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We consider a distributed learning setup where a network of agents sequentially access realizations of a set of random variables with unknown distributions. The network objective is to find a parametrized distribution that best describes…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-05-10 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César Uribe

Most recent works on multi-target tracking with multiple cameras focus on centralized systems. In contrast, this paper presents a multi-target tracking approach implemented in a distributed camera network. The advantages of distributed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Sara Casao , Abel Naya , Ana C. Murillo , Eduardo Montijano

The task of clustering a set of objects based on multiple sources of data arises in several modern applications. We propose an integrative statistical model that permits a separate clustering of the objects for each data source. These…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Eric F. Lock , David B. Dunson

We present a consensus-based distributed particle filter (PF) for wireless sensor networks. Each sensor runs a local PF to compute a global state estimate that takes into account the measurements of all sensors. The local PFs use the joint…

Applications · Statistics 2011-09-29 Ondrej Hlinka , Franz Hlawatsch , Petar M. Djuric

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

This work aims to design a distributed extended object tracking (EOT) system over a realistic network, where both the extent and kinematics are required to retain consensus within the entire network. To this end, we resort to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-06 Zhifei Li , Yan Liang , Linfeng Xu , Shuli Ma

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

In this paper, we investigate the problem of joint searching and tracking of multiple mobile targets by a group of mobile agents. The targets appear and disappear at random times inside a surveillance region and their positions are random…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-06 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

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

In this paper, we present a randomized version of the finite set statistics (FISST) Bayesian recursions for multi-object tracking problems. We propose a hypothesis level derivation of the FISST equations that shows that the multi-object…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-03-15 W. Faber , S. Chakravorty , Islam I. Hussein

This paper, the fourth part of a series of papers on the arithmetic average (AA) density fusion approach and its application for target tracking, addresses the intricate challenge of distributed heterogeneous multisensor multitarget…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Tiancheng Li , Haozhe Liang , Guchong Li , Jesús García Herrero , Quan Pan

We consider the problem of distributed learning, where a network of agents collectively aim to agree on a hypothesis that best explains a set of distributed observations of conditionally independent random processes. We propose a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-12 Angelia Nedić , Alex Olshevsky , César A. Uribe

Motivated by non-linear, non-Gaussian, distributed multi-sensor/agent navigation and tracking applications, we propose a multi-rate consensus/fusion based framework for distributed implementation of the particle filter (CF/DPF). The CF/DPF…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2012-09-06 Arash Mohammadi , Amir Asif

In this paper we are interested in the task of searching and tracking multiple moving targets in a bounded surveillance area with a group of autonomous mobile agents. More specifically, we assume that targets can appear and disappear at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-02-02 Savvas Papaioannou , Panayiotis Kolios , Theocharis Theocharides , Christos G. Panayiotou , Marios M. Polycarpou

This paper presents a cooperative multi-robot multi-target tracking framework aimed at enhancing the efficiency of the heterogeneous sensor network and, consequently, improving overall target tracking accuracy. The concept of normalized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Jun Chen , Mohammed Abugurain , Philip Dames , Shinkyu Park

We consider a multi-object detection problem over a sensor network (SNET) with limited range sensors. This problem complements the widely considered decentralized detection problem where all sensors observe the same object. While the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Erhan B. Ermis , Venkatesh Saligrama

We propose an efficient random finite set (RFS) based algorithm for multiobject tracking in which the object states are modeled by a combination of a labeled multi-Bernoulli (LMB) RFS and a Poisson RFS. The less computationally demanding…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-20 Thomas Kropfreiter , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch

We study the problem of searching for and tracking a collection of moving targets using a robot with a limited Field-Of-View (FOV) sensor. The actual number of targets present in the environment is not known a priori. We propose a search…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Yoonchang Sung , Pratap Tokekar

This paper addresses distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) over a network of sensors having different fields-of-view (FoVs). Specifically, a cardinality probability hypothesis density (CPHD) filter is run at each sensor node. Due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Guchong Li , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Wei Yi , Lingjiang Kong

Recent advances in communications, mobile computing, and artificial intelligence have greatly expanded the application space of intelligent distributed sensor networks. This in turn motivates the development of generalized Bayesian…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Nisar Ahmed , Tsung-Lin Yang , Mark Campbell