GeoVista: Visually Grounded Active Perception for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding

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Main Authors: Zhu, Jiashun, Fu, Ronghao, Hu, Jiasen, Xing, Nachuan, Na, Xu, Yang, Xiao, Lin, Zhiwen, Zhang, Weipeng, Sun, Lang, Xue, Zhiheng, Liu, Haoran, Zhang, Weijie, Yang, Bo
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author Zhu, Jiashun
Fu, Ronghao
Hu, Jiasen
Xing, Nachuan
Na, Xu
Yang, Xiao
Lin, Zhiwen
Zhang, Weipeng
Sun, Lang
Xue, Zhiheng
Liu, Haoran
Zhang, Weijie
Yang, Bo
author_facet Zhu, Jiashun
Fu, Ronghao
Hu, Jiasen
Xing, Nachuan
Na, Xu
Yang, Xiao
Lin, Zhiwen
Zhang, Weipeng
Sun, Lang
Xue, Zhiheng
Liu, Haoran
Zhang, Weijie
Yang, Bo
contents Interpreting ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote sensing images requires models to search for sparse and tiny visual evidence across large-scale scenes. Existing remote sensing vision-language models can inspect local regions with zooming and cropping tools, but most exploration strategies follow either a one-shot focus or a single sequential trajectory. Such single-path exploration can lose global context, leave scattered regions unvisited, and revisit or count the same evidence multiple times. To this end, we propose GeoVista, a planning-driven active perception framework for UHR remote sensing interpretation. Instead of committing to one zooming path, GeoVista first builds a global exploration plan, then verifies multiple candidate regions through branch-wise local inspection, while maintaining an explicit evidence state for cross-region aggregation and de-duplication. To enable this behavior, we introduce APEX-GRO, a cold-start supervised trajectory corpus that reformulates diverse UHR tasks as Global-Region-Object interactive reasoning processes with a unified, scale-invariant spatial representation. We further design an Observe-Plan-Track mechanism for global observation, adaptive region inspection, and evidence tracking, and align the model with a GRPO-based strategy using step-wise rewards for planning, localization, and final answer correctness. Experiments on RSHR-Bench, XLRS-Bench, and LRS-VQA show that GeoVista achieves state-of-the-art performance. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ryan6073/GeoVista
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spellingShingle GeoVista: Visually Grounded Active Perception for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding
Zhu, Jiashun
Fu, Ronghao
Hu, Jiasen
Xing, Nachuan
Na, Xu
Yang, Xiao
Lin, Zhiwen
Zhang, Weipeng
Sun, Lang
Xue, Zhiheng
Liu, Haoran
Zhang, Weijie
Yang, Bo
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Interpreting ultra-high-resolution (UHR) remote sensing images requires models to search for sparse and tiny visual evidence across large-scale scenes. Existing remote sensing vision-language models can inspect local regions with zooming and cropping tools, but most exploration strategies follow either a one-shot focus or a single sequential trajectory. Such single-path exploration can lose global context, leave scattered regions unvisited, and revisit or count the same evidence multiple times. To this end, we propose GeoVista, a planning-driven active perception framework for UHR remote sensing interpretation. Instead of committing to one zooming path, GeoVista first builds a global exploration plan, then verifies multiple candidate regions through branch-wise local inspection, while maintaining an explicit evidence state for cross-region aggregation and de-duplication. To enable this behavior, we introduce APEX-GRO, a cold-start supervised trajectory corpus that reformulates diverse UHR tasks as Global-Region-Object interactive reasoning processes with a unified, scale-invariant spatial representation. We further design an Observe-Plan-Track mechanism for global observation, adaptive region inspection, and evidence tracking, and align the model with a GRPO-based strategy using step-wise rewards for planning, localization, and final answer correctness. Experiments on RSHR-Bench, XLRS-Bench, and LRS-VQA show that GeoVista achieves state-of-the-art performance. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/ryan6073/GeoVista
title GeoVista: Visually Grounded Active Perception for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing Understanding
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14475