MARTIAN: A Rendering Framework for Aerial Mars Imagery from HiRISE Orbital Data
Aerial navigation on Mars requires vision-based pipelines that are robust to the diverse illumination conditions and terrain morphology of the Martian surface. A key bottleneck for training and evaluating such methods is the scarcity of large-scale, annotated aerial datasets. We present MARTIAN, an open-source Blender-based rendering framework that leverages real HiRISE orbital map products to synthesize realistic aerial views of the Martian terrain under controllable lighting conditions and at varying altitudes. MARTIAN generates observations with accurate pose annotations, directly addressing the scarcity of training data for vision-based navigation on Mars. The framework has been valid...
| Authors | Dario Pisanti, Georgios Georgakis |
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| Primary category | cs.CV |
| Published | 28 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 28 May 2026 |
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