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ARXIV:2603.11804 · REMOTE SENSING VLMS · SUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2603.11804REMOTE SENSING VLMSSUBMITTED 19 MAR · 21:31 UTCFRESHNESS STALEarXiv
OSMDA is a self-contained domain adaptation framework for Vision-Language Models that eliminates the need for costly external annotations by leveraging OpenStreetMap data.
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OSMDA is a self-contained domain adaptation framework for Vision-Language Models that eliminates the need for costly external annotations by leveraging OpenStreetMap data. Prevailing pseudo-labeling pipelines address this gap by distilling knowledge from large frontier…
Vision-Language Models (VLMs) adapted to remote sensing rely heavily on domain-specific image-text supervision, yet high-quality annotations for satellite and aerial imagery remain scarce and expensive to produce. Prevailing pseudo-labeling pipelines address this gap by…
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OSMDA is a self-contained domain adaptation framework for Vision-Language Models that eliminates the need for costly external annotations by leveraging OpenStreetMap data.
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10.48550/arXiv.2603.11804OSMDA is a self-contained domain adaptation framework for Vision-Language Models that eliminates the need for costly external annotations by leveraging OpenStreetMap data.
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) adapted to remote sensing rely heavily on domain-specific image-text supervision, yet high-quality annotations for satellite and aerial imagery remain scarce and expensive to produce. Prevailing pseudo-labeling pipelines address this gap by distilling knowledge from large frontier models, but this dependence on large teachers is costly, limits scalability, and caps achievable performance at the ceiling of the teacher. We propose OSMDA: a self-contained domain adaptation framework that eliminates this dependency. Our key insight is that a capable base VLM can serve as its own annotation engine: by pairing aerial images with rendered OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles, we leverage optical character recognition and chart comprehension capabilities of the model to generate captions enriched by OSM's vast auxiliary metadata. The model is then fine-tuned on the resulting corpus with satellite imagery alone, yielding OSMDA-VLM, a domain-adapted VLM that requires no manual labeling and no stronger external model. We conduct exhaustive evaluations spanning 10 benchmarks across image-text-to-text tasks and comparing against 9 competitive baselines. When equally mixed with real data, our method achieves state-of-the-art results, while being substantially cheaper to train than teacher-dependent alternatives. These results suggest that, given a strong foundation model, alignment with crowd-sourced geographic data is a practical and scalable path towards remote sensing domain adaptation. Dataset and model weights will be made publicly available.
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OSMDA is a self-contained domain adaptation framework for Vision-Language Models that eliminates the need for costly external annotations by leveraging OpenStreetMap data. Prevailing pseudo-labeling pipelines address this gap by distilling knowledge from large frontier models, b...
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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) adapted to remote sensing rely heavily on domain-specific image-text supervision, yet high-quality annotations for satellite and aerial imagery remain scarce and expensive to produce. Prevailing pseudo-labeling pipelines address this gap by distilli...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 8.0/10 on the public viability pass. When equally mixed with real data, our method achieves state-of-the-art results, while being substantially cheaper to train than teacher-dependent alternatives.
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Remote Sensing VLMs moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 8.0/10.
We propose OSMDA: a self-contained domain adaptation framework that eliminates this dependency.
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When equally mixed with real data, our method achieves state-of-the-art results
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while being substantially cheaper to train than teacher-dependent alternatives
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yielding OSMDA-VLM, a domain-adapted VLM that requires no manual labeling and no stronger external model
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by pairing aerial images with rendered OpenStreetMap (OSM) tiles, we leverage optical character recognition and chart comprehension capabilities of the model to generate captions
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These results suggest that, given a strong foundation model, alignment with crowd-sourced geographic data is a practical and scalable path towards remote sensing domain adaptation
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yet high-quality annotations for satellite and aerial imagery remain scarce and expensive to produce
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caps achievable performance at the ceiling of the teacher
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