scholarly journals Multisensor Multi-Target Tracking Based on GM-PHD Using Out-Of-Sequence Measurements

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (19) ◽  
pp. 4315 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meiqin Liu ◽  
Tianyi Huai ◽  
Ronghao Zheng ◽  
Senlin Zhang

In this paper, we study the issue of out-of-sequence measurement (OOSM) in a multi-target scenario to improve tracking performance. The OOSM is very common in tracking systems, and it would result in performance degradation if we used it inappropriately. Thus, OOSM should be fully utilized as far as possible. To improve the performance of the tracking system and use OOSM sufficiently, firstly, the problem of OOSM is formulated. Then the classical B1 algorithm for OOSM problem of single target tracking is given. Next, the random finite set (RFS)-based Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) is introduced. Consequently, we derived the equation for re-updating of posterior intensity with OOSM. Implementation of GM-PHD using OOSM is also given. Finally, several simulations are given, and results show that tracking performance of GM-PHD using OOSM is better than GM-PHD using in-sequence measurement (ISM), which can strongly demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm.

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Defu Jiang ◽  
Ming Liu ◽  
Yiyue Gao ◽  
Yang Gao ◽  
Wei Fu ◽  
...  

The random finite set (RFS) approach provides an elegant Bayesian formulation of the multi-target tracking (MTT) problem without the requirement of explicit data association. In order to improve the performance of the RFS-based filter in radar MTT applications, this paper proposes a time-matching Bayesian filtering framework to deal with the problem caused by the diversity of target sampling times. Based on this framework, we develop a time-matching joint generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli filter and a time-matching probability hypothesis density filter. Simulations are performed by their Gaussian mixture implementations. The results show that the proposed approach can improve the accuracy of target state estimation, as well as the robustness.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Kuiwu Wang ◽  
Qin Zhang ◽  
Xiaolong Hu

Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GM-PHD) filtering based on random finite set (RFS) is an effective method to deal with multi-target tracking (MTT). However, the traditional GM-PHD filter cannot form a continuous track in the tracking process, and it is easy to produce a large number of redundant invalid likelihood functions in a dense clutter environment, which reduces the computational efficiency and affects the update result of target probability hypothesis density, resulting in excessive tracking error. Therefore, based on the GM-PHD filter framework, the target state space is extended to a higher dimension. By adding a label set, each Gaussian component is assigned a label, and the label is merged in the pruning and merging step to increase the merging threshold to reduce the Gaussian component generated by dense clutter update, which reduces the computation in the next prediction and update. After pruning and merging, the Gaussian components are further clustered and optimized by threshold separation clustering, thus as to improve the tracking performance of the filter and finally realizing the accurate formation of multi-target tracks in a dense clutter environment. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can form a continuous and reliable track in dense clutter environment and has good tracking performance and computational efficiency.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feng Lian ◽  
Liming Hou ◽  
Bo Wei ◽  
Chongzhao Han

A new optimization algorithm of sensor selection is proposed in this paper for decentralized large-scale multi-target tracking (MTT) network within a labeled random finite set (RFS) framework. The method is performed based on a marginalized δ-generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli RFS. The rule of weighted Kullback-Leibler average (KLA) is used to fuse local multi-target densities. A new metric, named as the label assignment (LA) metric, is proposed to measure the distance for two labeled sets. The lower bound of LA metric based mean square error between the labeled multi-target state set and its estimate is taken as the optimized objective function of sensor selection. The proposed bound is obtained by the information inequality to RFS measurement. Then, we present the sequential Monte Carlo and Gaussian mixture implementations for the bound. Another advantage of the bound is that it provides a basis for setting the weights of KLA. The coordinate descent method is proposed to compromise the computational cost of sensor selection and the accuracy of MTT. Simulations verify the effectiveness of our method under different signal-to- noise ratio scenarios.


2017 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huanqing Zhang ◽  
Hongwei Ge ◽  
Jinlong Yang

AbstractProbability hypothesis density (PHD) filter is a suboptimal Bayesian multi-target filter based on random finite set. The Gaussian mixture PHD filter is an analytic solution to the PHD filter for linear Gaussian multi-target models. However, when targets move near each other, the GM-PHD filter cannot correctly estimate the number of targets and their states. To solve the problem, a novel reweighting scheme for closely spaced targets is proposed under the framework of the GM-PHD filter, which can be able to correctly redistribute the weights of closely spaced targets, and effectively improve the multiple target state estimation precision. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can accurately estimate the number of targets and their states, and effectively improve the performance of multi-target tracking algorithm.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 2772
Author(s):  
Li Zhuo ◽  
Bin Liu ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Shiyu Zhang ◽  
Jiafeng Li

Target tracking in low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) videos faces many technical challenges due to the relatively small sizes, various orientation changes of the objects and diverse scenes. As a result, the tracking performance is still not satisfactory. In this paper, we propose a real-time single-target tracking method with multiple Region Proposal Networks (RPNs) and Distance-Intersection-over-Union (Distance-IoU) Discriminative Network (DIDNet), namely MultiRPN-DIDNet, in which ResNet50 is used as the backbone network for feature extraction. Firstly, an instance-based RPN suitable for the target tracking task is constructed under the framework of Simases Neural Network. RPN is to perform bounding box regression and classification, in which channel attention mechanism is integrated to improve the representative capability of the deep features. The RPNs built on the Block 2, Block 3 and Block 4 of ResNet50 output their own Regression (Reg) coefficients and Classification scores (Cls) respectively, which are weighted and then fused to determine the high-quality region proposals. Secondly, a DIDNet is designed to correct the candidate target’s bounding box finely through the fusion of multi-layer features, which is trained with the Distance-IoU loss. Experimental results on the public datasets of UAV20L and DTB70 show that, compared with the state-of-the-art UAV trackers, the proposed MultiRPN-DIDNet can obtain better tracking performance with fewer region proposals and correction iterations. As a result, the tracking speed has reached 33.9 frames per second (FPS), which can meet the requirements of real-time tracking tasks.


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