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Main Authors: Yao, Kelu, Xu, Nuo, Yang, Rong, Xu, Yingying, Gao, Zhuoyan, Kitrungrotsakul, Titinunt, Ren, Yi, Zhang, Pu, Wang, Jin, Wei, Ning, Li, Chao
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11070
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author Yao, Kelu
Xu, Nuo
Yang, Rong
Xu, Yingying
Gao, Zhuoyan
Kitrungrotsakul, Titinunt
Ren, Yi
Zhang, Pu
Wang, Jin
Wei, Ning
Li, Chao
author_facet Yao, Kelu
Xu, Nuo
Yang, Rong
Xu, Yingying
Gao, Zhuoyan
Kitrungrotsakul, Titinunt
Ren, Yi
Zhang, Pu
Wang, Jin
Wei, Ning
Li, Chao
contents This paper introduces a holistic vision-language foundation model tailored for remote sensing, named Falcon. Falcon offers a unified, prompt-based paradigm that effectively executes comprehensive and complex remote sensing tasks. Falcon demonstrates powerful understanding and reasoning abilities at the image, region, and pixel levels. Specifically, given simple natural language instructions and remote sensing images, Falcon can produce impressive results in text form across 14 distinct tasks, i.e., image classification, object detection, segmentation, image captioning, and etc. To facilitate Falcon's training and empower its representation capacity to encode rich spatial and semantic information, we developed Falcon_SFT, a large-scale, multi-task, instruction-tuning dataset in the field of remote sensing. The Falcon_SFT dataset consists of approximately 78 million high-quality data samples, covering 5.6 million multi-spatial resolution and multi-view remote sensing images with diverse instructions. It features hierarchical annotations and undergoes manual sampling verification to ensure high data quality and reliability. Extensive comparative experiments are conducted, which verify that Falcon achieves remarkable performance over 67 datasets and 14 tasks, despite having only 0.7B parameters. We release the complete dataset, code, and model weights at https://github.com/TianHuiLab/Falcon, hoping to help further develop the open-source community.
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spellingShingle Falcon: A Remote Sensing Vision-Language Foundation Model (Technical Report)
Yao, Kelu
Xu, Nuo
Yang, Rong
Xu, Yingying
Gao, Zhuoyan
Kitrungrotsakul, Titinunt
Ren, Yi
Zhang, Pu
Wang, Jin
Wei, Ning
Li, Chao
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This paper introduces a holistic vision-language foundation model tailored for remote sensing, named Falcon. Falcon offers a unified, prompt-based paradigm that effectively executes comprehensive and complex remote sensing tasks. Falcon demonstrates powerful understanding and reasoning abilities at the image, region, and pixel levels. Specifically, given simple natural language instructions and remote sensing images, Falcon can produce impressive results in text form across 14 distinct tasks, i.e., image classification, object detection, segmentation, image captioning, and etc. To facilitate Falcon's training and empower its representation capacity to encode rich spatial and semantic information, we developed Falcon_SFT, a large-scale, multi-task, instruction-tuning dataset in the field of remote sensing. The Falcon_SFT dataset consists of approximately 78 million high-quality data samples, covering 5.6 million multi-spatial resolution and multi-view remote sensing images with diverse instructions. It features hierarchical annotations and undergoes manual sampling verification to ensure high data quality and reliability. Extensive comparative experiments are conducted, which verify that Falcon achieves remarkable performance over 67 datasets and 14 tasks, despite having only 0.7B parameters. We release the complete dataset, code, and model weights at https://github.com/TianHuiLab/Falcon, hoping to help further develop the open-source community.
title Falcon: A Remote Sensing Vision-Language Foundation Model (Technical Report)
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11070