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GeoDistill-Refine: Silhouette-First Geometry Distillation for Annotation-Free Spacecraft Segmentation
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- GeoDistill-Refine trains compact spacecraft segmentation networks using SAM 3 pseudo-labels without manual annotations, stabilizing predictions through multi-prompt fusion and geometric refinement.
- Why it matters
- Satellite imagery engineers need fast, annotation-free spacecraft detection for real-time or resource-constrained deployment scenarios requiring boundary precision.
- Watch out
- Method relies on SAM 3 quality and prompt selection; geometric refinement branches exist only during training, so deployment gains depend on distillation success.
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