Kelvins Day

Wednesday 11 Sept 2019, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Amsterdam

Erasmus Auditorium (ESTEC)

Marcus Märtens (ESA), Dario Izzo, Mate Kisantal (ESA Advanced Concepts Team)

Pictures kday.zip

Presentations

• pose_gerard_segmentation.pdf
• pose_kisantal_competition_analysis.pdf
• pose_park_stanford_lab.pdf
• pose_proenca_deep_learning_and_unreal.pdf
• pose_tj_combining_learning_and_geometry.pdf
• probav_aroyo_esgran.pdf
• probav_kalaitzis_highresnet.pdf
• probav_livens_operations_processing_workflow.pdf
• probav_maertens_competition_analysis.pdf
• probav_taccola_diary_of_an_odyssey.pdf
• probav_valsesia_deepsum.pdf
• welcome note.pdf

09:00 Arrival of registered participants at Erasmus Centre, ESTEC

Passing Security, finding the premises, arriving and grabbing a cup of tea or coffee.

1 Kelvins Day Welcome note: Challenges in Space

Official opening of the Kelvins day.

Speakers: Marcus Märtens (ESA), Dario Izzo (ACT)

2 Satellite Pose Estimation Challenge: Analysis and Results

Speaker: Mate Kisantal (ESA Advanced Concepts Team)

3 High-Fidelity Validation and Training of Advanced Distributed Space Systems

Speaker: Jeff Park (Stanford University)

10:30 Break

4 Proba-V Super-resolution: Analysis and Results

Speaker: Marcus Märtens

5 Proba-V: Mission and Spacecraft Overview

Speaker: Stefano Santandrea (ESA)

6 The Vegetation Instrument: a miniaturized high performance payload for daily global vegetation monitoring - a design overview

Speaker: Jorg Versluys

7 The Proba-V operational processing system, serving daily updates on global vegetation

Speaker: Stefan Livens (VITO)

12:00 Lunch at ESTEC restaurant

8 Deep learning and Unreal Engine for Spacecraft Pose Estimation (3rd place)

Speaker: Pedro F. Proença (Surrey Space Centre)

9 Segmentation-driven Satellite Pose Estimation (2nd place)

Speaker: Kyle Gerard (EPFL)

10 Combining Machine Learning and Geometric Optimisation to solve Pose Estimation (1st place)

Speaker: Tat-Jun Chin (University of Adelaide)

14:15 Break

11 ESRGAN approach for earth imaging super resolution

Speakers: Alexander Aroyo (Italian Institute of Technology), Elisa Maiettini (Italian Institute of Technology)

12 Proba-V: A Short Summary of my Odyssey (3rd place)

Speaker: Matteo Taccola (European Space Agency)

13 HighRes-net: Deep MFSR by recursive fusion (2nd place)

Speakers: Michel Deudon (Element AI), Zhichao Lin (Element AI), Freddie Kalaitzis (Element AI)

14 DeepSUM: Deep neural network for Super-resolution of Unregistered Multitemporal images (1st place)

Speaker: Andrea Bordone Molini (Politecnico di Torino)

16:15 Award Ceremony

Award prizes to the best participants