{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/star-tracking-using-an-event-camera","title":"Star Tracking using an Event Camera","arxiv_id":"1812.02895","date":"2018-12-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Tat-Jun Chin","Samya Bagchi","Anders Eriksson","Andre van Schaik"],"abstract":"Star trackers are primarily optical devices that are used to estimate the\nattitude of a spacecraft by recognising and tracking star patterns. Currently,\nmost star trackers use conventional optical sensors. In this application paper,\nwe propose the usage of event sensors for star tracking. There are potentially\ntwo benefits of using event sensors for star tracking: lower power consumption\nand higher operating speeds. Our main contribution is to formulate an\nalgorithmic pipeline for star tracking from event data that includes novel\nformulations of rotation averaging and bundle adjustment. In addition, we also\nrelease with this paper a dataset for star tracking using event cameras. With\nthis work, we introduce the problem of star tracking using event cameras to the\ncomputer vision community, whose expertise in SLAM and geometric optimisation\ncan be brought to bear on this commercially important application.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.02895v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02895v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"star-tracking-using-an-event-camera","repo_url":"https://github.com/uzh-rpg/event-based_vision_resources","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok"}},{"paper_slug":"star-tracking-using-an-event-camera","repo_url":"https://github.com/Ryan-Faulkner/StarTrackingWithAnEventCamera","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1812.02895","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}