Multi-Ellipsoidal Extended Target Tracking With Variational Bayes Inference

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2022-01-01

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Tuncer, Barkın
Orguner, Umut
Özkan, Emre

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In this work, we propose a novel extended target tracking algorithm, which is capable of representing a target or a group of targets with multiple ellipses. Each ellipse is modeled by an unknown symmetric positive-definite random matrix. The proposed model requires solving two challenging problems. First, the data association problem between the measurements and the sub-objects. Second, the inference problem that involves non-conjugate priors and likelihoods which needs to be solved within the recursive filtering framework. We utilize the variational Bayes inference method to solve the association problem and to approximate the intractable true posterior. The performance of the proposed solution is demonstrated in simulations and real-data experiments. The results show that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy with lower computational complexity.

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Kinematics, Covariance matrices, Shape, Target tracking, Partitioning algorithms, Signal processing algorithms, Computational modeling, Extended target tracking, random matrix, variational Bayes, OBJECT, MODEL

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99610

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING

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https://doi.org/10.1109/tsp.2022.3192617

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B. Tuncer, U. Orguner, and E. Özkan, “Multi-Ellipsoidal Extended Target Tracking With Variational Bayes Inference,” IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING, vol. 70, pp. 3921–3934, 2022, Accessed: 00, 2022. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/99610.