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Monday: 7 October 2024
| 7:15 | Registration |
| 8:00 | Welcome |
| 8:20 | Monocular Horizon Navigation (Paper SIW24-01) W. H. Driessen (Georgia Tech), A. J. Liounis (NASA GSFC), S. Kaki (Jacobs Technology), D. McGann (Carnegie Mellon University), P. Mckee (NASA JSC), A. G. Yew (NASA GSFC), and A. Tennenbaum (NASA GSFC) |
| 8:40 | A Radiometric Calibration Procedure for Optical Hardware-In-the-Loop Stimulators (Paper SIW24-02) F. Ornati, P. Panicucci, A. Pizzetti, and F. Topputo (Politecnico di Milano) |
| 9:00 | Camera Exposure Time Determination for Artemis I Lunar Flyby (Paper SIW24-03) K. R. Kobylka (NASA JSC) |
| 9:20 | Initial Concept of Operations for OSIRIS-APEX Optical Navigation and Astrometry Science at Apophis (Paper SIW24-04) C. Adam, D. S. Nelson, E. M. Sahr, J. Y. Pelgrift, J.M. Leonard, D. Wibben, P. G. Antreasian (KinetX), A. J. Liounis, K.M. Getzandanner, M. C. Moreau (NASA GSFC), D. R. Golish, A. T. Polit, M. C. Nolan, and D. N. DellaGiustina (University of Arizona) |
| 9:40 | BREAK |
| 10:00 | Towards Autonomous Optical Navigation: Approach and Proximity Operations Strategy for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (Paper SIW24-05) J. Villa (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Sciences), M. Pugliatti (University of Colorado Boulder), M. Salem, R. Klaib (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Sciences), J. McMahon (University of Colorado Boulder), and J. Knittel (Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Sciences) |
| 10:20 | Optical Navigation and Orbit Reconstruction of NASA's Lucy Flyby of Asteroid Dinkinesh and Its Moon (Paper SIW24-06) D. Nelson, E. M. Sahr, J. Fischetti, J. L. Geeraert, E. Lessac-Chenen, C. D. Adam, J. Y. Pelgrift, D. Stanbridge (KinetX), and K. Berry (NASA GSFC) |
| 10:40 | The Lunar Flashight Optical Navigation Experiment (Paper SIW24-07) J. Christian, A. Thrasher, P. Soni, L. Smego, R. Isaac, J. Nolan, M. Pledger, E. G. Lightsey (Georgia Tech), and W. J. Ready (Georgia Tech Research Institute) |
| 11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:10 | KEYNOTE: Geometry and Motion in Projective Grassmann and Clifford Algebras Eric Lengyel, CTO, Terathon Software |
| 12:10 | LUNCH |
| 1:40 | Software for Optical Navigation and Instrument Calibration (SONIC) (Paper SIW24-08) T. Y. Mina, A. Thrasher, S. Henry, M. Mancini, P. Soni, J. Nolan, B. Benjadol, and J. Christian (Georgia Tech) |
| 2:00 | In-Flight Calibration of the Intuitive Machines IM-1 Optical Navigation Imagers (Paper SIW24-09) J. Y. Pelgrift, D. S. Nelson, C. Adam (KinetX), G. Molina, M. Hansen, and A. Hollister (Intuitive Machines) |
| 2:20 | Demonstration of the Orion Optical Navigation System on Artemis I (Paper SIW24-10) R. J. Inman (NASA JSC) |
| 2:40 | BREAK |
| 3:00 | Simultaneous Orientation and Scale Estimator (Paper SIW24-11) Y. Cheng and A. Ansar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 3:20 | Kaguya Terrian Camera DEM Improvement (Paper SIW24-12) Y. Cheng, A. Ansar, and Y. Iwashita (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 3:40 | Learning Illumination Invariant Features for Lunar South Pole with Deep Learning (Paper SIW24-13) G. Georgakis, A. Ansar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 4:00 | Tutorial: LuNaMaps Developed Tools and Processes for Mapping the Lunar Surface The LunaMaps Team |
