arXiv:2610.07110v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: High-quality 3D reconstruction of lunar terrain from sparse rover images is indispensable for autonomous lunar exploration, but remains challenging bec...
By Yun Jiang, Bo Zheng, Yingying Zhang, Xueming Xiao, Tao Hu, Hutao Cui, Zhiguo Meng, Ke Gao, Yang Gao, Meibao Yao
The paper presents a deep‑learning crater detection algorithm (CDA) based on the OWLv2 Vision Transformer, fine‑tuned with Low‑Rank Adaptation on a manually labeled IMPACT dataset. It optimizes a combined loss of CIoU for localization and contrastive loss for classification, achieving a maximum recall of 92.6% and precision of 71.4% on lunar images. The method demonstrates reliable crater detection under varied illumination and rugged terrain, supporting safer lunar landings.
By Patrick Bauer, Marius Schwinning, Florian Renk, Andreas Weinmann, Hichem Snoussi
arXiv:2512.22819v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Panoramic depth estimation captures the complete 360$^\circ$ scene geometry, being essential for robotics and AR/VR applications. While perspective...
By Hualie Jiang, Ziyang Song, Zhiqiang Lou, Rui Xu, Minglang Tan
The paper introduces a multimodal foundation model for lunar remote sensing, trained from scratch on SomBench—a dataset of nearly two million co‑registered tile bundles across 11 modalities at 1 m and 100 m resolutions. The model extends the TerraMind masked‑token architecture with lunar‑specific features such as explicit acquisition geometry and joint training of two spatial scales, and employs FlexiViT patch embeddings for adaptable patch sizes. Evaluation on crater detection, irregular mare patch segmentation, and polar ice prospectivity regression shows that the pretrained model matches or surpasses ImageNet‑pretrained baselines, with notable label efficiency and effective adaptation via LoRA.
By Paolo Fraccaro, Gabby Nyirjesy, Daniela Szwarcman, Himanshu Patil, Vishal Gaur, Rohit Lal, Rachel A. Slank, Geoffrey Dawson, Hiyam Debary, Michael K. Barker, Andrew Annex, Vishnu Viswanathan, Zachary Morse, Ethan I. Schaefer, Nikolaos Dionelis, Ankur Kumar, Campbell D. Watson, Manil Maskey, Rebekah I. Dawson-Rigas, Juan Bernab\'e-Moreno, Rahul Ramachandran, Sujit Roy
arXiv:2606. 14776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurate position estimation is crucial for the successful implementation of future lunar landings using autonomous vehicles, especially in dangerous environments with sparse terrain features.
By Batu Candan, Simone Servadio
arXiv:2609.13277v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Lunar orbital missions, such as Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Kaguya/SELENE, Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, and Lunar Prospector, among ot...
By Himanshu Patil, Gabby Nyirjesy, Rachel A. Slank, Vishal Gaur, Daniela Szwarcman, Paolo Fraccaro, Nikolaos Dionelis, Michael K. Barker, Andrew Annex, Vishnu Viswanathan, Zachary Morse, Ethan I. Schaefer, Hiyam Debary, Ankur Kumar, Rohit Lal, Geoffrey Dawson, Campbell Watson, Rebekah I. Dawson-Rigas, Manil Maskey, Juan Bernab\'e-Moreno, Rahul Ramachandran, Sujit Roy