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Monitoring networks contain monitoring nodes which observe an area of interest to detect any possible existing object and estimate its states. Each node has characteristics such as probability of detection and clutter density which may have…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-04-24 Abolghasem Daeichian , Elham Honarvar

Multi-target tracking is an important problem in civilian and military applications. This paper investigates multi-target tracking in distributed sensor networks. Data association, which arises particularly in multi-object scenarios, can be…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mark R. Leonard , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

This paper presents a novel statistical information fusion method to integrate multiple-view sensor data in multi-object tracking applications. The proposed method overcomes the drawbacks of the commonly used Generalized Covariance…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Xiaoying Wang , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Amirali K. Gostar , Tharindu Rathnayake , Benlian Xu , Alireza Bab-Hadiashar

We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Fei Chen , Hoa Van Nguyen , Alex S. Leong , Sabita Panicker , Robin Baker , Damith C. Ranasinghe

In this paper, we tackle decision fusion for distributed detection in a randomly-deployed clustered wireless sensor networks (WSNs) operating over a non-ideal multiple access channels (MACs), i.e. considering Rayleigh fading, pathloss and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-29 Sami Aldalahmeh , Domenico Ciuonzo

Image fusion in visual sensor networks (VSNs) aims to combine information from multiple images of the same scene in order to transform a single image with more information. Image fusion methods based on discrete cosine transform (DCT) are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-06 Milad Abdollahzadeh , Touba Malekzadeh , Hadi Seyedarabi

A hybrid detector that fuses both quantized and full-precision observations is proposed for weak signal detection under additive and multiplicative Gaussian noise. We first derive a locally most powerful test (LMPT)--based hybrid detector…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-09 Linlin Mao , Zeping Sui , Michail Matthaiou , Hongbin Li

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 defines and implements a non-Bayesian fusion rule for combining densities of probabilities estimated by local (non-linear) filters for tracking a moving target by passive sensors. This rule is the restriction to a strict…

We propose a particle-based distributed PHD filter for tracking an unknown, time-varying number of targets. To reduce communication, the local PHD filters at neighboring sensors communicate Gaussian mixture (GM) parameters. In contrast to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Tiancheng Li , Franz Hlawatsch

We propose a novel consensus notion, called "partial consensus", for distributed GM-PHD (Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density) fusion based on a peer-to-peer (P2P) sensor network, in which only highly-weighted posterior Gaussian…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Tiancheng Li , Juan M Corchado , Shudong Sun

A distributed detection scheme where the sensors transmit with constant modulus signals over a Gaussian multiple access channel is considered. The deflection coefficient of the proposed scheme is shown to depend on the characteristic…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-05 Cihan Tepedelenlioglu , Sivaraman Dasarathan

The Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density (GM-PHD) filter is an almost exact closed-form approximation to the Bayes-optimal multi-target tracking algorithm. Due to its optimality guarantees and ease of implementation, it has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Shiraz Khan , Yi-Chieh Sun , Inseok Hwang

In this paper, we consider a distributed detection problem for a censoring sensor network where each sensor's communication rate is significantly reduced by transmitting only "informative" observations to the Fusion Center (FC), and…

Applications · Statistics 2023-07-19 Hao He , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper proposes a heterogenous density fusion approach to scalable multisensor multitarget tracking where the inter-connected sensors run different types of random finite set (RFS) filters according to their respective capacity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-25 Tiancheng Li , Ruibo Yan , Kai Da , Hongqi Fan

Scalable and decentralized algorithms for Cooperative Self-localization (CS) of agents, and Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) are important in many applications. In this work, we address the problem of Simultaneous Cooperative Self-localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Pranay Sharma , Augustin-Alexandru Saucan , Donald J. Bucci , Pramod K. Varshney

In multi-target tracking (MTT), non-Gaussian measurement noise from sensors can diminish the performance of the Gaussian-assumed Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) filter. In this paper, an approach that transforms the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-18 Jiacheng He , Shan Zhong , Bei Peng , Gang Wang , Qizhen Wang

The paper addresses the problem of multi-sensor control for multi-target tracking via labelled random finite sets (RFS) in the sensor network systems. Based on an information theoretic divergence measure, namely Cauchy-Schwarz (CS)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Meng Jiang , Wei Yi , Lingjiang Kong

This paper considers the problem of binary distributed detection of a known signal in correlated Gaussian sensing noise in a wireless sensor network, where the sensors are restricted to use likelihood ratio test (LRT), and communicate with…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Nahal Maleki , Azadeh Vosoughi , Nazanin Rahnavard

In this paper, we propose a novel Joint framework for Deep Multi-view Clustering (DMJC), where multiple deep embedded features, multi-view fusion mechanism and clustering assignments can be learned simultaneously. Our key idea is that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Bingqian Lin , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Xiaodan Liang