A multi-graph aggregation network for robust multi-drone trajectory prediction

Multi-drone trajectory prediction is essential for enhancing the efficiency and safety of intelligent transportation systems. However, multi-drone collaborative perception still faces two major challenges. First, the perceptual quality of modality-specific information often degrades in complex environments, making it difficult to adaptively assign appropriate weights to different modalities. Second, existing methods largely overlook mutual learning among multi-view images, which limits the understanding of spatial structures and weakens the generalization capability of the models. To address these issues, this paper proposes a reliability-aware LiDAR-Camera fusion with adaptive multi-graph feature aggregation network (RFMANet) for multi-drone trajectory prediction. Specifically, we design a reliability-aware LiDAR-Camera fusion (RLCF) module that operates in the BEV space. We employ a dynamically gated multi-expert subnetwork to compute spatially adaptive modality weights, guiding cross-attention-based fine-grained feature fusion for subsequent graph construction. Furthermore, we introduce the adaptive multi-graph feature aggregation (AMGFA) module, which constructs collaborative feature maps from multi-view BEV representations. The Top-K sparse attention mechanism is employed to extract salient multi-scale features from different viewpoints, which are used to build structured multi-graph representations. Graph interactions capture both intra-view and cross-view dependencies, modeling geometric consistency and semantic complementarity. Experimental results on the Air-Co-Pred dataset show that RFMANet outperforms existing methods, demonstrating robustness and high prediction accuracy. We also simulate sensor degradation scenarios to further verify the robustness of the proposed method.

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Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
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2026-03-09
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https://doi.org/10.1007/s44443-026-00580-2
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Advanced Neural Network Applications
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A multi-graph aggregation network for robust multi-drone trajectory prediction

G. Zhang, Lihong Zhong, Bing Zhou, Xiangqian Liu et al.
Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
Advanced Neural Network Applications
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A multi-graph aggregation network for robust multi-drone trajectory prediction

G. Zhang, Lihong Zhong, Bing Zhou, Xiangqian Liu, Bin Wang
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Abstract

Multi-drone trajectory prediction is essential for enhancing the efficiency and safety of intelligent transportation systems. However, multi-drone collaborative perception still faces two major challenges. First, the perceptual quality of modality-specific information often degrades in complex environments, making it difficult to adaptively assign appropriate weights to different modalities. Second, existing methods largely overlook mutual learning among multi-view images, which limits the understanding of spatial structures and weakens the generalization capability of the models. To address these issues, this paper proposes a reliability-aware LiDAR-Camera fusion with adaptive multi-graph feature aggregation network (RFMANet) for multi-drone trajectory prediction. Specifically, we design a reliability-aware LiDAR-Camera fusion (RLCF) module that operates in the BEV space. We employ a dynamically gated multi-expert subnetwork to compute spatially adaptive modality weights, guiding cross-attention-based fine-grained feature fusion for subsequent graph construction. Furthermore, we introduce the adaptive multi-graph feature aggregation (AMGFA) module, which constructs collaborative feature maps from multi-view BEV representations. The Top-K sparse attention mechanism is employed to extract salient multi-scale features from different viewpoints, which are used to build structured multi-graph representations. Graph interactions capture both intra-view and cross-view dependencies, modeling geometric consistency and semantic complementarity. Experimental results on the Air-Co-Pred dataset show that RFMANet outperforms existing methods, demonstrating robustness and high prediction accuracy. We also simulate sensor degradation scenarios to further verify the robustness of the proposed method.

Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN), Zhengzhou University (CN)
Openalex Percentile: Top 30%
Advanced Neural Network Applications
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