| 4:30 | BREAK |
| 4:50 | Tutorial: Mathematical Foundations of Projective Exterior Algebra Eric Lengyel (Terathon Software) |
| 5:45 | FINISH |
Tuesday: 8 October 2024
| 7:00 | Registration |
| 8:00 | Multi-modal, Multi-scale Representation Learning for Satellite Imagery Analysis Just Needs a Good ALiBi (Paper SIW24-14) P. Kage and P. Andreadis (University of Edinburgh) |
| 8:20 | Applying Neural Radiance Fields to Asteroid Shape Modeling (Paper SIW24-15) M. W. Givens (Advanced Space) |
| 8:40 | Seeing in the Dark: Feature Extraction and Matching in Low-light Regions Using Deep Learning (Paper SIW24-16) D. Kapu, T. Driver, P. Tsiotras (Georgia Tech) |
| 9:00 | BREAK |
| 9:20 | Machine Learning for Autonomous Visual Navigation Under Variable Illumination Conditions (Paper SIW24-17) A. M. Mitchell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), A. Johnson (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and R. Linares (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) |
| 9:40 | Keypoint-Based Stereophotoclinometry (Paper SIW24-18) T. Driver (Georgia Tech), A. Vaughan, Y. Cheng, A. Ansar (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), J. Christian, and P. Tsiotras (Georgia Tech) |
| 10:00 | High-Precision Terrain Relative Navigation for Terminal Descent and Landing (Paper SIW24-19) I. R. Witte, L. A. Marinello, and S. N. Jenkins (John Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) |
| 10:20 | BREAK |
| 10:40 | Progress on Development of an Intelligent Landing System for Europa and Other Planetary Bodies (Paper SIW24-20) A. E. Johnson, A. Katake, T. Setterfield, and J. Butler (Jet Propulsion Laboratory) |
| 11:00 | On-Orbit Detection, Identification, and Tracking of Geographic Targets with a Long Wave Infrared Camera (Paper SIW24-21) J. Carragher, A. Tyler, B. Gunter (Georgia Tech), D. Rowen, P. Leeds, and S. Cortes (The Aerospace Corporation) |
| 11:20 | LiDAR-based Lunar Crater Volume Estimation (Paper SIW24-23) E. R. Damon, C. R. Valenta, and D. A. Carr (Georgia Tech) |
| 11:40 | Crater Detector Evaluation Using Artemis I Imagery (Paper SIW24-24) J. S. McCabe (NASA JSC) and S. G. Catalan (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 12:00 | LUNCH |
| 1:40 | Optimal Multi-View Pushbroom Triangulation (Paper SIW24-25) M. Mancini, S. Henry, and J. Christian (Georgia Tech) |
| 2:00 | Gaussian Process Sequential Filtering for Small Body SLAM with Silhouette-Based Measurements (Paper SIW24-26) Q. P. Moon (University of Texas at Austin), C. Hollenberg (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), N. Lifset, E. M. Zucchelli (University of Texas at Austin), D. P. Lubey (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), B. A. Jones, R. P. Russell, and S. Bhaskaran (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 2:20 | Autonomous Horizon-Based Optical Navigation on Near-Planar Cislunar Libration Point Orbits (Paper SIW24-27) Y. Shimane, K. Ho (Georgia Tech), and A. Weiss (MitsubishiELectric Research Laboratories) |
| 2:40 | Autonomous Horizon-based Asteroid Navigation With Observability Enhancing Maneuvers (Paper SIW24-28) A. A. Anibha and K. Oguri (Purdue University) |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
| 3:20 | Optical Deep-space Instrument for Navigation (ODIN) (Paper SIW24-29) A. Thrasher (Georgia Tech), R. Inman, R. Pecourt, R. Lovelace (NASA JSC), B. Russell-McCorkle, J. Christian (Georgia Tech) |
