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