Publications

2027

1. WACV’27

   SCOPE: Saliency-Guided Cross-Domain Alignment for 6D Object Pose Estimation

   Nidhal Eddine Chenni, Arunkumar Rathinam, and Djamila Aouada

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jan 2027

   Accepted
2. WACV’27

   TALON: Token-Aligned Lightweight Adapters for 6-DoF Spacecraft Pose Estimation

   Abid Ali, Arunkumar Rathinam, Nidhal Eddine Chenni, and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Jan 2027

   Accepted

2026

1. NeurIPS’26

   Eclipse: A Spacecraft Rendezvous Trajectories Dataset with Controlled In-Orbit Lighting Conditions

   Nidhal Eddine Chenni, Arunkumar Rathinam, and Djamila Aouada

   In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2026

   Accepted
2. iSAIRAS’26

   Domain-Aware Conformal Prediction for Trustworthy Spacecraft Pose Estimation under Sim-to-Real Shift

   Nidhal Eddine Chenni, Arunkumar Rathinam, and Djamila Aouada

   In Joint i-SAIRAS & ISPARO Conference 2026, Nov 2026

   Accepted
3. IROS’26

   Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Sim-to-Real Object Pose Estimation with Contrastive Alignment and Pseudo-Label Refinement

   Nidhal Eddine Chenni, Arunkumar Rathinam, and Djamila Aouada

   In 2026 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Oct 2026
4. ICRA’26

   

   Annotation Free Spacecraft Detection and Segmentation using Vision Language Models

   Samet Hicsonmez, Jose Sosa, Dan Pineau, and 4 more authors

   In 2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Vienna, Austria, Jun 2026

   Bib PDF Code Website

   @inproceedings{hicsonmez2025domain6,
     title = {Annotation Free Spacecraft Detection and Segmentation using Vision Language Models},
     author = {Hicsonmez, Samet and Sosa, Jose and Pineau, Dan and Singh, Inder Pal and Rathinam, Arunkumar and Shabayek, Abd El Rahman and Aouada, Djamila},
     booktitle = {2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
     location = {Vienna, Austria},
     year = {2026},
     month = jun,
     publisher = {IEEE},
   }

5. CVPRW’26

   Efficient Onboard Spacecraft Pose Estimation with Event Cameras and Neuromorphic Hardware

   Arunkumar Rathinam, J. Lecomte, J. Reelsen, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, Jun 2026

2025

1. ASTRA’25

   Motion-Aware ViT-Based Framework for Monocular 6-DoF Spacecraft Pose Estimation

   Jose Angel Sosa Martinez, Dan Pineau, Arunkumar Rathinam, and 2 more authors

   In 18th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), Leiden, Netherlands, Oct 2025
2. ASTRA’25

   Bridging the Synthetic-Real Gap: Supervised Domain Adaptation for Robust Spacecraft 6-DoF Pose Estimation

   Inder Pal Singh, Nidhal Eddine Chenni, Abd El Rahman Shabayek, and 2 more authors

   In 18th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), Leiden, Netherlands, Oct 2025
3. ASTRA’25

   Domain Adaptive Object Detection for Space Applications with Real-Time Constraints

   Samet Hicsonmez, Abd El Rahman Shabayek, Arunkumar Rathinam, and 1 more author

   In 18th Symposium on Advanced Space Technologies in Robotics and Automation (ASTRA), Leiden, Netherlands, Oct 2025
4. J. Power Sources

   AI-enabled thermal monitoring of commercial (PHEV) Li-ion pouch cells with Feature-Adapted Unsupervised Anomaly Detection

   Abdelrahman Shabayek, Arunkumar Rathinam, Matthieu Ruthven, and 2 more authors

   Journal of Power Sources, Feb 2025

   DOI
5. RA-L

   

   Hybrid Attention for Robust RGB-T Pedestrian Detection in Real-World Conditions

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Leo Pauly, Wassim Rharbaoui, and 4 more authors

   IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Jan 2025

   DOI Bib PDF Code Website

   @article{rathinam2024hybrid,
     title = {Hybrid Attention for Robust RGB-T Pedestrian Detection in Real-World Conditions},
     author = {Rathinam, Arunkumar and Pauly, Leo and Rharbaoui, Wassim and Kacem, Anis and Gaudilli{\`e}re, Vincent and Aouada, Djamila and others},
     journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
     volume = {10},
     number = {1},
     pages = {319--326},
     year = {2025},
     month = jan,
     publisher = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/LRA.2024.3504296},
   }

6. Preprint

   Thermal Anomaly Detection for Battery Safety in Electric Vehicles

   Abd El Rahman Shabayek, Tazdin Amietszajew, Arunkumar Rathinam, and 1 more author

   SSRN preprint, 2025

   DOI

2024

1. Aerospace

   Lean Demonstration of On-Board Thermal Anomaly Detection Using Machine Learning

   Jan Thoemel, Konstantinos Kanavouras, Maanasa Sachidanand, and 5 more authors

   Aerospace, Jun 2024

   DOI
2. ICRA’24

   

   SPADES: A Realistic Spacecraft Pose Estimation Dataset using Event Sensing

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Haytam Qadadri, and Djamila Aouada

   In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 2024

   DOI Bib PDF Code Website

   @inproceedings{rathinam2024spades,
     title = {{SPADES: A Realistic Spacecraft Pose Estimation Dataset using Event Sensing}},
     author = {Rathinam, Arunkumar and Qadadri, Haytam and Aouada, Djamila},
     booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
     location = {Yokohama, Japan},
     year = {2024},
     month = may,
     publisher = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10611231},
   }

3. Dataset

   SPARK 2024: Datasets for Spacecraft Semantic Segmentation and Spacecraft Trajectory Estimation

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Mohamed Adel Mohamed Ali, Vincent Gaudilliere, and 1 more author

   Feb 2024

   Dataset, Zenodo

   DOI
4. WACV’24

   Discriminator-free unsupervised domain adaptation for multi-label image classification

   Inder Pal Singh, Enjie Ghorbel, Anis Kacem, and 2 more authors

   In 2024 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2024

   DOI

2023

1. JSSE

   Zero-G Lab: A multi-purpose facility for emulating space operations

   Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Mohatashem Reyaz Makhdoomi, Barış Can Yalçın, and 8 more authors

   Journal of Space Safety Engineering, Dec 2023

   DOI
2. Acta Astronaut.

   A survey on deep learning-based monocular spacecraft pose estimation: Current state, limitations and prospects

   Leo Pauly, Wassim Rharbaoui, Carl Shneider, and 3 more authors

   Acta Astronautica, Nov 2023

   DOI
3. IROS’23

   

   3D-Aware Object Localization using Gaussian Implicit Occupancy Function

   Vincent Gaudillière, Leo Pauly, Arunkumar Rathinam, and 3 more authors

   In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, USA, Oct 2023

   DOI Bib PDF Code Website

   @inproceedings{gaudilliere20233d,
     title = {{3D-Aware Object Localization using Gaussian Implicit Occupancy Function}},
     author = {Gaudilli{\`e}re, Vincent and Pauly, Leo and Rathinam, Arunkumar and Sanchez, Albert Garcia and Musallam, Mohamed Adel and Aouada, Djamila},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
     location = {Detroit, MI, USA},
     year = {2023},
     month = oct,
     publisher = {IEEE},
     doi = {10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10342399},
   }

4. ECCVW’22

   CubeSat-CDT: A Cross-Domain Dataset for 6-DoF Trajectory Estimation of a Symmetric Spacecraft

   Mohamed Adel Musallam, Arunkumar Rathinam, Vincent Gaudillière, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 17th European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ECCVW 2022), 2023

   DOI
5. IJAE

   Lessons from a space lab: An image acquisition perspective

   Leo Pauly, Michele Lynn Jamrozik, Miguel Ortiz Del Castillo, and 8 more authors

   International Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 2023

   DOI
6. Preprint

   Establishing a Multi-Functional Space Operations Emulation Facility: Insights from the Zero-G Lab

   Miguel Olivares-Mendez, Mohatashem Reyaz Makhdoomi, Vivek Muralidharan, and 8 more authors

   SSRN preprint, 2023

   DOI

2022

1. IAC’22

   Pose estimation of a known texture-less space target using convolutional neural networks

