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  1. PiLoT v2: Pixel-to-Orthogonal Map Alignment for Free-view UAV Geo-localization

    Jun 30, 2026Xinyi Liu, Xiaoya Cheng, Rouwan Wu +4Cross-View Geo-LocalizationImage Matching

    National University of Defense Technology

  2. SemCityLoc: Aerial 6DoF Localization Using Semantic 3D City Models

    Jun 25, 2026Jingfeng Mao, Xuyang Chen, Qilin Zhang +6Map-Based LocalizationRobot Localization

    Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany · CV4DT, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom · Munich Center for Machine Learning, Munich, Germany +3

  3. OrthoTrack: Continuous 6-DoF UAV Trajectory Estimation Anchored in Public Orthophotos

    Jun 24, 2026Oussema Dhaouadi, Zuria Bauer, Johannes Michael Meier +3UAV NavigationCamera Pose Estimation

    ETH Zurich · TU Munich · University of Cambridge +2

  4. Route-Constrained Robust Fusion Estimation for MEMS/GNSS Integrated Navigation of Unmanned Ground Vehicles in GNSS Degraded Environments

    Jun 18, 2026Jingzhi Cui, Chao Zhang, Yuliang Mao +4Robot NavigationGNSS-Denied Localization

    State Key Laboratory of Precision Space-time Information Sensing Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Xiaomi Inc., Beijing, China

  5. Effective and Low-cost Lane-based Map Localization for Vehicle-Centric Route Generation

    Jun 15, 2026Hong-Shiang Lin, Jung-Hsin Chen, Yu-Luen Tzeng +4Autonomous Driving PlanningMap-Based Localization

    CSIE, NTPU, Taiwan · National Taipei University

  6. G2IA: Geometry-Guided Instance-Aware Retrieval and Refinement for Cross-Modal Place Recognition

    Jun 13, 2026Xianyun Jiao, Jingyi Xu, Zhongmiao Yan +2LiDAR Place RecognitionVisual Place Recognition

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · National University of Defense Technology

  7. SG2Loc: Sequential Visual Localization on 3D Scene Graphs

    Jun 10, 2026Nicole Damblon, Olga Vysotska, Federico Tombari +2Map-Based LocalizationRobot Localization

    1ETH Zurich · 2Google · 3TU Munich +1

  8. Fusing Satellite Imagery and Planimetric Maps for Cross-View Localization

    Jun 8, 2026Quang Long Ho Ngo, Zimin Xia, Alexandre AlahiMulti-Source Image FusionCross-View Geo-Localization

    1 ´Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

  9. Z-FLoc: Zero-Shot Floorplan Localization via Geometric Primitives

    Jun 3, 2026Ayumi Umemura, Toshinori Kuwahara, Marc Pollefeys +1Floor-Plan-Based Visual LocalizationCamera Pose Estimation

    ETH Zurich · Tohoku University

  10. Hierarchical Object Representation for Spatial Robot Perception: Points, Meshes, and Superquadrics

    Jun 1, 2026Ceng Zhang, Wan Su, Mohamed Samshad +23D Reconstruction3D SGG

    1National University of Singapore (NUS) · 2Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

  11. VLM-GLoc: Vision-Language Model Enhanced Monte Carlo Localization for Robust Semantic Global Localization in Cluttered Quasi-Static Environments

    May 28, 2026Shivendra Agrawal, Bradley HayesMap-Based LocalizationRobot Localization

    University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, Colorado, USA

  12. SceneAligner: 3D-Grounded Floorplan Localization in the Wild

    May 21, 2026Junhyeong Cho, Ruojin Cai, Hadar Averbuch-ElorFloor-Plan-Based Visual LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    Cornell University · Kempner Institute, Harvard University

  13. Towards Ubiquitous Mapping and Localization for Dynamic Indoor Environments

    May 18, 2026Halim Djerroud, Nico Steyn, Olivier Rabreau +2Simultaneous Localization and MappingDynamic Scene Reconstruction

    Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, LISV, 78140, Vélizy-Villacoublay, France. · Tshwane University of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering, Pretoria, South Africa

  14. Efficient Sparse-to-Dense Visual Localization via Compact Gaussian Scene Representation and Accelerated Dense Pose Estimation

    May 18, 2026Zizhuo Li, Songchu Deng, Linfeng Tang +13D Gaussian SplattingCamera Pose Estimation

    Electronic Information School, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China · School of Robotics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

  15. Road Maps as Free Geometric Priors: Weather-Invariant Drone Geo-Localization with GeoFuse

    May 14, 2026Yunsong Fang, Tingyu Wang, Zhedong ZhengCross-View Geo-LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    University of Macau, Macau SAR, China · Hangzhou Dianzi University, Hangzhou, China

  16. Offline-Online Hierarchical 3D Global Relocalization With Synthetic LiDAR Sensing and Descriptor-Space Retrieval

    May 8, 2026Jiahua Ren, Kai Shen, Muhua Zhang +1LiDAR LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    School of Electrical Engineering, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu 611756, China

