IGARSS 2026 || Washington, D.C. || 9

WE2.R15: Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges (2/3)

Oral

Wed, 12 Aug, 11:00 - 12:15

Location: TBD

Session Type: Oral

Session Co-Chairs: Hongjie He, and Linlin Xu,

Track: Community Contributed Themes

Wed, 12 Aug, 11:00 - 11:15

WE2.R15.1: Remote Sensing Phrase Grounding Using Modulated Detection Transformer–Geospatial

Nicholas Harvey, Jeffrey Yu, The George Washington University, United States

Wed, 12 Aug, 11:15 - 11:30

WE2.R15.2: Explicit Alignment and Guided Refinement for Referring Remote Sensing Segmentation

Yuzhe Sun, Zhe Dong, Tianzhu Liu, Yanfeng Gu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Wed, 12 Aug, 11:30 - 11:45

WE2.R15.3: Reliability and Confidence Guided Referring Video Object Segmentation in Remote Sensing

Haochen Jiang, Yuzhe Sun, Tianzhu Liu, Yanfeng Gu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China

Wed, 12 Aug, 11:45 - 12:00

WE2.R15.4: WildfireVLM: AI-powered Analysis for Early Wildfire Detection and Risk Assessment Using Satellite Imagery

Aydin Ayanzadeh, Prakhar Dixit, Sadia Kamal, Milton Halem, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, United States

Wed, 12 Aug, 12:00 - 12:15

WE2.R15.5: BEYOND RGB: SPECTRAL-SPATIAL PROMPTING FOR ENHANCED REMOTE SENSING VISUAL QUESTION ANSWERING

Sourabh Barala, Sumedha Basu, Kuldeep Ramchandra Kurte, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India; Abhishek V. Potnis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA, United States