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We study two sensor assignment problems for multi-target tracking with the goal of improving the observability of the underlying estimator. We consider various measures of the observability matrix as the assignment value function. We first…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Lifeng Zhou , Pratap Tokekar

Virtual sensors replace expensive physical sensors in critical applications through machine learning by predicting target signals from available measurements. Existing virtual sensor approaches require application-specific models with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Leon Götz , Lars Frederik Peiss , Erik Sauer , Andreas Udo Sass , Thorsten Bagdonat , Stephan Günnemann , Leo Schwinn

This paper proposes an energy-efficient counting rule for distributed detection by ordering sensor transmissions in wireless sensor networks. In the counting rule-based detection in an $N-$sensor network, the local sensors transmit binary…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-09-12 N. Sriranga , K. G. Nagananda , R. S. Blum , A. Saucan , P. K. Varshney

Countries with access to large bodies of water often aim to protect their maritime transport by employing maritime surveillance systems. However, the number of available sensors (e.g., cameras) is typically small compared to the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Bach Long Nguyen , Anh-Dzung Doan , Tat-Jun Chin , Christophe Guettier , Surabhi Gupta , Estelle Parra , Ian Reid , Markus Wagner

Data-target pairing is an important step towards multi-target localization for the intelligent operation of unmanned systems. Target localization plays a crucial role in numerous applications, such as search, and rescue missions, traffic…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Kasthurirengan Suresh , Samuel Silva , Johnathan Votion , Yongcan Cao

The research addresses sensor task management for radar systems, focusing on efficiently searching and tracking multiple targets using reinforcement learning. The approach develops a 3D simulation environment with an active electronically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Jan-Hendrik Ewers , David Cormack , Joe Gibbs , David Anderson

We present a novel approach to online multi-target tracking based on recurrent neural networks (RNNs). Tracking multiple objects in real-world scenes involves many challenges, including a) an a-priori unknown and time-varying number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-08 Anton Milan , Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Anthony Dick , Ian Reid , Konrad Schindler

Passive multi-target tracking applications require the integration of multiple spatially distributed sensor measurements to distinguish true tracks from ghost tracks. A popular multi-target tracking approach for these applications is the…

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

In wireless sensor networks, where energy is scarce, it is inefficient to have all nodes active because they consume a non-negligible amount of battery. In this paper we consider the problem of jointly selecting sensors, relays and links in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-18 Rocio Arroyo-Valles , Andrea Simonetto , Geert Leus

Distributed consensus has been widely studied for sensor network applications. Whereas the asymptotic convergence rate has been extensively explored in prior work, other important and practical issues, including energy efficiency and link…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-04-10 Lei Chen , Jeff Frolik

State estimation is crucial for the monitoring and control of post-combustion CO2 capture plants (PCCPs). The performance of state estimation is highly reliant on the configuration of sensors. In this work, we consider the problem of sensor…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Siyu Liu , Xunyuan Yin , Jinfeng Liu

Motivated by the Internet-of-things and sensor networks for cyberphysical systems, the problem of dynamic sensor activation for the tracking of a time-varying process is examined. The tradeoff is between energy efficiency, which decreases…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

In this work, we study the target detection and tracking problem in mobile sensor networks, where the performance metrics of interest are probability of detection and tracking coverage, when the target can be stationary or mobile and its…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-06-23 Evsen Yanmaz , Hasan Guclu

This paper investigates sensor scheduling for state estimation of complex networks over shared transmission channels. For a complex network of dynamical systems, referred to as nodes, a sensor network is adopted to measure and estimate the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-12 Peihu Duan , Lidong He , Lingying Huang , Guanrong Chen , Ling Shi

Autonomous driving holds great promise in addressing traffic safety concerns by leveraging artificial intelligence and sensor technology. Multi-Object Tracking plays a critical role in ensuring safer and more efficient navigation through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Lei Cheng , Arindam Sengupta , Siyang Cao

In linear wireless networked control systems whose control is based on the system state's noisy and delayed observations, an accurate functional relationship is derived between the estimation error and the observations' freshness and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-03-09 He Ma , Shidong Zhou

Spectrum sensing technology is a crucial aspect of modern communication technology, serving as one of the essential techniques for efficiently utilizing scarce information resources in tight frequency bands. This paper first introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-04 Fanfei Meng , Yuxin Wang , Lele Zhang , Yingxin Zhao

Target tracking using observations from multiple sensors can achieve better estimation performance than a single sensor. The most famous estimation tool in target tracking is Kalman filter. There are several mathematical approaches to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Mohammad Reza Ashraf

This paper addresses the challenge of assigning heterogeneous sensors (i.e., robots with varying sensing capabilities) for multi-target tracking. We classify robots into two categories: (1) sufficient sensing robots, equipped with range and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Seyed Ali Rakhshan , Mehdi Golestani , He Kong

Dynamic spectrum access (DSA) enables secondary networks to find and efficiently exploit spectrum opportunities. A key factor to design a DSA network is the spectrum sensing algorithms for multiple channels with multiple users. Multi-user…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-05-21 Chun-Hao Liu , Arash Azarfar , Jean-Francois Frigon , Brunilde Sanso , Danijela Cabric