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In distributed target tracking for wireless sensor networks, agreement on the target state can be achieved by the construction and maintenance of a communication path, in order to exchange information regarding local likelihood functions.…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Vladimir Savic , Henk Wymeersch , Santiago Zazo

Tracking multiple targets in dynamic environments using distributed sensor networks is a challenging problem for situational awareness in connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs). In such scenarios, the network of mobile sensors must coordinate…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Aidan Blair , Amirali Khodadadian Gostar , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar , Xiaodong Li , Reza Hoseinnezhad

Particle filtering is a powerful approach to sequential state estimation and finds application in many domains, including robot localization, object tracking, etc. To apply particle filtering in practice, a critical challenge is to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-05-29 Peter Karkus , David Hsu , Wee Sun Lee

Autonomous vehicles need precise knowledge on dynamic objects in their surroundings. Especially in urban areas with many objects and possible occlusions, an infrastructure system based on a multi-sensor setup can provide the required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Martin Herrmann , Aldi Piroli , Jan Strohbeck , Johannes Müller , Michael Buchholz

We address the challenge of tracking an unknown number of targets in strong clutter environments using measurements from a radar sensor. Leveraging the range-Doppler spectra information, we identify the measurement classes, which serve as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Xianglong Bai , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Tao Yun , Hua Lan

Mahler's PHD (Probability Hypothesis Density) filter and its particle implementation (as called the particle PHD filter) have gained popularity to solve general MTT (Multi-target Tracking) problems. However, the resampling procedure used in…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Tiancheng Li , Tariq P. Sattar , Qing Han , Shudong Sun

Quantitative analysis of the dynamics of tiny cellular and sub-cellular structures, known as particles, in time-lapse cell microscopy sequences requires the development of a reliable multi-target tracking method capable of tracking numerous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Stephen Gould , Ba Tuong Vo , Ba-Ngu Vo , Katarina Mele , Richard Hartley

Particle Filter(PF) is used extensively for estimation of target Non-linear and Non-gaussian state. However, its performance suffers due to inherent problem of sample degeneracy and impoverishment. In order to address this, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Kapil Sharma , Gurjit Singh Walia , Ashish Kumar , Astitwa Saxena , Kuldeep Singh

The particle filter (PF), also known as sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), approximates high-dimensional probability distributions and their normalizing constants in the discrete-time setting. To reduce the variance of the Monte Carlo…

Computation · Statistics 2026-05-05 Jianfeng Lu , Yuliang Wang

Despite their theoretical advantages, track-before-detect (TBD) methods remain largely absent from real-world multi-target tracking applications due to their computational complexity and limited scalability. This paper presents a scalable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Lukas Herrmann , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Edmund F. Brekke , Egil Eide

Extended target tracking estimates the centroid and shape of the target in space and time. In various situations where extended target tracking is applicable, the presence of multiple targets can lead to interference, particularly when they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Behzad Akbari , Haibin Zhu , Ya-Jun Pan , R. Tharmarasa

This paper focuses on \textit{joint detection, tracking and classification} (JDTC) of a target via multi-sensor fusion. The target can be present or not, can belong to different classes, and depending on its class can behave according to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Gaiyou Li , Ping Wei , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Lin Gao

This paper develops an accurate, efficient filter (called the `TT filter') for tracking multiple targets using a spatially-distributed network of amplitude sensors that estimate distance but not direction. Several innovations are included…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-18 Christopher Thron , Khoi Tran , Joseph Raquepas

Hyperspectral target detection is a task of primary importance in remote sensing since it allows identification, location, and discrimination of target features. To this end, the reflectance maps, which contain the spectral signatures and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-24 Pia Addabbo , Nicomino Fiscante , Gaetano Giunta , Danilo Orlando , Giuseppe Ricci , Silvia Liberata Ullo

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shuoyuan Xu , Hyo-Sang Shin , Antonios Tsourdos

Object tracking is one of the fundamental problems in visual recognition tasks and has achieved significant improvements in recent years. The achievements often come with the price of enormous hardware consumption and expensive labor effort…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Yan Shen , Zhanghexuan Ji , Chunwei Ma , Mingchen Gao

In this paper, we present a novel distributed expectation propagation algorithm for multiple sensors, multiple objects tracking in cluttered environments. The proposed framework enables each sensor to operate locally while collaboratively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Qing Li , Runze Gan , James R. Hopgood , Michael E. Davies , Simon J. Godsill

Bias estimation or sensor registration is an essential step in ensuring the accuracy of global tracks in multisensor-multitarget tracking. Most previously proposed algorithms for bias estimation rely on local measurements in centralized…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-23 Ehsan Taghavi , R. Tharmarasa , T. Kirubarajan , Yaakov Bar-Shalom , Mike McDonald

A distributed binary hypothesis testing (HT) problem involving two parties, one referred to as the observer and the other as the detector is studied. The observer observes a discrete memoryless source (DMS) and communicates its observations…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-12-04 Sreejith Sreekumar , Deniz Gündüz

Filtering point targets in highly cluttered and noisy data frames can be very challenging, especially for complex target motions. Fixed motion models can fail to provide accurate predictions, while learning based algorithm can be difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-21 Mehryar Emambakhsh , Alessandro Bay , Eduard Vazquez