  17. Dr-BA: Separable Optimization for Direct Radar Bundle Adjustment & Localization

    May 7, 2026Daniil Lisus, Cedric Le Gentil, Timothy D. BarfootSimultaneous Localization and MappingMap-Based Localization

    Robotics Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  18. egenioussBench: A New Dataset for Geospatial Visual Localisation

    May 6, 2026Phillipp Fanta-Jende, Francesco Vultaggio, Alexander Kern +2Cross-View Geo-LocalizationVisual Place Recognition

    Unit Assistive and Autonomous Systems, Center for Vision, Automation and Control, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria · Institute of Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany · Institute of Flight Guidance, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Brunswick, Germany

  19. ULF-Loc: Unbiased Landmark Feature for Robust Visual Localization with 3D Gaussian Splatting

    May 6, 2026Yingdong Gu, Shaocheng Yan, Zhenjun Zhao +43D Gaussian SplattingVisual Place Recognition

    Wuhan University · University of Zaragoza · The First Surveying and Mapping Institute of Hunan Province +1

  20. Depth-Guided Privacy-Preserving Visual Localization Using 3D Sphere Clouds

    May 1, 2026Heejoon Moon, Jongwoo Lee, Jeonggon Kim +1Camera Pose Estimation3D Scene Representation

    Department of Artificial Intelligence Hanyang Univeristy Seoul, Republic of Korea · Department of Electronic Engineering Hanyang Univeristy Seoul, Republic of Korea

  21. Learning-Based Hierarchical Scene Graph Matching for Robot Localization Leveraging Prior Maps

    Apr 30, 2026Nimrod Millenium Ndulue, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Matteo Giorgi +2Simultaneous Localization and MappingGraph Representation Learning

    Authors are with the Automation and Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), University of Luxembourg. Holger Voos is also associated with the Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. · Author is with the University of Pisa.

  22. Lights Out: A Nighttime UAV Localization Framework Using Thermal Imagery and Semantic 3D Maps

    Apr 29, 2026Ryan Allen, Melissa GreeffUAV NavigationGNSS-Denied Localization

    Robora Lab (www.roboralab.com), Queen’s University · affiliated with Ingenuity Labs Research Institute

  23. Robust Graph Matching through Semantic Relationship Generation for SLAM

    Apr 28, 2026David Perez-Saura, Jose Andres Millan-Romera, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas +3Simultaneous Localization and MappingGraph Matching

    Automation and Robotics Research Group, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, 1855 Luxembourg, Luxembourg · Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040, Spain (CVAR-UPM) at the Centre for Automation and Robotics (UPM-CSIC)

  24. COMPASS: COmpact Multi-channel Prior-map And Scene Signature for Floor-Plan-Based Visual Localization

    Apr 28, 2026Muhammad Shaheer, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Asier Bikandi-Noya +2Floor-Plan-Based Visual LocalizationCross-Modal Feature Matching

  25. Robust Localization for Autonomous Vehicles in Highway Scenes

    Apr 23, 2026Daqian Cheng, Xuchu Ding, Yujia Wu +2Autonomous Driving DatasetsAutonomous Driving

    Bot Auto · Archer Aviation · Prexa AI

  26. AsymLoc: Towards Asymmetric Feature Matching for Efficient Visual Localization

    Apr 10, 2026Mohammad Omama, Gabriele Berton, Eric Foxlin +1Visual Place RecognitionEdge Inference

    The University of Texas at Austin · Work done as a part of a summer internship at Amazon. · Amazon

  27. TreeLoc++: Robust 6-DoF LiDAR Localization in Forests with a Compact Digital Forest Inventory

    Mar 4, 2026Minwoo Jung, Dongjae Lee, Nived Chebrolu +3RoboticsLiDAR Localization

    Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India · Oxford Robotics Institute, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

  28. Graph-Loc: Robust Graph-Based LiDAR Pose Tracking with Compact Structural Map Priors under Low Observability and Occlusion

    Feb 9, 2026Wentao Zhao, Yihe Niu, Zikun Chen +4LiDAR LocalizationMap-Based Localization

    School of Automation and Intelligent Sensing, Institute of Medical Robotics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China · School of Mathematical Sciences Shanghai Jiao Tong University

  29. GeoBridge++: Fact-Guided Geo-Semantic Bridging for Unified Cross-View Geo-Localization

    Dec 2, 2025Zixuan Song, Jing Zhang, Di Wang +6Cross-View Geo-LocalizationGeospatial Representation Learning

    College of Computer Science and Technology and Key Laboratory of Symbolic Computation and Knowledge Engineering of Ministry of Education, Jilin University, Changchun 130012, China · Zhongguancun Academy, Beijing 100094, China · School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China +1

  30. Self-Localizing MIMO Beam Mapping with Continuously Evolving Channel Memory

    Nov 21, 2025Wangqian Chen, Junting Chen, Shuguang CuiWireless CommunicationsWireless Localization

    School of Science and Engineering, and the Shenzhen Future Network of Intelligence Institute (FNii-Shenzhen), The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518172, China