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Variational Probabilistic Multi-Hypothesis Tracking

Information Theory 2021-10-26 v1 Robotics Systems and Control Systems and Control math.IT

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel multi-target tracking (MTT) algorithm for scenarios with arbitrary numbers of measurements per target. We propose the variational probabilistic multi-hypothesis tracking (VPMHT) algorithm based on the variational Bayesian expectation-maximisation (VBEM) algorithm to resolve the MTT problem in the classic PMHT algorithm. With the introduction of variational inference, the proposed VPMHT handles track-loss much better than the conventional probabilistic multi-hypothesis tracking (PMHT) while preserving a similar or even better tracking accuracy. Extensive numerical simulations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.2110.11954,
  title  = {Variational Probabilistic Multi-Hypothesis Tracking},
  author = {Shuoyuan Xu and Hyo-Sang Shin and Antonios Tsourdos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.11954},
  year   = {2021}
}