Joint attitude estimation and 3D neural reconstruction of non-cooperative space objects

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Forray, Clément, Delporte, Pauline, Delaygue, Nicolas, Genin, Florence, Derksen, Dawa
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2025
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866911022066958336
author Forray, Clément
Delporte, Pauline
Delaygue, Nicolas
Genin, Florence
Derksen, Dawa
author_facet Forray, Clément
Delporte, Pauline
Delaygue, Nicolas
Genin, Florence
Derksen, Dawa
contents Obtaining a better knowledge of the current state and behavior of objects orbiting Earth has proven to be essential for a range of applications such as active debris removal, in-orbit maintenance, or anomaly detection. 3D models represent a valuable source of information in the field of Space Situational Awareness (SSA). In this work, we leveraged Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to perform 3D reconstruction of non-cooperative space objects from simulated images. This scenario is challenging for NeRF models due to unusual camera characteristics and environmental conditions : mono-chromatic images, unknown object orientation, limited viewing angles, absence of diffuse lighting etc. In this work we focus primarly on the joint optimization of camera poses alongside the NeRF. Our experimental results show that the most accurate 3D reconstruction is achieved when training with successive images one-by-one. We estimate camera poses by optimizing an uniform rotation and use regularization to prevent successive poses from being too far apart.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2506_20638
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Joint attitude estimation and 3D neural reconstruction of non-cooperative space objects
Forray, Clément
Delporte, Pauline
Delaygue, Nicolas
Genin, Florence
Derksen, Dawa
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Obtaining a better knowledge of the current state and behavior of objects orbiting Earth has proven to be essential for a range of applications such as active debris removal, in-orbit maintenance, or anomaly detection. 3D models represent a valuable source of information in the field of Space Situational Awareness (SSA). In this work, we leveraged Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to perform 3D reconstruction of non-cooperative space objects from simulated images. This scenario is challenging for NeRF models due to unusual camera characteristics and environmental conditions : mono-chromatic images, unknown object orientation, limited viewing angles, absence of diffuse lighting etc. In this work we focus primarly on the joint optimization of camera poses alongside the NeRF. Our experimental results show that the most accurate 3D reconstruction is achieved when training with successive images one-by-one. We estimate camera poses by optimizing an uniform rotation and use regularization to prevent successive poses from being too far apart.
title Joint attitude estimation and 3D neural reconstruction of non-cooperative space objects
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20638