🌎 GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization

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Description

GeoCLIP addresses the challenges of worldwide image geo-localization by introducing a novel CLIP-inspired approach that aligns images with geographical locations, achieving state-of-the-art results on geo-localization and GPS to vector representation on benchmark datasets (Im2GPS3k, YFCC26k, GWS15k, and the Geo-Tagged NUS-Wide Dataset). Our location encoder models the Earth as a continuous function, learning semantically rich, CLIP-aligned features that are suitable for geo-localization. Additionally, our location encoder architecture generalizes, making it suitable for use as a pre-trained GPS encoder to aid geo-aware neural architectures.

Method

Similarly to OpenAI's CLIP, GeoCLIP is trained contrastively by matching Image-GPS pairs. By using the MP-16 dataset, composed of 4.7M Images taken across the globe, GeoCLIP learns distinctive visual features associated with different locations on earth.

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📎 Getting Started: API

You can install GeoCLIP's module using pip:

pip install geoclip

or directly from source:

git clone https://github.com/VicenteVivan/geo-clip
cd geo-clip
python setup.py install

🗺️📍 Worldwide Image Geolocalization

Usage: GeoCLIP Inference

import torch
from geoclip import GeoCLIP

model = GeoCLIP()

image_path = "image.png"

top_pred_gps, top_pred_prob = model.predict(image_path, top_k=5)

print("Top 5 GPS Predictions")
print("=====================")
for i in range(5):
    lat, lon = top_pred_gps[i]
    print(f"Prediction {i+1}: ({lat:.6f}, {lon:.6f})")
    print(f"Probability: {top_pred_prob[i]:.6f}")
    print("")

🌐 Worldwide GPS Embeddings

In our paper, we show that once trained, our location encoder can assist other geo-aware neural architectures. Specifically, we explore our location encoder's ability to improve multi-class classification accuracy. We achieved state-of-the-art results on the Geo-Tagged NUS-Wide Dataset by concatenating GPS features from our pre-trained location encoder with an image's visual features. Additionally, we found that the GPS features learned by our location encoder, even without extra information, are effective for geo-aware image classification, achieving state-of-the-art performance in the GPS-only multi-class classification task on the same dataset.

Usage: Pre-Trained Location Encoder

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from geoclip import LocationEncoder

gps_encoder = LocationEncoder()

gps_data = torch.Tensor([[40.7128, -74.0060], [34.0522, -118.2437]])  # NYC and LA in lat, lon
gps_embeddings = gps_encoder(gps_data)
print(gps_embeddings.shape) # (2, 512)

Acknowledgments

This project incorporates code from Joshua M. Long's Random Fourier Features Pytorch. For the original source, visit here.

Citation

@article{cepeda2023geoclip,
  title={GeoCLIP: Clip-Inspired Alignment between Locations and Images for Effective Worldwide Geo-localization},
  author={Vivanco, Vicente and Nayak, Gaurav Kumar and Shah, Mubarak},
  booktitle={Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)},
  year={2023}
}