VoxelFix is a graph‑based post‑hoc semantic correction method that refines voxel labels in completed 3D voxel maps while preserving their geometry and occupancy. It learns to correct errors by exploiting local geometry and neighboring semantic information, using training pairs generated by corrupting annotated maps with class confusions from upstream perception pipelines. Experiments on OccuFly maps show consistent improvements of 4.23–5.00 percentage points in mIoU, especially for tree, roof, and wall classes, and the method generalizes to out‑of‑distribution aerial scenes.
By Sunesh Praveen Raja Sundarasami, Taehyoung Kim, Johannes Scherer, Toma\v{z} Coti\v{c}, Sivasubiramaniam Subbiah, Andreas Greiner, Paul Spannaus, Sebastian Houben
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:2606. 06147v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have shown promise in UAV navigation.
By Shengtao Zheng, Kai Li, Weichen Zhang, Yu Meng, Chen Gao, Xinlei Chen, Yong Li, Xiao-Ping Zhang
The paper introduces VertiCue-Bench, a diagnostic benchmark designed to test whether multimodal large language models (MLLMs) can perceive, ground, and utilize vertical structure information in remote-sensing natural scenes. It presents a three-stage framework—Perception, Grounding, Utilization—and a Representation Intervention Spectrum across various modalities to evaluate ten state-of-the-art models. The study finds a significant Vertical Structure Utilization Gap: while models show some geometric perception, they struggle to accurately link vertical evidence to spatial entities and incorporate it into semantic decisions.
By Jing Huang, Duanchu Wang, Junjie Yang, Zihang Cheng, Cheng Li, Lin Cui, Zhouyi Wu, Di Wang
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: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