HDST-GNN: Heterogeneous Dynamic Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Networks for Multi-Object Tracking in UAV Aerial Imagery 文章

ArXiv CS.CV2026-06-05NEWSen作者: Phillip Jiang

摘要

arXiv:2606.05587v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-object tracking (MOT) from UAV imagery presents unique challenges: altitude varies across sequences, objects are small and densely packed, and frequent occlusion causes identity switches. Existing graph-based trackers assume fixed spatial context and treat all objects uniformly, ignoring the heterogeneous lifecycle states of detections, active tracklets, and lost targets. We propose HDST-GNN, a Heterogeneous Dynamic Spatiotemporal Graph Neural Network with three novel contributions. First, Altitude-Adaptive Edge Construction estimates a camera-altitude proxy from mean object area and adjusts the graph connectivity radius accordingly. Second, Heterogeneous Node Representation models detections (Type-D), confirmed tracklets (Type-T), and lost tracklets (Type-L) as distinct node types with dedicated projections and typed edge relations.