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Vincent Gaudilliere, Leo Pauly, and 1 more author

   In 73rd International Astronautical Congress, Paris, France, Sep 2022
2. Dataset

   SPARK 2022 Dataset: Spacecraft Detection and Trajectory Estimation

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Vincent Gaudilliere, Mohamed Adel Mohamed Ali, and 3 more authors

   Jun 2022

   Dataset, Zenodo

   DOI
3. Dataset

   AKM Dataset: Textureless Space Target Dataset

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Vincent Gaudilliere, Leo Pauly, and 1 more author

   2022

   Dataset, Zenodo

   DOI

2021

1. Front. Robot. AI

   Intelligent Spacecraft Visual GNC Architecture With the State-Of-the-Art AI Components for On-Orbit Manipulation

   Zhou Hao, RB Ashith Shyam, Arunkumar Rathinam, and 1 more author

   Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021

   DOI
2. Front. Robot. AI

   Autonomous robots for space: Trajectory learning and adaptation using imitation

   RB Ashith Shyam, Zhou Hao, Umberto Montanaro, and 5 more authors

   Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021

   DOI
3. Book Chapter

   Autonomous visual navigation for spacecraft on-orbit operations

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Zhou Hao, and Yang Gao

   In Space Robotics and Autonomous Systems: Technologies, Advances and Applications, 2021

   DOI

2020

1. iSAIRAS’20

   On-Orbit Relative Navigation Near a Known Target Using Monocular Vision and Convolutional Neural Networks for Pose Estimation

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Yang Gao

   In International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (iSAIRAS), Virtual, 2020
2. UK-RAS’20

   Trajectory Tracking and Control of Multiple Robot Arms on a Free-Floating Spacecraft for Debris Removal

   Ashith Shyam, Arunkumar Rathinam, and Zhou Hao

   In 3rd UK-RAS Conference, Leicestershire, UK, 2020

2019

1. JGCD

   Octree-Based Mascon Model for Small Body Gravity Fields

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G Dempster

   Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, Nov 2019

   DOI
2. Small body gravimetry using SLAM-based autonomous navigation

   Arunkumar Rathinam

   UNSW Sydney, 2019

2018

1. IAC’18

   Vision based state estimation using a graph-SLAM approach for proximity operations near an asteroid

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G. Dempster

   In 69th International Astronautical Congress, Bremen, Germany, 2018
2. SGC’18

   Orbital analysis of a reusable CubeSat platform to relay communications for rovers on an asteroid

   Arunkumar Rathinam

   In Move an Asteroid Competition – Space Generation Congress, Bremen, Germany, 2018

   Winner

   Winner, Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition (SGAC), 2018.

2017

1. IAC’17

   Monocular vision based simultaneous localization and mapping for close proximity navigation near an asteroid

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G. Dempster

   In 68th International Astronautical Congress, Adelaide, Australia, 2017
2. ASRC’17

   3D reconstruction of an asteroid shape using visual SLAM for autonomous navigation

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G. Dempster

   In 17th Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC), Sydney, Australia, 2017

2016

1. ION GNSS+’16

   Effective Utilization of Space Service Volume through Combined GNSS

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G. Dempster

   In Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2016), Portland, Oregon, Nov 2016

   DOI
2. ASRC’16

   Geometrical assessment of Multi-GNSS prospects for Space Service Volume

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G. Dempster

   In 16th Australian Space Research Conference (ASRC), Melbourne, Australia, 2016
3. IGNSS’16

   Multi-GNSS for Space Service Volume

   Arunkumar Rathinam and Andrew G. Dempster

   In International Global Navigation Satellite Systems (IGNSS) 2016, Sydney, Australia, 2016

2015

1. EUCASS’15

   Structural Design, Integration of Micro Propulsion Units and Thermal Analysis of University of Wuerzburg’s Experiment (UWE) Satellite Platform

   Arunkumar Rathinam, Philip Bangert, Daniel Bock, and 3 more authors

   In 6th European Conference for AeroSpace Sciences (EUCASS), 2015
2. Design and development of UWE-4: integration of electric propulsion units, structural analysis and orbital heating analysis

   Arunkumar Rathinam

   2015

   Master’s thesis, University of Würzburg