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Principal Component Analysis for Lunar Crater Detection
Travis Driver, John A. Christian
Optical navigation is a critical component for lunar orbiter and lander missions. Image-based crater identification has emerged as a promising technology for optical navigation due…
AstroSplat: Physics-Based Gaussian Splatting for Rendering and Reconstruction of Small Celestial Bodies
Jennifer Nolan, Travis Driver, John Christian
Image-based surface reconstruction and characterization are crucial for missions to small celestial bodies (e.g., asteroids), as it informs mission planning, navigation, and scient…
Stereophotoclinometry Revisited
Travis Driver, Andrew Vaughan, Yang Cheng +3
Image-based surface reconstruction and characterization is crucial for missions to small celestial bodies, as it informs mission planning, navigation, and scientific analysis. Howe…
Keypoint-based Stereophotoclinometry for Characterizing and Navigating Small Bodies: A Factor Graph Approach
Travis Driver, Andrew Vaughan, Yang Cheng +3
This paper proposes the incorporation of techniques from stereophotoclinometry (SPC) into a keypoint-based structure-from-motion (SfM) system to estimate the surface normal and alb…
Distributed Global Structure-from-Motion with a Deep Front-End
Ayush Baid, John Lambert, Travis Driver +3
While initial approaches to Structure-from-Motion (SfM) revolved around both global and incremental methods, most recent applications rely on incremental systems to estimate camera…
Efficient Feature Description for Small Body Relative Navigation using Binary Convolutional Neural Networks
Travis Driver, Panagiotis Tsiotras
Missions to small celestial bodies rely heavily on optical feature tracking for characterization of and relative navigation around the target body. While techniques for feature tra…
Deep Monocular Hazard Detection for Safe Small Body Landing
Travis Driver, Kento Tomita, Koki Ho +1
Hazard detection and avoidance is a key technology for future robotic small body sample return and lander missions. Current state-of-the-practice methods rely on high-fidelity, a p…