<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "https://jats.nlm.nih.gov/nlm-dtd/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd">
<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en">
<front>
<journal-meta>
<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</journal-id>
<journal-title-group>
<journal-title>The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="publisher">ISPRS-Archives</abbrev-journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="nlm-ta">Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.</abbrev-journal-title>
</journal-title-group>
<issn pub-type="epub">2194-9034</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Copernicus Publications</publisher-name>
<publisher-loc>Göttingen, Germany</publisher-loc>
</publisher>
</journal-meta>
<article-meta>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-379-2026</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title>AURORA-Track: Uncertainty-Aware Identity Prediction for Robust Multi-Object Tracking in Satellite Video</article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Huang</surname>
<given-names>Xin</given-names>
<ext-link>https://orcid.org/0009-0008-0666-8569</ext-link>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Mi</surname>
<given-names>Pei</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Wang</surname>
<given-names>Mao Yu</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Shi</surname>
<given-names>XuLei</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Qin</surname>
<given-names>Wei</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
<contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>Tao</surname>
<given-names>PengJie</given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1">
<sup>1</sup>
</xref>
</contrib>
</contrib-group><aff id="aff1">
<label>1</label>
<addr-line>School of Remote Sensing and Information Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China</addr-line>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>30</day>
<month>07</month>
<year>2026</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>XLIX-B3-2026</volume>
<fpage>379</fpage>
<lpage>385</lpage>
<permissions>
<copyright-statement>Copyright: &#x000a9; 2026 Xin Huang et al.</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2026</copyright-year>
<license license-type="open-access">
<license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this licence, visit <ext-link ext-link-type="uri"  xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</ext-link></license-p>
</license>
</permissions>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLIX-B3-2026/379/2026/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-379-2026.html">This article is available from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLIX-B3-2026/379/2026/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-379-2026.html</self-uri>
<self-uri xlink:href="https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLIX-B3-2026/379/2026/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-379-2026.pdf">The full text article is available as a PDF file from https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLIX-B3-2026/379/2026/isprs-archives-XLIX-B3-2026-379-2026.pdf</self-uri>
<abstract>
<p>Satellite video multi-object tracking remains difficult due to tiny targets, frequent cloud/shadow occlusion, and strong cross-scene domain shifts. To address these issues, we propose AURORA-Track, an end-to-end framework built on MOTIP with three coupled components: uncertainty-aware identity prediction (UAI), cloud/shadow-aware trajectory modeling (CAT), and cross-scene adaptation (CSA). UAI calibrates association confidence to reduce unreliable identity assignments; CAT combines visibility estimation with motion-state recovery to maintain trajectories through prolonged occlusions; CSA uses lightweight FiLM/LoRA adaptation for improved generalization under geographic variation. Experiments on VISO, SAT-MTB, and AIR-MOT-100 show consistent gains in HOTA and IDF1 with fewer identity switches compared with strong baselines. The results indicate that coupling uncertainty estimation, visibility-aware motion reasoning, and scene adaptation improves robustness for satellite video tracking.</p>
</abstract>
<counts><page-count count="7"/></counts>
</article-meta>
</front>
<body/>
<back>
</back>
</article>