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With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, UAVs have become crucial for measurement and tracking in patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied areas, satellite-based localization methods are prone to failure. This paper presents a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Tao Liu , Kan Ren , Qian Chen

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) visual localization in planetary aims to estimate the absolute pose of the UAV in the world coordinate system through satellite maps and images captured by on-board cameras. However, since planetary scenes…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Xubo Luo , Xue Wan , Yixing Gao , Yaolin Tian , Wei Zhang , Leizheng Shu

Recent advances in cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) methods have shown strong potential for supporting unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) navigation in GNSS-denied environments. However, existing work predominantly focuses on matching UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Kejia Liu , Haoyang Zhou , Ruoyu Xu , Peicheng Wang , Mingli Song , Haofei Zhang

Localization of low-cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) often relies on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). GNSS are susceptible to both natural disruptions to radio signal and intentional jamming and spoofing by an adversary. A…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Jouko Kinnari , Francesco Verdoja , Ville Kyrki

Visual localization in large-scale UAV scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous systems, yet it remains challenging due to geometric complexity and environmental variations. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Xiang Zhang , Tengfei Wang , Fang Xu , Xin Wang , Zongqian Zhan

Localization is one of the most important technologies needed to use Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in actual fields. Currently, most UAVs use GNSS to estimate their position. Recently, there have been attacks that target the weaknesses of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Junho Choi , Hyun Myung

The capabilities of autonomous flight with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have significantly increased in recent times. However, basic problems such as fast and robust geo-localization in GPS-denied environments still remain unsolved.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Shuxiao Chen , Xiangyu Wu , Mark W. Mueller , Koushil Sreenath

Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) have penetrated multiple domains over the past years. In GNSS-denied or indoor environments, aerial robots require a robust and stable localization system, often with external feedback, in order to fly…

The application of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) has been widely extended recently. It is crucial to ensure accurate latitude and longitude coordinates for UAVs, especially when the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are disrupted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Wenjia Xu , Yaxuan Yao , Jiaqi Cao , Zhiwei Wei , Chunbo Liu , Jiuniu Wang , Mugen Peng

Visual Place Recognition and Visual Localization are essential components in navigation and mapping for autonomous vehicles especially in GNSS-denied navigation scenarios. Recent work has focused on ground or close to ground applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Michael Schleiss , Fahmi Rouatbi , Daniel Cremers

Aerial imagery and its direct application to visual localization is an essential problem for many Robotics and Computer Vision tasks. While Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are the standard default solution for solving the aerial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ivan Moskalenko , Anastasiia Kornilova , Gonzalo Ferrer

Autonomous landing in cluttered or unstructured environments remains a safety-critical challenge for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), particularly under noisy perception caused by sensor uncertainty and platform-induced disturbances such as…

Conventional autonomous Unmanned Air Vehicle (abbr. UAV) autopilot systems use Global Navigation Satellite System (abbr. GNSS) signal for navigation. However, autopilot systems fail to navigate due to lost or jammed GNSS signal. To solve…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Rokas Jurevičius , Virginijus Marcinkevičius , Justinas Šeibokas

We propose a new method named LoD-Loc for visual localization in the air. Unlike existing localization algorithms, LoD-Loc does not rely on complex 3D representations and can estimate the pose of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Juelin Zhu , Shen Yan , Long Wang , Shengyue Zhang , Yu Liu , Maojun Zhang

The vision-based geo-localization technology for UAV, serving as a secondary source of GPS information in addition to the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), can still operate independently in the GPS-denied environment. Recent deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Yuxiang Ji , Boyong He , Zhuoyue Tan , Liaoni Wu

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) rely on satellite systems for stable positioning. However, due to limited satellite coverage or communication disruptions, UAVs may lose signals from satellite-based positioning systems. In such situations,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Ming Dai , Enhui Zheng , Zhenhua Feng , Jiedong Zhuang , Wankou Yang

The vision of unmanned aerial vehicles is very significant for UAV-related applications such as search and rescue, landing on a moving platform, etc. In this work, we have developed an integrated system for the UAV landing on the moving…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kangcheng Liu

The paper discusses a novel vision-based estimation and control approach to enable fully autonomous tracking and landing of vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) capable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) on moving platforms without relying on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Bochan Lee , Vishnu Saj , Moble Benedict , Dileep Kalathil

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have increasingly been adopted for safety, security, and rescue missions, for which they need precise and reliable pose estimates relative to their environment. To ensure mission safety when relying on visual…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-09-19 Chengyao Li , Steven L. Waslander

Autonomous maritime surveillance and target vessel identification in environments where Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are not available is critical for a number of applications such as search and rescue and threat detection.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Antonella Barisic Kulas , Frano Petric , Stjepan Bogdan