Photo geolocation estimation

Description from the archive archive 2025-07-28.

Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

6 leaderboard tables shown for this task, 6 with rows (a “benchmark” on this site is a table with at least one row, as on /sota), ordered by row count. “Best model” is the first row in the archive's own order at snapshot; nothing is re-ranked here and metric direction is not recorded in the archive. PwC's Trend sparklines are not in the archive, so that column is omitted.

Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

4 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

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Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

13 shown of 13 papers with code (17 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization
  27 Sep 2023 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 5 of 13 samples · 8 unverified
  Worldwide Geo-localization aims to pinpoint the precise location of images taken anywhere on Earth.
• Geolocating Earth Imagery from ISS: Integrating Machine Learning with Astronaut Photography for Enhanced Geographic Mapping
  29 Apr 2025 1 repository listed
  Each pipeline is tailored to process high-resolution ISS imagery, identifying both natural and man-made geographical features.
• Around the World in 80 Timesteps: A Generative Approach to Global Visual Geolocation
  9 Dec 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 7 samples · 7 unverified
  Global visual geolocation predicts where an image was captured on Earth.
• G3: An Effective and Adaptive Framework for Worldwide Geolocalization Using Large Multi-Modality Models
  23 May 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 3 of 8 samples · 5 unverified
  Worldwide geolocalization aims to locate the precise location at the coordinate level of photos taken anywhere on the Earth.
• OpenStreetView-5M: The Many Roads to Global Visual Geolocation
  29 Apr 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  Determining the location of an image anywhere on Earth is a complex visual task, which makes it particularly relevant for evaluating computer vision algorithms.
• PIGEON: Predicting Image Geolocations
  11 Jul 2023 1 repository listed Syntology ran 1 of 2 samples · 1 unverified · 2 pointer-only (licence)
  We train two models for evaluations on street-level data and general-purpose image geolocalization; the first model, PIGEON, is trained on data from the game of Geoguessr and is capable of placing over 40% of its…
• Learning Generalized Zero-Shot Learners for Open-Domain Image Geolocalization
  1 Feb 2023 1 repository listed
  Image geolocalization is the challenging task of predicting the geographic coordinates of origin for a given photo.
• Where in the World is this Image? Transformer-based Geo-localization in the Wild
  29 Apr 2022 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 1 samples · 1 unverified
  Predicting the geographic location (geo-localization) from a single ground-level RGB image taken anywhere in the world is a very challenging problem.
• CrossLocate: Cross-modal Large-scale Visual Geo-Localization in Natural Environments using Rendered Modalities
  1 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  By combining the rendered database views with existing datasets of photographs (used as ''queries'' to be localized), we create a unique benchmark for visual geo-localization in natural environments, which contains…
• Interpretable Semantic Photo Geolocation
  30 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  State-of-the-art methods treat the task as a classification problem, where the choice of the classes, that is the partitioning of the world map, is crucial for the performance.
• GeoWINE: Geolocation based Wiki, Image,News and Event Retrieval
  30 Apr 2021 1 repository listed
  The first module is a state-of-the-art model for geolocation estimation of images.
• Geolocation Estimation of Photos using a Hierarchical Model and Scene Classification
  1 Sep 2018 1 repository listed
  While the successful estimation of a photo's geolocation enables a number of interesting applications, it is also a very challenging task.
• PlaNet - Photo Geolocation with Convolutional Neural Networks
  17 Feb 2016 1 repository listed
  Is it possible to build a system to determine the location where a photo was taken using just its pixels?

Syntology lines on 6 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.