They've used a vision transformer to estimate building heights from monocular aerial photographs, so they're guesses at best. Calling this a map is a stretch.

I checked the building heights where I live vs the actual heights, sometimes they display the height as half of what the actual height is.

I found a few that are off by a factor of about 4. Always lower than in reality, never taller.

Hey maps used to have sea serpents and winged griffins. It's a map. Maybe not the best map.

What do you mean "bounding boxes"? They were talking about captions and embeddings, so a vision language model is required.

I suggested YOLO and non llm-vl as a lot faster alternative.

Of course CLIP would be otherwise the other option than a big llm-vl one.

Comparing Nazi Germany and the PRC in any way is certainly an interesting choice, considering they're the one major power in the world that actually doesn't have a recent history of invading sovereign nations.

Come again? Tibet was absolutely a sovereign nation. I guess it depends what you mean by "recent", but the colonization is still underway, daily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annexation_of_Tibet_by_China

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Indian_War

'Tibet was absolutely a sovereign nation. I guess it depends what you mean by "recent"'

The rest of the world notes from afar that Hawaii became a US state in 1959, whilst Tibet entered the PRC way back in 1951.

In 1993, the US congress apologised for this - they didn't give it back :)

Yeah they do. Even right now they're trying to take territory from the Philippines.

China just has a history of denying what they're doing as they're doing it.

There are so many examples online. My favourite is of a Chinese warship ramming into its own coast guard vessel as they fail to intimidate the Philippines Coast Guard.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev22n0lm1xo

This is a lie. China has an ongoing invasion of Bhutan.

China built a road and villages and military outposts in Bhutan, over China-Bhutan border.

does the Sino-Vietnamese War not count as recent?

What does this even mean?

What it means is that in the future Europe will have to consider a Trumpist USA to be like a 21st Century version of a totalitarian Eastern Bloc or Soviet country: Orbanism, absurd projectionism, dangerous allies, the state demanding a share of businesses and directing sales and mergers, openly describing the EU (and now the UK) as not friends or even as enemies, trumped up prosecutions of political enemies, assuming that foreign surveillance is built into its products, etc.

Some of these things are already here.

*protectionism