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Image-based Geo-localization for Robotics: Are Black-box Vision-Language Models there yet?

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Main Authors:	Waheed, Sania, Ferrarini, Bruno, Milford, Michael, Ramchurn, Sarvapali D., Ehsan, Shoaib
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2025
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Robotics
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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