GrabVG is a visual grounding framework for UAV imagery that tackles the challenges of small, densely packed, and visually similar objects. It splits the task into preattentive hypothesis search and graph‑attentive feature binding, using distillation‑guided proposals and a sparse graph to capture intra‑ and inter‑instance relationships. Experiments on AerialVG and AerialSense show that GrabVG achieves higher accuracy and speed, outperforming baselines by significant margins.
By Chaowei Wang, Yan Di, Jingjun Sun, Baozhe Liu, Jiaxu Tian, Yuheng Li, Guangqian Guo, Shan Gao
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
UniGeo is a multimodal large language model designed for text-guided drone geo‑localization, enabling the identification of target regions in large image galleries from natural‑language descriptions. It integrates geo‑semantic understanding, cross‑view semantic generation, and candidate‑level verification within a shared vision‑language framework, establishing stable correspondences among local scene elements, spatial relations, and language. A multi‑stage training strategy progressively refines geo‑semantic learning, cross‑view mapping, and fine‑grained verification, yielding significant performance gains on GeoText‑1652, with R@10 and mAP improvements of 13.59 and 2.83 percentage points respectively.
By Jiahao Wen, Hang Yu, Zhedong Zheng
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.
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:2609.07780v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Automated drone surveillance has become increasingly important for public safety, critical infrastructure protection,and restricted airspace monito...
By Ami Pandat, Rajasekhar Punna, Gopika Vinod, Rohit Shukla
AerialDojo-200K is a large-scale benchmark suite for open-world aerial object-goal search, featuring 42 simulation scenes across four families and 21 types, including urban, natural, infrastructure, and disaster environments. The dataset contains 205,732 task instances—over 100K semantic-goal and over 100K image-goal tasks—each with a collision-free reference trajectory and multi-view video recordings. A unified evaluation framework splits scenes into 21 in-distribution and 21 out-of-distribution sets, and preliminary tests on multimodal large language models show significant room for improvement in general-purpose aerial agents.
By Tongtong Feng, Xin Wang, Haoran Hou, Ren Wang, Weiran Wang, Shaokai Zhu, Ziqi Jia, Hao Wang, Yu-Wei Zhan, Zongyuan Wu, Jinghao Cui, Wenwu Zhu
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:2608.27971v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) multimodal perception integrates visible (RGB), infrared (IR), synthetic aperture radar (SAR), and depth sensors for scen...
By Jingpu Yang, Debin Tang, Yilin Sun, Fengxian Ji, Jiahua Zhu, Wenrui Ding, Yufeng Wang
arXiv:2609.24539v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-modal object Re-Identification (ReID) benefits from complementary information across heterogeneous imaging modalities. To further enrich semantic...
By Weixiang Zhou, Yuhao Wang, Xingguo Xu, Weizhen Zhou, Zhixun Su, Jinshan Pan, Cong Wang
Cross-view object geo-localization (CVOGL) locates a target in satellite imagery using drone or street-view queries. Existing methods train separate detectors for each viewpoint, leading to parameter...
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