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We propose a message passing algorithm for tracking of clutter signals in MIMO radar. The method exploits basis expansion to linearise the signal model, to enable mean field approach for tracking the posterior distribution of the clutter as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Troels Pedersen

We present an algorithm for obtaining an optimal control policy for hybrid dynamical systems in cluttered environments. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to have a locally optimal solution for this specific problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Shushman Choudhury , Yifan Hou , Gilwoo Lee , Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

One of the outstanding challenges of cross-identification is multiplicity: detections in crowded regions of the sky are often linked to more than one candidate associations of similar likelihoods. We map the resulting maximum likelihood…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Tamas Budavari , Amitabh Basu

The non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) is a widely used measurement model that allows for an object to generate multiple measurements over time. However, it can be difficult to efficiently and reliably track multiple objects under this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Runze Gan , Qing Li , Simon Godsill

A novel combination of established data analysis techniques for reconstructing all charged-particle tracks in high energy collisions is proposed. It uses all information available in a collision event while keeping competing choices open as…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2018-07-02 Ferenc Siklér

There is an increasing need for high density data storage devices driven by the increased demand of consumer electronics. In this work, we consider a data storage system that operates by encoding information as topographic profiles on a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-06-28 Naveen Kumar , Pranav Agarwal , Aditya Ramamoorthy , Murti Salapaka

We present CLIPPER (Consistent LInking, Pruning, and Pairwise Error Rectification), a framework for robust data association in the presence of noise and outliers. We formulate the problem in a graph-theoretic framework using the notion of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Parker C. Lusk , Kaveh Fathian , Jonathan P. How

Collective perception is a key aspect for autonomous driving in smart cities as it aims to combine the local environment models of multiple intelligent vehicles in order to overcome sensor limitations. A crucial part of multi-sensor fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-27 Laura M. Wolf , Vincent Albert Wolff , Simon Steuernagel , Kolja Thormann , Marcus Baum

Sampling-based model predictive control (MPC) optimization methods, such as Model Predictive Path Integral (MPPI), have recently shown promising results in various robotic tasks. However, it might produce an infeasible trajectory when the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ihab S. Mohamed , Kai Yin , Lantao Liu

We consider the problem of grasping in clutter. While there have been motion planners developed to address this problem in recent years, these planners are mostly tailored for open-loop execution. Open-loop execution in this domain,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Wisdom C. Agboh , Mehmet R. Dogar

We consider multitarget detection and tracking problem for a class of multipath detection system where one target may generate multiple measurements via multiple propagation paths, and the association relationship among targets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Hua Lan , Shuai Sun , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Zhishan Zhang

Current motion planning approaches for autonomous mobile robots often assume that the low level controller of the system is able to track the planned motion with very high accuracy. In practice, however, tracking error can be affected by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Jacob Higgins , Nicholas Mohammad , Nicola Bezzo

A new approach to the tracking of sinusoidal chirps using linear programming is proposed. It is demonstrated that the classical algorithm of McAulay and Quatieri is greedy and exhibits exponential complexity for long searches, while…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-17 Nicholas Esterer , Philippe Depalle

Correlation clustering is a widely studied framework for clustering based on pairwise similarity and dissimilarity scores, but its best approximation algorithms rely on impractical linear programming relaxations. We present faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Nate Veldt

Recent studies have demonstrated that correntropy is an efficient tool for analyzing higher-order statistical moments in nonGaussian noise environments. Although correntropy has been used with complex data, no theoretical study was pursued…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-08-19 João Paulo Ferreira Guimarães

Clustering large, mixed data is a central problem in data mining. Many approaches adopt the idea of k-means, and hence are sensitive to initialisation, detect only spherical clusters, and require a priori the unknown number of clusters. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-13 Joshua Tobin , Mimi Zhang

A popular paradigm for 3D point cloud registration is by extracting 3D keypoint correspondences, then estimating the registration function from the correspondences using a robust algorithm. However, many existing 3D keypoint techniques tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Álvaro Parra , Tat-Jun Chin , Frank Neumann , Tobias Friedrich , Maximilian Katzmann

Target tracking faces the challenge in coping with large volumes of data which requires efficient methods for real time applications. The complexity considered in this paper is when there is a large number of measurements which are required…

Computation · Statistics 2015-08-03 Allan De Freitas , François Septier , Lyudmila Mihaylova , Simon Godsill

Sensor fusion of multiple sources plays an important role in vehicular systems to achieve refined target position and velocity estimates. In this article, we address the general registration problem, which is a key module for a fusion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2012-05-10 Shuqing Zeng

Random graph mixture models are now very popular for modeling real data networks. In these setups, parameter estimation procedures usually rely on variational approximations, either combined with the expectation-maximisation (\textsc{em})…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2010-12-09 Christophe Ambroise , Catherine Matias