VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Xiaoran Pan
dblp:408/6866
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2025
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Vision and language · 50% 3D vision · 25% Language models and text generation · 25% |
Topics — the 4 heaviest of 4, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer vision › 3D vision › visual localization
geo-localization |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains · NeurIPS 2025 |
Natural language and speech › Language models and text generation
reasoning chains |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains · NeurIPS 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language
vision-language model |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains · NeurIPS 2025 |
Computer vision › Vision and language
visual reasoning |
0.9 | 1 | 2025 | GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning Chains · NeurIPS 2025 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
multi-stage reasoning · 0.9fine-tuning · 0.9
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | GRE Suite: Geo-localization Inference via Fine-Tuned Vision-Language Models and Enhanced Reasoning ChainsabstractRecent advances in Visual Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in visual reasoning tasks. However, geo-localization presents unique challenges, requiring the extraction of multigranular visual cues from images and their integration with external world knowledge for systematic reasoning. Current approaches to geo-localization tasks often lack robust reasoning mechanisms and explainability, limiting their effectiveness. To address these limitations, we propose the Geo Reason Enhancement (GRE) Suite, a novel framework that augments VLMs with structured reasoning chains for accurate and interpretable location inference. The GRE Suite is systematically developed across three key dimensions: dataset, model, and benchmark. First, we introduce GRE30K, a high-quality geo-localization reasoning dataset designed to facilitate fine-grained visual and contextual analysis. Next, we present the GRE model, which employs a multi-stage reasoning strategy to progressively infer scene attributes, local details, and semantic features, thereby narrowing down potential geographic regions with enhanced precision. Finally, we construct the Geo Reason Evaluation Benchmark (GREval-Bench), a comprehensive evaluation framework that assesses VLMs across diverse urban, natural, and landmark scenes to measure both coarse-grained (e.g., country, continent) and fine-grained (e.g., city, street) localization performance. Experimental results demonstrate that GRE significantly outperforms existing methods across all granularities of geo-localization tasks, underscoring the efficacy of reasoning-augmented VLMs in complex geographic inference. Code and data will be released at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/GRE-74C0. Xiaoran Pan, Yiren Song |
NeurIPS | 3 |