Table 5. Software simulation of spacecraft in the background of Earth: Comparison of results with other studies

Proença & Gao (2019) Sharma & D’Amico (2019) Ours
Satellite model Soyuz Tango Pumbaa
Deep learning model ResNet-50 SPN HRNet
Input image size 320 × 240 224 × 224 256 × 192
Color/Gray Color Gray Color
Number of training images 4,500 12,000 3,600
Satellite size 7.48 m 1.30 m 0.30 m
Distance range 10–40 m 3–50 m 1–10 m
Distance error 1.6 m [0.055 0.046 0.78] m 0.044 m
Orientation error 24.9° 8.4254° 11.1°
SPN, spacecraft pose network; HRNet, high-resolution network.