arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

Ground-to-Satellite Localization in Unconstrained Image Collections for 3D Scene Reconstruction

arXiv:2608.29211v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Ground image localization with respect to satellite imagery is a key enabler for metrically-accurate, geo-localized 3D scene reconstruction from uncons...

By Angel Daruna, Ben Southall, Niluthpol Chowdhury Mithun, Kshitij Minhas, Nicholas Meegan, Qiao Wang, Bogdan Matei, Supun Samarasekera, Rakesh Kumar
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

OpenCVL: An Open, Diverse, and Large-Scale Dataset for Fine-Grained Cross-View Localization

OpenCVL is a large, open dataset for fine-grained cross-view localization, comprising 617,388 ground‑aerial image pairs from 41 European cities. It blends high‑end sensor data with diverse in‑the‑wild images and includes a curation framework to correct pose annotations, enabling reliable evaluation. The dataset also offers cross‑area and snowy test sets to probe generalization, and experiments show that adding noisy in‑the‑wild data improves model performance on clean tests.

By Zimin Xia, Mubariz Zaffar, Junsheng Fu, Alexandre Alahi, Julian F. P. Kooij
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

UniGeo: A Multi-modal Large Language Model for Text-Guided Cross-View Geo-Localization

UniGeo is a multimodal large language model designed for text-guided drone geo‑localization, enabling the identification of target regions in large image galleries from natural‑language descriptions. It integrates geo‑semantic understanding, cross‑view semantic generation, and candidate‑level verification within a shared vision‑language framework, establishing stable correspondences among local scene elements, spatial relations, and language. A multi‑stage training strategy progressively refines geo‑semantic learning, cross‑view mapping, and fine‑grained verification, yielding significant performance gains on GeoText‑1652, with R@10 and mAP improvements of 13.59 and 2.83 percentage points respectively.

By Jiahao Wen, Hang Yu, Zhedong Zheng