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A-PAIR: A Benchmark and Identity-Consistent Grounding Framework for Air-Ground Cross-View Referring Person Detection

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Air-ground cross-view referring person detection is a necessary component in the language-to-perception-to-control chain of collective embodied intelligence, grounding a language command into the same physical target before ground and aerial agents can coordinate downstream actions. Existing referring expression comprehension and open-vocabulary grounding methods do not jointly account for cross-view identity consistency, making them insufficient for Air-Ground Cross-View Referring Person Detection (AGCV-RPD), which involves similar pedestrian distractors, weak aerial appearance cues, and cross-view identity consistency. To study this problem, we introduce Air-Ground Paired Identity-Aware Referring (A-PAIR), the first comprehensive AGCV-RPD benchmark, containing 22,137 cross-view referring samples. To construct A-PAIR efficiently, we propose Factorized Annotation and Referential Alignment (FARA), a semi-automatic annotation framework that generates factorized referring descriptions and identity-consistency supervision at reduced cost. We propose Identity-Consistent Referring Grounding (ICRG), a framework that combines factorized referential grounding, candidate-completeness supervision, and cross-view consistency calibration for joint air-ground pair selection. ICRG improves ground, aerial, and pair-level detection over strong baselines, increasing pair F1 from 16.65% to 22.28%. These results show that AGCV-RPD requires paired detection and identity-consistent reasoning.

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Zhoupeng Guo, Xinjie Yao, Yunqi Zhu, Zhihe Fan, Siqi Zhao, Jianjun Chen, Yichen Dong, Yan Fan, Pengfei Zhu. 2026-08-28. A-PAIR: A Benchmark and Identity-Consistent Grounding Framework for Air-Ground Cross-View Referring Person Detection. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27997

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