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We propose a method for tracking an unknown number of targets based on measurements provided by multiple sensors. Our method achieves low computational complexity and excellent scalability by running belief propagation on a suitably devised…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Florian Meyer , Paolo Braca , Peter Willett , Franz Hlawatsch

In this paper, we propose two efficient, approximate formulations of the multi-sensor labelled multi-Bernoulli (LMB) filter, which both allow the sensors' measurement updates to be computed in parallel. Our first filter is based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 S. C. J. Robertson , C. E. van Daalen , J. A. du Preez

In this paper, we propose a multiobjective optimization framework for the sensor selection problem in uncertain Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). The uncertainties of the WSNs result in a set of sensor observations with insufficient…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-21 Nianxia Cao , Sora Choi , Engin Masazade , Pramod K. Varshney

The Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter is conjugate prior composed of the union of a Poisson point process (PPP) and a multi-Bernoulli mixture (MBM). In this paper, a new PMBM filter for tracking multiple targets with randomly…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Guchong Li

We consider real-time remote tracking of a Markov source observed by multiple heterogeneous sensors with state-dependent sensing accuracy, motivated by distributed camera networks with overlapping coverage and spatial blind spots. Upon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-11 Jiapei Tian , Abolfazl Zakeri , Marian Codreanu , David Gundlegård

The Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) is a multi-target distribution for which the prediction and update are closed. By applying the random finite set (RFS) framework to multi-target tracking with sets of trajectories as the variable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-21 Yuxuan Xia , Karl Granström , Lennart Svensson , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Jason L. Williams

Multi-target tracking in the maritime domain is a challenging problem due to the non-Gaussian and fluctuating characteristics of sea clutter. This article investigates the use of machine learning (ML) to the detection and tracking of low…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Caden Sweeney , Du Yong Kim , Branko Ristic , Brian Cheung

This paper presents a Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter for multi-target filtering based on sensor measurements that are sets of trajectories in the last two-time step window. The proposed filter, the trajectory measurement PMBM…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-25 Marco Fontana , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Simon Maskell

This paper considers a multiagent, connected, robotic fleet where the primary functionality of the agents is sensing. A distributed multi-sensor control strategy maximizes the value of the collective sensing capability of the fleet, using…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Tianqi Li , Lucas W. Krakow , Swaminathan Gopalswamy

Multi-target state estimation refers to estimating the number of targets and their trajectories in a surveillance area using measurements contaminated with noise and clutter. In the Bayesian paradigm, the most common approach to…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Diluka Moratuwage , Changbeom Shim , Yuthika Punchihewa

This paper considers the problem of sensory data scheduling of multiple processes. There are $n$ independent linear time-invariant processes and a remote estimator monitoring all the processes. Each process is measured by a sensor, which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

The paper [12] discussed two approaches for multitarget tracking (MTT): the generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli (GLMB) filter and three Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filters. The paper [13] discussed two frameworks for multitarget…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-05 Ronald Mahler

This paper considers the problem of detecting and tracking multiple maneuvering targets, which suffers from the intractable inference of high-dimensional latent variables that include target kinematic state, target visibility state, motion…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-19 Hua Lan , Jirong Ma , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Xiong Xu

In recent years, Bayes filter methods in the labeled random finite set formulation have become increasingly powerful in the multi-target tracking domain. One of the latest outcomes is the Generalized Labeled Multi-Bernoulli (GLMB) filter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-13 David Meister , Martin F. Holder , Hermann Winner

In many engineering systems, proper predictive maintenance and operational control are essential to increase efficiency and reliability while reducing maintenance costs. However, one of the major challenges is that many sensors are used for…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-09 Boyang Xu , Yunyi Kang , Xinyu Zhao , Hao Yan , Feng Ju

This paper proposes a clustering and merging approach for the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter to lower its computational complexity and make it suitable for multiple target tracking with a high number of targets. We define a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Marco Fontana , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Simon Maskell

This paper focuses on the joint multi-object tracking (MOT) and the estimate of detection probability with the \emph{Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture} (PMBM) filter. In a majority of multi-object scenarios, the knowledge of detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-24 Guchong Li

The amplitude information of target returns has been incorporated into many tracking algorithms for performance improvements. One of the limitations of employing amplitude feature is that the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of the target, i.e.,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-20 Weizhen Ma , Zhongliang Jing , Peng Dong , Henry Leung

Partially observable Markov decision processes (POMDPs) are widely used in probabilistic planning problems in which an agent interacts with an environment using noisy and imprecise sensors. We study a setting in which the sensors are only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Krishnendu Chatterjee , Martin Chmelik , Ufuk Topcu

A central problem of surveillance is to monitor multiple targets moving in a large-scale, obstacle-ridden environment with occlusions. This paper presents a novel principled Partially Observable Markov Decision Process-based approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-03 Prabhu Natarajan , Trong Nghia Hoang , Kian Hsiang Low , Mohan Kankanhalli