arXiv:2607. 00090v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban-scale Visual Place Recognition (VPR) aims to identify the geographic location of a query image by matching it against a geo-tagged database.
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:2507. 02921v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Learning effective representations of urban environments requires capturing spatial structure beyond fixed administrative boundaries.
arXiv:2606. 14555v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern image classifiers widely adopt global average pooling (GAP) followed by a linear classification head.
arXiv:2510. 13774v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Forecasting urban phenomena such as housing prices and public health indicators requires the effective integration of various geospatial data.
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic understanding but remain unreliable in metric spatial reasoning, particularly when queries require comparing multiple instances of the same object category. We study this problem through the Closest-Instance Distance Query (CIDQ), where a model must identify the nearest visible candidate to a unique reference object and estimate their gravity-aligned floor-plane distance.
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.
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.
arXiv:2602. 18047v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: City-scale person re-identification across distributed cameras must handle severe appearance changes from viewpoint, occlusion, and domain shift while complying with data protection rules that prevent sharing raw imagery.
arXiv:2607. 14115v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspired by how humans communicate spatial information, language-guided geo-localization has gained significant traction for its intuitive and practical value.
arXiv:2606. 15055v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual perception of urban streetscapes underpins evidence-based decisions in landscape planning, public health, and place-making.
arXiv:2606. 15134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision encoders for retrieval are typically trained with class-label supervision: each training pair reduces to a scalar that uniformly pushes the embedding apart or pulls it together, as if every visual attribute either differed or matched.
arXiv:2606. 08046v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present OSMGraphCLIP, a CLIP-style geospatial representation model that learns global location embeddings from freely available OpenStreetMap (OSM) data.