SPARK Challenge : SPAcecraft Recognition leveraging Knowledge of Space Environment

Schedule

Challenge Timeline

Milestone Date
Pre-Registration Open and Release of Training Datasets January 15, 2026
Challenge Registration and Release of Test Datasets February 12, 2026
Submission of Results February 28, 2026
Paper Submission March 12, 2026
Paper Decisions March 26, 2026
Camera-ready Submission April 11, 2026
Announcement of Winners At the workshop

The team behind the Challenge

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Djamila Aouada

is a Associate Professor, and Chief Scientist, Head of Computer Vision, Imaging and Machine Intelligence (CVI2) research group and Deputy Director of SnT at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg. She is also co-head of the Zero-G Space Lab. Her research interests include 3D vision (shape modelling, RGB-D data) and multisensor fusion. Djamila served as Chair of SHARP Workshops (ECCV‘20, CVPR‘21, CVPR‘22, ICCV‘23), Chair of SPARK at ICIP‘21, Area Chair at 3DV‘20 and 3DV‘22, Program Chair at 3DV‘21, General Chair at RTIP2R‘22, and Co-organizer of AI4Space at ECCV‘22 and at CVPR’24. She Served as AC at ECCV’24, Program Chair at EUVIP‘23 and will serve as General Chair at EUVIP’26.

djamila.aouada(at)uni.lu

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Arunkumar Rathinam

is Research Scientist at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT) at the University of Luxembourg and is associated with Computer Vision, Machine Intelligence and Imaging (CVI2) research group. His research interests include vision-based spacecraft navigation for rendezvous and proximity operations especially 6D pose estimation, data fusion, domain adaptation, neuromorphic vision. Arunkumar served as organizer for SPARK Workshops (ECCV’22 and CVPR‘22), Co-organizer of AI4Space at CVPR‘24.

arunkumar.rathinam(at)uni.lu

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Nidhal Eddine Chenni
is a Doctoral Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability, and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg, within the Computer Vision, Imaging and Machine Intelligence (CVI2) research group, under the supervision of Dr. Djamila Aouada. He holds an Engineering Degree in Intelligent Systems and Data. His research interests include domain adaptation, pose estimation, and deep learning for space autonomy.

nidhal.chenni(at)uni.lu