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Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) estimates a camera's location by matching a street-view image to geo-referenced overhead imagery, enabling GPS-denied localization and navigation. Existing methods almost universally formulate CVGL as an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Yunus Talha Erzurumlu , Jiyong Kwag , Alper Yilmaz

Cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the location of a query ground image by matching it to a reference geo-tagged aerial images database. As an extremely challenging task, its difficulties root in the drastic view changes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Xiaohan Zhang , Xingyu Li , Waqas Sultani , Yi Zhou , Safwan Wshah

Cross-view geo-localization aims at localizing a ground-level query image by matching it to its corresponding geo-referenced aerial view. In real-world scenarios, the task requires accommodating diverse ground images captured by users with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Mi , Chang Xu , Javiera Castillo-Navarro , Syrielle Montariol , Wen Yang , Antoine Bosselut , Devis Tuia

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

Cross-view image matching for geo-localisation is a challenging problem due to the significant visual difference between aerial and ground-level viewpoints. The method provides localisation capabilities from geo-referenced images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Tavis Shore , Simon Hadfield , Oscar Mendez

Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) in remote sensing aims to locate a drone-view query by matching it to geo-tagged satellite images. Although supervised methods have achieved strong results on closeset benchmarks, they often fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Jun Lu , Zehao Sang , Haoqi Wei , Xiangyun Liu , Kun Zhu , Haitao Guo , Zhihui Gong , Lei Ding

We propose an image-based cross-view geolocalization method that estimates the global pose of a UAV with the aid of georeferenced satellite imagery. Our method consists of two Siamese neural networks that extract relevant features despite…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-18 Akshay Shetty , Grace Xingxin Gao

Cross-view geo-localisation identifies coarse geographical position of an automated vehicle by matching a ground-level image to a geo-tagged satellite image from a database. Despite the advancements in Cross-view geo-localisation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-21 Barkin Dagda , Muhammad Awais , Saber Fallah

Cross-view geo-localisation (CVGL) aims to estimate the geographic location of a query image by matching it with images from a large-scale database. However, the significant view-point discrepancies present considerable challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Hualin Ye , Bingxi Liu , Jixiang Du , Yu Qin , Ziyi Chen , Hong Zhang

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) aims to establish spatial correspondences between images captured from significantly different viewpoints and constitutes a fundamental technique for visual localization in GNSS-denied environments.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hongying Zhang , ShuaiShuai Ma

Navigation and localization of UAVs present a challenge when global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are disrupted and unreliable. Traditional techniques, such as simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and visual odometry (VO),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Haoling Li , Jiuniu Wang , Zhiwei Wei , Wenjia Xu

Cross-view UAV geolocalization is fundamentally a challenging large-scale image retrieval task, aiming to determine the geographic coordinates of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) queries by matching them against an extensive geo-tagged…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Bowen Liu , Pengyue Jia , Wanyu Wang , Derong Xu , Jiawei Cheng , Jiancheng Dong , Xiao Han , Zimo Zhao , Chao Zhang , Bowen Yu , Fangyu Hong , Xiangyu Zhao

Geolocation is a fundamental component of route planning and navigation for unmanned vehicles, but GNSS-based geolocation fails under denial-of-service conditions. Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL), which aims to estimate the geographical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Jianwei Zhao , Qiang Zhai , Pengbo Zhao , Rui Huang , Hong Cheng

The task of UAV-view geo-localization is to estimate the localization of a query satellite/drone image by matching it against a reference dataset consisting of drone/satellite images. Though tremendous strides have been made in feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Jie Shao , LingHao Jiang

Cross-view geo-localization plays a critical role in Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) localization and navigation. However, significant challenges arise from the drastic viewpoint differences and appearance variations between images. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Hongyu Zhou , Yunzhou Zhang , Tingsong Huang , Fawei Ge , Man Qi , Xichen Zhang , Yizhong Zhang

Robot localization remains a challenging task in GPS denied environments. State estimation approaches based on local sensors, e.g. cameras or IMUs, are drifting-prone for long-range missions as error accumulates. In this study, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

To find the geolocation of a street-view image, cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) methods typically perform image retrieval on a database of georeferenced aerial images and determine the location from the visually most similar match. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based object detection is a critical but challenging task, when applied in dynamically changing scenarios with limited annotated training data. Layout-to-image generation approaches have proved effective in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Wenhao Li , Zimeng Wu , Yu Wu , Zehua Fu , Jiaxin Chen

With the rapid growth of the low-altitude economy, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become key platforms for measurement and tracking in intelligent patrol systems. However, in GNSS-denied environments, localization schemes that rely…

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

Efficient, accurate, and flexible relative localization is crucial in air-ground collaborative tasks. However, current approaches for robot relative localization are primarily realized in the form of distributed multi-robot SLAM systems…