GeoStore is a new benchmark for fine‑grained point‑of‑interest (POI) localization that matches close‑up storefront photos against large geo‑tagged street‑view images, a task distinct from traditional visual place recognition. The paper shows that global‑descriptor methods designed for symmetric matching perform poorly on this asymmetric problem, and introduces GLAM, a Global‑to‑Local Asymmetric Matching approach that combines a global retrieval anchor with a lightweight local re‑ranking using pooled region tokens. GLAM achieves higher Recall@1/5/10 and mAP than strong baselines while using far fewer re‑ranking features and significantly lower per‑pair matching cost.
arXiv:2607.02486v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Descriptor-free visual localization eliminates high-dimensional descriptor storage, preserves scene privacy, and simplifies map maintenance, yet it...
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:2607.20116v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, diff...
arXiv:2608. 16658v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-view Video Geo-localization (CVG) aims to localize ground-view videos by retrieving their corresponding geo-tagged aerial images.
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.
arXiv:2505.07622v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Cross-view geo-localization is a promising solution for large-scale localization problems, requiring the sequential execution of retrieval and metr...
arXiv:2606.08918v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Worldwide image geo-localization aims to determine where on Earth a single image was captured. However, visually similar scenes may lie thousands o...
arXiv:2609.17168v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous systems require reliable place recognition for efficient and effective simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM). Traditional geometric...
RegRet is a large multimodal model framework that improves region-level retrieval by adding a Region‑Aware Encoder and a multi‑stage training pipeline featuring localized captioning and regional contrastive learning. It also introduces the REGMB benchmark, containing 225k contrastive pairs across four multimodal retrieval tasks. Experiments show RegRet surpasses strong baselines in zero‑shot settings and gains over 20% improvement on REGMB and public benchmarks while maintaining global retrieval performance.
Open-vocabulary remote sensing segmentation has recently emerged as a promising paradigm that enables pixel-level recognition of arbitrary categories specified by natural language, including classes unseen during training. However, geospatial domain shifts caused by heterogeneous regions, spatial resolutions, and acquisition platforms weaken visual-text matching and limit cross-dataset generalization.
GeoContext is a new vision‑language geolocation benchmark that introduces two tasks: GeoHint, where a model must localize an image given a coarse location hint, and GeoVerify, where a model must decide if an image was taken within 150 m of a claimed place. The benchmark builds a context ladder by stratifying nearby reference points by distance and referenceability, allowing the same image to be evaluated under varying context. Evaluation of five models on 109 sites in 30 cities shows that hint repetition is low, localization error grows with hint distance, and models struggle to achieve high discriminability in GeoVerify, with many false acceptances reported with high confidence.
arXiv:2606. 30576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) aims to locate a target object from a query view (e.