DualGeo: A Dual-View Framework for Worldwide Image Geo-localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.25533v1
• Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:00:04 GMT
• Title: DualGeo: A Dual-View Framework for Worldwide Image Geo-localization
• Abstract summary: We propose DualGeo, a two-stage framework for worldwide image geo-localization.<n>First, it establishes a geo-representational foundation by fusing image and semantic segmentation features.<n>Second, it performs geo-cognitive refinement by re-ranking retrieved candidates using geographic clustering.<n>Experiments show that DualGeo outperforms state-of-the-art methods, improving street-level (1 km) and city-level (25 km) localization accuracy by 3.6%-16.58% and 1.29%-8.77%, respectively.
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• Abstract: Worldwide image geo-localization aims to infer the geographic location of an image captured anywhere on Earth, spanning street, city, regional, national, and continental scales. Existing methods rely on visual features that are sensitive to environmental variations (e.g., lighting, season, and weather) and lack effective post-processing to filter outlier candidates, limiting localization accuracy. To address these limitations, we propose DualGeo, a two-stage framework for worldwide image geo-localization. First, it establishes a geo-representational foundation by fusing image and semantic segmentation features via bidirectional cross-attention. The fused features are then aligned with GPS coordinates through dual-view contrastive learning to build a global retrieval database. Second, it performs geo-cognitive refinement by re-ranking retrieved candidates using geographic clustering. It then feeds them into large multimodal models (LMMs) for final coordinate prediction. Experiments on IM2GPS, IM2GPS3k, and YFCC4k show that DualGeo outperforms state-of-the-art methods, improving street-level (<1 km) and city-level (<25 km) localization accuracy by 3.6%-16.58% and 1.29%-8.77%, respectively. Our code and datasets are available : https://github.com/CJ310177/DualGeo.

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