arXiv:2602.12869cs.LGcs.AI2026-02KDD

用对比学习从稀疏激光雷达数据中预测飞机尾涡轨迹,仅需1%标注数据。

X-VORTEX: Spatio-Temporal Contrastive Learning for Wake Vortex Trajectory Forecasting

  • 通过时空对比学习,利用弱扰动与强增强序列对齐特征
  • 在百万级扫描数据上实现99%标注数据节省,定位精度更优
  • 适合航空安全、空管优化等需要低资源轨迹预测的场景

尾涡是飞机飞行时产生的强而稳定的空气湍流,给空中交通管理带来安全与容量挑战。从激光雷达测量中追踪尾涡随时间的运动、衰减和消散仍很困难,原因包括扫描稀疏、涡流信号在大气湍流下逐渐消失,以及逐点标注成本过高。现有方法大多将每帧视为独立的全监督分割问题,忽视了时间结构,且难以扩展到实际中大量未标注的数据。本文提出X-VORTEX,一种基于增强重叠理论的时空对比学习框架,能从未标注的激光雷达点云序列中学习物理感知表征。该方法应对传感器稀疏性与时变涡流动态两大挑战:通过组合同一飞行事件的弱扰动序列与经时间子采样和空间掩码生成的强增强版本,促使模型在缺失帧和部分观测间对齐表示。架构上,采用时间分布几何编码器提取每帧特征,序列聚合器建模可变长度序列下的涡流演化状态。在包含超一百万次激光雷达扫描的真实数据集上评估,X-VORTEX仅使用监督基线所需标签数据的1%,即实现了更优的涡心定位,并支持准确的轨迹预测。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Wake vortices are strong, coherent air turbulences created by aircraft, and they pose a major safety and capacity challenge for air traffic management. Tracking how vortices move, weaken, and dissipate over time from LiDAR measurements is still difficult because scans are sparse, vortex signatures fade as the flow breaks down under atmospheric turbulence and instabilities, and point-wise annotation is prohibitively expensive. Existing approaches largely treat each scan as an independent, fully supervised segmentation problem, which overlooks temporal structure and does not scale to the vast unlabeled archives collected in practice. We present X-VORTEX, a spatio-temporal contrastive learning framework grounded in Augmentation Overlap Theory that learns physics-aware representations from unlabeled LiDAR point cloud sequences. X-VORTEX addresses two core challenges: sensor sparsity and time-varying vortex dynamics. It constructs paired inputs from the same underlying flight event by combining a weakly perturbed sequence with a strongly augmented counterpart produced via temporal subsampling and spatial masking, encouraging the model to align representations across missing frames and partial observations. Architecturally, a time-distributed geometric encoder extracts per-scan features and a sequential aggregator models the evolving vortex state across variable-length sequences. We evaluate on a real-world dataset of over one million LiDAR scans. X-VORTEX achieves superior vortex center localization while using only 1% of the labeled data required by supervised baselines, and the learned representations support accurate trajectory forecasting.

尾涡预测对比学习激光雷达时空建模

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