Visible-infrared object detection relies on complementary RGB and thermal cues, but its performance is often degraded by cross-modal spatial misalignment. Most existing methods rely on implicit feature adaptation to handle weakly misaligned scenarios, while large-offset geometric discrepancies remain insufficiently addressed. In this paper, we propose a Joint Feature-domain Registration and Detection network (JFRDet), an end-to-end visible-infrared oriented object detector tailored for severely cross-modal geometric discrepancies. JFRDet introduces a Cross-Modal Affine Alignment (CMAA) module to estimate an image-level affine transformation for explicit multi-level feature alignment. Note that illumination changes directly affect the reliability of RGB cues, an Illumination-Guided Complementary Fusion (IGCF) module adaptively exploits modality reliability under varying illumination conditions for cross-modal fusion. Then, an Alignment Quality-Consistency Gating (AQCG) strategy stabilizes joint optimization by modulating detection supervision according to alignment reliability and gradient consistency. We further construct DroneVehicle Misaligned (DVMA), a benchmark for evaluating visible-infrared oriented object detection under severe cross-modal geometric misalignment. The proposed JFRDet achieves 69.7\% $\mathrm{mAP}_{50}$ on DVMA, which represents state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. The code and dataset will be available on GitHub.
Object detection in geospatial scenes, such as satellite and aerial imagery, poses significant challenges due to the varying orientations and densities of objects, as well as the complex backgrounds inherent to remote sensing imagery. Traditional methods for oriented object detection have struggled to address issues such as angular discontinuity, fixed query sizes, and inefficiencies in handling sparse or cluttered scenes. In this paper, we propose LOGOS, a novel transformer-based approach that leverages textual prompts to guide the detection of oriented objects in aerial scenes. In particular, our proposed approach incorporates prompt-modulated content queries to dynamically adjust the model's focus based on the provided text, thereby improving object detection accuracy in complex environments. Empirically, extensive experiments on the DOTA dataset demonstrate that LOGOS outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods, particularly in densely packed and rotated object scenarios. Our approach offers a significant step forward in improving the robustness and scalability of oriented object detection in remote sensing applications.