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Wide-Area Image Geolocalization with Aerial Reference Imagery

arXiv 1510.03743 ↗First posted 13 Oct 2015cs.CVcited by 186

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Abstract (arXiv)

We propose to use deep convolutional neural networks to address the problem of cross-view image geolocalization, in which the geolocation of a ground-level query image is estimated by matching to georeferenced aerial images. We use state-of-the-art feature representations for ground-level images and introduce a cross-view training approach for learning a joint semantic feature representation for aerial images. We also propose a network architecture that fuses features extracted from aerial images at multiple spatial scales. To support training these networks, we introduce a massive database that contains pairs of aerial and ground-level images from across the United States. Our methods significantly out-perform the state of the art on two benchmark datasets. We also show, qualitatively, that the proposed feature representations are discriminative at both local and continental spatial scales.

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  1. 2023GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localizationcited by 187
  2. 2022TransGeo: Transformer Is All You Need for Cross-view Image Geo-localizationcited by 168
  3. 2021Coming Down to Earth: Satellite-to-Street View Synthesis for Geo-Localizationcited by 113
  4. 2023Sample4Geo: Hard Negative Sampling For Cross-View Geo-Localisationcited by 110
  5. 2022Beyond Cross-view Image Retrieval: Highly Accurate Vehicle Localization Using Satellite Imagecited by 88
  6. 2022Vision Models Are More Robust And Fair When Pretrained On Uncurated Images Without Supervisioncited by 80
  7. 2022Cross-view Geo-localization via Learning Disentangled Geometric Layout Correspondencecited by 70
  8. 2025Spot the Fake: Large Multimodal Model-Based Synthetic Image Detection with Artifact Explanationcited by 68
  9. 2022SUES-200: A Multi-height Multi-scene Cross-view Image Benchmark Across Drone and Satellitecited by 64
  10. 2023Fine-Grained Cross-View Geo-Localization Using a Correlation-Aware Homography Estimatorcited by 57
  11. 2022Uncertainty-aware Vision-based Metric Cross-view Geolocalizationcited by 54
  12. 2022Visual Cross-View Metric Localization with Dense Uncertainty Estimatescited by 48
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  1. 2022Vision-Based UAV Self-Positioning in Low-Altitude Urban Environmentscited by 46
  2. 2022SliceMatch: Geometry-guided Aggregation for Cross-View Pose Estimationcited by 46
  3. 2023Boosting 3-DoF Ground-to-Satellite Camera Localization Accuracy via Geometry-Guided Cross-View Transformercited by 45
  4. 2022Accurate 3-DoF Camera Geo-Localization via Ground-to-Satellite Image Matchingcited by 44
  5. 2023Towards Natural Language-Guided Drones: GeoText-1652 Benchmark with Spatial Relation Matchingcited by 42
  6. 2021Geometry-Guided Street-View Panorama Synthesis from Satellite Imagerycited by 41
  7. 2022EarthNets: Empowering AI in Earth Observationcited by 40
  8. 2024Cross-view image geo-localization with Panorama-BEV Co-Retrieval Networkcited by 40
  9. 2025AerialMegaDepth: Learning Aerial-Ground Reconstruction and View Synthesiscited by 39
  10. 2024Where am I? Cross-View Geo-localization with Natural Language Descriptionscited by 38
  11. 2022Multiple-environment Self-adaptive Network for Aerial-view Geo-localizationcited by 37
  12. 2023Simple, Effective and General: A New Backbone for Cross-view Image Geo-localizationcited by 37
  13. 2023Convolutional Cross-View Pose Estimationcited by 36
  14. 2024G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Modelscited by 34
  15. 2024Img2Loc: Revisiting Image Geolocalization using Multi-modality Foundation Models and Image-based Retrieval-Augmented Generationcited by 32
  16. 2022Cross-View Image Sequence Geo-localizationcited by 31
  17. 2024Unleashing Unlabeled Data: A Paradigm for Cross-View Geo-Localizationcited by 31
  18. 2024SceneGraphLoc: Cross-Modal Coarse Visual Localization on 3D Scene Graphscited by 29
  19. 2023GeoDTR+: Toward generic cross-view geolocalization via geometric disentanglementcited by 28
  20. 2021Towards a Collective Agenda on AI for Earth Science Data Analysiscited by 27
  21. 2024ConGeo: Robust Cross-view Geo-localization across Ground View Variationscited by 27
  22. 2022Cross-View Panorama Image Synthesiscited by 26
  23. 2024SDPL: Shifting-Dense Partition Learning for UAV-View Geo-Localizationcited by 25
  24. 2024Game4Loc: A UAV Geo-Localization Benchmark from Game Datacited by 24
  25. 2025Geolocation with Real Human Gameplay Data: A Large-Scale Dataset and Human-Like Reasoning Frameworkcited by 24
  26. 2022GAMa: Cross-view Video Geo-localizationcited by 23
  27. 2024UAV-VisLoc: A Large-scale Dataset for UAV Visual Localizationcited by 23
  28. 2024Cross-View Geolocalization and Disaster Mapping with Street-View and VHR Satellite Imagery: A Case Study of Hurricane IANcited by 23
  29. 2024CV-Cities: Advancing Cross-View Geo-Localization in Global Citiescited by 22
  30. 2021Cascaded Cross MLP-Mixer GANs for Cross-View Image Translationcited by 21
  31. 2023Deep Learning for Camera Calibration and Beyond: A Surveycited by 20
  32. 2023Visual Localization using Imperfect 3D Models from the Internetcited by 20
  33. 2025GeoRanker: Distance-Aware Ranking for Worldwide Image Geolocalizationcited by 19
  34. 2024Learning Cross-view Visual Geo-localization without Ground Truthcited by 18
  35. 2025Vision-Language Modeling Meets Remote Sensing: Models, Datasets and Perspectivescited by 18
  36. 2022Learning Cross-view Geo-localization Embeddings via Dynamic Weighted Decorrelation Regularizationcited by 17
  37. 2024Video2BEV: Transforming Drone Videos to BEVs for Video-based Geo-localizationcited by 17
  38. 2022Geo-Localization via Ground-to-Satellite Cross-View Image Retrievalcited by 16

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