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  1. Deep Evidential Regression for Sparse Forest Height Estimation from Multimodal Satellite Imagery

    Aug 3, 2026Laura Bader, Muhammad Ammar Ahmed, Xiao Xiang Zhu +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingEvidential Deep Learning

    LMU Munich, 80539 Munich, Germany · Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · TU Munich, 80333 Munich

  2. EchoChange: A Diffusion Language Model with Dual Pass Remasking for Factual Remote Sensing Disaster Change Captioning

    Aug 3, 2026Dongwei Sun, Bowen Yao, Yujie Zhang +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingMasked Diffusion Models

    School of Computer Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, Xi’an Jiaotong University, 710049, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Faculty of Electronic and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China · State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100094, China

  3. GeoArbiter: Verifiability-Guided Grounding for Remote-Sensing Multimodal LLMs

    Aug 1, 2026Xuechen LiRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRetrieval-Augmented Generation

    University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  4. SatEdit: Mask-Conditioned Image Editing via VLM-Guided Segment Annotation

    Jul 31, 2026Muhammad Talha, Muhammad Ahmed AmerRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Editing

    Independent Researcher

  5. Counting the Cost of War Under Satellite Embargo: Zero-Shot Estimation of Impacted Infrastructure

    Jul 31, 2026Saleh Sakib Ahmed, M. Sohel RahmanRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Palashi, Dhaka, 1000, Bangladesh.

  6. Locally Consistent Transductive Information Maximization for Few-Shot Remote Sensing Scene Classification

    Jul 31, 2026Karim El Khoury, Benoît Gérin, Benoît Macq +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision Foundation Model Adaptation

    ICTEAM, UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  7. SeasonStereo: Robust Dense Stereo Matching for Multi-Date Satellite Imagery via Generative AI

    Jul 29, 2026Álvaro Díaz-Laureano, Roger Marí, Elías Masquil +2Remote Sensing Image Understanding3D Reconstruction

    Eurecat, Multimedia Technologies, Barcelona, Spain · IIE, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay · Dept. of Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain +2

  8. Robust RPC Bundle Adjustment for Multi-Date Satellite Imagery with Season-Invariant Correspondences

    Jul 29, 2026Roger Marí, Elías Masquil, Xavier Bou +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingMulti-View Geometry

    Eurecat, Multimedia Technologies, Barcelona, Spain · IIE, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Uruguay · AMIAD, France +2

  9. Volcanic Clouds Detection through QCNN and Geostationary Satellite Multispectral Imagery

    Jul 29, 2026Federica Torrisi, Claudia Corradino, Alessandro Grilli +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingQuantum Convolutional Neural Networks

    Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Osservatorio Etneo · Thales Alenia Space Italia · Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana,” Universit`a di Catania, Catania, Italy +2

  10. Hybrid Quantum CNN for Cross-Sensor Spaceborne Volcanic Thermal Activity Recognition Worldwide

    Jul 29, 2026Claudia Corradino, Federica Torrisi, Alessandro Grilli +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingHybrid Quantum-Classical ML

    INGV-EO, Catania, Italy · Thales Alenia Space Italia · Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana,” Universit`a di Catania, Catania, Italy +2

  11. Beyond Zooming: Learning Multi-Tool Visual Reasoning for Ultra-High-Resolution Remote Sensing

    Jul 28, 2026Fengxiang Wang, Jiangnan Huang, Mingshuo Chen +8Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing VQA

    National University of Defense Technology · Wuhan University · Tsinghua University

  12. Calibrated Tree-Neural Fusion for Fine-Grained Vegetation Community Classification

    Jul 27, 2026Dristi Datta, Md Khalid Hasan Sakib, Manoranjan PaulRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingEnsemble Learning

    School of Information Technology and Engineering, Sydney Metropolitan Institute of Technology (SydneyMet), Sydney, NSW, 2000, Australia · Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Rajshahi University of Engineering & Technology, Rajshahi, Bangladesh · School of Computing, Mathematics and Engineering, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia

  13. Filling Before Advancing: Capability-Gap-Driven Post-Training for Scenario-Specialized Remote Sensing MLLMs

    Jul 24, 2026Yuheng Zong, Minghua Wang, Xin Zhao +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingFine-Tuning

    The Institute of Robotics and Automatic Information System (IRAIS), the Tianjin Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robotics (tjKLIR), Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China · The College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tianjin 300071, China · Hyperspectral Computing Laboratory, Department of Technology of Computers and Communications, Escuela Politécnica, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain +1

  14. GeoThreat: Transferable Targeted Adversarial Attacks on Large Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing Image Interpretation

    Jul 23, 2026Yimin Fu, Yuefeng Bai, Baicheng Pan +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingAdversarial Attacks on VLMs

    Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China · School of Automation, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, 710072, China

  15. Multimodal Large Language Models for Remote Sensing Image Understanding: Domain-Specific or General-Purpose?

    Jul 22, 2026Qiwei Ma, Chunping Qiu, Xinjun Cheng +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing VQA

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha, 410082, China · Intelligent Game and Decision Lab (IGDL), Beijing, 100091, China · cYuelushan Center for Industrial Innovation, Changsha, 410082, China

  16. TraversRL: Traversable Pedestrian Pathway Generation With Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 20, 2026Bin Han, Robert Wolfe, Bill HoweRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingReinforcement Learning

    University of Washington · Rutgers University

  17. FUSAR-R1: A Large-Scale Reasoning Model for Intelligent Interpretation of SAR Images

    Jul 18, 2026Yi Yang, Xiaokun Zhang, Yuxuan Li +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    Key Laboratory for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves (MoE), Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

  18. Foundation-Assisted Active Learning for Object Detection Annotation

    Jul 18, 2026Jinchang Zhang, Arnold Zumbrun, Jing Lin +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Intelligent Vision and Sensing (IVS) Lab at Indiana University Bloomington

  19. More with Less: a Large Scale Remote Sensing VLM with a Simple Recipe

    Jul 17, 2026Stefan Maria Ailuro, Mario Markov, Mohammad Mahdi +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing VQA

    INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

  20. Label-Decoupled Style Augmentation for Domain Generalization in Multi-Label Remote Sensing Scene Classification

    Jul 14, 2026Alaa Almouradi, Erchan AptoulaRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingMulti-Label Classification

    Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Sabancı University, 34956 Istanbul, Türkiye

  21. WeaveEarth: Structured Evidence Construction and Reasoning for Training-Free UHR Remote Sensing Understanding

    Jul 11, 2026Xianzhi Ma, Shujun Wang, Xiaohan Li +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVision-Language Models

    School of Frontier Sciences, Nanjing University, Suzhou, China · Computer Network Information Center, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

  22. Promptable Concept Segmentation from Above: Evaluating SAM 3's Zero-Shot and One-Shot Capabilities in Remote Sensing

    Jul 10, 2026Mohammad Dabaja, Turgay CelikRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Department of ICT, University of Agder, Grimstad, Norway

  23. Differential Analysis of Multispectral Images for Terrain Identification

    Jul 10, 2026Omar Kashmar, Hemendra Arya, Fulvio MastrogiovanniRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingRobotic Perception

    University of Genoa, Italy · Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

  24. Context-Aware Slum Mapping in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Sentinel-1 Texture and Local Climate Zones

    Jul 8, 2026Peterson Chepkilot, Babak Memar, Paolo GambaRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingCamera-Radar Fusion

    Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy · Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy

  25. MonoIR-RS: Infrared Remote Sensing Vision-Language Learning with CLIP and VLM Adaptation

    Jul 7, 2026Jiaju Han, Ma Yaqi, Yahui Chai +8Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVLM Adaptation

    China University of Petroleum-Beijing at Karamay, Karamay, Xinjiang, China · Guizhou University, Guiyang, China · Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, Shenzhen, China +1

  26. LBTCap: A Lightweight Bilateral Transformer for Real-Time Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning

    Jul 3, 2026Licheng Zhang, Siew-Kei Lam, Naveed AkhtarRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Captioning

    School of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia · Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia

  27. Signal from Space: Detecting Schools and Towers to Bridge the Digital Divide

    Jul 2, 2026Zakarya Elmimouni, Sandor Farkas, Fares Fourati +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingAerial Object Detection

    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. · International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Geneva, Switzerland.

  28. EO-VGGT: Orbital Ray-Conditioned 3D Foundation Models for Satellite Multi-View Reconstruction

    Jul 1, 2026Qiyan Luo, Yingdong Pi, Lekang Wen +4Remote Sensing Image Understanding3D ViTs

    State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, China · Hubei Luojia Laboratory, Wuhan, 430079, China

  29. JL1-CC&QA: Extending the JL1-CD Benchmark with Change Captioning and Question Answering

    Jun 30, 2026Ziyuan Liu, Ruifei Zhu, Ouqiao Ma +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing VQA

    Department of Electronic Engineering, Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · Chang Guang Satellite Technology Co., Ltd. (CGSTL) Changchun 130102, China · College of Communications Engineering, Army Engineering University of PLA, Nanjing 210007, China

  30. RSICCLLM: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning

    Jun 26, 2026Yelin Wang, Zijia Song, Shuo Ye +6Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVLM Adaptation

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, China · Great Bay University, Dongguan, China +1