UniABG: Unified Adversarial View Bridging and Graph Correspondence for Unsupervised Cross-View Geo-Localization
Cuiqun Chen, Qi Chen, Bin Yang, Xingyi Zhang
Abstract
Cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) matches query images (e.g., drone) to geographically corresponding opposite-view imagery (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 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 crossview 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 → 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
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