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The multi-target Bayes filter proposed by Mahler is a principled solution to recursive Bayesian tracking based on RFS or FISST. The $\delta$-GLMB filter is an exact closed form solution to the multi-target Bayes recursion which yields joint…

Computation · Statistics 2017-04-12 C. Fantacci , B. -T. Vo , F. Papi , B. -N. Vo

Particle filters are a group of algorithms to solve inverse problems through statistical Bayesian methods when the model does not comply with the linear and Gaussian hypothesis. Particle filters are used in domains like data assimilation,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Sebastian Friedemann , Kai Keller , Yen-Sen Lu , Bruno Raffin , Leonardo Bautista Gomez

When classical particle filtering algorithms are used for maximum likelihood parameter estimation in nonlinear state-space models, a key challenge is that estimates of the likelihood function and its derivatives are inherently noisy. The…

Computation · Statistics 2017-11-30 Andreas Svensson , Fredrik Lindsten , Thomas B. Schön

This contribution is devoted to the comparison of various resampling approaches that have been proposed in the literature on particle filtering. It is first shown using simple arguments that the so-called residual and stratified methods do…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Randal Douc , Olivier Cappé , Eric Moulines

A novel data-driven methodology is presented for the joint selection of prior parameters for both fixed and random effects in Linear Mixed Models (LMMs). This approach facilitates the estimation of complex random-effects structures, as well…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Matteo Amestoy , R. Vermeulen , Mark A. van de Wiel , Wessel N. van Wieringen

The family of pointillist multitarget tracking filters is defined to be the class of filters that is characterized by a joint target-measurement finite point process. The probability generating functional (PGFL) of the joint process is…

Applications · Statistics 2015-06-22 Roy Streit , Christoph Degen , Wolfgang Koch

Particle filtering methods can be applied to estimation problems in discrete spaces on bounded domains, to sample from and marginalise over unknown hidden states. As in continuous settings, problems such as particle degradation can arise:…

The ability to track a moving vehicle is of crucial importance in numerous applications. The task has often been approached by the importance sampling technique of particle filters due to its ability to model non-linear and non-Gaussian…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-11-16 Kira Kempinska , John Shawe-Taylor

This paper is concerned with sequential state filtering in the presence of nonlinearity, non-Gaussianity and model uncertainty. For this problem, the Bayesian model averaged particle filter (BMAPF) is perhaps one of the most efficient…

Computation · Statistics 2020-01-28 Bin Liu

Particle filters are a frequent choice for inference tasks in nonlinear and non-Gaussian state-space models. They can either be used for state inference by approximating the filtering distribution or for parameter inference by approximating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Domonkos Csuzdi , Olivér Törő , Tamás Bécsi

In this paper, a novel approach is proposed for multi-target joint detection, tracking and classification based on the labeled random finite set and generalized Bayesian risk using Radar and ESM sensors. A new Bayesian risk is defined for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-09 Minzhe Li , Zhongliang Jing

We propose a novel particle filter for convolutional-correlation visual trackers. Our method uses correlation response maps to estimate likelihood distributions and employs these likelihoods as proposal densities to sample particles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Reza Jalil Mozhdehi , Henry Medeiros

Recursive estimation of nonlinear dynamical systems is an important problem that arises in several engineering applications. Consistent and accurate propagation of uncertainties is important to ensuring good estimation performance. It is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Dilshad Raihan Akkam Veettil , Suman Chakravorty

We provide a formal definition for a class of algorithms known as "particle methods". Particle methods are used in scientific computing. They include popular simulation methods, such as Discrete Element Methods (DEM), Molecular Dynamics…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Johannes Bamme , Ivo F. Sbalzarini

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

While Bayesian neural networks (BNNs) have drawn increasing attention, their posterior inference remains challenging, due to the high-dimensional and over-parameterized nature. To address this issue, several highly flexible and scalable…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-10 Ziyu Wang , Tongzheng Ren , Jun Zhu , Bo Zhang

Recent advances in incorporating neural networks into particle filters provide the desired flexibility to apply particle filters in large-scale real-world applications. The dynamic and measurement models in this framework are learnable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Hao Wen , Xiongjie Chen , Georgios Papagiannis , Conghui Hu , Yunpeng Li

We introduce a probabilistic approach to the LMS filter. By means of an efficient approximation, this approach provides an adaptable step-size LMS algorithm together with a measure of uncertainty about the estimation. In addition, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-04-11 Jesus Fernandez-Bes , Víctor Elvira , Steven Van Vaerenbergh

Despite the recent successes of probabilistic programming languages (PPLs) in AI applications, PPLs offer only limited support for random variables whose distributions combine discrete and continuous elements. We develop the notion of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Yi Wu , Siddharth Srivastava , Nicholas Hay , Simon Du , Stuart Russell

A Multiple Target, Multiple Type Filtering (MTMTF) algorithm is developed using Random Finite Set (RFS) theory. First, we extend the standard Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filter for multiple types of targets, each with distinct…

Applications · Statistics 2019-02-06 Nathanael L. Baisa , Andrew Wallace