G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Models

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Main Authors: Jia, Pengyue, Liu, Yiding, Li, Xiaopeng, Wang, Yuhao, Du, Yantong, Han, Xiao, Wei, Xuetao, Wang, Shuaiqiang, Yin, Dawei, Zhao, Xiangyu
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author Jia, Pengyue
Liu, Yiding
Li, Xiaopeng
Wang, Yuhao
Du, Yantong
Han, Xiao
Wei, Xuetao
Wang, Shuaiqiang
Yin, Dawei
Zhao, Xiangyu
author_facet Jia, Pengyue
Liu, Yiding
Li, Xiaopeng
Wang, Yuhao
Du, Yantong
Han, Xiao
Wei, Xuetao
Wang, Shuaiqiang
Yin, Dawei
Zhao, Xiangyu
contents Worldwide geolocalization aims to locate the precise location at the coordinate level of photos taken anywhere on the Earth. It is very challenging due to 1) the difficulty of capturing subtle location-aware visual semantics, and 2) the heterogeneous geographical distribution of image data. As a result, existing studies have clear limitations when scaled to a worldwide context. They may easily confuse distant images with similar visual contents, or cannot adapt to various locations worldwide with different amounts of relevant data. To resolve these limitations, we propose G3, a novel framework based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). In particular, G3 consists of three steps, i.e., Geo-alignment, Geo-diversification, and Geo-verification to optimize both retrieval and generation phases of worldwide geolocalization. During Geo-alignment, our solution jointly learns expressive multi-modal representations for images, GPS and textual descriptions, which allows us to capture location-aware semantics for retrieving nearby images for a given query. During Geo-diversification, we leverage a prompt ensembling method that is robust to inconsistent retrieval performance for different image queries. Finally, we combine both retrieved and generated GPS candidates in Geo-verification for location prediction. Experiments on two well-established datasets IM2GPS3k and YFCC4k verify the superiority of G3 compared to other state-of-the-art methods. Our code and data are available online for reproduction.
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spellingShingle G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Models
Jia, Pengyue
Liu, Yiding
Li, Xiaopeng
Wang, Yuhao
Du, Yantong
Han, Xiao
Wei, Xuetao
Wang, Shuaiqiang
Yin, Dawei
Zhao, Xiangyu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Worldwide geolocalization aims to locate the precise location at the coordinate level of photos taken anywhere on the Earth. It is very challenging due to 1) the difficulty of capturing subtle location-aware visual semantics, and 2) the heterogeneous geographical distribution of image data. As a result, existing studies have clear limitations when scaled to a worldwide context. They may easily confuse distant images with similar visual contents, or cannot adapt to various locations worldwide with different amounts of relevant data. To resolve these limitations, we propose G3, a novel framework based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). In particular, G3 consists of three steps, i.e., Geo-alignment, Geo-diversification, and Geo-verification to optimize both retrieval and generation phases of worldwide geolocalization. During Geo-alignment, our solution jointly learns expressive multi-modal representations for images, GPS and textual descriptions, which allows us to capture location-aware semantics for retrieving nearby images for a given query. During Geo-diversification, we leverage a prompt ensembling method that is robust to inconsistent retrieval performance for different image queries. Finally, we combine both retrieved and generated GPS candidates in Geo-verification for location prediction. Experiments on two well-established datasets IM2GPS3k and YFCC4k verify the superiority of G3 compared to other state-of-the-art methods. Our code and data are available online for reproduction.
title G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.14702