Geometric-Topological Perception and Motion Prior for Real-Time Satellite Video Object Tracking
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Satellite video object tracking (SVOT) remains fundamentally challenging due to texture scarcity, arbitrary rotation, aspect ratio changes, and severe occlusions. While recent state-of-the-art trackers excel in general scenarios, their reliance on rich appearance details or rigid spatial matching mechanisms leads to significant performance degradation in the satellite domain. To bridge this gap, we propose SiamGM, a real-time spatial-temporal unified tracking framework tailored for satellite videos. Instead of conventionally stacking modules, we synergize geometric-topological perception with temporal-kinematic prior, addressing the core limitations of SVOT. Spatially, we closely couple a Topological Attention Module (TAM) with a Geometry-Constrained Label Assignment (GCLA) method during the training phase, where a Local Graph Propagation (LGP) mechanism enforces neighborhood-consistent template-search correspondences. This joint paradigm establishes fine-grained structural correspondences and explicitly suppresses surrounding background noise. Temporally, rather than passively relying on visual cues, we propose an Online Motion Model Refinement (OMMR) strategy during the tracking phase. Gated by an online self-calibrated confidence indicator, OMMR adaptively fuse long-term stable and short-term instantaneous motion estimation for robust tracking. Evaluations on two challenging SatSOT and SV248S benchmarks confirm that SiamGM outperforms not only recent Siamese-based satellite trackers but also state-of-the-art Transformer trackers in both precision and success metrics. Notably, this highly unified architecture introduces only minor computational overhead, enabling real-time tracking at 130 frames per second (FPS).