GLACIA: Instance-Aware Positional Reasoning for Glacial Lake Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Model

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• Title: GLACIA: Instance-Aware Positional Reasoning for Glacial Lake Segmentation via Multimodal Large Language Model
• ArXiv ID: 2512.09251
• Date: 2025-12-10
• Authors: Lalit Maurya, Saurabh Kaushik, Beth Tellman

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Glacial lake monitoring bears great significance in mitigating the anticipated risk of Glacial Lake Outburst Floods. However, existing segmentation methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs), remain constrained to pixel-level predictions, lacking high-level global scene semantics and human-interpretable reasoning. To address this, we introduce GLACIA (Glacial LAke segmentation with Contextual Instance Awareness), the first framework that integrates large language models with segmentation capabilities to produce both accurate segmentation masks and corresponding spatial reasoning outputs. We construct the Glacial Lake Position Reasoning (GLake-Pos) dataset pipeline, which provides diverse, spatially grounded question-answer pairs designed to overcome the lack of instance-aware positional reasoning data in remote sensing. Comparative evaluation demonstrate that GLACIA (mIoU: 87.30) surpasses state-of-the-art method based on CNNs (mIoU: 78.55 -79.01), ViTs (mIoU: 69.27 -81.75), Geo-foundation models (mIoU: 76.37 -87.10), and reasoning based segmentation methods (mIoU: 60.12 -75.66). Our approach enables intuitive disaster preparedness and informed policy-making ...

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