This paper addresses the task of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) visual
geo-localization, which aims to match images of the same geographic target
taken by different platforms, i.e., UAVs and satellites. In general, the key to
achieving accurate UAV-satellite image matching lies in extracting visual
features that are robust against viewpoint changes, scale variations, and
rotations. Current works have shown that part matching is crucial for UAV
visual geo-localization since part-level representations can capture image
details and help to understand the semantic information of scenes. However, the
importance of preserving semantic characteristics in part-level representations
is not well discussed. In this paper, we introduce a transformer-based adaptive
semantic aggregation method that regards parts as the most representative
semantics in an image. Correlations of image patches to different parts are
learned in terms of the transformer's feature map. Then our method decomposes
part-level features into an adaptive sum of all patch features. By doing this,
the learned parts are encouraged to focus on patches with typical semantics.
Extensive experiments on the University-1652 dataset have shown the superiority
of our method over the current works.

这篇论文介绍了一种基于 Transformer 的自适应语义聚集方法，将部分作为图像中最具代表性的语义，并将部分级别的特征分解为所有补丁特征的自适应总和，以实现准确的无人机 - 卫星图像匹配。