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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

Image-based localization in GNSS-denied environments is critical for UAV autonomy. Existing state-of-the-art approaches rely on matching UAV images to geo-referenced satellite images; however, they typically require large-scale, paired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Tristan Amadei , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Gabriele Facciolo

We present a novel control strategy for a team of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to autonomously achieve a desired formation using only visual feedback provided by the UAV's onboard cameras. This effectively eliminates the need for global…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Kaveh Fathian , Emily Doucette , J. Willard Curtis , Nicholas R. Gans

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) visual geo-localization aims to match images of the same geographic target captured from different views, i.e., the UAV view and the satellite view. It is very challenging due to the large appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Cuiwei Liu , Jiahao Liu , Huaijun Qiu , Zhaokui Li , Xiangbin Shi

In this paper, we present a high-performing solution to the UAVM 2025 Challenge, which focuses on matching narrow FOV street-level images to corresponding satellite imagery using the University-1652 dataset. As panoramic Cross-View…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xiaohan Zhang , Tavis Shore , Chen Chen , Oscar Mendez , Simon Hadfield , Safwan Wshah

We present Prompt Diffusion, a framework for enabling in-context learning in diffusion-based generative models. Given a pair of task-specific example images, such as depth from/to image and scribble from/to image, and a text guidance, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Zhendong Wang , Yifan Jiang , Yadong Lu , Yelong Shen , Pengcheng He , Weizhu Chen , Zhangyang Wang , Mingyuan Zhou

Drivable Free-space prediction is a fundamental and crucial problem in autonomous driving. Recent works have addressed the problem by representing the entire non-obstacle road regions as the free-space. In contrast our aim is to estimate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Keshav Gupta , Tejas S. Stanley , Pranjal Paul , Arun K. Singh , K. Madhava Krishna

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

Considering the accelerated development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications in both industrial and research scenarios, there is an increasing need for localizing these aerial systems in non-urban environments, using GNSS-Free,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Marius-Mihail Gurgu , Jorge Peña Queralta , Tomi Westerlund

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

Air-ground integrated networks can relieve communication pressure on ground transportation networks and provide 6G-enabled vehicular Metaverses services offloading in remote areas with sparse RoadSide Units (RSUs) coverage and downtown…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yongju Tong , Jiawen Kang , Junlong Chen , Minrui Xu , Gaolei Li , Weiting Zhang , Xincheng Yan

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

Reliable positioning services are extremely important for users and devices in mountainous environments as it enables a variety of location-based applications. However, in such environments, the service reliability of conventional wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-11 Zijie Wang , Rongke Liu , Qirui Liu , Lincong Han

We present a novel method, Aerial Diffusion, for generating aerial views from a single ground-view image using text guidance. Aerial Diffusion leverages a pretrained text-image diffusion model for prior knowledge. We address two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-04 Divya Kothandaraman , Tianyi Zhou , Ming Lin , Dinesh Manocha

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

Diffusion models have attracted significant attention due to the remarkable ability to create content and generate data for tasks like image classification. However, the usage of diffusion models to generate the high-quality object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Kai Chen , Enze Xie , Zhe Chen , Yibo Wang , Lanqing Hong , Zhenguo Li , Dit-Yan Yeung

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

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

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

Autonomous driving requires an understanding of the static environment from sensor data. Learned Bird's-Eye View (BEV) encoders are commonly used to fuse multiple inputs, and a vector decoder predicts a vectorized map representation from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Thomas Monninger , Zihan Zhang , Zhipeng Mo , Md Zafar Anwar , Steffen Staab , Sihao Ding