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Accurately tracking an unknown and time-varying number of objects in complex environments is a significant challenge but a fundamental capability in a variety of applications, including applied ocean sciences, surveillance, autonomous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-08 Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

We propose a scalable track-before-detect (TBD) tracking method based on a Poisson/multi-Bernoulli model. To limit computational complexity, we approximate the exact multi-Bernoulli mixture posterior probability density function (pdf) by a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-06 Thomas Kropfreiter , Jason L. Williams , Florian Meyer

In conventional approaches for multiobject tracking (MOT), raw sensor data undergoes several preprocessing stages to reduce data rate and computational complexity. This typically includes coherent processing that aims at maximizing the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-04 Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Track-before-detect (TBD) is a powerful approach that consists in providing the tracker with sensor measurements directly without pre-detection. Due to the measurement model non-linearities, online state estimation in TBD is most commonly…

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

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

Despite their theoretical advantages, track-before-detect (TBD) methods remain largely absent from real-world multi-target tracking applications due to their computational complexity and limited scalability. This paper presents a scalable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-25 Lukas Herrmann , Ángel F. García-Fernández , Edmund F. Brekke , Egil Eide

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

Precise localization and tracking of moving non-collaborative persons and objects using a network of ultra-wideband (UWB) radar nodes has been shown to represent a practical and effective approach. In UWB radar sensor networks (RSNs),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-03 B. Yan , A. Giorgetti , E. Paolini

A multiple model track-before-detect (TBD) particle filter-based approach for detection and tracking of low signal to noise ratio (SNR) objects based on a sequence of image frames in the presence of noise and clutter is briefly studied in…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-14 Reza Rezaie

Algorithmic solutions for multi-object tracking (MOT) are a key enabler for applications in autonomous navigation and applied ocean sciences. State-of-the-art MOT methods fully rely on a statistical model and typically use preprocessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

In currently available literature, no tracking-by-detection (TBD) paradigm-based tracking method has considered the localization confidence of detection boxes. In most TBD-based methods, it is considered that objects of low detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ting Meng , Chunyun Fu , Mingguang Huang , Xiyang Wang , Jiawei He , Tao Huang , Wankai Shi

This paper considers the problem of tracking a large-scale number of group targets. Usually, multi-target in most tracking scenarios are assumed to have independent motion and are well-separated. However, for group target tracking (GTT),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Xuqi Zhang , Fanqin Meng , Haiqi Liu , Xiaojing Shen , Yunmin Zhu

We describe a novel approach to statistical learning from particles tracked while moving in a random environment. The problem consists in inferring properties of the environment from recorded snapshots. We consider here the case of a fluid…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2008-06-09 Michael Chertkov , Lukas Kroc , Massimo Vergassola

Situation-aware technologies enabled by multiobject tracking (MOT) methods will create new services and applications in fields such as autonomous navigation and applied ocean sciences. Belief propagation (BP) is a state-of-the-art method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-17 Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Data association, the problem of reasoning over correspondence between targets and measurements, is a fundamental problem in tracking. This paper presents a graphical model formulation of data association and applies an approximate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Jason L. Williams , Roslyn A. Lau

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

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

Tracking-by-detection (TBD) methods achieve state-of-the-art performance on 3D tracking benchmarks for autonomous driving. On the other hand, tracking-by-attention (TBA) methods have the potential to outperform TBD methods, particularly for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Brian Cheong , Jiachen Zhou , Steven Waslander

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
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