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MarsFM: Shading-Regularized Flow Matching for Martian Relief Estimation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 17, 2026 · UTC

We present MarsFM, an image-conditioned latent flow-matching model for local Martian relief estimation from single-band HiRISE RED orthoimagery. The method combines a pretrained generative prior with stereo-derived geometric supervision and a differentiable Lunar--Lambert shading objective. Relief, normal, gradient, curvature, and ordinal terms constrain complementary aspects of terrain structure, while a positive-affine-invariant image comparison constrains rendered appearance. An evaluation comprising 2024 gathered patch records per integration-step count yields mean affine-aligned RMSE betw

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