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🔥🔥🔥 Towards Open-Vocabulary Learning in Remote Sensing: A Survey

✨ The first survey for Open-Vocabulary Learning for Remote Sensing (RS-OV).

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Table of Contents

• Open Vocabulary Object Detection for Remote Sensing
• Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation for Remote Sensing
• Open Vocabulary Instance Segmentation for Remote Sensing
• Open Vocabulary Change Detection for Remote Sensing
• Open Vocabulary Visual Grounding for Remote Sensing
• Other
• Foundation Model & Datasets

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Open Vocabulary Object Detection for Remote Sensing

Title	Venue	Date	Code	Note
Unveiling the Unknown: A SAM Guided Open World Object Detection Method for Remote Sensing Mingtao Hu, Wenxin Yin, Wenhui Diao, Xin Gao, Xian Sun	Arxiv	2026	-	-
A Training-Free Guess What Vision Language Model from Snippets to Open-Vocabulary Object Detection Guiying Zhu, Bowen Yang, Yin Zhuang, Tong Zhang, Guanqun Wang, Zhihao Che, He Chen, Lianlin Li	Arxiv	2026	-	-
Open-vocabulary object detection for high-resolution remote sensing images HuaDong Li.	CVIU	2025	-	-
LLaMA-Unidetector: An LLaMA-Based Universal Framework for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery J Xie, G Wang, T Zhang, Y Sun, H Chen, Y. Zhang.	TGRS	2025	Github	-
RT-OVAD: Real-Time Open-Vocabulary Aerial Object Detection via Image-Text Collaboration G Wei, X Yuan, Y Liu, Z Shang, X Xue, P Wang, K Yao, C Zhao, H Zhang, R Xiao.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
OpenRSD: Towards Open-prompts for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Z Huang, Y Feng, S Yang, Z Liu, Q Liu, Y Wang.	ICCV	2025	Github	-
Cross-View Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Aerial Imagery J Kini, R Gupta, M Shah.	Arxiv	2025	-	-
FASE: Feature-Aligned Scene Encoding for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Remote Sensing H Hwang, SS Woo.	CIKM	2025	-	-
Cross-View Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Aerial Imagery J Kini, R Gupta, M Shah.	Arxiv	2025	-	-
Mask-Guided Teacher–Student Learning for Open-Vocabulary Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images J S Wang, Y Song, J Xiang, Y Chen, P Zhong, R Fu.	Remote Sensing	2025	-	-
Locate anything on earth: Advancing open-vocabulary object detection for remote sensing community J Pan, Y Liu, Y Fu, M Ma, J Li, DP Paudel, L Van Gool, X Huang.	AAAI	2025	Github	-
Toward open vocabulary aerial object detection with clip-activated student-teacher learning Y Li, W Guo, X Yang, N Liao, D He, J Zhou, W Yu.	ECCV	2024	Github	-
CLIP-guided source-free object detection in aerial images N Liu, X Xu, Y Su, C Liu, P Gong, HC Li.	IGARSS	2024	Github	-

Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation for Remote Sensing

Title	Venue	Date	Code	Note
MovSeg: Efficient Adaptation of Vision-Language Models for Multispectral Open-Vocabulary Segmentation Yingrui Ji; Chenhao Wang; Jiansheng Chen; Jingbo Chen; Anzhi Yue; Yu Meng	ISPRS	2026	-	-
AerOSeg++: Scale-Aware and Texture-Guided Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with SAM Features for Remote Sensing Images Saikat Dutta, Akhil Vasim, Hamid Rezatofighi, Biplab Banerjee.	RS	2026	-	-
HG-RSOVSSeg: Hierarchical Guidance Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Framework of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images Wubiao Huang, Fei Deng, Huchen Li, Jing Yang.	RS	2026	-	-
SegEarth-OV3: Exploring SAM 3 for Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images Kaiyu Li, Shengqi Zhang, Yupeng Deng, Zhi Wang, Deyu Meng, Xiangyong Cao.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
DGL-RSIS: Decoupling Global Spatial Context and Local Class Semantics for Training-Free Remote Sensing Image Segmentation Boyi Li, Ce Zhang, Richard M. Timmerman, Wenxuan Bao.	Arxiv	2025	-	Accepted to JAG 2026
Reducing semantic ambiguity in open-vocabulary remote sensing image segmentation via knowledge graph-enhanced class representations Wubiao Huang, Huchen Li, Shuai Zhang, Fei Deng.	ISPRS	2026	Github	-
Learning transferable land cover semantics for open vocabulary interactions with remote sensing images Valérie Zermatten, Javiera Castillo-Navarro, Diego Marcos, Devis Tuia.	ISPRS	2025	Github	-
CitySeg: A 3D Open Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Foundation Model in City-scale Scenarios Jialei Xu, Zizhuang Wei, Weikang You, Linyun Li, Weijian Sun.	Arxiv	2025	-	-
Soft-Guided Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Images K An, Y Wang, L Chen.	TGRS	2025	-	-
Exploring Efficient Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in the Remote Sensing B Li, H Dong, D Zhang, Z Zhao, J Gao, X Li.	AAAI	2026	Github	-
Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation for Remote Sensing Imagery via Dual-Stream Feature Extraction and Category-Adaptive Refinement S Yuan, B He.	Arxiv	2025	-	-
AerOSeg: Harnessing SAM for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images Saikat Dutta, Akhil Vasim, Siddhant Gole, Hamid Rezatofighi, Biplab Banerjee.	CVPR workshop	2025	-	-
Towards Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation C Ye, Y Zhuge, P Zhang.	AAAI	2025	Github	-
Annotation-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote-Sensing Images K Li, X Cao, R Liu, S Wang, Z Jiang, Z Wang, D Meng.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
SegEarth-OV: Towards Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for Remote Sensing Images K Li, R Liu, X Cao, X Bai, F Zhou, D Meng, Z Wang.	CVPR	2025	Github	-
Open-Vocabulary High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation Q Cao, Y Chen, C Ma, X Yang.	TGRS	2025	Github	-
FreeMix: Open-Vocabulary Domain Generalization of Remote-Sensing Images for Semantic Segmentation J Wu, J Shi, Z Zhao, Z Liu, R Zhi.	TGRS	2025	Github	-
Large multimodal model for open vocabulary semantic segmentation of remote sensing images B Liu, X Chen, A Yu, F Feng, J Yue, X Yu.	EJRS	2025	-	-
Expanding Open-Vocabulary Understanding for UAV Aerial Imagery: A Vision–Language Framework to Semantic Segmentation B Huang, J Li, W Luan, J Tan, C Li, L Huang.	Drones	2025	-	-
RSCLIP for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation S Wang, X Sun, J Han, XX Zhu.	Techrxiv	2025	-	-
AeriaICLIP: Lightweight Open-Vocabulary Segmentation for UAV-Based Aerial Images P Jia, Y Gao, W Li, Q Gao, F Pan.	CCC	2025	-	-
Toward High-Resolution UAV Imagery Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation Z Chen, Y Xie, Y Wei .	Drones	2025	-	-

Open Vocabulary Instance Segmentation for Remote Sensing

Title	Venue	Date	Code	Note
SCORE: Scene Context Matters in Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Instance Segmentation S Huang, S He, H Qin, B Wen.	ICCV	2025	Github	-
ZoRI: Towards Discriminative Zero-Shot Remote Sensing Instance Segmentation Shiqi Huang, Shuting He, Bihan Wen.	AAAI	2025	Github	-

Open Vocabulary Change Detection for Remote Sensing

Title	Venue	Date	Code	Note
DynamicEarth: How Far are We from Open-Vocabulary Change Detection? K Li, X Cao, Y Deng, C Pang, Z Xin, D Meng, Z Wang.	Arxiv	2025	Github	Accepted by AAAI 2026
UniVCD: A New Method for Unsupervised Change Detection in the Open-Vocabulary Era Ziqiang Zhu, Bowei Yang.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
Semantic-cd: Remote sensing image semantic change detection towards open-vocabulary setting Y Zhu, L Li, K Chen, C Liu, F Zhou, Z Shi.	Arxiv	2025	-	-
Open-vocabulary generative vision-language models for creating a large-scale remote sensing change detection dataset Y Zan, S Ji, S Chao, M Luo.	ISPRS	2025	Github	-
OmniOVCD: Streamlining Open-Vocabulary Change Detection with SAM 3 Xu Zhang, Danyang Li, Yingjie Xia, Xiaohang Dong, Hualong Yu, Jianye Wang, Qicheng Li.	Arxiv	2026	-	-

Open Vocabulary Visual Grounding for Remote Sensing

Title	Venue	Date	Code	Note
RSVG-ZeroOV: Exploring a Training-Free Framework for Zero-Shot Open-Vocabulary Visual Grounding in Remote Sensing Images K Li, D Wang, T Wang, F Dong, Y Zhang, L Zhang, X Wang, S Li, Q Wang.	AAAI	2026	-	-
On-the-Fly OVD Adaptation with FLAME: Few-shot Localization via Active Marginal-Samples Exploration Yehonathan Refael, Amit Aides, Aviad Barzilai, George Leifman, Genady Beryozkin, Vered Silverman, Bolous Jaber, Tomer Shekel.	Arxiv	2025	-	-

