Online Shape Modeling of Resident Space Objects Through Implicit Scene Understanding
- 1 April 2022
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in Journal of Aerospace Information Systems
- Vol. 19 (4), 259-270
- https://doi.org/10.2514/1.i011014
Abstract
Neural networks have become state-of-the-art computer vision tools for tasks that learn implicit representations of geometrical scenes. This paper proposes a two-part network architecture that exploits a view-synthesis network to understand a context scene and a graph convolutional network to generate a shape body model of an object within the field of view of a spacecraft’s optical navigation sensors. Once the first part of the network’s architecture understands the spacecraft’s environment, it can generate images from novel observations. The second part uses a multiview set of images to construct a 3D graph-based representation of the object. The proposed network pipeline produces shape models with accuracies that compete with state-of-the-art methods currently used for missions to small bodies. The network pipeline can be trained for multi-environment missions. Moreover, the onboard implementation may be more cost-effective than the current state-of-the-art.Keywords
Funding Information
- New York Space Grant Consortium (NNX15AK07H)
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