[Submitted on 28 Sep 2026]
Title:AerialDojo-200K: A Large-Scale Benchmark Suite for Open-World Aerial Object-Goal Search
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Abstract:Open-world aerial object-goal search is a foundational yet challenging task, requiring aerial agents to autonomously explore large-scale, unstructured three-dimensional environments and reach target objects specified by semantic descriptions or reference images, rather than following route-specific instructions. However, research in this task remains at a nascent stage and relies on small, environment-specific benchmarks with heterogeneous action spaces and data formats. These limitations hinder large-scale training and cross-benchmark evaluation, constraining the scalability and generalizability of aerial agents. To address this problem, we propose AerialDojo-200K, a large-scale benchmark suite for open-world aerial object-goal search, with 3 times as many scenes and 18.7 times as many task instances as the largest existing benchmark for this task. Specifically, we construct 42 simulation scenes spanning four scene families and 21 scene types, including 18 urban, 12 natural, six infrastructure, and six disaster scenes. To ensure data quality, 12 annotators spent two months manually annotating 109 landmarks, 2099 target objects, and 2099 object anchors across these scenes. We further construct 205,732 task instances, comprising over 100K semantic-goal and over 100K image-goal instances across Base, Standard, and Long-Horizon settings. Each task instance includes a collision-free reference trajectory and corresponding multi-view video recordings. We also develop a unified evaluation framework with a scene partition comprising 21 in-distribution scenes and 21 out-of-distribution scenes. Finally, our evaluation of five open-source and four closed-source multimodal large language models reveals that there is still a long way to go toward achieving general-purpose aerial agents. All can be found at this https URL.
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Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Emerging Technologies (cs.ET); Multimedia (cs.MM); Robotics (cs.RO)
Cite as: arXiv:2609.36066 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2609.36066v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.36066
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From: Tongtong Feng [view email] [v1] Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:20:35 UTC (1,548 KB)
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