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ARXIV:2604.02241 · EMBODIED UAV TRACKING · SUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:30 UTC · FRESHNESS STALE
ARXIV:2604.02241EMBODIED UAV TRACKINGSUBMITTED 03 APR · 20:30 UTCFRESHNESS STALEQiyao Zhang · Shuhua Zheng · Jianli Sun · Chengxiang Li · Xianke Wu · Zihan Song · +3 at arXiv
Embodied UAV tracking system leveraging vision-language-action models for dynamic real-world scenarios.
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Embodied UAV tracking system leveraging vision-language-action models for dynamic real-world scenarios. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and continuous action generation…
Embodied visual tracking is crucial for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing complex real-world tasks. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and…
ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and continuous action generation capabilities.…
Embodied UAV Tracking moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
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10.48550/arXiv.2604.02241Embodied UAV tracking system leveraging vision-language-action models for dynamic real-world scenarios.
Abstract
Embodied visual tracking is crucial for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing complex real-world tasks. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and continuous action generation capabilities. To benchmark multimodal tracking in such environments, we construct a dedicated evaluation benchmark and a large-scale dataset encompassing over 890K frames, 176 tasks, and 85 diverse objects. Furthermore, to address temporal feature redundancy and the lack of spatial geometric priors in existing VLA models, we propose an improved VLA tracking model, UAV-Track VLA. Built upon the $π_{0.5}$ architecture, our model introduces a temporal compression net to efficiently capture inter-frame dynamics. Additionally, a parallel dual-branch decoder comprising a spatial-aware auxiliary grounding head and a flow matching action expert is designed to decouple cross-modal features and generate fine-grained continuous actions. Systematic experiments in the CARLA simulator validate the superior end-to-end performance of our method. Notably, in challenging long-distance pedestrian tracking tasks, UAV-Track VLA achieves a 61.76\% success rate and 269.65 average tracking frames, significantly outperforming existing baselines. Furthermore, it demonstrates robust zero-shot generalization in unseen environments and reduces single-step inference latency by 33.4\% (to 0.0571s) compared to the original $π_{0.5}$, enabling highly efficient, real-time UAV control. Data samples and demonstration videos are available at: https://github.com/Hub-Tian/UAV-Track\_VLA.
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Embodied UAV tracking system leveraging vision-language-action models for dynamic real-world scenarios. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and continuous action gen...
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Embodied visual tracking is crucial for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) executing complex real-world tasks. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and continuous action...
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ScienceToStartup currently rates this 7.0/10 on the public viability pass. In dynamic urban scenarios with complex semantic requirements, Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models show great promise due to their cross-modal fusion and continuous action generation capabilities. A publi...
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Embodied UAV Tracking moved forward this cycle; last verified April 2026. Public score 7.0/10. Implementation evidence is present through a linked repository.
Notably, in challenging long-distance pedestrian tracking tasks, UAV-Track VLA achieves a 61.76% success rate
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reduces single-step inference latency by 33.4% (to 0.0571s) compared to the original $π_{0.5}$
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our model introduces a temporal compression net to efficiently capture inter-frame dynamics
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we construct a dedicated evaluation benchmark and a large-scale dataset encompassing over 890K frames, 176 tasks, and 85 diverse objects
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The system relies heavily on simulation for evaluation which may not fully replicate real-world conditions
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the computational demands of processing continuous multimodal inputs could limit real-time effectiveness without significant hardware support
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UAV-Track VLA achieves a 61.76% success rate and 269.65 average tracking frames
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