Remote sensing vision-language models have advanced Earth observation understanding, but most existing work remains centered on RGB imagery, leaving the complementary information in infrared data underexplored. Infrared images provide distinctive cues, including thermal intensity structures, object boundaries, and illumination-invariant scene features, which can enrich visual-language learning beyond conventional RGB observations.
The paper introduces OmniRSCLIP, an end‑to‑end contrastive learning framework that extends the CLIP architecture to handle heterogeneous remote sensing sensors such as SAR, multi‑spectral imaging, and hyperspectral imaging. It achieves this by employing Spectral‑Spatial Basis Decomposition to adapt arbitrary‑channel inputs without losing pretrained visual knowledge, and a spectral‑context‑aware mask‑based contrastive learning scheme to improve fine‑grained image‑text alignment. The authors also build OmniRS5M, a large‑scale image‑text corpus covering multiple sensor modalities, and demonstrate that OmniRSCLIP maintains strong RGB performance while effectively supporting these diverse remote sensing data types.
By Xiangyang Miao, Kelu Yao, Yekai Huang, Xiaogang Xu, Junxiao Xue, Minjun Shen, Chenghui Lv, Shanji Liu, Yaying Chen, Chao Li
Controllable infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary thermal and structural information with flexible region-aware modulation, producing fused images that adapt to diverse user requirements and downstream tasks. However, existing methods typically rely on predefined discrete control conditions, leading to a sparse space that fails to support fine-grained modulation demands.
arXiv:2606. 10819v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: RS-MLLMs enable natural-language understanding and spatial reasoning over earth observation imagery.
By Miaoxin Cai, Guanqun Wang, Wei Zhang, Guangyao Zhou, Yin Zhuang, Tong Zhang, Hao Wang, He Chen, Jun Li
The paper introduces RSMEB, a unified benchmark for remote‑sensing multimodal retrieval that evaluates both cross‑modal and interleaved retrieval across 21 tasks under a single ranking protocol. It also presents VLM2GeoVec, an instruction‑conditioned single‑encoder model that embeds image, text, bounding‑box, and geo‑coordinate tokens into one sequence and achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on region‑caption, referring‑expression, and semantic geo‑aware retrieval while remaining competitive on conventional tasks. The authors provide code, checkpoints, and data on GitHub to facilitate reproducibility.
By Emanuel S\'anchez Aimar, Gulnaz Zhambulova, Fahad Shahbaz Khan, Yonghao Xu, Michael Felsberg
arXiv:2605.17949v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models (RS-VLMs) commonly employ a pretrained vision encoder and a projection module to map image features into the...
By Xiao Yang, Ronghao Fu, Zhiwen Lin, Zhuoran Duan, Lang Sun, Jiaqi Liu, Jiashun Zhu, Jiasen Hu, Xu Na, Bo Yang