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| author | Yuan, Jiayu Dai, Ming Zheng, Enhui Su, Chao Chen, Nanxing Hu, Qiming Zhu, Shibo Cao, Yibin |
| author_facet | Yuan, Jiayu Dai, Ming Zheng, Enhui Su, Chao Chen, Nanxing Hu, Qiming Zhu, Shibo Cao, Yibin |
| contents | Vision-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) localization systems have been extensively investigated for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments. However, existing retrieval-based approaches face limitations in dataset availability and persistent challenges including suboptimal real-time performance, environmental sensitivity, and limited generalization capability, particularly in dynamic or temporally varying environments. To overcome these limitations, we present a large-scale Multi-Altitude Flight Segments dataset (MAFS) for variable altitude scenarios and propose a novel Semantic-Weighted Adaptive Particle Filter (SWA-PF) method. This approach integrates robust semantic features from both UAV-captured images and satellite imagery through two key innovations: a semantic weighting mechanism and an optimized particle filtering architecture. Evaluated using our dataset, the proposed method achieves 10x computational efficiency gain over feature extraction methods, maintains global positioning errors below 10 meters, and enables rapid 4 degree of freedom (4-DoF) pose estimation within seconds using accessible low-resolution satellite maps. Code and dataset will be available at https://github.com/YuanJiayuuu/SWA-PF. |
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| spellingShingle | SWA-PF: Semantic-Weighted Adaptive Particle Filter for Memory-Efficient 4-DoF UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments Yuan, Jiayu Dai, Ming Zheng, Enhui Su, Chao Chen, Nanxing Hu, Qiming Zhu, Shibo Cao, Yibin Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vision-based Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) localization systems have been extensively investigated for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environments. However, existing retrieval-based approaches face limitations in dataset availability and persistent challenges including suboptimal real-time performance, environmental sensitivity, and limited generalization capability, particularly in dynamic or temporally varying environments. To overcome these limitations, we present a large-scale Multi-Altitude Flight Segments dataset (MAFS) for variable altitude scenarios and propose a novel Semantic-Weighted Adaptive Particle Filter (SWA-PF) method. This approach integrates robust semantic features from both UAV-captured images and satellite imagery through two key innovations: a semantic weighting mechanism and an optimized particle filtering architecture. Evaluated using our dataset, the proposed method achieves 10x computational efficiency gain over feature extraction methods, maintains global positioning errors below 10 meters, and enables rapid 4 degree of freedom (4-DoF) pose estimation within seconds using accessible low-resolution satellite maps. Code and dataset will be available at https://github.com/YuanJiayuuu/SWA-PF. |
| title | SWA-PF: Semantic-Weighted Adaptive Particle Filter for Memory-Efficient 4-DoF UAV Localization in GNSS-Denied Environments |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13795 |