EarthDial: Turning Multi-sensory Earth Observations to Interactive DialoguesShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: 2025 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR), IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2025, p. 14303-14313Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Automated analysis of vast Earth observation data via interactive Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can unlock new opportunities for environmental monitoring, disaster response, and resource management. Existing generic VLMs do not perform well on Remote Sensing data, while the recent Geo-spatial VLMs remain restricted to a fixed resolution and few sensor modalities. In this paper, we introduce EarthDial, a conversational assistant specifically designed for Earth Observation (EO) data, transforming complex, multi-sensory Earth observations into interactive, natural language dialogues. EarthDial supports multispectral, multi-temporal, and multi-resolution imagery, enabling a wide range of remote sensing tasks, including classification, detection, captioning, question answering, visual reasoning, and visual grounding. To achieve this, we introduce an extensive instruction tuning dataset comprising over 11.11M instruction pairs covering RGB, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), and multispectral modalities such as Near-Infrared (NIR) and infrared. Furthermore, EarthDial handles bi-temporal and multi-temporal sequence analysis for applications like change detection. Our extensive experimental results on 44 downstream datasets demonstrate that EarthDial outperforms existing generic and domainspecific models, achieving better generalization across various EO tasks. Our source codes and pre-trained models are at https:// github. com/hiyamdebary/ EarthDial.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2025. p. 14303-14313
Series
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, ISSN 1063-6919, E-ISSN 2575-7075
National Category
Computer Vision and Learning Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-220970DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52734.2025.01334ISI: 001601141700214Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105017093134ISBN: 9798331543655 (print)ISBN: 9798331543648 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-220970DiVA, id: diva2:2035047
Conference
2025 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition-CVPR-Annual, Nashville, TN, jun 10-17, 2025
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