Embedded-hardware deployment efficiency

Evaluate the deployment efficiency of SatFix on embedded hardware rather than only on a desktop GPU.

Background

The reported inference latency for SatFix is measured on a desktop NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU. Although the method achieves less than 0.1 seconds per single-view query in that setting, the paper does not determine whether comparable efficiency can be achieved on the embedded hardware likely to be used aboard UAVs. The authors therefore leave embedded deployment efficiency unresolved.

References

The reported latency is measured on a desktop GPU, while deployment efficiency on embedded hardware remains to be evaluated.

— SatFix: Absolute Visual Localization of UAVs in Satellite Maps from a Single Oblique Image  (2610.11049 - Zeng et al., 8 Oct 2026) in Section 5, Scope and limitations