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PRI-Net: A Lightweight Multimodal Framework for 3D UAV Localization

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 13, 2026 · UTC

Accurate 3D localization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) remains challenging for existing multimodal approaches due to sparse LiDAR geometry, modality-imbalanced fusion, and redundant feature transmission over constrained edge-to-server links. To address these limitations, we propose PRI-Net, an efficient and lightweight multimodal fusion framework for UAV localization that integrates point cloud splatting, residual attention fusion, and an information bottleneck. Specifically, a 3D point cloud splatting (3DPCS) strategy is introduced to transform sparse LiDAR observations into geometricall

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