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Uncertainty in LiDAR sensor-based object detection arises from environmental variability and sensor performance limitations. Representing these uncertainties is essential for ensuring the Safety of the Intended Functionality (SOTIF), which…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Milin Patel , Rolf Jung

Most modern multiple object tracking (MOT) systems follow the tracking-by-detection paradigm, consisting of a detector followed by a method for associating detections into tracks. There is a long history in tracking of combining motion and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Mohamed Chaabane , Peter Zhang , J. Ross Beveridge , Stephen O'Hara

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

Data association is a key step within the multi-object tracking pipeline that is notoriously challenging due to its combinatorial nature. A popular and general way to formulate data association is as the NP-hard multidimensional assignment…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Patrick Emami , Panos M. Pardalos , Lily Elefteriadou , Sanjay Ranka

In automatic target recognition (ATR) systems, sensors may fail to capture discriminative, fine-grained detail features due to environmental conditions, noise created by CMOS chips, occlusion, parallaxes, and sensor misalignment. Therefore,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Shoaib Meraj Sami , Md Mahedi Hasan , Nasser M. Nasrabadi , Raghuveer Rao

In this paper the behavior of three combinational rules for temporal/sequential attribute data fusion for target type estimation are analyzed. The comparative analysis is based on: Dempster's fusion rule proposed in Dempster-Shafer Theory;…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-10-09 Albena Tchamova , Jean Dezert , Florentin Smarandache

Target tracking using observations from multiple sensors can achieve better estimation performance than a single sensor. The most famous estimation tool in target tracking is Kalman filter. There are several mathematical approaches to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-07-12 Sayed Amir Hoseini , Mohammad Reza Ashraf

We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Fei Chen , Hoa Van Nguyen , Alex S. Leong , Sabita Panicker , Robin Baker , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) provides a powerful framework for modeling uncertainty and has been widely applied to multi-attribute classification tasks. However, traditional DST-based attribute fusion-based classifiers suffer from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Qiying Hu , Yingying Liang , Qianli Zhou , Witold Pedrycz

The paper addresses the problem of multi-sensor control for multi-target tracking via labelled random finite sets (RFS) in the sensor network systems. Based on an information theoretic divergence measure, namely Cauchy-Schwarz (CS)…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-29 Meng Jiang , Wei Yi , Lingjiang Kong

Data association across frames is at the core of Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) task. This problem is usually solved by a traditional graph-based optimization or directly learned via deep learning. Despite their popularity, we find some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jiawei He , Zehao Huang , Naiyan Wang , Zhaoxiang Zhang

In this paper we develop a method for report level tracking based on Dempster-Shafer clustering using Potts spin neural networks where clusters of incoming reports are gradually fused into existing tracks, one cluster for each track.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Johan Schubert

Multispectral pedestrian detection is an important task for many around-the-clock applications, since the visible and thermal modalities can provide complementary information especially under low light conditions. Due to the presence of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Yinghui Xing , Shuo Yang , Song Wang , Shizhou Zhang , Guoqiang Liang , Xiuwei Zhang , Yanning Zhang

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a challenging vision task that aims to detect individual objects within a single frame and associate them across multiple frames. Recent MOT approaches can be categorized into two-stage tracking-by-detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Run Luo , Zikai Song , Lintao Ma , Jinlin Wei , Wei Yang , Min Yang

There has been a recent emergence of sampling-based techniques for estimating epistemic uncertainty in deep neural networks. While these methods can be applied to classification or semantic segmentation tasks by simply averaging samples,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Dimity Miller , Feras Dayoub , Michael Milford , Niko Sünderhauf

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

Scalable and decentralized algorithms for Cooperative Self-localization (CS) of agents, and Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) are important in many applications. In this work, we address the problem of Simultaneous Cooperative Self-localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-17 Pranay Sharma , Augustin-Alexandru Saucan , Donald J. Bucci , Pramod K. Varshney

In the process of tracking multiple point targets in space using radar, since the targets are spatially well separated, the data between them will not be confused. Therefore, the multi-target tracking problem can be transformed into a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-25 Mushen Lin , Fenggang Yan , Lingda Ren , Xiangtian Meng , Maria Greco , Fulvio Gini , Ming Jin

Tracking people in a video sequence is one of the fields of interest in computer vision. It has broad applications in motion capture and surveillance. However, due to the complexity of human dynamic structure, detecting and tracking are not…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-06-19 Hiliwi Leake Kidane

Object motion and object appearance are commonly used information in multiple object tracking (MOT) applications, either for associating detections across frames in tracking-by-detection methods or direct track predictions for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Xiaotong Chen , Seyed Mehdi Iranmanesh , Kuo-Chin Lien