| 3:40 | Field Testing of a Wearable Vision Navigation System for Astronaut Navigation on the Lunar Surface (Paper SIW24-30) C. E. Mario, B. Streetman, C. Cruz, T. J. Steiner, and K. R. Duda (The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory) |
| 4:00 | Simulation of Lunar Terrain for Hazard Detection and Relative Navigation Development and Testing (Paper SIW24-31) M. E. Mohammadi, T. Stephans, L. Moon, T. Lincoln, R. Chen, P. Ribas, A. Horacio, B. Podobnik, A. Begley, C. Owens, and A. Horchler (Astrobotic) |
| 4:20 | Using Simulated Lunar Imagery to Train Real Networks (Paper SIW24-32) K. McCleary, H. Zhang, P. R.M. Fisch, Z. Manchester, and B. Lucia (Carnegie Mellon University) |
| 4:40 | BREAK |
| 5:00 | RECEPTION (GT HOTEL) |
| 6:00 | DINNER AND SOCIAL (GT HOTEL) |
Wednesday: 9 October 2024
| 8:00 | Registration |
| 8:20 | Uncertainty Quantification of a Machine Learning-Based Pose Estimation Measurement Model (Paper SIW24-33) S. A. Agrawal, B. A. Jones, and M. R. Akella (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 8:40 | Line-based Monocular SLAM for Spacecraft RPO (Paper SIW24-34) I. G. Velentzas, M. Dor, and P. Tsiotras (Georgia Tech) |
| 9:00 | On Non-Gaussian Noise In Angles-Only Navigation (Paper SIW24-35) J. S. McCabe (NASA JSC) |
| 9:20 | Relative Navigation Performance of a Constellation of Small Satellites for Radio Astronomy about the Earth-Sun L2 Point (Paper SIW24-36) G. P. Badura, N. Un, E. Arunkumar, K. Meng (Georgia Tech Research Institute), S. Henry (Georgia Tech), S. Storm, K. Burkhardt, R. Decker, C. R. Valenta (Georgia Tech Research Institute), J. Wise, and J. Christian (Georgia Tech) |
| 9:40 | BREAK |
| 10:00 | SatSplatYOLO: 3D Gaussian Splatting-based Virtual Object Detection Ensembles for Satellite Feature Recognition (Paper SIW24-37) V. M. Nguyen, E. Sandidge, T. Mahendrakar, and R. T. White (Florida Institute of Technology) |
| 10:20 | Lightweight Unknown Spacecraft Tracking During Proximity Operations (Paper SIW24-38) K. D. Shiller and M. R. Akella (University of Texas at Austin) |
| 10:40 | A Fizeau Imaging Telescope for Detection of Faint Stellar Companions and Exo-Planets (Paper SIW24-39) D. Hope (Georgia Tech Research Institute), S. Prasad (University of Minnesota), S. Jefferies, F. Baron, L. Garcia (Georgia State University), and Megan Birch (Georgia State University and Georgia Tech Research Institute) |
| 11:00 | BREAK |
| 11:20 | KEYNOTE: Event Camera Applications in Space Domain Awareness Marcus Holzinger, Professor, University of Colorado Boulder |
| 12:20 | LUNCH |
| 2:00 | Real-time Event-based Sensor Simulation for Space Applications (Paper SIW24-40) I. M. Martin, M. N. Dunstan (University of Dundee), M. Sanchez-Gestido, and J. Belhadj (ESTEC ESA) |
| 2:20 | A Radiometric Consistent Render Procedure for Planets and Moons (Paper SIW24-41) A. Pizzetti, P. Panicucci, and F. Topputo (Politecnico di Milano) |
| 2:40 | Generative Modeling for Topography Super-Resolution on the Moon (Paper SIW24-42) M. Repasky (Georgia Tech), E. Mazarico, S. Bertone, M. Barker, T. Sabaka (NASA GSFC), and Y. Xie (Georgia Tech) |
| 3:00 | BREAK |
| 3:20 | Tutorial: Mathematical Foundations of Projective Geometric Algebra Eric Lengyel (Terathon Software) |
| 4:20 | Tutorial: Applications of Geometric Algebra Russell Carpenter (NASA GSFC) |
| 4:50 | CLOSING REMARKS |
| 5:00 | FINISH |