RSGPT: A Remote Sensing Vision Language Model and Benchmark

By Yuan Hu, Jianlong Yuan, Congcong Wen, Xiaonan Lu, Xiang Li. Isprs Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023

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The emergence of large-scale large language models, with GPT-4 as a prominent example, has significantly propelled the rapid advancement of artificial general intelligence and sparked the revolution of Artificial Intelligence 2.0. In the realm of remote sensing (RS), there is a growing interest in developing large vision language models (VLMs) specifically tailored for data analysis in this domain. However, current research predominantly revolves around visual recognition tasks, lacking comprehensive, large-scale image-text datasets that are aligned and suitable for training large VLMs, which poses significant challenges to effectively training such models for RS applications. In computer vision, recent research has demonstrated that fine-tuning large vision language models on small-scale, high-quality datasets can yield impressive performance in visual and language understanding. These results are comparable to state-of-the-art VLMs trained from scratch on massive amounts of data, such as GPT-4. Inspired by this captivating idea, in this work, we build a high-quality Remote Sensing Image Captioning dataset (RSICap) that facilitates the development of large VLMs in the RS field. Unlike previous RS datasets that either employ model-generated captions or short descriptions, RSICap comprises 2,585 human-annotated captions with rich and high-quality information. This dataset offers detailed descriptions for each image, encompassing scene descriptions (e.g., residential area, airport, or farmland) as well as object information (e.g., color, shape, quantity, absolute position, etc). To facilitate the evaluation of VLMs in the field of RS, we also provide a benchmark evaluation dataset called RSIEval. This dataset consists of human-annotated captions and visual question-answer pairs, allowing for a comprehensive assessment of VLMs in the context of RS.

Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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EarthGPT: A Universal Multimodal Large Language Model for Multisensor Image Comprehension in Remote Sensing Domain (2024, background): “For instance, RSGPT [10] fine-tunes Instruct-BLIP [36] on a high-quality image–text pair dataset, showing good image–text caption and VQA capabilities.”
GeoChat:Grounded Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing (2023, methodology): “While RSGPT [12] is an initial effort that has shown good conversation ability along with solving multiple tasks, it requires finetuning the model for each task separately, which makes it cumbersome and not generalizable.”