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Record W4413565150 · doi:10.47611/jsrhs.v14i1.8651

Reduced Image Classes in Modified U-Net for Mars Rover Navigation

2025· article· en· W4413565150 on OpenAlexaff
Victoria Lloyd

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Student Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
Canadian institutionsFraser Health
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMars Exploration ProgramAstrobiologyMars roverNet (polyhedron)Computer scienceExploration of MarsArtificial intelligenceEnvironmental scienceComputer visionRemote sensingGeologyPhysicsMathematics

Abstract

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Rover navigation currently relies on algorithms to automatically determine their path. This is because the distance from Earth to Mars means that real time communication is impossible. Current navigation algorithms have difficulties in identifying terrain, causing problems such as becoming stuck in soft terrain. Furthermore, the available computation power and memory are limited on a rover. This paper presents both a modified U-Net model to identify parts of the terrain and combining multiple classes to have less output classes. The proposed method was to combine classes like soil and bedrock into more generalized classes, like traversable and untraversable, to reduce memory usage and needed computational power. Combining the classes shows that a model can be trained faster, and in some cases even improve. Testing this method on low resolution images has shown improved results in testing. After training, a three-class model is able to yield a higher mIoU of 0.4583 on a test set compared to the full five-class model, which achieved 0.3451. This method is non-specific to U-Net and can be applied to many different models. Combining this method with other models and larger datasets during training could be an option of improving the accuracy of models running on less processing power, allowing for use on platforms such as Mars rovers.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.760
Threshold uncertainty score0.268

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.121
GPT teacher head0.507
Teacher spread0.386 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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