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To ensure the efficiency of robot autonomy under diverse real-world conditions, a high-quality heterogeneous dataset is essential to benchmark the operating algorithms' performance and robustness. Current benchmarks predominantly focus on…

As the density of spacecraft in Earth's orbit increases, their recognition, pose and trajectory identification becomes crucial for averting potential collisions and executing debris removal operations. However, training models able to…

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Monocular 6-DoF pose estimation plays an important role in multiple spacecraft missions. Most existing pose estimation approaches rely on single images with static keypoint localisation, failing to exploit valuable temporal information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jose Sosa , Dan Pineau , Arunkumar Rathinam , Abdelrahman Shabayek , Djamila Aouada

This article presents a pioneering approach to real-time spacecraft pose estimation, utilizing a mixed-precision quantized neural network implemented on the FPGA components of a commercially available Xilinx MPSoC, renowned for its…

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Reliable and stable 6D pose estimation of uncooperative space objects plays an essential role in on-orbit servicing and debris removal missions. Considering that the pose estimator is sensitive to background interference, this paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Shunli Wang , Shuaibing Wang , Bo Jiao , Dingkang Yang , Liuzhen Su , Peng Zhai , Chixiao Chen , Lihua Zhang

This paper presents an innovative deep learning pipeline which estimates the relative pose of a spacecraft by incorporating the temporal information from a rendezvous sequence. It leverages the performance of long short-term memory (LSTM)…

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6D object pose estimation has been a research topic in the field of computer vision and robotics. Many modern world applications like robot grasping, manipulation, autonomous navigation etc, require the correct pose of objects present in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Ankit Kumar , Priya Shukla , Vandana Kushwaha , G. C. Nandi

This paper presents a dataset, called Reeds, for research on robot perception algorithms. The dataset aims to provide demanding benchmark opportunities for algorithms, rather than providing an environment for testing application-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Ola Benderius , Christian Berger , Krister Blanch

While a great variety of 3D cameras have been introduced in recent years, most publicly available datasets for object recognition and pose estimation focus on one single camera. In this work, we present a dataset of 32 scenes that have been…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-30 Till Grenzdörffer , Martin Günther , Joachim Hertzberg

Astronomical image interpretation presents a significant challenge for applying multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to specialized scientific tasks. Existing benchmarks focus on general multimodal capabilities but fail to capture the…

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Image captioning has become an important task in computer vision, enabling models to generate natural language descriptions of visual content. While several datasets exist for natural images and high-resolution optical remote sensing…

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Pose estimation of an uncooperative space resident object is a key asset towards autonomy in close proximity operations. In this context monocular cameras are a valuable solution because of their low system requirements. However, the…

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Transparent objects are ubiquitous in household settings and pose distinct challenges for visual sensing and perception systems. The optical properties of transparent objects leave conventional 3D sensors alone unreliable for object depth…

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6D pose estimation is crucial for augmented reality, virtual reality, robotic manipulation and visual navigation. However, the problem is challenging due to the variety of objects in the real world. They have varying 3D shape and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Honglin Yuan , Remco C. Veltkamp , Georgios Albanis , Nikolaos Zioulis , Dimitrios Zarpalas , Petros Daras

Estimating an object's 6D pose, size, and shape from visual input is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with critical applications in robotic grasping and manipulation. Existing methods either rely on object-specific priors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Jinyu Zhang , Haitao Lin , Jiashu Hou , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made rapid progress in spatial intelligence, yet existing spatial reasoning benchmarks largely assume pristine visual inputs and overlook the degradations that commonly occur in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Xiaolong Zhou , Yifei Liu , Ziyang Gong , Jiarui Li , Qiyue Zhao , Muyao Niu , Yuanyuan Gao , Le Ma , Xue Yang , Hongjie Zhang , Zhihang Zhong

Answering questions about the spatial properties of the environment poses challenges for existing language and vision foundation models due to a lack of understanding of the 3D world notably in terms of relationships between objects. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Emilia Szymanska , Mihai Dusmanu , Jan-Willem Buurlage , Mahdi Rad , Marc Pollefeys

Satellite imagery differs fundamentally from natural images: its aerial viewpoint, very high resolution, diverse scale variations, and abundance of small objects demand both region-level spatial reasoning and holistic scene understanding.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-15 Emanuel Sánchez Aimar , Gulnaz Zhambulova , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Yonghao Xu , Michael Felsberg

Object pose estimation underwater allows an autonomous system to perform tracking and intervention tasks. Nonetheless, underwater target pose estimation is remarkably challenging due to, among many factors, limited visibility, light…