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HAT: Hypothesis-Anchored Tracking for Video Monocular Spacecraft Pose Estimation

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 18, 2026 · UTC

Monocular 6-DoF pose estimation of non-cooperative targets is important for on-orbit servicing and debris removal. A single-image estimator can confuse near-symmetric spacecraft orientations, and tracking can preserve an incorrect pose. We present Hypothesis-Anchored Tracking (HAT), a causal framework that uses inter-frame motion to select among competing CAD-based pose hypotheses before alignment and fusion. Rather than independently choosing the highest-scoring hypothesis in each image, HAT retains competing orientation histories and selects a pose to anchor the relative trajectory estimated

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