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Multiple view data with different feature representations have widely arisen in various practical applications. Due to the information diversity, fusing multiview features is very valuable for classification purpose. In this paper, we propose a new multifeature fusion method called fractional-order discriminative multiview correlation projection (FDMCP), which is based on fractional-order scatter...
Feature fusion plays an important role in target recognition, especially when single sensor's recognition capability is limited under severe situations. In view of shortcomings of Multi-set Canonical Correlation Analysis (MCCA) and its supervised modified methods in using category information in fusion projection rule learning, a generalized discriminative learning version of MCCA, termed as GDMCCA,...
An efficient subspace-based two-step direction finding method is proposed for uniform linear arrays. It improves the estimation accuracy for small sample size and coherent sources by diminishing the undesirable terms and utilizing the Toeplitz structure of the sample covariance matrix. Furthermore, it works well even using single snapshot, therefore, it is a good candidate to track the direction-of-arrival...
This paper explores a novel model to describe linear dynamic system with random delays. Compared with the existing research, the probabilities of random delays in the novel model are calculated by conditional probabilities. Therefore, the process noises and measurements noises in the new model for random delay problems are infinitely correlated. By treating the model as random parameter matrices Kalman...
Registration of images from different modalities in the presence of intra-image fluctuation and noise contamination is a challenging task. The accuracy and robustness of the deformable registration largely depend on the definition of appropriate objective function, measuring the similarity between the images. Among them the multi-dimensional modality independent neighbourhood descriptor (MIND) is...
Aiming at the radiation control problem for sensor scheduling, a sensor scheduling algorithm based on partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) is proposed. The target model is set up in the three-dimensional space, and the tracking task requirement is given by fuzzy logic theory. Then the radiation risk model is formulated as a POMDP, and the sensor radiation risk is dynamic updated by...
This paper considers the sensor selection problem for target tracking in large-scale sensor networks. We propose a new sensor selection strategy based on dual-criterion optimization. Both the bias change detection and information gain maximization are considered as criteria in our proposed sensor selection strategy. This new approach extends the sensor selection problem from single criterion optimization...
Doppler radars are low cost and light weight sensors that have a potential to find wide applications in building a large team of mobile vehicle platforms. Because of the nonlinearity associated with the measurement from Doppler radars, it is both interesting and challenging to extract meaningful information from the low cost sensors. Building upon the authors' previous work on self localization with...
This paper considers the robust filtering problem for a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems, and a conjugate unscented transform (CUT) based strong tracking H∞ filter is proposed. Firstly, an extended strong tracking H∞ filter is presented based on the fusion of the extended H∞ filter and strong tracking filter. By online estimating the time-varying noises, the fading factor in the strong tracking...
In this paper, we consider a scenario where sensors are deployed over a large geographical area for tracking a target with circular nonlinear constraints on its motion dynamics. The sensor state estimates are sent over long-haul networks to a remote fusion center for fusion. We are interested in different ways to incorporate the constraints into the estimation and fusion process in the presence of...
We develop an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm for the simultaneous tracking and shape estimation of a star-convex object based on multiple spatially distributed measurements. In order to formulate the problem within the EM framework, the unknown measurement sources on the object are modeled as hidden variables. As the measurement sources are continuous quantities, we develop a suitable discretization...
This paper is concerned with the fusion estimation problem for multi-sensor discrete time-invariant linear systems with multiple time delays and colored measurement noise. A fast sequential covariance intersection (SCI) fusion Kalman filter is given based on the augmented Kalman filter in the linear minimum variance sense, which avoids the calculation of the cross covariance matrices between local...
The square root unscented Kalman filter was introduced to provide a more numerically robust formulation of the unscented Kalman filter and to guarantee positive semi-definiteness. The filter maintains the Cholesky factor of the covariance matrix instead of the covariance itself. Efficient linear algebra techniques, including Cholesky update and downdate, are used to predict and update the Cholesky...
Information fusion aims to exploit truthful knowledge from various sources in a reliable and accurate way. Fusion of information can be conducted at three abstraction levels including feature level, score level and decision level. The feature fusion approaches have the advantages of preserving effective discriminative structure underlying various features. In this paper, we propose an effective feature...
With the ubiquity of information distributed in networks, performing recursive Bayesian estimation using distributed calculations is becoming more and more important. There are a wide variety of algorithms catering to different applications and requiring different degrees of knowledge about the other nodes involved. One recently developed algorithm is the distributed Kalman filter (DKF), which assumes...
The Simultaneous Localization And Mapping (SLAM) estimation problem is a nonlinear problem, due to the nature of the range and bearing measurements. In latter years it has been demonstrated that if the nonlinearities from the attitude are handled by a separate nonlinear observer, the SLAM dynamics can be represented as a linear time varying (LTV) system, by introducing these nonlinearities and nonlinear...
In decentralised estimation, locally measured data are processed locally and the local filters are unaware of the other ones. Due to the lack of the global knowledge, the fusion of the local estimates cannot utilise the correlations of the local estimate errors in the computation of the fused mean square error matrix. For this reason, algorithms of fusion under unknown correlations have been designed...
The random matrix approach to extended objects tracking provides efficient estimation of both the states and the extensions. Then the Gaussian Inverse Wishart-Probability Hypothesis Density (GIW-PHD) filter in the random matrix framework is utilized to track multiple extended objects in the presence of clutter measurements and missed detections. In view of the invariant extension evolution model and...
This paper presents a systematic approach to evaluate the tracking performance limits for different sensor modalities (lidar, radar and vision) and for combination of these sensors modalities. The Cramer-Rao lower bound (CRLB) is used to predict the tracking performance limits for state of the art sensors such as the Continental ARS408 radar, Velodyne HDL-64E lidar and a state of the art monocular/stereo...
We propose a deterministic recursive algorithm for approximate Bayesian filtering. The proposed filter uses a function referred to as the approximate Gaussian flow transformation that transforms a Gaussian prior random variable into an approximate posterior random variable. Given a Gaussian filter prediction distribution, the succeeding filter prediction is approximated as Gaussian by applying sigma...
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