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  1. JSSFF: A Joint Structural-Semantic Fusion Framework for Remote Sensing Image Captioning

    Apr 27, 2026Swadhin Das, Vivek YadavRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Captioning

    Computer Science and Engineering · University of Petroleum and Energy Studies · Dehradun, India +1

  2. STAND: Semantic Anchoring Constraint with Dual-Granularity Disambiguation for Remote Sensing Image Change Captioning

    Apr 25, 2026Yanpei Gong, Beichen Zhang, Hao Wang +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Captioning

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Weihai, China

  3. ChangeQuery: Advancing Remote Sensing Change Analysis for Natural and Human-Induced Disasters from Visual Detection to Semantic Understanding

    Apr 24, 2026Dongwei Sun, Jing Yao, Kan Wei +6Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDisaster Damage Assessment

    School of Computer Science and Technology and the Ministry of Education Key Lab for Intelligent Networks and Network Security, 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 · State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, China +4

  4. Unlocking Multi-Spectral Data for Multi-Modal Models with Guided Inputs and Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

    Apr 22, 2026Dahun Kim, Ganesh Satish Mallya, Anelia AngelovaRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingMultimodal Large Language Models

    Google DeepMind

  5. Evaluating Remote Sensing Image Captions Beyond Metric Biases

    Apr 22, 2026Ziyun Chen, Fan Liu, Liang Yao +3VLM EvaluationRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    Hohai University Nanjing, China · Cardiff University Cardiff, UK

  6. DDF2Pol: A Dual-Domain Feature Fusion Network for PolSAR Image Classification

    Apr 20, 2026Mohammed Q. AlkhatibRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingComplex-Valued Neural Networks

    College of Engineering and IT, University of Dubai, Dubai, 14143, UAE

  7. Revisiting Change VQA in Remote Sensing with Structured and Native Multimodal Qwen Models

    Apr 20, 2026Yakoub Bazi, Mohamad M. Al Rahhal, Mansour Zuair +1VLM EvaluationRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    Computer Engineering Department, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia · Applied Computer Science Department, College of Applied Computer Science, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia

  8. DiffuSAM: Diffusion Guided Zero-Shot Object Grounding for Remote Sensing Imagery

    Apr 20, 2026Geet Sethi, Panav Shah, Ashutosh Gandhe +1Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDiffusion Model Guidance

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

  9. RS-HyRe-R1: A Hybrid Reward Mechanism to Overcome Perceptual Inertia for Remote Sensing Images Understanding

    Apr 19, 2026Gaozhi Zhou, Hu He, Peng Shen +8Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVisual Question Answering

    School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China · School of Geosciences and Info-Physics, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China

  10. RemoteShield: Enable Robust Multimodal Large Language Models for Earth Observation

    Apr 19, 2026Rui Min, Liang Yao, Shiyu Miao +5Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingVLM Robustness

    1Hohai University · 2Nanjing University · 3Southeast University

  11. AeroDeshadow: Physics-Guided Shadow Synthesis and Penumbra-Aware Deshadowing for Aerospace Imagery

    Apr 17, 2026Wei Lu, Zi-Yang Bo, Fei-Fei Sang +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingSynthetic Data Augmentation

    MOE Key Laboratory of ICSP, IMIS Laboratory of Anhui, Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Multimodal Cognitive Computation, Zenmorn-AHU AI Joint Laboratory, School of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Hefei 230601, China · School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China

  12. Physically-Induced Atmospheric Adversarial Perturbations: Enhancing Transferability and Robustness in Remote Sensing Image Classification

    Apr 16, 2026Weiwei Zhuang, Wangze Xie, Qi Zhang +9Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingTransfer-Based Adversarial Attacks

    School of Computer and Information Engineering, Xiamen University of Technology, Xiamen, 361000, China · Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macau SAR, China · Dundee International Institute, Central South University, Changsha, China +7

  13. The First Assessment of PhiSat-2 Imagery for Monocular Building Height Estimation

    Mar 31, 2026Yanjiao Song, Bowen Cai, Timo Balz +4Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingBuilding Footprint Extraction

    aState Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing (LIESMARS), Wuhan University, Wuhan, 430079, Hubei, China · bDepartment of Geomatics Engineering, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Surabaya, 60111, East Java, Indonesia · cDepartment of Informatics and Information Technology, College of Natural and Applied Sciences (CoNAS), Sokoine University of Agriculture, Morogoro, 3038, Morogoro, Tanzania +2

