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In this paper, we derive a new Kalman filter with probabilistic data association between measurements and states. We formulate a variational inference problem to approximate the posterior density of the state conditioned on the measurement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Hanwen Cao , George J. Pappas , Nikolay Atanasov

This paper is concerned with the problem of tracking single or multiple targets with multiple non-target specific observations (measurements). For such filtering problems with data association uncertainty, a novel feedback control-based…

Probability · Mathematics 2014-04-18 Tao Yang , Prashant G. Mehta

The detection and tracking of small targets in passive optical remote sensing (PORS) has broad applications. However, most of the previously proposed methods seldom utilize the abundant temporal features formed by target motion, resulting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Weihua Gao , Wenlong Niu , Wenlong Lu , Pengcheng Wang , Zhaoyuan Qi , Xiaodong Peng , Zhen Yang

Measurement-adaptive track initiation remains a critical design requirement of many practical multi-target tracking systems. For labeled random finite sets multi-object filters, prior work has been established to construct a labeled…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-14 Jennifer Bondarchuk , Anthony Trezza , Donald J. Bucci

Multiobject tracking provides situational awareness that enables new applications for modern convenience, applied ocean sciences, public safety, and homeland security. In many multiobject tracking applications, including radar and sonar…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-24 Thomas Kropfreiter , Jason L. Williams , Florian Meyer

In a variety of problems, the number and state of multiple moving targets are unknown and are subject to be inferred from their measurements obtained by a sensor with limited sensing ability. This type of problems is raised in a variety of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-01-13 Haojun Li

In this paper, we demonstrate that deep learning based method can be used to fuse multi-object densities. Given a scenario with several sensors with possibly different field-of-views, tracking is performed locally in each sensor by a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Lechi Li , Chen Dai , Yuxuan Xia , Lennart Svensson

This paper considers the data association problem for multi-target tracking. Multiple hypothesis tracking is a popular algorithm for solving this problem but it is NP-hard and is is quite complicated for a large number of targets or for…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-05 Haiqi Liu , Xiaojing Shen , Zhiguo Wang , Fanqin Meng , Junfeng Wang , Pramod , Varshney

Accurate tracking in urban environments necessitates target birth, survival, and detection models that quantify the impact of terrain and building geometry on the sequential estimation procedure. Current efforts assume that target…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-11 Christopher Berry , Donald J. Bucci

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

Space surveillance depends on efficiently directing sensor resources to maintain custody of known catalog objects. However, it remains unclear how to best utilize these resources to rapidly search for and track newly detected space objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Trevor N. Wolf , Brandon A. Jones

This paper addresses the challenge of achieving robust and reliable positioning of a radio device carried by an agent, in scenarios where direct line-of-sight (LOS) radio links are obstructed by the agent. We propose a Bayesian estimation…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-28 Hong Zhu , Alexander Venus , Erik Leitinger , Klaus Witrisal

Object triangulation, 3-D object tracking, feature correspondence, and camera calibration are key problems for estimation from camera networks. This paper addresses these problems within a unified Bayesian framework for joint multi-object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-10-10 Jeremie Houssineau , Daniel Clark , Spela Ivekovic , Chee Sing Lee , Jose Franco

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

This paper considers multiple extended object tracking based on Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filtering, which gives the closed-form Bayesian solution for standard multiple extended object models with Poisson birth. To efficiently…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-04-28 Yuxuan Xia , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Lennart Svensson

We propose a linear time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) measurement model to improve \textit{distributed} estimation performance for localized target tracking. We design distributed filters over sparse (possibly large-scale) communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-27 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous

Particle filtering for target tracking using multi-input multi-output (MIMO) pulse-Doppler radars faces three long-standing obstacles: a) the absence of reliable likelihood models for raw radar data; b) the computational and statistical…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Shixiong Wang , Wei Dai , Geoffrey Ye Li

In Real-Time, Feedback-Driven Single Particle Tracking methods, measurements of the emission intensity from a labeled, nanometer-scale particle are used in a feedback loop to track the motion of the particle as it moves inside its native…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-03 Md Faysal Hossain , Sean B. Andersson

Tracking multiple time-varying states based on heterogeneous observations is a key problem in many applications. Here, we develop a statistical model and algorithm for tracking an unknown number of targets based on the probabilistic fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-10 Domenico Gaglione , Paolo Braca , Giovanni Soldi , Florian Meyer , Franz Hlawatsch , Moe Z. Win

The Poisson Multi-Bernoulli Mixture (PMBM) density is a conjugate multi-target density for the standard point target model with Poisson point process birth. This means that both the filtering and predicted densities for the set of targets…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-17 Karl Granström , Lennart Svensson , Yuxuan Xia , Jason Williams , Ángel F. García-Fernández