhang, Shoubin Yu, Ce Zhang, Zengqi Zhao, Jaehong Yoon, Hyunji Lee, Gedas Bertasius, Mohit Bansal