A-contrario structural inference for space object detection and tracking

BG Feuge-Miller, MK Jah - Acta Astronautica, 2022 - Elsevier
Monitoring space assets for safety and sustainability compliance requires active
measurement of positional information, commonly done via optical remote sensing in which …

Search-detect-track sensor allocation for geosynchronous space objects

S Gehly, BA Jones, P Axelrad - IEEE Transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The initiation of tracks for newly discovered objects presents unique challenges in space
situational awareness. Recent work explores the use of admissible regions to initialize filters …

A Real-time Faint Space Debris Detector with Learning-based LCM

Z Lu, G Wang, X Wei, J Li - IEEE Transactions on …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of aerospace technology, the increasing population of space debris
has posed a great threat to the safety of spacecraft. Because of the small volume and long …

Visual tracking methods for improved sequential image-based object detection

TS Murphy, MJ Holzinger, B Flewelling - Journal of Guidance, Control …, 2018 - arc.aiaa.org
This paper applies the random finite set based multi-Bernoulli filter with a detectionless
likelihood function to frame-to-frame tracking of space objects observed in electro-optical …

Visual tracking of resident space objects via an RFS-based multi-Bernoulli track-before-detect method

M Javanmardi, X Qi - Machine Vision and Applications, 2018 - Springer
In this paper, we propose a fast and reliable track-before-detect approach to simultaneously
detect, track, and identify an unknown and variable number of resident space objects …

[PDF][PDF] Uncued low SNR detection with likelihood from image multi Bernoulli filter

TS Murphy, MJ Holzinger - … of the Advanced Maui Optical and …, 2016 - ssdl.gatech.edu
Both SSA and SDA necessitate uncued, partially informed detection and orbit determination
efforts for small space objects which often produce only low strength electro-optical …

Performance of an Optical COTS Station for the wide-field Detection of Resident Space Objects

T Delaite, J Couetdic, É Glémet… - The Advanced Maui Optical …, 2023 - hal.science
Space Situational Awareness (SSA) becomes more critical as space gets more and more
congested. Following the successful development of the GRAVES radar for LEO satellites …

[PDF][PDF] Experimental Results from On-Orbit Edge-Deployed AI Detection of Resident Space Objects Using Computer Vision

P Day, J Crane, P Cronk, C Jimenez… - Proceedings of the< a …, 2024 - amostech.com
Space domain awareness (SDA) is crucial for ensuring the safety and sustainability of space
operations, especially as the space domain transitions toward a contested, degraded, and …

[PDF][PDF] Direct image-to-likelihood for track-before-detect multi-bernoulli filter

TS Murphy, MJ Holzinger… - AAS/AIAA Space Flight …, 2016 - ssdl.gatech.edu
This paper aims to apply the random finite set-based multi-Bernoilli filter to frameto-frame
tracking of space objects observed in electro optical imagery for space domain awareness …

[PDF][PDF] Uninformative Prior Multiple Target Tracking Using Evidential Particle Filters

JL Worthy III, MJ Holzinger - Advanced Maui Optical and Space …, 2017 - amostech.com
Space situational awareness requires the ability to initialize state estimation from short
measurements and the reliable association of observations to support the characterization of …