SpaceDebris Localizer

Use LocateAnything-3B to ground debris, satellite fragments, and spacecraft components in space imagery.

How it works: Upload a space or satellite image and enter a natural-language prompt describing what to locate. The model grounds your query in the image and returns bounding box coordinates. Detection quality depends on image resolution, object visibility, and model grounding capability.

Example Prompts

Click an example to load it into the prompt field.

Space Debris Prompts

SpaceDebris Localizer is a hackathon prototype demonstrating how NVIDIA's LocateAnything-3B vision-language model can be applied to orbital debris localization and satellite component identification.

Capabilities

  • Open-set object detection from natural-language prompts
  • Bounding-box grounding for arbitrary visual concepts
  • Structured output with pixel-coordinate parsing

Limitations

  • The model was trained on general grounding data, not specifically orbital imagery
  • Detection quality depends heavily on image resolution and object clarity
  • Small debris fragments may not be reliably detected
  • This is a proof-of-concept, not a production debris tracking system

Model

  • nvidia/LocateAnything-3B on Hugging Face
  • 3B parameter vision-language model with Parallel Box Decoding
  • Coordinates are normalized to [0, 1000] and converted to pixel space