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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

Despite significant progress in global localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in GPS-denied environments, existing methods remain constrained by the availability of datasets. Current datasets often focus on small-scale scenes and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Rouwan Wu , Xiaoya Cheng , Juelin Zhu , Xuxiang Liu , Maojun Zhang , Shen Yan

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), equipped with cameras, are employed in numerous applications, including aerial photography, surveillance, and agriculture. In these applications, robust object detection and tracking are essential for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Hui Ye , Rajshekhar Sunderraman , Shihao Ji

Mathematical reasoning is critical for tasks such as precise distance and area computations, trajectory estimations, and spatial analysis in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based remote sensing, yet current vision-language models (VLMs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yue Zhou , Litong Feng , Mengcheng Lan , Xue Yang , Qingyun Li , Yiping Ke , Xue Jiang , Wayne Zhang

In this paper, we present an autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) landing system based on visual navigation. We design the landmark as a topological pattern in order to enable the UAV to distinguish the landmark from the environment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Zhixin Wu , Peng Han , Ruiwen Yao , Lei Qiao , Weidong Zhang , Tielong Shen , Min Sun , Yilong Zhu , Ming Liu , Rui Fan

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

Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables agents to navigate in complex environments by following natural language instructions grounded in visual observations. Although most existing work has focused on ground-based robots or outdoor…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Xu Liu , Yu Liu , Hanshuo Qiu , Yang Qirong , Zhouhui Lian

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

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

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

We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

Ground to aerial matching is a crucial and challenging task in outdoor robotics, particularly when GPS is absent or unreliable. Structures like buildings or large dense forests create interference, requiring GNSS replacements for global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Christopher Klammer , Michael Kaess

Localization in a global map is critical to success in many autonomous robot missions. This is particularly challenging for multi-robot operations in unknown and adverse environments. Here, we are concerned with providing a small unmanned…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Gordon Christie , Garrett Warnell , Kevin Kochersberger

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

This paper proposes a novel method for vision-based metric cross-view geolocalization (CVGL) that matches the camera images captured from a ground-based vehicle with an aerial image to determine the vehicle's geo-pose. Since aerial images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Florian Fervers , Sebastian Bullinger , Christoph Bodensteiner , Michael Arens , Rainer Stiefelhagen

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

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

Accurate perception of UAVs in complex low-altitude environments is critical for airspace security and related intelligent systems. Developing reliable solutions requires large-scale, accurately annotated, and multimodal data. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Longkun Zou , Jiale Wang , Rongqin Liang , Hai Wu , Ke Chen , Yaowei Wang

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) offers lots of applications in both commerce and recreation. With this, monitoring the operation status of UAVs is crucially important. In this work, we consider the task of tracking UAVs, providing rich…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-09 Nan Jiang , Kuiran Wang , Xiaoke Peng , Xuehui Yu , Qiang Wang , Junliang Xing , Guorong Li , Jian Zhao , Guodong Guo , Zhenjun Han

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