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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

This paper presents a multitarget tracking particle filter (PF) for general track-before-detect measurement models. The PF is presented in the random finite set framework and uses a labelled multi-Bernoulli approximation. We also present a…

Applications · Statistics 2018-01-18 Ángel F. García-Fernández

Multi-object estimation in state-space models (SSMs) wherein the system state is represented as a finite set has attracted significant interest in recent years. In Bayesian inference, the posterior density captures all information on the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-09-24 Thi Hong Thai Nguyen , Ba-Ngu Vo , Ba-Tuong Vo

Autonomous vehicles need precise knowledge on dynamic objects in their surroundings. Especially in urban areas with many objects and possible occlusions, an infrastructure system based on a multi-sensor setup can provide the required…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Martin Herrmann , Aldi Piroli , Jan Strohbeck , Johannes Müller , Michael Buchholz

This paper proposes the Trajectory-Information Exchange Multi-Bernoulli (T-IEMB) filter to estimate sets of alive and all trajectories in track-before-detect applications with generalised superpositional measurements. This measurement model…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Sion Lynch , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Lee Devlin

This paper presents a new derivation of the variational Poisson multi-Bernoulli (V-PMB) filter for multi-target estimation proposed in [#Williams15]. The proposed derivation is based on considering an augmented space that includes the set…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Yuxuan Xia

A sequential detection and tracking (SDT) approach is proposed for detection and tracking of very low signal-to-noise (SNR) objects. The proposed approach is compared with two existing particle filter track-before-track (TBD) methods. It is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-27 Reza Rezaie

We propose a method for tracking an unknown number of targets based on measurements provided by multiple sensors. Our method achieves low computational complexity and excellent scalability by running belief propagation on a suitably devised…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Florian Meyer , Paolo Braca , Peter Willett , Franz Hlawatsch

This paper presents a general solution for computing the multi-object posterior for sets of trajectories from a sequence of multi-object (unlabelled) filtering densities and a multi-object dynamic model. Importantly, the proposed solution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-20 Yuxuan Xia , Lennart Svensson , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Jason L. Williams , Daniel Svensson , Karl Granström

The probability hypothesis density (PHD) and multi-target multi-Bernoulli (MeMBer) filters are two leading algorithms that have emerged from random finite sets (RFS). In this paper we study a method which combines these two approaches. Our…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-03-20 Jason L. Williams

The Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) and the multi-Bernoulli mixture (MBM) are two multi-target distributions for which closed-form filtering recursions exist. The PMBM has a Poisson birth process, whereas the MBM has a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Yuxuan Xia , Karl Granström , Lennart Svensson , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Jason L. Williams

Multiobject tracking provides situational awareness that enables new applications for modern convenience, public safety, and homeland security. This paper presents a factor graph formulation and a particle-based sum-product algorithm (SPA)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-15 Florian Meyer , Jason L. Williams

The histogram-probabilistic multi-hypothesis tracker (H-PMHT) is a parametric approach to solving the multi-target track-before-detect (TBD) problem, using expectation maximisation (EM). A key limitation of this method is the assumption of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-12 Lukas Herrmann , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Edmund F. Brekke

Detecting weak target is an important and challenging problem in many applications such as radar, sonar etc. However, conventional detection methods are often ineffective in this case because of low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This paper…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-26 Jin Lu , Guojie Peng , Weichuan Zhang , Changming Sun

This paper is a sequel of the 2019 paper [5]. It demonstrates the following: a) the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) approach to detected vs. undetected (U/D) targets cannot be rigorously formulated using either the two-step or…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-22 Ronald Mahler

This paper proposes a Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter on the space of sets of tree trajectories for multiple target tracking with spawning targets. A tree trajectory contains all trajectory information of a target and its…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-05-04 Ángel F. García-Fernández , Lennart Svensson

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

In this paper we derive a multi-sensor multi-Bernoulli (MS-MeMBer) filter for multi-target tracking. Measurements from multiple sensors are employed by the proposed filter to update a set of tracks modeled as a multi-Bernoulli random finite…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-10-11 Augustin-Alexandru Saucan , Mark Coates , Michael Rabbat

This paper addresses multi-object systems, where objects may occlude one another relative to the sensor. The standard point-object model for detection-based sensors is enhanced so that the probability of detection considers the presence of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-09 Jan Krejčí , Oliver Kost , Yuxuan Xia , Lennart Svensson , Ondřej Straka

Accurate 3D multi-object tracking (MOT) is crucial for autonomous driving, as it enables robust perception, navigation, and planning in complex environments. While deep learning-based solutions have demonstrated impressive 3D MOT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Guanhua Ding , Yuxuan Xia , Runwei Guan , Qinchen Wu , Tao Huang , Weiping Ding , Jinping Sun , Guoqiang Mao