G3: Geolocation via Guidebook Grounding

Grace Luo, Giscard Biamby, Trevor Darrell, Daniel Fried, Anna Rohrbach


Abstract
We demonstrate how language can improve geolocation: the task of predicting the location where an image was taken. Here we study explicit knowledge from human-written guidebooks that describe the salient and class-discriminative visual features humans use for geolocation. We propose the task of Geolocation via Guidebook Grounding that uses a dataset of StreetView images from a diverse set of locations and an associated textual guidebook for GeoGuessr, a popular interactive geolocation game. Our approach predicts a country for each image by attending over the clues automatically extracted from the guidebook. Supervising attention with country-level pseudo labels achieves the best performance. Our approach substantially outperforms a state-of-the-art image-only geolocation method, with an improvement of over 5% in Top-1 accuracy. Our dataset and code can be found at https://github.com/g-luo/geolocation_via_guidebook_grounding.
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2022.findings-emnlp.430
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
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December
Year:
2022
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Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
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Yoav Goldberg, Zornitsa Kozareva, Yue Zhang
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5841–5853
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https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.430
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.430
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Grace Luo, Giscard Biamby, Trevor Darrell, Daniel Fried, and Anna Rohrbach. 2022. G3: Geolocation via Guidebook Grounding. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 5841–5853, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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