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UniABG: Unified Adversarial View Bridging and Graph Correspondence for Unsupervised Cross-View Geo-Localization

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-11-18 v1

Abstract

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) matches query images (e.g.\textit{e.g.}, drone) to geographically corresponding opposite-view imagery (e.g.\textit{e.g.}, satellite). While supervised methods achieve strong performance, their reliance on extensive pairwise annotations limits scalability. Unsupervised alternatives avoid annotation costs but suffer from noisy pseudo-labels due to intrinsic cross-view domain gaps. To address these limitations, we propose UniABG\textit{UniABG}, a novel dual-stage unsupervised cross-view geo-localization framework integrating adversarial view bridging with graph-based correspondence calibration. Our approach first employs View-Aware Adversarial Bridging (VAAB) to model view-invariant features and enhance pseudo-label robustness. Subsequently, Heterogeneous Graph Filtering Calibration (HGFC) refines cross-view associations by constructing dual inter-view structure graphs, achieving reliable view correspondence. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art unsupervised performance, showing that UniABG improves Satellite \rightarrow Drone AP by +10.63\% on University-1652 and +16.73\% on SUES-200, even surpassing supervised baselines. The source code is available at https://github.com/chenqi142/UniABG

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@article{arxiv.2511.12054,
  title  = {UniABG: Unified Adversarial View Bridging and Graph Correspondence for Unsupervised Cross-View Geo-Localization},
  author = {Cuiqun Chen and Qi Chen and Bin Yang and Xingyi Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.12054},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted as Oral Presentation at AAAI 2026. 10 pages, 9 figures