The paper introduces AeroBelief, a dual‑layer semantic‑spatial belief mapping framework for aerial object goal navigation. It separates broad contextual plausibility (intuition layer) from target‑specific evidence (evidence layer) and fuses them into persistent spatial belief hotspots. The method also employs object‑conditioned visual reasoning and egocentric regional guidance, achieving state‑of‑the‑art success rates on the UAV‑ON benchmark.
By Jianqiang Xiao, Xiang Deng, Yuexuan Sun, Yanjin Wu, Wenbiao Yan, Liqiang Nie
arXiv:2607. 21400v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) enables embodied agents to follow natural-language instructions.
By Jiabin Lou, Haopeng Wang, Yuanshuai Wang, Xinyu Liu, Xuxin Lv, Yuxin Guo, Lei Huang, Rongye Shi, Wenjun Wu
The paper studies how open‑vocabulary segmentation models perform on UAV footage, focusing on temporal consistency of predictions. By linking frame‑wise outputs to persistent 3D voxels via metric fusion, the authors propose a voxel‑level evaluation that measures final agreement, Semantic Belief Drift, Observation Persistence, and uncertainty. Experiments on UAVid‑3D show that high overall agreement can mask instability when observations are sparse, and that persistence‑stratified analysis reveals greater disagreement for recurrent voxels while belief drift reduces with more evidence.
By Saurbh Singh Jamwal
arXiv:2609.08442v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Aerial Vision-and-Language Navigation requires drones to follow natural-language instructions and navigate through complex urban environments. Accura...
By Shanwei Fan, Bin Zhang, Zhiwei Xu, Yingxuan Teng, Siqi Dai, Lin Cheng, Guoliang Fan
arXiv:2608. 09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations.
By Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di Huang
In this paper, we tackle the Aerial Vision-and-Dialog Navigation (AVDN) task in the training-free setting for resource-efficient high-altitude UAV navigation. Naively applying MLLMs leads to unreliable navigation due to weak directional grounding and the lack of explicit spatial memory.
arXiv:2606. 14772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Aerial Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to actively perceive the environment and answer natural language questions.
By Wenhao Lu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Xiaofeng Wang, Xiaoran Zhang, Yatai Ji, Yong Zhao, Yue Hu, Yingzhen Nie, Jinlong Zhu, Zheng Zhu
arXiv:2606. 27876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial intelligence is essential for low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) perception, collaboration, and navigation.
By Haoyu Zhang, Meng Liu, Qianlong Xiang, Kun Wang, Yaowei Wang, Liqiang Nie
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:2607. 07737v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GNSS-denied unmanned aerial vehicles require occasional absolute position fixes to bound the drift of visual-inertial odometry.
By Natalia Trukhina, Vadim Vashkelis
arXiv:2607. 08359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation (VLN) enables UAV autonomous navigation in unknown environments by mapping language instructions to real-time visual inputs.
By Xueke Zhu, Qingyan Meng, Liutao Yu, Wei Zhang, Zhengyu Ma, Huihui Zhou, Yonghong Tian
GrabVG is a visual grounding framework for UAV imagery that tackles the challenges of small, densely packed, and visually similar objects by separating the task into preattentive hypothesis search and graph-attentive feature binding. It first generates a compact set of reliable object hypotheses using distillation-guided proposal induction and text-aware filtering, then constructs a sparse graph where language-guided visual cues and inter-instance topological relationships are jointly bound and propagated via graph attention. Experiments on AerialVG and AerialSense demonstrate that GrabVG achieves a strong accuracy–speed trade‑off, reaching 67.31% and 80.34% Acc@0.5 and outperforming baselines by 10.55 and 8.76 percentage points.