Scale-adaptive UAV Geo-localization via Height-aware Partition Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Quan, Wang, Tingyu, Lu, Rongfeng, Liu, Yu, Zheng, Bolun, Zheng, Zhedong
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author Chen, Quan
Wang, Tingyu
Lu, Rongfeng
Liu, Yu
Zheng, Bolun
Zheng, Zhedong
author_facet Chen, Quan
Wang, Tingyu
Lu, Rongfeng
Liu, Yu
Zheng, Bolun
Zheng, Zhedong
contents UAV Geo-Localization faces significant challenges due to the drastic appearance discrepancy between dronecaptured images and satellite views. Existing methods typically assume a consistent scaling factor across views and rely on predefined partition alignment to extract viewpoint-invariant representations through part-level feature construction. However, this scaling assumption often fails in real-world scenarios, where variations in drone flight states lead to scale mismatches between cross-view images, resulting in severe performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a scale-adaptive partition learning framework that leverages known drone flight height to predict scale factors and dynamically adjust feature extraction. Our key contribution is a height-aware adjustment strategy, which calculates the relative height ratio between drone and satellite views, dynamically adjusting partition sizes to explicitly align semantic information between partition pairs. This strategy is integrated into a Scale-adaptive Local Partition Network (SaLPN), building upon an existing square partition strategy to extract both finegrained and global features. Additionally, we propose a saliencyguided refinement strategy to enhance part-level features, further improving retrieval accuracy. Extensive experiments validate that our height-aware, scale-adaptive approach achieves stateof-the-art geo-localization accuracy in various scale-inconsistent scenarios and exhibits strong robustness against scale variations. The code will be made publicly available.
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spellingShingle Scale-adaptive UAV Geo-localization via Height-aware Partition Learning
Chen, Quan
Wang, Tingyu
Lu, Rongfeng
Liu, Yu
Zheng, Bolun
Zheng, Zhedong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
UAV Geo-Localization faces significant challenges due to the drastic appearance discrepancy between dronecaptured images and satellite views. Existing methods typically assume a consistent scaling factor across views and rely on predefined partition alignment to extract viewpoint-invariant representations through part-level feature construction. However, this scaling assumption often fails in real-world scenarios, where variations in drone flight states lead to scale mismatches between cross-view images, resulting in severe performance degradation. To address this issue, we propose a scale-adaptive partition learning framework that leverages known drone flight height to predict scale factors and dynamically adjust feature extraction. Our key contribution is a height-aware adjustment strategy, which calculates the relative height ratio between drone and satellite views, dynamically adjusting partition sizes to explicitly align semantic information between partition pairs. This strategy is integrated into a Scale-adaptive Local Partition Network (SaLPN), building upon an existing square partition strategy to extract both finegrained and global features. Additionally, we propose a saliencyguided refinement strategy to enhance part-level features, further improving retrieval accuracy. Extensive experiments validate that our height-aware, scale-adaptive approach achieves stateof-the-art geo-localization accuracy in various scale-inconsistent scenarios and exhibits strong robustness against scale variations. The code will be made publicly available.
title Scale-adaptive UAV Geo-localization via Height-aware Partition Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11535