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This paper tackles the challenge of multi-sensor multi-object tracking by proposing various decentralised Variational Inference (VI) schemes that match the tracking performance of centralised sensor fusion with only local message exchanges…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Qing Li , Runze Gan , Simon Godsill

In this paper, we present a novel distributed expectation propagation algorithm for multiple sensors, multiple objects tracking in cluttered environments. The proposed framework enables each sensor to operate locally while collaboratively…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-09 Qing Li , Runze Gan , James R. Hopgood , Michael E. Davies , Simon J. Godsill

In this paper, we address the fusion problem in wireless sensor networks, where the cross-correlation between the estimates is unknown. To solve the problem within the Bayesian framework, we assume that the covariance matrix has a prior…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Zhiyuan Weng , Petar Djuric

Multisensor track-to-track fusion for target tracking involves two primary operations: track association and estimation fusion. For estimation fusion, lossless measurement transformation of sensor measurements has been proposed for single…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Haiqi Liu , Jiajie Sun , Xuqi Zhang , Fanqin Meng , Xiaojing Shen , Pramod K. Varshney

Distributed estimation in the context of sensor networks is considered, where distributed agents are given a set of sensor measurements, and are tasked with estimating a target variable. A subset of sensors are assumed to be faulty. The…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-26 Marian Temprana Alonso , Farhad Shirani , S. Sitharama Iyengar

In multi-sensor data fusion (or sensor fusion), sensor biases (or offsets) often affect the accuracy of the correlation and integration results of the tracking targets. Therefore, to estimate and compensate the bias, several methods are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Hidetoshi Furukawa

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

Distributed change-point detection has been a fundamental problem when performing real-time monitoring using sensor-networks. We propose a distributed detection algorithm, where each sensor only exchanges CUSUM statistic with their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-09 Qinghua Liu , Rui Zhang , Yao Xie

We present the Bayesian consensus filter (BCF) for tracking a moving target using a networked group of sensing agents and achieving consensus on the best estimate of the probability distributions of the target's states. Our BCF framework…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-14 Saptarshi Bandyopadhyay , Soon-Jo Chung

We consider multitarget detection and tracking problem for a class of multipath detection system where one target may generate multiple measurements via multiple propagation paths, and the association relationship among targets,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-12 Hua Lan , Shuai Sun , Zengfu Wang , Quan Pan , Zhishan Zhang

GNSS localization is an important part of today's autonomous systems, although it suffers from non-Gaussian errors caused by non-line-of-sight effects. Recent methods are able to mitigate these effects by including the corresponding…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-03-20 Tim Pfeifer , Peter Protzel

High-resolution radar sensors are able to resolve multiple detections per object and therefore provide valuable information for vehicle environment perception. For instance, multiple detections allow to infer the size of an object or to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-29 Alexander Scheel , Klaus Dietmayer

Mobile target tracking is crucial in various applications such as surveillance and autonomous navigation. This study presents a decentralized tracking framework utilizing a Consensus-Based Estimation Filter (CBEF) integrated with the…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Amir Ahmad Ghods , Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian

In this paper, we discuss a class of distributed detection algorithms which can be viewed as implementations of Bayes' law in distributed settings. Some of the algorithms are proposed in the literature most recently, and others are first…

Methodology · Statistics 2015-11-10 Qipeng Liu , Jiuhua Zhao , Xiaofan Wang

We consider multi-sensor fusion estimation for clustered sensor networks. Both sequential measurement fusion and state fusion estimation methods are presented. It is shown that the proposed sequential fusion estimation methods achieve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

A decentralized Poisson multi-Bernoulli filter is proposed to track multiple vehicles using multiple high-resolution sensors. Independent filters estimate the vehicles' presence, state, and shape using a Gaussian process extent model; a…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Markus Fröhle , Karl Granström , Henk Wymeersch

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

3D multi-object tracking is a crucial component in the perception system of autonomous driving vehicles. Tracking all dynamic objects around the vehicle is essential for tasks such as obstacle avoidance and path planning. Autonomous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Ramin Nabati , Landon Harris , Hairong Qi

This paper develops a mathematical and computational framework for analyzing the expected performance of Bayesian data fusion, or joint statistical inference, within a sensor network. We use variational techniques to obtain the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Gaurav Thakur

To accurately estimate locations and velocities of surrounding targets (cars) is crucial for advanced driver assistance systems based on radar sensors. In this paper we derive methods for fusing data from multiple radar sensors in order to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-08 Bin Zhu , Augusto Ferrante , Johan Karlsson , Mattia Zorzi