Affiliation:
1. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Abstract
Hazard detection is fundamental for a safe lunar landing. State-of-the-art autonomous lunar hazard detection relies on 2D image-based and 3D Lidar systems. The lunar south pole is challenging for vision-based methods. The low sun inclination and the terrain rich in topographic features create large areas in shadow, hiding the terrain features. The proposed method utilizes a vision transformer (ViT) model, which is a deep learning architecture based on the transformer blocks used in natural language processing, to solve this problem. Our goal is to train the ViT model to extract terrain features information from low-light RGB images. The results show good performances, especially at high altitudes, beating the UNet, one of the most popular convolutional neural networks, in every scenario.
Subject
Electrical and Electronic Engineering,Biochemistry,Instrumentation,Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics,Analytical Chemistry
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