Global Descriptors for Visual Pose Estimation of a Noncooperative Target in Space Rendezvous

This article revisits methods based on global descriptors to estimate the pose of a known object using a monocular camera, in the context of space rendezvous between an autonomous spacecraft and a noncooperative target. These methods estimate the pose by detection, i.e., they do not require any prior information about the pose of the observed object, making them suitable for initial pose acquisiti...