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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 Chair: 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
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
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
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
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