Motion Aware ViT-based Framework for Monocular 6-DoF Spacecraft Pose Estimation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06000v1
• Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2025 10:15:55 GMT
• Title: Motion Aware ViT-based Framework for Monocular 6-DoF Spacecraft Pose Estimation
• Authors: Jose Sosa, Dan Pineau, Arunkumar Rathinam, Abdelrahman Shabayek, Djamila Aouada,
• Abstract summary: 6-DoF pose estimation plays an important role in multiple spacecraft missions.<n>Most existing pose estimation approaches rely on single images with static keypoint localisation.<n>We adapt a deep learning framework from human pose estimation to the spacecraft pose estimation.
• Score: 14.875896480287631
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 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 inherent to space operations. In this work, we adapt a deep learning framework from human pose estimation to the spacecraft pose estimation domain that integrates motion-aware heatmaps and optical flow to capture motion dynamics. Our approach combines image features from a Vision Transformer (ViT) encoder with motion cues from a pre-trained optical flow model to localise 2D keypoints. Using the estimates, a Perspective-n-Point (PnP) solver recovers 6-DoF poses from known 2D-3D correspondences. We train and evaluate our method on the SPADES-RGB dataset and further assess its generalisation on real and synthetic data from the SPARK-2024 dataset. Overall, our approach demonstrates improved performance over single-image baselines in both 2D keypoint localisation and 6-DoF pose estimation. Furthermore, it shows promising generalisation capabilities when testing on different data distributions.

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