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This paper presents a scalable Bayesian technique for decentralized state estimation from multiple platforms in dynamic environments. As has long been recognized, centralized architectures impose severe scaling limitations for distributed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-12-12 Matthew Rosencrantz , Geoffrey Gordon , Sebastian Thrun

Methodologies for incorporating the uncertainties characteristic of data-driven object detectors into object tracking algorithms are explored. Object tracking methods rely on measurement error models, typically in the form of measurement…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-04 Anish Muthali , Forrest Laine , Claire Tomlin

Multitarget tracking (MTT) is a challenging task that aims at estimating the number of targets and their states from measurements of the target states provided by one or multiple sensors. Additional information, such as imperfect estimates…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-02 Domenico Gaglione , Giovanni Soldi , Paolo Braca , Giovanni De Magistris , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch

Fusing and sharing information from multiple sensors over a network is a challenging task, partly due to the absence of a foundational rule for fusing probability distributions that preserves the independence of sources. To address this, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-07 Jeremie Houssineau , Han Cai , Murat Uney , Emmanuel Delande

We present a method for determining the unknown location of a sensor placed in a known 2D environment in the presence of unknown dynamic obstacles, using only few distance measurements. We present guarantees on the quality of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Michael M. Bilevich , Shahar Guini , Dan Halperin

Passive multi-target tracking (MTT) aims to infer the kinematic states of multiple targets from noisy sensor data in which contributions from unknown target-emitted signals are superposed. Track-before-detect (TBD) methods improve…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-26 Nobutaka Ito , Yoshiaki Bando

We present a novel approach for improving particle filters for multi-target tracking. The suggested approach is based on drift homotopy for stochastic differential equations. Drift homotopy is used to design a Markov Chain Monte Carlo step…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2011-02-11 Vasileios Maroulas , Panagiotis Stinis

We study the sampling of spatial fields using sensors that are location-unaware but deployed according to a known statistical distribution. It has been shown that uniformly distributed location-unaware sensors cannot infer bandlimited…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-12-01 Ankur Mallick , Animesh Kumar

Community detection in graphs is crucial for understanding the organization of nodes into densely connected clusters. While numerous strategies have been developed to identify these clusters, the success of community detection can lead to…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junyuan Fang , Huimin Liu , Yueqi Peng , Jiajing Wu , Zibin Zheng , Chi K. Tse

We present a scalable distributed target tracking algorithm based on the alternating direction method of multipliers that is well-suited for a fleet of autonomous cars communicating over a vehicle-to-vehicle network. Each sensing vehicle…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Ola Shorinwa , Javier Yu , Trevor Halsted , Alex Koufos , Mac Schwager

In this work, we propose an approach for assessing sensitivity to unobserved confounding in studies with multiple outcomes. We demonstrate how prior knowledge unique to the multi-outcome setting can be leveraged to strengthen causal…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-01-26 Jiajing Zheng , Jiaxi Wu , Alexander D'Amour , Alexander Franks

We propose a scalable method for forward stochastic reachability analysis for uncontrolled linear systems with affine disturbance. Our method uses Fourier transforms to efficiently compute the forward stochastic reach probability measure…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Abraham P. Vinod , Baisravan Homchaudhuri , Meeko M. K. Oishi

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

Partitioning large networks into stable clusters of synchronized nodes is a challenging task. Recent approaches based on spectral analysis can provide exact results on specific dynamics but remain unfeasible for very large networks.…

Physics and Society · Physics 2026-01-23 Massimo Ostilli

Methods to extract information from the tracking of mobile objects/particles have broad interest in biological and physical sciences. Techniques based on simple criteria of proximity in time-consecutive snapshots are useful to identify the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-03-13 M. Chertkov , L. Kroc , F. Krzakala , M. Vergassola , L. Zdeborová

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

This paper considers the problem of multiple human target tracking in a sequence of video data. A solution is proposed which is able to deal with the challenges of a varying number of targets, interactions and when every target gives rise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-11-06 Ata-ur-Rehman , Syed Mohsen Naqvi , Lyudmila Mihaylova , Jonathon Chambers

In this paper, we propose a radio-based passive target tracking algorithm using multipath measurements, including the angle of arrival and relative distance. We focus on a scenario in which a mobile receiver continuously receives radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-08 Ke Xu , Rui Zhang , He , Chen

Achieving persistent tracking of multiple dynamic targets over a large spatial area poses significant challenges for a single-robot system with constrained sensing capabilities. As the robot moves to track different targets, the ones…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Junbin Yuan , Brady Moon , Muqing Cao , Sebastian Scherer

We introduce a novel framework for uncertainty quantification in clustering that combines martingale posterior distributions with density-based clustering. Unlike classical model-based approaches, which define clusters at the latent level…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-20 Nicola Bariletto , Stephen G. Walker