Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) locates a target in satellite imagery using drone or street-view queries. Existing methods train separate detectors for each viewpoint, leading to parameter...
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: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
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:2603.08491v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Cross-modal Geo-localization (CMGL) matches ground-level text descriptions with geo-tagged aerial imagery, which is crucial for pedestrian navigati...
By Yutong Hu, Jinhui Chen, Chaoqiang Xu, Yuan Kou, Sili Zhou, Shaocheng Yan, Pengcheng Shi, Qingwu Hu, Jiayuan Li
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
IVSGround introduces a lightweight view selector that learns to choose the most informative camera views for vision‑language model (VLM) based 3D visual grounding, replacing heuristic view selection. The selector is trained via a two‑stage rejection sampling process that uses feedback from a reasoning VLM to generate supervision signals. Experiments on ScanRefer and NR3D demonstrate that IVSGround consistently improves grounding accuracy over existing zero‑shot pipelines, underscoring the importance of selecting where to look for effective 3D visual grounding.
By Tsung-Chih Chiang, Hsuan-Kung Yang, Jou-Min Liu, Ting-Ru Liu, Chun-Wei Huang, Quan Kong, Chun-Yi Lee
arXiv:2610.08401v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: While recent vision-language models (VLMs) have shown outstanding performance across diverse applications, they tend to under-use visual information...
By Seulgi Kim, Zhixiong Zhang, Xinwei Zhang, Jie Ling, Ronn Shaw
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.
By Yosub Shin, Michael Buriek, Igor Molybog
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial promise in spatial understanding. Existing works typically incorporate prior knowledge extracted from a pre-trained foundation model to further enhance the spatial awareness of MLLMs.
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...
By Junchao Cui, Xuanzi Ma, Wenqi Shi, Nan Wu, Biru Zhu, Xiangyang Luo
The paper introduces Vantage, a training‑free, model‑agnostic framework that pairs a vision‑language model with a 3D foundation model to perform Seek‑and‑View reasoning for multi‑view spatial understanding. Vantage first analyzes a question to plan a relevant viewpoint, then augments reasoning with geometry‑grounded visual evidence from that viewpoint. Experiments across six VLMs on five benchmarks show consistent improvements without fine‑tuning, demonstrating that revealing spatial evidence through view‑grounded reasoning reduces reliance on language‑based cross‑view alignment.
By Qixiang Chen, Cheng Zhang, Fucai Ke, Chi-Wing Fu, Jianfei Cai, Jingwen Ye