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Beyond Local Refinement: Wide-Area Precise Cross-View Localization
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摘要
Fine-grained cross-view localization aims to precisely localize a ground camera against geo-referenced aerial imagery, but current methods typically assume a narrow geographic prior, substantially limiting their applicability when upstream localization remains coarse. To bridge this gap, we study this task over much larger aerial regions. However, this seemingly simple extension fundamentally changes the localization problem: the growing disparity in spatial extent between ground and aerial views makes reliable cross-view matching difficult to establish directly, while the increasing number of look-alike locations in larger regions introduces substantial visual ambiguity. To address these challenges, we propose RingMatch, a search-and-verification framework for wide-area cross-view localization. RingMatch first leverages predictive uncertainty to uncover plausible locations and progressively zooms into their surroundings to obtain increasingly fine-grained evidence, yielding a compact set of promising candidates. We then introduce the depth ring, a novel geometric representation that reveals subtle variations in the spatial layout around a location and serves as a view-shared spatial signature for an LVLM verifier to resolve residual ambiguity. To benchmark this setting, we construct VIGOR-Pro by composing VIGOR aerial tiles into contiguous regions with spatial extents of up to 400 m. Experiments show that RingMatch maintains strong localization performance as the aerial region expands, consistently outperforming representative end-to-end and retrieval-based methods.
作者备注：Project page: https://qghuxmu.github.io/RingMatch/
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Beyond Local Refinement: Wide-Area Precise Cross-View Localization
Fine-grained cross-view localization aims to precisely localize a ground camera against geo-referenced aerial imagery, but current methods typically assume a narrow geographic prior, substantially limiting their applicability when upstream localization remains coarse. To bridge this gap, we study this task over much larger aerial regions. However, this seemingly simple extension fundamentally changes the localization problem: the growing disparity in spatial extent between ground and aerial views makes reliable cross-view matching difficult to establish directly, while the increasing number of look-alike locations in larger regions introduces substantial visual ambiguity. To address these challenges, we propose RingMatch, a search-and-verification framework for wide-area cross-view localization. RingMatch first leverages predictive uncertainty to uncover plausible locations and progressively zooms into their surroundings to obtain increasingly fine-grained evidence, yielding a compact set of promising candidates. We then introduce the depth ring, a novel geometric representation that reveals subtle variations in the spatial layout around a location and serves as a view-shared spatial signature for an LVLM verifier to resolve residual ambiguity. To benchmark this setting, we construct VIGOR-Pro by composing VIGOR aerial tiles into contiguous regions with spatial extents of up to 400 m. Experiments show that RingMatch maintains strong localization performance as the aerial region expands, consistently outperforming representative end-to-end and retrieval-based methods.
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