  14. GeoHeight-Bench: Towards Height-Aware Multimodal Reasoning in Remote Sensing

    Mar 26, 2026Xuran Hu, Zhitong Xiong, Zhongcheng Hong +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingLarge Vision-Language Models

    KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Technical University of Munich · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

  15. EpiMask: Leveraging Epipolar Distance Based Masks in Cross-Attention for Satellite Image Matching

    Mar 23, 2026Rahul Deshmukh, Aditya Chauhan, Avinash KakRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Matching

    Purdue University, West Lafayette

  16. NeSy-Route: A Neuro-Symbolic Benchmark for Constrained Route Planning in Remote Sensing

    Mar 17, 2026Ming Yang, Zhi Zhou, Shi-Yu Tian +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

    National Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, China · School of Artificial Intelligence, Nanjing University, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China

  17. GroundSet: A Cadastral-Grounded Dataset for Spatial Understanding with Vector Data

    Mar 15, 2026Roger Ferrod, Maël Lecene, Krishna Sapkota +4VLM EvaluationRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    Université Paris Cité, LIPADE, F-75006 Paris, France · Google Research

  18. DisasterInsight: A Building-Centric Benchmark for Evaluating Vision--Language Models in Disaster Response

    Jan 26, 2026Sara Tehrani, Yonghao Xu, Leif Haglund +3VLM EvaluationRemote Sensing Image Understanding

    Computer Vision and Learning System, Linköping University, Sweden · Vantor, Linköping, Sweden

  19. Toward Realistic Remote Sensing Dataset Distillation with Discriminative Prototype-guided Diffusion

    Jan 22, 2026Yonghao Xu, Pedram Ghamisi, Qihao WengRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingDiffusion Model Distillation

    Computer Vision and Learning Systems, Department of Electrical Engineering, Linköping University, 581 83 Linköping, Sweden · Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Responsible AI Group, 09599 Freiberg, Germany · University of Iceland, Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Reykjavik 102, Iceland +1

  20. CoLR-Det: Collaborative Latent Restoration for Small Object Detection in Low-Resolution Remote Sensing Images

    Jan 18, 2026Ruo Qi, Linhui Dai, Yusong Qin +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing Small Object Detection

    Institute of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen University, Guangdong Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Shenzhen and Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Modern Communications and Information Processing, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  21. Vision-Language Model for Accurate Crater Detection

    Jan 12, 2026Patrick Bauer, Marius Schwinning, Florian Renk +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingRemote Sensing

    University of Technology of Troyes · Hochschule Darmstadt · GMV for European Space Agency +2

  22. Semantics-Aware Hierarchical Consensus Learning for Remote Sensing Image Classification

    Oct 6, 2025Giulio Weikmann, Gianmarco Perantoni, Lorenzo BruzzoneHierarchical ClassificationRemote Sensing

    Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy

  23. A Spatial-Spectral-Frequency Interactive Network for Multimodal Remote Sensing Classification

    Oct 6, 2025Hao Liu, Yunhao Gao, Wei Li +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingFrequency-Domain Feature Learning

    Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, 38123 Trento, Italy · School of Information and Electronics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China · Beijing Key Laboratory of Fractional Signals and Systems, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China +3

  24. Post-Disaster Affected Area Segmentation with a Vision Transformer (ViT)-based EVAP Model using Sentinel-2 and Formosat-5 Imagery

    Jul 21, 2025Yi-Shan Chu, Hsuan-Cheng WeiRemote Sensing Image UnderstandingWeakly Supervised Image Segmentation

    Department of Mathematical Science, National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan · Division of Satellite Data Application, Taiwan Space Agency, Hsinchu, Taiwan · Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

  25. Copy-Move Forgery Detection and Question Answering for Remote Sensing Image

    Dec 3, 2024Ze Zhang, Enyuan Zhao, Di Niu +3Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingImage Forgery Detection

    Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, 266100, China

  26. OrientedFormer: An End-to-End Transformer-Based Oriented Object Detector in Remote Sensing Images

    Sep 29, 2024Zeyu Ding, Yong Zhou, Jiaqi Zhao +4Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingDetection Transformer

    School of Computer Science and Technology, China University of Mining and Technology, and with Mine Digitization Engineering Research Center of the Ministry of Education, and also with Innovation Research Center of Disaster Intelligent Prevention and Emergency Rescue, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China · School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5, Canada

  27. Geometric Coastline Localization using Vision-Language Models

    Date pendingRafia Malik, Bernhard Pfahringer, Karin Bryan +2Remote Sensing Image UnderstandingGeospatial Foundation Models

    The University of Waikato, New Zealand · The University of Auckland, New Zealand