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UniABG: Unified Adversarial View Bridging and Graph Correspondence for Unsupervised Cross-View Geo-Localization

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Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) matches query images ($\textit{e.g.}$, drone) to geographically corresponding opposite-view imagery ($\textit{e.g.}$, satellite). While supervised methods achieve strong performance, their reliance on extensive pairwise annotations limits scalability. Unsupervised alternatives avoid annotation costs but suffer from noisy pseudo-labels due to intrinsic cross-view domain gaps. To address these limitations, we propose $\textit{UniABG}$, a novel dual-stage unsupervised cross-view geo-localization framework integrating adversarial view bridging with graph-based correspondence calibration. Our approach first employs View-Aware Adversarial Bridging (VAAB) to model view-invariant features and enhance pseudo-label robustness. Subsequently, Heterogeneous Graph Filtering Calibration (HGFC) refines cross-view associations by constructing dual inter-view structure graphs, achieving reliable view correspondence. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art unsupervised performance, showing that UniABG improves Satellite $\rightarrow$ Drone AP by +10.63\% on University-1652 and +16.73\% on SUES-200, even surpassing supervised baselines. The source code is available at https://github.com/chenqi142/UniABG

Cuiqun Chen, Qi Chen, Bin Yang, Xingyi Zhang• 2025

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TaskDatasetResultRank
Cross-view geo-localizationUniversity-1652 Drone -> Satellite
R@193.62
94
Cross-view geo-localizationUniversity-1652 Satellite -> Drone
R@195.43
81
Satellite→Drone Geo-localizationSUES-200 200m
R@198.75
36
Satellite→Drone Geo-localizationSUES-200 250m
R@198.07
36
Drone-to-Satellite Cross-view Geo-localizationSUES-200 150m
R@192.4
25
Satellite-to-Drone cross-view geolocalizationLO-UCV
Recall@154.55
14
Drone-to-Satellite cross-view geolocalizationLO-UCV
Recall@151.54
14
Satellite-to-Drone Geo-localizationSUES-200 altitude (150m)
R@198.75
13
Cross-view Geo-localization (Satellite to Drone)SUES-200 250m altitude
R@1100
8
Cross-view Geo-localization (Drone to Satellite)SUES-200 300m altitude
R@198.67
8
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