The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations

It is shown analytically that the multi-target multi- Bernoulli (MeMBer) recursion, proposed by Mahler, has a significant bias in the number of targets. To reduce the cardinality bias, a novel multi-Bernoulli approximation to the multi-target Bayes recursion is derived. Under the same assumptions as...

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Main Authors: Vo, Ba Tuong, Vo, Ba-Ngu, Cantoni, Antonio
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Published: IEEE 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39623
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description It is shown analytically that the multi-target multi- Bernoulli (MeMBer) recursion, proposed by Mahler, has a significant bias in the number of targets. To reduce the cardinality bias, a novel multi-Bernoulli approximation to the multi-target Bayes recursion is derived. Under the same assumptions as the MeMBer recursion, the proposed recursion is unbiased. In addition, a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) implementation (for generic models) and a Gaussian mixture (GM) implementation (for linear Gaussian models) are proposed. The latter is also extended to accommodate mildly nonlinear models by linearization and the unscented transform.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-396232017-09-13T14:30:06Z The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations Vo, Ba Tuong Vo, Ba-Ngu Cantoni, Antonio random sets tracking multi-Bernoulli point processes Estimation finite set statistics It is shown analytically that the multi-target multi- Bernoulli (MeMBer) recursion, proposed by Mahler, has a significant bias in the number of targets. To reduce the cardinality bias, a novel multi-Bernoulli approximation to the multi-target Bayes recursion is derived. Under the same assumptions as the MeMBer recursion, the proposed recursion is unbiased. In addition, a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) implementation (for generic models) and a Gaussian mixture (GM) implementation (for linear Gaussian models) are proposed. The latter is also extended to accommodate mildly nonlinear models by linearization and the unscented transform. 2009 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39623 10.1109/TSP.2008.2007924 IEEE fulltext
spellingShingle random sets
tracking
multi-Bernoulli
point processes
Estimation
finite set statistics
Vo, Ba Tuong
Vo, Ba-Ngu
Cantoni, Antonio
The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations
title The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations
title_full The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations
title_fullStr The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations
title_full_unstemmed The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations
title_short The Cardinality Balanced Multi-Target Multi-Bernoulli Filter and Its Implementations
title_sort cardinality balanced multi-target multi-bernoulli filter and its implementations
topic random sets
tracking
multi-Bernoulli
point processes
Estimation
finite set statistics
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/39623