Drone navigation

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Syntology column: samples harvested from the paper's repositories and executed on synthesized fixtures; “ran” is not a correctness claim and does not order the table. A dash means no Syntology record for that paper, not a recorded non-run. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.

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Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

15 shown of 15 papers with code (40 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• University-1652: A Multi-view Multi-source Benchmark for Drone-based Geo-localization
  27 Feb 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 15 samples · 14 unverified
  To our knowledge, University-1652 is the first drone-based geo-localization dataset and enables two new tasks, i.
• Towards Natural Language-Guided Drones: GeoText-1652 Benchmark with Spatial Relation Matching
  21 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed
  Navigating drones through natural language commands remains challenging due to the dearth of accessible multi-modal datasets and the stringent precision requirements for aligning visual and textual data.
• Learning Visuomotor Policies for Aerial Navigation Using Cross-Modal Representations
  16 Sep 2019 2 repositories listed
  We analyze the rich latent spaces learned with our proposed representations, and show that the use of our cross-modal architecture significantly improves control policy performance as compared to end-to-end learning or…
• FM-Planner: Foundation Model Guided Path Planning for Autonomous Drone Navigation
  27 May 2025 1 repository listed
  Path planning is a critical component in autonomous drone operations, enabling safe and efficient navigation through complex environments.
• OmniStereo: Real-time Omnidireactional Depth Estimation with Multiview Fisheye Cameras
  1 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Fast and reliable omnidirectional 3D sensing is essential to many applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and drone navigation.
• Learning Generalizable Policy for Obstacle-Aware Autonomous Drone Racing
  6 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  This study serves as a stepping stone toward learning robust policies for obstacle-aware drone racing and general-purpose drone navigation in cluttered environments.
• SELP: Generating Safe and Efficient Task Plans for Robot Agents with Large Language Models
  28 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  We demonstrate the effectiveness and generalizability of SELP across different robot agents and tasks, including drone navigation and robot manipulation.
• Physical Passive Patch Adversarial Attacks on Visual Odometry Systems
  11 Jul 2022 1 repository listed
  While such perturbations are usually discussed as tailored to a specific input, a universal perturbation can be constructed to alter the model's output on a set of inputs.
• Joint Representation Learning and Keypoint Detection for Cross-view Geo-localization
  15 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Inspired by the human visual system for mining local patterns, we propose a new framework called RK-Net to jointly learn the discriminative Representation and detect salient Keypoints with a single Network.
• Adaptive Risk-Tendency: Nano Drone Navigation in Cluttered Environments with Distributional Reinforcement Learning
  28 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  Enabling the capability of assessing risk and making risk-aware decisions is essential to applying reinforcement learning to safety-critical robots like drones.
• A Transformer-Based Feature Segmentation and Region Alignment Method For UAV-View Geo-Localization
  23 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  However it still has some limitations, e.
• FBSNet: A Fast Bilateral Symmetrical Network for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation
  2 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  Specifically, FBSNet employs a symmetrical encoder-decoder structure with two branches, semantic information branch and spatial detail branch.
• Each Part Matters: Local Patterns Facilitate Cross-view Geo-localization
  26 Aug 2020 1 repository listed
  Existing methods usually concentrate on mining the fine-grained feature of the geographic target in the image center, but underestimate the contextual information in neighbor areas.
• Straight to Shapes++: Real-time Instance Segmentation Made More Accurate
  27 May 2019 1 repository listed
  The STS model can run at 35 FPS on a high-end desktop, but its accuracy is significantly worse than that of offline state-of-the-art methods.
• Drone Path-Following in GPS-Denied Environments using Convolutional Networks
  5 May 2019 1 repository listed
  his paper presents a simple approach for drone navigation to follow a predetermined path using visual input only without reliance on a Global Positioning System (GPS).

Syntology lines on 1 of the papers shown; no Syntology record for the others (a paper without an arXiv id cannot be joined to the graph, and absence from the graph layer is not a recorded non-run). “Ran” means the sample executed on a synthesized fixture, not that the paper's result was reproduced. Read from the graph 2026-09-24.