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Detecting changed regions in paired satellite images plays a key role in many remote sensing applications. The evolution of recent techniques could provide satellite images with very high spatial resolution (VHR) but made it challenging to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-08 Caijun Ren , Xiangyu Wang , Jian Gao , Huanhuan Chen

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

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

Cross-view video geo-localization (CVGL) aims to derive GPS trajectories from street-view videos by aligning them with aerial-view images. Despite their promising performance, current CVGL methods face significant challenges. These methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Manu S Pillai , Mamshad Nayeem Rizve , Mubarak Shah

The emerging drone aerial survey has the advantages of low cost, high efficiency, and flexible use. However, UAVs are often equipped with cheap POS systems and non-measurement cameras, and their flight attitudes are easily affected. How to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Jiageng Zhong , Ming Li , Jiangying Qin , Hanqi Zhang

Vision-and-Language (V+L) pre-training models have achieved tremendous success in recent years on various multi-modal benchmarks. However, the majority of existing models require pre-training on a large set of parallel image-text data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Mingyang Zhou , Licheng Yu , Amanpreet Singh , Mengjiao Wang , Zhou Yu , Ning Zhang

Image retrieval-based cross-view geo-localization (IRCVGL) aims to match images captured from significantly different viewpoints, such as satellite and street-level images. Existing methods predominantly rely on learning robust global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Xianwei Cao , Dou Quan , Shuang Wang , Ning Huyan , Wei Wang , Yunan Li , Licheng Jiao

Cross-view geo-spatial learning consists of two important tasks: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) and Cross-View Image Synthesis (CVIS), both of which rely on establishing geometric correspondences between ground and aerial views. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Yancheng Zhang , Xiaohan Zhang , Guangyu Sun , Zonglin Lyu , Safwan Wshah , Chen Chen

Cross-view localization aims to estimate the 3-DoF pose of a ground-view image by aligning it with aerial or satellite imagery. Existing methods typically address this task through direct regression or feature alignment in a shared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Panwang Xia , Qiong Wu , Lei Yu , Yi Liu , Mingtao Xiong , Xudong Lu , Yi Liu , Haoyu Guo , Yongxiang Yao , Junjian Zhang , Xiangyuan Cai , Hongwei Hu , Zhi Zheng , Yongjun Zhang , Yi Wan

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…

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

This paper explores the use of applying a deep learning approach for 3D object detection to compute the relative position of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) from an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) equipped with a LiDAR sensor in a GPS-denied…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Uthman Olawoye , Jason N. Gross

The visual entities in cross-view images exhibit drastic domain changes due to the difference in viewpoints each set of images is captured from. Existing state-of-the-art methods address the problem by learning view-invariant descriptors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Krishna Regmi , Mubarak Shah

In this paper we present a novel unsupervised representation learning approach for 3D shapes, which is an important research challenge as it avoids the manual effort required for collecting supervised data. Our method trains an RNN-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-08 Zhizhong Han , Mingyang Shang , Yu-Shen Liu , Matthias Zwicker

Visual navigation with an image as goal is a fundamental and challenging problem. Conventional methods either rely on end-to-end RL learning or modular-based policy with topological graph or BEV map as memory, which cannot fully model the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wenxuan Guo , Xiuwei Xu , Hang Yin , Ziwei Wang , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Cross-view geo-localization aims to estimate the GPS location of a query ground-view image by matching it to images from a reference database of geo-tagged aerial images. To address this challenging problem, recent approaches use panoramic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Xiaohan Zhang , Waqas Sultani , Safwan Wshah

UAVs play an important role in applications such as autonomous exploration, disaster response, and infrastructure inspection. However, UAV VLN in complex 3D environments remains challenging. A key difficulty is the structural representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Wen Jiang , Kangyao Huang , Li Wang , Wang Xu , Wei Fan , Jinyuan Liu , Shaoyu Liu , Hanfang Liang , Hongwei Duan , Bin Xu , Xiangyang Ji

Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) has been widely applied in fields such as robotic navigation and augmented reality. Existing approaches primarily use single images or fixed-view image sequences as queries, which limits perspective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Qiong Wu , Panwang Xia , Lei Yu , Yi Liu , Mingtao Xiong , Liheng Zhong , Jingdong Chen , Ming Yang , Yongjun Zhang , Yi Wan

Compared with existing vehicle re-identification (ReID) tasks conducted with datasets collected by fixed surveillance cameras, vehicle ReID for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is still under-explored and could be more challenging. Vehicles…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Aihuan Yao , Jiahao Qi , Ping Zhong

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offer timely and cost-effective delivery of high-quality sensing data. How- ever, deciding when and where to take measurements in complex environments remains an open challenge. To address this issue, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Marija Popovic , Teresa Vidal-Calleja , Gregory Hitz , Inkyu Sa , Roland Siegwart , Juan Nieto