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ARXIV:2604.01747 · UAV GEO-LOCALIZATION · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.01747UAV GEO-LOCALIZATIONSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:50 UTCFRESHNESS STALEHaoyuan Li · Wen Yang · Fang Xu · Hong Tan · Haijian Zhang · Shengyang Li · +1 at arXiv
A geometry-aware framework for precise UAV geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments by unifying place recognition and pose estimation.
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A geometry-aware framework for precise UAV geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments by unifying place recognition and pose estimation. Most existing methods address this problem through a decoupled pipeline of place retrieval and pose estimation, implicitly…
Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing methods address this problem through…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. This BEV serves as a geometric intermediary that enables robust cross-view retrieval and provides spatial priors for accurate 3 Degrees of Freedom (3-DoF) pose…
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A geometry-aware framework for precise UAV geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments by unifying place recognition and pose estimation.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.01747A geometry-aware framework for precise UAV geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments by unifying place recognition and pose estimation.
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Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing methods address this problem through a decoupled pipeline of place retrieval and pose estimation, implicitly treating perspective distortion as appearance noise rather than an explicit geometric transformation. In this work, we propose a geometry-aware UAV geo-localization framework that explicitly models the 3D scene geometry to unify coarse place recognition and fine-grained pose estimation within a single inference pipeline. Our approach reconstructs a local 3D scene from multi-view UAV image sequences using a Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT), and renders a virtual Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representation that orthorectifies the UAV perspective to align with satellite imagery. This BEV serves as a geometric intermediary that enables robust cross-view retrieval and provides spatial priors for accurate 3 Degrees of Freedom (3-DoF) pose regression. To efficiently handle multiple location hypotheses, we introduce a Satellite-wise Attention Block that isolates the interaction between each satellite candidate and the reconstructed UAV scene, preventing inter-candidate interference while maintaining linear computational complexity. In addition, we release a recalibrated version of the University-1652 dataset with precise coordinate annotations and spatial overlap analysis, enabling rigorous evaluation of end-to-end localization accuracy. Extensive experiments on the refined University-1652 benchmark and SUES-200 demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, achieving robust meter-level localization accuracy and improved generalization in complex urban environments.
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A geometry-aware framework for precise UAV geo-localization in GNSS-denied environments by unifying place recognition and pose estimation. Most existing methods address this problem through a decoupled pipeline of place retrieval and pose estimation, implicitly treating perspect...
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Cross-view geo-localization for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) operating in GNSS-denied environments remains challenging due to the severe geometric discrepancy between oblique UAV imagery and orthogonal satellite maps. Most existing methods address this problem through a decou...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. This BEV serves as a geometric intermediary that enables robust cross-view retrieval and provides spatial priors for accurate 3 Degrees of Freedom (3-DoF) pose regression. Code availability is flagged in...
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UAV Geo-Localization moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Production flags indicate code availability.
unify coarse place recognition and fine-grained pose estimation within a single inference pipeline.
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Our approach reconstructs a local 3D scene from multi-view UAV image sequences using a Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT)
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we introduce a Satellite-wise Attention Block that isolates the interaction between each satellite candidate and the reconstructed UAV scene, preventing inter-candidate interference while maintaining linear computational complexity.
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Extensive experiments on the refined University-1652 benchmark and SUES-200 demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art baselines
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achieving robust meter-level localization accuracy and improved generalization in complex urban environments.
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we release a recalibrated version of the University-1652 dataset with precise coordinate annotations and spatial overlap analysis
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implicitly treating perspective distortion as appearance noise rather than an explicit geometric transformation.
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renders a virtual Bird's-Eye View (BEV) representation that orthorectifies the UAV perspective to align with satellite imagery.
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