SPIN: Spacecraft Imagery for Navigation
Javier Montalvo, Juan Ignacio Bravo P\'erez-Villar, \'Alvaro, Garc\'ia-Mart\'in, Pablo Carballeira, Jes\'us Besc\'os

TL;DR
SPIN is an open-source tool that generates realistic spacecraft imagery for visual navigation research, addressing data scarcity and enabling improved spacecraft pose estimation through data augmentation.
Contribution
We introduce SPIN, a versatile spacecraft image generation tool that supports diverse scenarios and ground-truth data, enhancing the development of visual navigation algorithms.
Findings
47% error reduction in spacecraft pose estimation using SPIN data
60% error reduction when combining SPIN with data augmentation
Open-source release of SPIN and a SPIN-generated SPEED+ dataset
Abstract
The scarcity of data acquired under actual space operational conditions poses a significant challenge for developing learning-based visual navigation algorithms crucial for autonomous spacecraft navigation. This data shortage is primarily due to the prohibitive costs and inherent complexities of space operations. While existing datasets, predominantly relying on computer-simulated data, have partially addressed this gap, they present notable limitations. Firstly, these datasets often utilize proprietary image generation tools, restricting the evaluation of navigation methods in novel, unseen scenarios. Secondly, they provide limited ground-truth data, typically focusing solely on the spacecraft's translation and rotation relative to the camera. To address these limitations, we present SPIN (SPacecraft Imagery for Navigation), an open-source spacecraft image generation tool designed to…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Code & Models
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsSatellite Image Processing and Photogrammetry
MethodsFocus
