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Tracking an unknown number of low-observable objects is notoriously challenging. This letter proposes a sequential Bayesian estimation method based on the track-before-detect (TBD) approach. In TBD, raw sensor measurements are directly used…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-04 Mingchao Liang , Thomas Kropfreiter , 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

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

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

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…

In this paper, we propose a direct multiobject tracking (MOT) approach for MIMO-radar signals that operates on raw sensor data via variational message passing (VMP). Unlike classical track-before-detect (TBD) methods, which often rely on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-20 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

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

In the classical tracking-by-detection (TBD) paradigm, detection and tracking are separately and sequentially conducted, and data association must be properly performed to achieve satisfactory tracking performance. In this paper, a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xiyang Wang , Chunyun Fu , Jiawei He , Mingguang Huang , Ting Meng , Siyu Zhang , Hangning Zhou , Ziyao Xu , Chi Zhang

The growing proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) poses major challenges for reliable airspace surveillance, as drones are typically small, have low radar cross-sections, and often move slowly in cluttered environments. These…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 Anders Malthe Westerkam , Jakob Möderl , Erik Leitinger , Troels Pedersen

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in robotics, autonomous driving, and maritime surveillance. Traditional work on MOT is model-based and aims to establish algorithms in the framework of sequential Bayesian estimation. More…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is the problem of tracking the state of an unknown and time-varying number of objects using noisy measurements, with important applications such as autonomous driving, tracking animal behavior, defense systems,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Juliano Pinto , Georg Hess , William Ljungbergh , Yuxuan Xia , Henk Wymeersch , Lennart Svensson

Multi-object tracking (MOT) methods have seen a significant boost in performance recently, due to strong interest from the research community and steadily improving object detection methods. The majority of tracking methods follow the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Chang Won Lee , Steven L. Waslander

Multiobject tracking (MOT) is an important task in applications including autonomous driving, ocean sciences, and aerospace surveillance. Traditional MOT methods are model-based and combine sequential Bayesian estimation with data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Shaoxiu Wei , Mingchao Liang , Florian Meyer

Multitarget Tracking (MTT) is the problem of tracking the states of an unknown number of objects using noisy measurements, with important applications to autonomous driving, surveillance, robotics, and others. In the model-based Bayesian…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Juliano Pinto , Georg Hess , William Ljungbergh , Yuxuan Xia , Lennart Svensson , Henk Wymeersch

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

Online Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) from videos is a challenging computer vision task which has been extensively studied for decades. Most of the existing MOT algorithms are based on the Tracking-by-Detection (TBD) paradigm combined with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Zhen He , Jian Li , Daxue Liu , Hangen He , David Barber

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

Multi-object tracking (MOT) endeavors to precisely estimate the positions and identities of multiple objects over time. The prevailing approach, tracking-by-detection (TbD), first detects objects and then links detections, resulting in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Lorenzo Vaquero , Yihong Xu , Xavier Alameda-Pineda , Victor M. Brea , Manuel Mucientes
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