AI RESEARCH

LSGS-Loc: Towards Robust 3DGS-Based Visual Localization for Large-Scale UAV Scenarios

arXiv CS.CV

ArXi:2604.05402v1 Announce Type: new Visual localization in large-scale UAV scenarios is a critical capability for autonomous systems, yet it remains challenging due to geometric complexity and environmental variations. While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising scene representation, existing 3DGS-based visual localization methods struggle with robust pose initialization and sensitivity to rendering artifacts in large-scale settings. To address these limitations, we propose LSGS-Loc, a novel visual localization pipeline tailored for large-scale 3DGS scenes. Specifically, we.