arXiv:2606. 30576v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) aims to locate a target object from a query view (e.
By Liyao Wang, Ruipu Wu, Haojun Xu, Lei Shi, Linjiang Huang, Si Liu
arXiv:2608. 20056v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are now standard in most consumer devices, such as smartphones, drones, and extended reality (XR) headsets.
By Marcus Valtonen \"Ornhag, Alberto Jaenal, Stefan Adalbj\"ornsson
Monocular depth estimation is a fundamental prerequisite for 3D reconstruction and autonomous navigation in Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). In practical deployments, UAVs operate under highly dynamic camera poses characterized by continuous variations in height, pitch, roll, and field of view (FOV).
The paper explores a synthetic-first training approach for detecting drones in medium- and long-wave infrared imagery, combining synthetic scene generation with fine-tuning on real data. It demonstrates that synthetic data can establish initial object representations, but real infrared data is crucial to close domain gaps and improve reliability. The study finds that aligning datasets has a greater impact on performance than increasing model size, and that semantic alignment in feature space is the strongest predictor of success, with radiometric factors like entropy and dynamic range also contributing.
By Tanel Liiv, Sander Soodla, Nzamba Bignoumba, Alma M. Liezenga, Toomas Pruuden
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
arXiv:2511. 16624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present SAM 3D, a generative model for visually grounded 3D object reconstruction, predicting geometry, texture, and layout from a single image.
By SAM 3D Team, Xingyu Chen, Fu-Jen Chu, Pierre Gleize, Kevin J Liang, Alexander Sax, Hao Tang, Weiyao Wang, Michelle Guo, Thibaut Hardin, Xiang Li, Aohan Lin, Jiawei Liu, Ziqi Ma, Anushka Sagar, Bowen Song, Xiaodong Wang, Jianing Yang, Bowen Zhang, Piotr Doll\'ar, Georgia Gkioxari, Matt Feiszli, Jitendra Malik
arXiv:2608.25401v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Neural radiance fields (NeRFs), 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), and related novel-view synthesis methods are commonly evaluated under capture and reconst...
By Mary Raymond
arXiv:2606. 07708v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We introduce a dataset and benchmark for cross-view urban traffic perception built from synchronized ego-centric bicycle videos and aerial drone videos recorded at real urban intersections.
By Prakhar Bhardwaj, Simone Weikl, Kilian Mang, Elia Jonas Sandtner
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...
By Yibin Ye, Xichao Teng, Shuo Chen, Xiaokai Song, Dongdong Guan, Qifeng Yu, Zhang Li
arXiv:2606. 20045v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV Vision-Language Navigation (UAV-VLN) is typically formulated as a holistic search-and-reach problem, where long-range target discovery and final target approach are optimized and evaluated jointly.
By Fanfu Xue, En Yu, Yantian Shen, Zhikun Hu, Hongjun Wang, Yang Yang, Xindi Wang, Jiande Sun
arXiv:2608. 09270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained cross-modal understanding in drone views is essential for aerial vision-language navigation.
By Jiahui Cui, Yan Zhao, Kan Wei, Enze Zhu, Peirong Zhang, Lei Wang, Yiru Wang
The paper introduces a model‑agnostic open‑set detection framework for air‑to‑air visual object detection on UAVs, addressing the limitations of closed‑set detectors under domain shifts and flight data corruption. It estimates semantic uncertainty through entropy modeling in the embedding space and employs spectral normalization and temperature scaling to improve open‑set discrimination. Experiments on the AOT aerial benchmark and real‑world flight tests show up to a 10% relative AUROC improvement over standard YOLO detectors, with background rejection further enhancing robustness without sacrificing accuracy.
By Spyridon Loukovitis, Anastasios Arsenos, Vasileios Karampinis, Athanasios Voulodimos