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2026 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium
9 - 14 August 2026 • Washington, D.C.
WE2.R15: Vision-Language Models for Remote Sensing: Foundations, Applications, and Challenges (2/3)
Wednesday, 12 August, 11:00 - 12:15
Location: Jefferson West
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