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This paper is concerned with the application of target tracking in a network of sensors that provide binary output. The binary sensor network tracking problem is formulated in a sequential Bayesian estimation framework and is readily solved by means of a particle filter. We will perform sensor selection by means of a newly proposed scheme. This proposed approach is especially suitable for problems...
In recent years, the particle filter has become commonly accepted as the preferred tool for single target tracking in highly non-linear and non-Gaussian environments. This paper investigates the issues that arise when particle filters are integrated into a hierarchical data fusion system, in which the sensor-level tracking is performed using particle filters, but central-level track fusion is performed...
Different information theoretic sensor management approaches are compared in a Bayesian target-tracking problem. Specifically, the performance using the expected Renyi divergence with different parameter values is compared theoretically and experimentally. Included is the special case in which the expected Renyi divergence is equal to the expected Kullback-Leibler divergence, which is also equivalent...
In theory, a good joint particle filter allows to approximate the exact Bayesian filter solution arbitrarily well. This has motivated a strong and successful development of single target tracking particle filters. Nevertheless, for tracking multiple closely spaced maneuvering targets, there is evidence in literature which seems to contradict the theoretical expectation. The mystery of this apparent...
Within the area of target tracking particle filters are the subject of consistent research and continuous improvement. The purpose of this paper is to present a novel method of fusing the information from multiple particle filters tracking in a multisensor multitarget scenario. Data considered for fusion is under the form of labeled particle clouds, obtained in the simulation from two probability...
This paper proposes a technique for motion estimation of groups of ground targets based on evolving graph networks. The main novelty over alternative group tracking techniques stems from learning the network structure for the groups. Each node of the graph corresponds to a target within the group. The uncertainty of the group structure is estimated jointly with the group target states. New group structure...
A typical sensor data processing sequence uses a detection algorithm prior to tracking to extract point-measurements from the observed sensor data. Track-before-detect (TkBD) is a paradigm which combines target detection and estimation by removing the detection algorithm and supplying the sensor data directly to the tracker. Various different approaches exist for tackling the TkBD problem. This paper...
This paper presents algorithms for consistent joint localisation and tracking of multiple targets in wireless sensor networks under the decentralised data fusion (DDF) paradigm where particle representations of the state posteriors are communicated. This work differs from previous work as more generalised methods have been developed to account for correlated estimation errors that arise due to common...
This paper presents Monte Carlo (MC) methods for multi-target tracking and data association. We focus on comparing different estimation methods based on joint and non-joint state particle filters (PF) and joint probabilistic data association (JPDA) techniques. A novel data association algorithm for PF, founded on a combination of PDA and nearest neighbour (NN) techniques, is also developed. In this...
In target tracking, standard sensors as radar and EO/IR observe the target with a negligible delay, since the speed of light is much larger than the speed of the target. This contribution studies the case where the ratio of the target and the propagation speed is not negligible, as is the case in sensor networks with microphones, geophones or sonars for instance, where the speed of air, ground waves...
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