CVPR Findings2026
Learning to Wander: Improving the Global Image Geolocation Ability of LMMs via Actionable Reasoning
Yushuo Zheng, Huiyu Duan, Zicheng Zhang, Xiaohong Liu, Xiongkuo Min
Abstract
Geolocation, the task of identifying the geographic location of an image, requires abundant world knowledge and complex reasoning abilities. Though advanced large multimodal models (LMMs) have shown superior aforementioned capabilities, their performance on the geolocation task remains unexplored. To this end, we introduce WanderBench, the first open access global geolocation benchmark designed for actionable geolocation reasoning in embodied scenarios. WanderBench contains over 32K panoramas across six tion and stronger generalization in dynamic environments. WanderBench and GeoAoT define a new paradigm for actionable, reasoning driven geolocation in embodied visual understanding.
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