用环境信息指导船舶轨迹预测,提升长期预报精度与鲁棒性。
Context-Informed Ship Trajectory Prediction via Conditional Attention
- 通过条件注意力机制让船体状态主动查询环境信息,建模物理依赖关系。
- 在真实AIS与ERA5数据上,预测准确率比基线高15.4%。
- 引入模态掩码训练,有效应对传感器失效,错误降低近十倍。
长期船舶轨迹预测是海事安全与自主导航的基础能力。尽管近期基于Transformer的架构提升了预测时长,但多数方法仅依赖历史运动状态,将船体运动视为孤立系统。事实上,航海行为受天气等外部因素显著影响,并受限于船体固有特性。现有多模态方法通常将状态与环境联合建模,将环境变量作为平等特征处理,未能体现环境对船体运动的定向物理影响。本文提出条件信息器(Conditional Informer),一种新型编码器-解码器架构,将轨迹预测建模为条件生成任务。采用专用的条件注意力机制,使船体状态通过交叉注意力显式查询环境上下文,编码‘天气调制但不被船体生成’的物理先验。此外,为应对真实数据的间断性,提出模态掩码训练策略,防止传感器失效时的灾难性退化。在AIS与ERA5数据上的大量实验表明,当环境信息可用时,本方法预测准确率比仅使用运动状态及拼接式基线提升15.4%。关键的是,模态掩码有效避免捷径学习,使传感器失效时的误差降低近一个数量级。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Long-term ship trajectory prediction is a fundamental capability for maritime safety and autonomous navigation. While recent Transformer-based architectures have improved forecasting horizons, they predominantly rely on historical kinematic states, treating vessel motion as an isolated system. In reality, maritime navigation is profoundly modulated by extrinsic factors like weather and constrained by static vessel characteristics. Existing multimodal approaches fundamentally model the joint distribution over states and contexts, treating environmental variables as peer features rather than encoding the directional physical dependence of vessel dynamics on environmental conditions. In this work, we propose the Conditional Informer, a novel encoder-decoder architecture that formulates trajectory prediction as a conditional generation task. We employ a dedicated Conditional Attention mechanism where the vessel state explicitly queries environmental contexts through cross-attention, encoding the physical prior that weather modulates - but is not generated by - vessel dynamics. Furthermore, to address the intermittency of real-world data, we introduce a Modality Masking training strategy to prevent catastrophic degradation during sensor fallback. Extensive experiments on AIS and ERA5 data demonstrate that our approach outperforms kinematic and concatenation-based baselines by 15.4% in prediction accuracy when context is available. Crucially, Modality Masking prevents shortcut learning, reducing fallback error by nearly an order of magnitude compared to unconstrained models.
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