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Accurate localization using visual information is a critical yet challenging task, especially in urban environments where nearby buildings and construction sites significantly degrade GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) signal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xiaofan Li , Zhihao Xu , Chenming Wu , Zhao Yang , Yumeng Zhang , Jiang-Jiang Liu , Haibao Yu , Fan Duan , Xiaoqing Ye , Yuan Wang , Shirui Li , Xun Sun , Ji Wan , Jun Wang

Localization without Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) is a critical functionality in autonomous operations of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Vision-based localization on a known map can be an effective solution, but it is…

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

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

Existing approaches to drone visual geo-localization predominantly adopt the image-based setting, where a single drone-view snapshot is matched with images from other platforms. Such task formulation, however, underutilizes the inherent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Hao Ju , Shaofei Huang , Si Liu , Zhedong Zheng

This paper addresses the task of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) visual geo-localization, which aims to match images of the same geographic target taken by different platforms, i.e., UAVs and satellites. In general, the key to achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Shishen Li , Cuiwei Liu , Huaijun Qiu , Zhaokui Li

UAV tracking can be widely applied in scenarios such as disaster rescue, environmental monitoring, and logistics transportation. However, existing UAV tracking methods predominantly emphasize speed and lack exploration in semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xinyu Zhou , Tongxin Pan , Lingyi Hong , Pinxue Guo , Haijing Guo , Zhaoyu Chen , Kaixun Jiang , Wenqiang Zhang

Cross-view geo-localization is the problem of estimating the position and orientation (latitude, longitude and azimuth angle) of a camera at ground level given a large-scale database of geo-tagged aerial (e.g., satellite) images. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-11 Yujiao Shi , Xin Yu , Dylan Campbell , Hongdong Li

UAVs have been widely used in visual inspections of buildings, bridges and other structures. In either outdoor autonomous or semi-autonomous flights missions strong GPS signal is vital for UAV to locate its own positions. However, strong…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Zhexiong Shang , Zhigang Shen

Absolute Visual Localization (AVL) enables an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) to determine its position in GNSS-denied environments by establishing geometric relationships between UAV images and geo-tagged reference maps. While many previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yibin Ye , Xichao Teng , Shuo Chen , Leqi Liu , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Zhang Li

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) between UAV imagery and satellite images plays a crucial role in target localization and UAV self-positioning. However, most existing methods rely on the idealized assumption of scale consistency between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yibin Ye , Shuo Chen , Kun Wang , Xiaokai Song , Jisheng Dang , Qifeng Yu , Xichao Teng , Zhang Li

Absolute localization, aiming to determine an agent's location with respect to a global reference, is crucial for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in various applications, but it becomes challenging when global navigation satellite system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Xiangkai Zhang , Xiang Zhou , Mao Chen , Yuchen Lu , Xu Yang , Zhiyong Liu

Drone-view geo-localization aims to match a query drone image, often captured under adverse weather conditions (e.g., rain, snow, fog), against a gallery of geo-tagged satellite images. Weather-induced degradations in the drone view, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yunsong Fang , Tingyu Wang , Zhedong Zheng

Cross-view geo-localization is a task of matching the same geographic image from different views, e.g., unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and satellite. The most difficult challenges are the position shift and the uncertainty of distance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Ming Dai , Jianhong Hu , Jiedong Zhuang , Enhui Zheng

Localization of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) relies heavily on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which are susceptible to interference. Especially in security applications, robust localization algorithms independent…

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

Research in the field of autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has significantly advanced in recent years, mainly due to their relevance in a large variety of commercial, industrial, and military applications. However, UAV navigation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-03 Akkas Haque , Ahmed Elsaharti , Tarek Elderini , Mohamed Atef Elsaharty , Jeremiah Neubert

This paper presents a novel approach for localising a GPS (Global Positioning System)-denied Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) with the aid of a GPS-equipped UAV in three-dimensional space. The GPS-equipped UAV makes discrete-time broadcasts of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-24 James Russell , Mengbin Ye , Brian D. O. Anderson , Hatem Hmam , Peter Sarunic

Cross-view geo-localization aims to spot images of the same location shot from two platforms, e.g., the drone platform and the satellite platform. Existing methods usually focus on optimizing the distance between one embedding with others…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-11 Tingyu Wang , Zhedong Zheng , Zunjie Zhu , Yuhan Gao , Yi Yang , Chenggang Yan

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) object detection plays a vital role in applications such as environmental monitoring and urban security. To improve robustness, recent studies have explored multimodal detection by fusing visible (RGB) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Liu Zongzhen , Luo Hui , Wang Zhixing , Wei Yuxing , Zuo Haorui , Zhang Jianlin

The integration of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGVs) is increasingly central to the development of intelligent autonomous systems for applications such as search and rescue, environmental monitoring, and…

Domain adaptation is an inspiring solution to the misalignment issue of day/night image features for nighttime UAV tracking. However, the one-step adaptation paradigm is inadequate in addressing the prevalent difficulties posed by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Haobo Zuo , Changhong Fu , Guangze Zheng , Liangliang Yao , Kunhan Lu , Jia Pan