TACO: Trajectory Aligning Cross-view Optimisation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.03315v1
• Date: Tue, 05 May 2026 03:04:49 GMT
• Title: TACO: Trajectory Aligning Cross-view Optimisation
• Abstract summary: Cross-View Geo-localisation matches ground imagery against satellite tiles to give absolute position fixes.<n>Recent fine-grained CVGL methods regress sub-tile metric pose, but have only been evaluated as one-shot localisers.<n>We propose TACO, a tightly-coupled IMU + fine-grained CVGL pipeline that consumes a single reading at start-up and thereafter operates on onboard sensing alone.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Cross-View Geo-localisation (CVGL) matches ground imagery against satellite tiles to give absolute position fixes, an alternative to GNSS where signals are occluded, jammed, or spoofed. Recent fine-grained CVGL methods regress sub-tile metric pose, but have only been evaluated as one-shot localisers, never as the primary fix in a live pipeline. Inertial sensing provides high-rate relative motion, but accumulates unbounded drift without an absolute anchor. We propose TACO, a tightly-coupled IMU + fine-grained CVGL pipeline that consumes a single GNSS reading at start-up and thereafter operates on onboard sensing alone. A closed-form cross-track error model triggers CVGL before IMU drift exceeds the matcher's capture radius, and a forward-biased five-point multi-crop search keeps inference cost fixed at five forward passes per fix. A yaw-residual gate rejects fixes that disagree with the onboard compass, and an anisotropic body-frame noise model scales each Unscented Kalman Filter update by per-fix confidence. A factor graph with vetted loop closures provides an offline smoothed trajectory. On the KITTI raw dataset, TACO reduces median Absolute Trajectory Error (ATE) from 97.0m (IMU-only) to 16.3m, a 5.9 times reduction, at <0.1 ms per-frame fusion cost and a 5-10% camera duty cycle. Code is available: github.com/tavisshore/TACO.

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