Other

Title	Venue	Date	Code	Note
FarSLIP: Discovering Effective CLIP Adaptation for Fine-Grained Remote Sensing Understanding Zhenshi Li, Weikang Yu, Dilxat Muhtar, Xueliang Zhang, Pengfeng Xiao, Pedram Ghamisi, Xiaoxiang Zhu.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
Grounded Vision-Language Navigation for UAVs with Open-Vocabulary Goal Understanding Yuhang Zhang, Haosheng Yu, Jiaping Xiao, Mir Feroskhan.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
Enhanced Grounding DINO: Efficient Cross-Modality Block for Open-Set Object Detection in Remote Sensing Z Hu, K Gao, J Wang, Z Yang, Z Zhang, H Chen.	JSTAR	2025	-	-
Advancing Open-Set Object Detection in Remote Sensing Using Multimodal Large Language Model Nandini Saini, Ashudeep Dubey, Debasis Das, Chiranjoy Chattopadhyay.	WACV Workshop	2025	-	-
GeoRSMLLM: A Multimodal Large Language Model for Vision-Language Tasks in Geoscience and Remote Sensing Zilun Zhang, Haozhan Shen, Tiancheng Zhao, Bin Chen, Zian Guan, Yuhao Wang, Xu Jia, Yuxiang Cai, Yongheng Shang, Jianwei Yin.	Arxiv	2025	-	-
InstructSAM: A Training-Free Framework for Instruction-Oriented Remote Sensing Object Recognition Y Zheng, W Wu, Q Li, X Wang, X Zhou, A Ren, J Shen, L Zhao, G Li, X Yang.	Neurips	2025	Github	-
SkySense-O: Towards Open-World Remote Sensing Interpretation with Vision-Centric Visual-Language Modeling Q Zhu, J Lao, D Ji, J Luo, K Wu, Y Zhang, L Ru, J Wang, J Chen, M Yang, D Liu, F Zhao.	CVPR	2025	Github	-
DDFAV: Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Models Dataset and Evaluation Benchmark H Li, X Zhang, H Qu.	Remote Sensing	2025	Github	-
SPECIAL: zero-shot hyperspectral image classification with CLIP L Pang, J Yao, K Li, X Cao.	Arxiv	2025	Github	-
RS-CLIP: Zero shot remote sensing scene classification via contrastive vision-language supervision X Li, C Wen, Y Hu, N Zhou.	Arxiv	2024	Github	-
Remote Sensing Vision-Language Foundation Models without Annotations via Ground Remote Alignment Utkarsh Mall, Cheng Perng Phoo, Meilin Kelsey Liu, Carl Vondrick, Bharath Hariharan, Kavita Bala.	ICLR	2024	Github	-

Foundation Model & Datasets

Name	Paper	Github	Year
AetherVision-Bench	AetherVision-Bench: An Open-Vocabulary RGB-Infrared Benchmark for Multi-Angle Segmentation across Aerial and Ground Perspectives	-	2025
Falcon	Falcon: A Remote Sensing Vision-Language Foundation Model	Link	2025
RemoteSAM	Remotesam: Towards segment anything for earth observation	Link	2025
SkyEyeGPT	SkyEyeGPT: Unifying Remote Sensing Vision-Language Tasks via Instruction Tuning with Large Language Model	Link	2025
OS-W2S	OS-W2S: An Automatic Labeling Engine for Language-Guided Open-Set Aerial Object Detection	Link	2025
OVRSISBench	Exploring Efficient Open-Vocabulary Segmentation in the Remote Sensing	Link	2025
Git-10M	Text2Earth: Unlocking Text-driven Remote Sensing Image Generation with a Global-Scale Dataset and a Foundation Model	Link	2025
LAE-1M	Locate Anything on Earth: Advancing Open-Vocabulary Object Detection for Remote Sensing Community	Link	2024
RemoteCLIP	RemoteCLIP: A Vision Language Foundation Model for Remote Sensing	Link	2024
DDFAV	DDFAV: Remote Sensing Large Vision Language Models Dataset and Evaluation Benchmark	Link	2024
LandDiscover50K	Towards Open-Vocabulary Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation	Link	2024
SkyScript	SkyScript: A Large and Semantically Diverse Vision-Language Dataset for Remote Sensing	Link	2023
RS5M	RS5M and GeoRSCLIP: A Large Scale Vision-Language Dataset and A Large Vision-Language Model for Remote Sensing	Link	2023

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