Despite significant progress in global localization of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in GPS-denied environments, existing methods remain constrained by the availability of datasets. Current datasets often focus on small-scale scenes and lack viewpoint variability, accurate ground truth (GT) pose, and UAV build-in sensor data. To address these limitations, we introduce a large-scale 6-DoF UAV dataset for localization (UAVD4L) and develop a two-stage 6-DoF localization pipeline (UAVLoc), which consists of offline synthetic data generation and online visual localization. Additionally, based on the 6-DoF estimator, we design a hierarchical system for tracking ground target in 3D space. Experimental results on the new dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/RingoWRW/UAVD4L
UAV-VisLoc: A Large-scale Dataset for UAV Visual Localization
Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Planetary UAV localization based on Multi-modal Registration with Pre-existing Digital Terrain Model
Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空间应用工程与技术中心）；Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Scale-Aware UAV-to-Satellite Cross-View Geo-Localization: A Semantic Geometric Approach
College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology（航天工程学院，国防科技大学）；Hunan Provincial Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Vision Navigation（湖南省图像测量与视觉导航重点实验室）；School of Information Science and Engineering, Lanzhou University（信息科学与工程学院，兰州大学）
Structure-Aware Matching for Robust UAV Thermal-to-Satellite Geo-Localization
State Key Laboratory of Spatial Datum, Henan University（河南大学空间数据基准国家重点实验室）；College of Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics Engineering, Henan University（河南大学遥感与地理信息工程学院）；School of Computer and Information Engineering, Henan University（河南大学计算机与信息工程学院）；Henan Yunhuan NetLink UAV Technology Co., Ltd.（河南云环网联无人机科技有限公司）
Drone Referring Localization: An Efficient Heterogeneous Spatial Feature Interaction Method For UAV Self-Localization
School of Automation, Southeast University（东南大学自动化学院）；Unmanned System Application Technology Research Institute, China Jiliang University（中国计量大学无人系统应用技术研究院）；School of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, Jiangnan University（江南大学人工智能与计算机学院）；School of Computer Science, Southeast University（东南大学计算机科学学院）
ReLATE: Reliability-Guided Evidence Fusion for Robust UAV--Satellite cross-view Geo-Localization
School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology（哈尔滨工业大学电子与信息工程学院）；National Key Laboratory of Radar Detection and Sensing, Nanjing Research Institute of Electronics Technology（南京电子技术研究所雷达探测与感知国家重点实验室）；School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Manchester（曼彻斯特大学电气与电子工程学院）
Beyond Matching to Tiles: Bridging Unaligned Aerial and Satellite Views for Vision-Only UAV Navigation
College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University（浙江大学计算机科学与技术学院）；State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University（浙江大学区块链与数据安全全国重点实验室）；Hangzhou High-Tech Zone (Binjiang) Institute of Blockchain and Data Security（杭州高新区（滨江）区块链与数据安全研究院）
NeuroLoc: Encoding Navigation Cells for 6-DOF Camera Localization
Software Engineering Institute, East China Normal University（华东师范大学软件工程学院）；School of Geospatial Information, Information Engineering University（信息工程大学地理信息学院）；University of Shanghai for Science and Technology（上海科技大学）；Fujian (Quanzhou) Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, China（福建（泉州）先进制造技术研究院）
Nanyang Technological University（南洋理工大学）；School of Computer Science and Engineering, Northeastern University（东北大学计算机科学与工程学院）；Beihang University（北航大学）；University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
Jointly Optimized Global-Local Visual Localization of UAVs
Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University（清华大学深圳国际研究生院）；City University of Hong Kong（香港城市大学）；Aerospace Information Research Institute, CAS（中国科学院空天信息创新研究院）；Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications（北京邮电大学）
Unifying UAV Cross-View Geo-Localization via 3D Geometric Perception
School of Electronic Information, Wuhan University（武汉大学电子信息学院）；School of Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan University（武汉大学人工智能学院）；Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization and the Key Laboratory of Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院空间应用工程与技术中心暨空间利用重点实验室）；School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学航空宇航学院）
BREATH-VL: Vision-Language-Guided 6-DoF Bronchoscopy Localization via Semantic-Geometric Fusion
State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（多模态人工智能系统国家重点实验室，自动化研究所）；School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学人工智能学院）；Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University（中山大学附属第一医院呼吸与危重症医学科）；Centre of AI and Robotics, Hong Kong Institute of Science & Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（香港科学院人工智能与机器人中心）；School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, King’s College London（伦敦国王学院生物医学工程与影像科学学院）
DSM-Free UAV Visual Localization via Latent-Depth Variable Projection and Structure-Adaptive Coupling
College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学航天科学与工程学院）；College of Electronic Science and Technology, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学电子科学与工程学院）
Trajectory Optimization in Single and Dual-UAV Bearing-Only Target Localization
College of Aerospace Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology（国防科技大学航天科学与工程学院）；Hunan Key Laboratory of Image Measurement and Visual Navigation（湖南省图像测量与视觉导航重点实验室）
