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Multi-target tracking is an important problem in civilian and military applications. This paper investigates multi-target tracking in distributed sensor networks. Data association, which arises particularly in multi-object scenarios, can be…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Mark R. Leonard , Abdelhak M. Zoubir

This paper introduces a new conservative fusion method to exploit the correlated components within the estimation errors. Fusion is the process of combining multiple estimates of a given state to produce a new estimate with a smaller MSE.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-07 Colin Cros , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Christophe Prieur , Jean-François Da Rocha

This paper addresses distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) over a network of sensors having different fields-of-view (FoVs). Specifically, a cardinality probability hypothesis density (CPHD) filter is run at each sensor node. Due to the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-26 Guchong Li , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Wei Yi , Lingjiang Kong

In this paper, we propose a bistatic sensing-assisted beam tracking method for simultaneous communication and tracking of user vehicles navigating arbitrary-shaped road trajectories. Prior work on simultaneous communication and tracking…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Avinash M , Srikrishna Bhashyam

This work investigates Distributed Detection (DD) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), where spatially distributed sensors transmit binary decisions over a shared flat-fading channel. To enhance fusion efficiency, a reconfigurable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-29 Domenico Ciuonzo , Alessio Zappone , Marco Di Renzo , Ciro D'Elia

This paper proposes a new approach to multi-sensor data fusion. It suggests that aggregation of data from multiple sensors can be done more efficiently when we consider information about sensors' different characteristics. Similar to most…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Mohammad Amin Ahmad Akhoundi , Ehsan Valavi

The paper addresses distributed multi-target tracking in the framework of generalized Covariance Intersection (GCI) over multistatic radar system. The proposed method is based on the unlabeled version of generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-03-22 Meng Jiang , Wei Yi , Reza Hoseinnezhad , Lingjiang Kong

Autonomous driving demands accurate perception and safe decision-making. To achieve this, automated vehicles are now equipped with multiple sensors (e.g., camera, Lidar, etc.), enabling them to exploit complementary environmental context by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Xiaoming Zeng , Zhendong Wang , Yang Hu

Data fusion has become an active research topic in recent years. Growing computational performance has allowed the use of redundant sensors to measure a single phenomenon. While Bayesian fusion approaches are common in general applications,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Andres F. Echeverri , Henry Medeiros , Ryan Walsh , Yevgeniy Reznichenko , Richard Povinelli

We propose a particle-based distributed PHD filter for tracking an unknown, time-varying number of targets. To reduce communication, the local PHD filters at neighboring sensors communicate Gaussian mixture (GM) parameters. In contrast to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Tiancheng Li , Franz Hlawatsch

A key objective of multi-agent surveillance systems is to monitor a much larger region than the limited field-of-view (FoV) of any individual agent by successfully exploiting cooperation among multi-view agents. Whenever either a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Bailu Wang , Suqi Li , Giorgio Battistelli , Luigi Chisci , Wei Yi

We propose a deep neural network fusion architecture for fast and robust pedestrian detection. The proposed network fusion architecture allows for parallel processing of multiple networks for speed. A single shot deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-30 Xianzhi Du , Mostafa El-Khamy , Jungwon Lee , Larry S. Davis

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a fundamental task in computer vision with critical applications in autonomous driving and robotics. Multimodal MOT that integrates visible light and thermal infrared information is particularly essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Weiran Li , Yeqiang Liu , Yijie Wei , Mina Han , Qiannan Guo , Zhenbo Li

Sensor fusion has wide applications in many domains including health care and autonomous systems. While the advent of deep learning has enabled promising multi-modal fusion of high-level features and end-to-end sensor fusion solutions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Myung Seok Shim , Chenye Zhao , Yang Li , Xuchong Zhang , Wenrui Zhang , Peng Li

The perception system in autonomous vehicles is responsible for detecting and tracking the surrounding objects. This is usually done by taking advantage of several sensing modalities to increase robustness and accuracy, which makes sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Ramin Nabati , Hairong Qi

This paper presents a new method to solve a dynamic sensor fusion problem. We consider a large number of remote sensors which measure a common Gauss-Markov process and encoders that transmit the measurements to a data fusion center through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-19 Hyunho Jung , Ali Reza Pedram , Travis Craig Cuvelier , Takashi Tanaka

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address the problem of camera and radar sensor fusion for 3D object detection in autonomous vehicle perception systems. Our approach builds on recent advances in deep learning and leverages the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Daniel Dworak , Mateusz Komorkiewicz , Paweł Skruch , Jerzy Baranowski

We introduce a novel tracking technique which uses dynamic confidence-based fusion of two different information sources for robust and efficient tracking of visual objects. Mean-shift tracking is a popular and well known method used in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-19 Ibrahim Saygin Topkaya , Hakan Erdogan

As sensors get more and more integrated, signal processing functions, like tracking, are performed closer to the sensor. Consequently, high level fusion is on the rise. Presented here is a high level fusion scheme incorporating not only…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-11 Sören Kohnert , Reinhard Stolle

We present ConFusion, an open-source package for online sensor fusion for robotic applications. ConFusion is a modular framework for fusing measurements from many heterogeneous sensors within a moving horizon estimator. ConFusion offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Timothy Sandy , Lukas Stadelmann , Simon Kerscher , Jonas Buchli