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Star Tracking using an Event Camera

arXiv 1812.02895 ↗First posted 7 Dec 2018cs.CVcited by 30

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Abstract (arXiv)

Star trackers are primarily optical devices that are used to estimate the attitude of a spacecraft by recognising and tracking star patterns. Currently, most star trackers use conventional optical sensors. In this application paper, we propose the usage of event sensors for star tracking. There are potentially two benefits of using event sensors for star tracking: lower power consumption and higher operating speeds. Our main contribution is to formulate an algorithmic pipeline for star tracking from event data that includes novel formulations of rotation averaging and bundle adjustment. In addition, we also release with this paper a dataset for star tracking using event cameras. With this work, we introduce the problem of star tracking using event cameras to the computer vision community, whose expertise in SLAM and geometric optimisation can be brought to bear on this commercially important application.

Key facts. Cited by 30 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). First posted on arXiv 7 Dec 2018.

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Citing papers per year: 2021: 2; 2022: 6; 2023: 4; 2024: 7; 2025: 9; 2026: 2.

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  1. 2024CMax-SLAM: Event-based Rotational-Motion Bundle Adjustment and SLAM System using Contrast Maximizationcited by 31
  2. 2021Spatiotemporal Registration for Event-based Visual Odometrycited by 21
  3. 2022Towards Bridging the Space Domain Gap for Satellite Pose Estimation using Event Sensingcited by 21
  4. 2025Stereo Event-based, 6-DOF Pose Tracking for Uncooperative Spacecraftcited by 18
  5. 2022How Many Events do You Need? Event-based Visual Place Recognition Using Sparse But Varying Pixelscited by 17
  6. 2023Asynchronous Blob Tracker for Event Camerascited by 15
  7. 2026Advances in Global Solvers for 3D Visioncited by 12
  8. 2022Neuromorphic Computing and Sensing in Spacecited by 10
  9. 2022A Neuromorphic Vision-Based Measurement for Robust Relative Localization in Future Space Exploration Missionscited by 9
  10. 2022Globally Optimal Event-Based Divergence Estimation for Ventral Landingcited by 9
  11. 2021Superevents: Towards Native Semantic Segmentation for Event-based Camerascited by 6
  12. 2024Event-based Mosaicing Bundle Adjustmentcited by 5
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  1. 2023Optimality Principles in Spacecraft Neural Guidance and Controlcited by 4
  2. 2024Event-based Structure-from-Orbitcited by 3
  3. 2024Test-Time Certifiable Self-Supervision to Bridge the Sim2Real Gap in Event-Based Satellite Pose Estimationcited by 3
  4. 2024Event-based Photometric Bundle Adjustmentcited by 3
  5. 2025Hardware, Algorithms, and Applications of the Neuromorphic Vision Sensor: a Reviewcited by 3
  6. 2025Event-based Star Tracking under Spacecraft Jitter: the e-STURT Datasetcited by 2
  7. 2025Deep Space Weather Model: Long-Range Solar Flare Prediction from Multi-Wavelength Imagescited by 2
  8. 2022A Preliminary Research on Space Situational Awareness Based on Event Camerascited by 1
  9. 2024A Double Deep Learning-based Solution for Efficient Event Data Coding and Classificationcited by 1
  10. 2025EBS-EKF: Accurate and High Frequency Event-based Star Trackingcited by 1
  11. 2025Event-RGB Fusion for Spacecraft Pose Estimation Under Harsh Lightingcited by 1
  12. 2025Correspondence-Free Fast and Robust Spherical Point Pattern Registrationcited by 1
  13. 2025Benchmarking Deep Learning-Based Object Detection Models on Feature Deficient Astrophotography Imagery Datasetcited by 1
  14. 2026Efficient Onboard Spacecraft Pose Estimation with Event Cameras and Neuromorphic Hardwarecited by 1
  15. 2023Tracking Particles Ejected From Active Asteroid Bennu With Event-Based Visioncited by 0
  16. 2023Spike-based Neuromorphic Computing for Next-Generation Computer Visioncited by 0
  17. 2024Mixing Data-driven and Geometric Models for Satellite Docking Port State Estimation using an RGB or Event Cameracited by 0
  18. 2025Quantifying Accuracy of an Event-Based Star Tracker via Earth's Rotationcited by 0