arXiv:2607. 25524v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-satellite cross-view geo-localization matches UAV images against satellite imagery and has achieved impressive accuracy on clean (non-degraded) image benchmarks.
arXiv:2607.20116v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, diff...
Global visual localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) using remote-sensing reference maps has attracted increasing attention. However, acquisition-time and imaging-platform differences between UAV and reference imagery induce substantial cross-domain appearance and viewpoint shifts, challenging robust six-degree-of-freedom (6-DoF) pose estimation.
arXiv:2605. 14925v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Drone-view geo-localization aims to match a query drone image, often captured under adverse weather conditions (e.
OpenCVL is a large, open dataset for fine-grained cross-view localization, comprising 617,388 ground‑aerial image pairs from 41 European cities. It blends high‑end sensor data with diverse in‑the‑wild images and includes a curation framework to correct pose annotations, enabling reliable evaluation. The dataset also offers cross‑area and snowy test sets to probe generalization, and experiments show that adding noisy in‑the‑wild data improves model performance on clean tests.
Remote sensing images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and satellites are often degraded by adverse weather, illumination variation, and imaging artifacts, which may co-occur and jointly induce global distribution shifts and local structural corruption. Although All-in-One image restoration offers an appealing unified alternative to task-specific pipelines, existing methods still suffer from weak or implicit degradation cues and parameter redundancy caused by full-rank multi-expert designs with overlapping restoration behaviors.
The paper introduces DeformView, a wide‑baseline multi‑view dataset with pixel‑level annotations of geometric inconsistencies, and evaluates existing multi‑view consistency‑scoring methods, finding they transfer poorly to forensic localization tasks. To address this, the authors propose DEFECt3R, a lightweight learning‑based classifier that leverages cross‑view feature relationships and hard negative supervision to localize inconsistencies at the pixel level, achieving better performance and fewer false positives. Ablation studies confirm the importance of feature representations and correspondence quality for localization.
arXiv:2608.27971v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multimodal perception integrates visible (RGB), infrared (IR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and depth sensors for scen...
arXiv:2608. 15790v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Crevasse mapping from uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) imagery matters for glaciological research and for field safety in glaciated terrain.
CLSC DETR introduces a Cross Layer Local Support module that links final layer queries with intermediate layer candidates to gather complementary geometric evidence, improving localization quality estimation for small UAV objects. A Classification and Localization Consistency Calibration module then adjusts classification scores based on this quality and reliability, enhancing candidate ranking. The method yields a 1.5% AP and 2.0% AP$_{75}$ boost on VisDrone and consistent gains on UAVDT.
GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicles require occasional absolute position fixes to bound the drift of visual-inertial odometry. Cross-view image retrieval can provide such fixes, but raw appearance is sensitive to season, illumination, viewpoint, map age, and sensor modality.
arXiv:2608.22289v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) increasingly require robust visual localization in GNSS-denied environments. A common solution estimates UAV poses by m...
arXiv:2606. 27876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial intelligence is essential for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) perception, collaboration, and navigation.