cs.CV Archives - Astrobiology

Image-based query examples for Task 3 (Global Geo-Localization) -- cs.CV

Astrogeology, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Desert Worlds, Exploration Gear & Tech, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Mars, Missions & Hardware, Status Report

MarsRetrieval: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Planetary-Scale Geospatial Retrieval on Mars

by Keith CowingFebruary 20, 2026February 20, 2026

Data-driven approaches like deep learning are rapidly advancing planetary science, particularly in Mars exploration. Despite recent progress, most existing benchmarks remain confined to closed-set supervised visual tasks and do not […]

Representative samples from selected Mars-Bench datasets, from all three task categories. -- cs.CV

Artemis & Lunar Exploration, Away Teams & Field Reports, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Missions & Hardware, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Status Report

Mars-Bench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Foundation Models for Mars Science Tasks

by Keith CowingNovember 28, 2025November 28, 2025

Foundation models have enabled rapid progress across many specialized domains by leveraging large-scale pre-training on unlabeled data, demonstrating strong generalization to a variety of downstream tasks.

Example of different Remote Sensing modalities. -- cs.CV

Atmospheres, Climate, Weather, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exoplanets, -moons, -comets, Habitable Zones, Icy Worlds, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Status Report, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Habitable World Recon: Foundation Models For Remote Sensing and Earth Observation: A Survey

by Keith CowingMay 24, 2025May 24, 2025

Remote Sensing (RS) is a crucial technology for observing, monitoring, and interpreting our planet, with broad applications across geoscience, economics, humanitarian fields, etc.

Trajectories along the Eiffel Tower hydrothermal vent. Camera poses were retrieved using COLMAP (Schonberger ¨ and Frahm 2016). 3D model was meshed and textured using OpenMVS (Cernea 2020). -- cs.CV

AI - Data - Apps - Cybernetics, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Exploration Gear & Tech, Habitable Zones, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving, Sample Return, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography

Away Team Deep-Sea Datasets: Long-Term Visual Localization Of The Eiffel Tower Hydrothermal Vent

by Keith CowingJuly 10, 2024July 7, 2024

Visual localization plays an important role in the positioning and navigation of robotics systems within previously visited environments.