NeRF-based Spacecraft Reconstruction from Close-Range Monocular Imagery Under Illumination Variability and Pose Uncertainty

ArXi:2605.18447v1 Announce Type: new Autonomous rendezvous and proximity operations around uncooperative, unknown spacecraft are critical for active debris removal and on-orbit servicing missions. A key component of such operations is the offline reconstruction of a 3D model of the target from a set of 2D images. This task is challenging due to two main factors. First, in-orbit illumination conditions exhibit considerable variability, and change rapidly over time. Second, the inaccuracy of pose information in the images, results in 3D reconstruction uncertainty.