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cs.CV2026

Genesis: A Generative Engine for Hierarchical Satellite Image Synthesis

Subash Khanal, Yangzhi Cui, Daniel Cher +4

Earth observation is fundamentally multi-scale; geospatial tasks span varied resolutions, and satellite imagery is organized into cascading tile pyramids that nest fine detail with…

cs.CV2026

TerraDiT-: Unified Spatial Control for Satellite Image Synthesis with Any Geospatial Primitive

Brian Wei, Srikumar Sastry, Daniel Cher +2

Generative models have achieved remarkable progress, yet applying them to satellite imagery remains challenging. Unlike natural imagery, satellite scenes are structured by spatiall…

cs.CV2026

Beyond Flat Labels: Level-Restricted Contrastive Learning for Hierarchical Fine-Grained Vision Classification

Zhiyuan Tao, Srikumar Sastry, Matthew J Thompson +9

Multimodal contrastive learning has enabled zero-shot visual classification by aligning images with textual categories. However, in hierarchically structured label spaces, existing…

cs.CV2026

DiffVAS: Diffusion-Guided Visual Active Search in Partially Observable Environments

Anindya Sarkar, Srikumar Sastry, Aleksis Pirinen +2

Visual active search (VAS) has been introduced as a modeling framework that leverages visual cues to direct aerial (e.g., UAV-based) exploration and pinpoint areas of interest with…

cs.CV2026

TerraDiT: Point-Conditioned Diffusion Transformer for Satellite Image Synthesis

Srikumar Sastry, Dan Cher, Brian Wei +4

We introduce TerraDiT, a diffusion transformer designed for text-to-satellite image generation with point-based control. Existing controlled satellite image generative models often…

cs.CV2026

SimLBR: Learning to Detect Fake Images by Learning to Detect Real Images

Aayush Dhakal, Subash Khanal, Srikumar Sastry +4

The rapid advancement of generative models has made the detection of AI-generated images a critical challenge for both research and society. Recent works have shown that most state…

cs.CV2025

VectorSynth: Fine-Grained Satellite Image Synthesis with Structured Semantics

Daniel Cher, Brian Wei, Srikumar Sastry +1

We introduce VectorSynth, a diffusion-based framework for pixel-accurate satellite image synthesis conditioned on polygonal geographic annotations with semantic attributes. Unlike…

cs.CV2025

ProM3E: Probabilistic Masked MultiModal Embedding Model for Ecology

Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, Aayush Dhakal +4

We introduce ProM3E, a probabilistic masked multimodal embedding model for any-to-any generation of multimodal representations for ecology. ProM3E is based on masked modality recon…

cs.CV2025

Global and Local Entailment Learning for Natural World Imagery

Srikumar Sastry, Aayush Dhakal, Eric Xing +2

Learning the hierarchical structure of data in vision-language models is a significant challenge. Previous works have attempted to address this challenge by employing entailment le…

cs.CV2025

Sat2Sound: A Unified Framework for Zero-Shot Soundscape Mapping

Subash Khanal, Srikumar Sastry, Aayush Dhakal +3

We present Sat2Sound, a unified multimodal framework for geospatial soundscape understanding, designed to predict and map the distribution of sounds across the Earth's surface. Exi…

cs.CV2025

RANGE: Retrieval Augmented Neural Fields for Multi-Resolution Geo-Embeddings

Aayush Dhakal, Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal +3

The choice of representation for geographic location significantly impacts the accuracy of models for a broad range of geospatial tasks, including fine-grained species classificati…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

TaxaBind: A Unified Embedding Space for Ecological Applications

Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, Aayush Dhakal +2

We present TaxaBind, a unified embedding space for characterizing any species of interest. TaxaBind is a multimodal embedding space across six modalities: ground-level images of sp…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

GOMAA-Geo: GOal Modality Agnostic Active Geo-localization

Anindya Sarkar, Srikumar Sastry, Aleksis Pirinen +3

We consider the task of active geo-localization (AGL) in which an agent uses a sequence of visual cues observed during aerial navigation to find a target specified through multiple…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

GeoSynth: Contextually-Aware High-Resolution Satellite Image Synthesis

Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, Aayush Dhakal +1

We present GeoSynth, a model for synthesizing satellite images with global style and image-driven layout control. The global style control is via textual prompts or geographic loca…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

LD-SDM: Language-Driven Hierarchical Species Distribution Modeling

Srikumar Sastry, Xin Xing, Aayush Dhakal +3

We focus on species distribution modeling using global-scale presence-only data, leveraging geographical and environmental features to map species ranges, as in previous studies. H…

cs.CV2023

BirdSAT: Cross-View Contrastive Masked Autoencoders for Bird Species Classification and Mapping

Srikumar Sastry, Subash Khanal, Aayush Dhakal +2

We propose a metadata-aware self-supervised learning~(SSL)~framework useful for fine-grained classification and ecological mapping of bird species around the world. Our framework u…

cs.CV2023

Vision-Language Pseudo-Labels for Single-Positive Multi-Label Learning

Xin Xing, Zhexiao Xiong, Abby Stylianou +3

This paper presents a novel approach to Single-Positive Multi-label Learning. In general multi-label learning, a model learns to predict multiple labels or categories for a single…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Learning Tri-modal Embeddings for Zero-Shot Soundscape Mapping

Subash Khanal, Srikumar Sastry, Aayush Dhakal +1

We focus on the task of soundscape mapping, which involves predicting the most probable sounds that could be perceived at a particular geographic location. We utilise recent state-…

cs.CV2023

Sat2Cap: Mapping Fine-Grained Textual Descriptions from Satellite Images

Aayush Dhakal, Adeel Ahmad, Subash Khanal +3

We propose a weakly supervised approach for creating maps using free-form textual descriptions. We refer to this work of creating textual maps as zero-shot mapping. Prior works hav…