6 papers
ScalLoc: Continuous Oblique Thermal UAV Geo-Localization with a 2D Satellite Map
Xiaoran Zhang, Yu Liu, Jinyu Liang +1
Cross-modal Thermal Geo-localization (TG) provides an illumination-robust positioning solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-deni…
ScoutVLA: UAV-Centric Active Perception via a Dual-Expert VLA Model for Open-World Embodied Question Answering
Wenhao Lu, Zhengqiu Zhu, Xiaofeng Wang +7
Aerial Embodied Question Answering (EQA) requires Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to actively perceive the environment and answer natural language questions. Existing outdoor EQA s…
SCC-Loc: A Unified Semantic Cascade Consensus Framework for UAV Thermal Geo-Localization
Xiaoran Zhang, Yu Liu, Jinyu Liang +3
Cross-modal Thermal Geo-localization (TG) provides a robust, all-weather solution for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied environmen…
High-Quality and Efficient Turbulence Mitigation with Events
Xiaoran Zhang, Jian Ding, Yuxing Duan +4
Turbulence mitigation (TM) is highly ill-posed due to the stochastic nature of atmospheric turbulence. Most methods rely on multiple frames recorded by conventional cameras to capt…
DLW-CI: A Dynamic Likelihood-Weighted Cooperative Infotaxis Approach for Multi-Source Search in Urban Environments Using Consumer Drone Networks
Xiaoran Zhang, Yatai Ji, Yong Zhao +3
Consumer-grade drones equipped with low-cost sensors have emerged as a cornerstone of Autonomous Intelligent Systems (AISs) for environmental monitoring and hazardous substance det…
L2RSI: Cross-view LiDAR-based Place Recognition for Large-scale Urban Scenes via Remote Sensing Imagery
Ziwei Shi, Xiaoran Zhang, Wenjing Xu +4
We tackle the challenge of LiDAR-based place recognition, which traditionally depends on costly and time-consuming prior 3D maps. To overcome this, we first construct LiRSI-XA data…