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AI LLM February 24, 2026

Onboard-Targeted Segmentation of Straylight in Space Camera Sensors

Authors

Riccardo Gallon, Fabian Schiemenz, Alessandra Menicucci, Eberhard Gill

Abstract

This study details an artificial intelligence (AI)-based methodology for the semantic segmentation of space camera faults. Specifically, we address the segmentation of straylight effects induced by solar presence around the camera's Field of View (FoV). Anomalous images are sourced from our published dataset. Our approach emphasizes generalization across diverse flare textures, leveraging pre-training on a public dataset (Flare7k++) including flares in various non-space contexts to mitigate the scarcity of realistic space-specific data. A DeepLabV3 model with MobileNetV3 backbone performs the segmentation task. The model design targets deployment in spacecraft resource-constrained hardware. Finally, based on a proposed interface between our model and the onboard navigation pipeline, we develop custom metrics to assess the model's performance in the system-level context.

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arXiv ID: 2602.20709
Provider: ARXIV
Primary Category: cs.CV
Published: 2026-02-24
Fetched: 2026-02-25 06:05

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