In this article, we propose a Poisson multi-Bernoulli (PMB) filter for extended object tracking (EOT), which directly estimates the set of object trajectories, using belief propagation (BP). The proposed filter propagates a PMB density on the posterior of sets of trajectories through the filtering recursions over time, where the PMB mixture (PMBM) posterior after the update step is approximated as a PMB. The efficient PMB approximation relies on several important theoretical contributions. First, we present a PMBM conjugate prior on the posterior of sets of trajectories for a generalized measurement model, in which each object generates an independent set of measurements. The PMBM density is a conjugate prior in the sense that both the prediction and the update steps preserve the PMBM form of the density. Second, we present a factor graph representation of the joint posterior of the PMBM set of trajectories and association variables for the Poisson spatial measurement model. Importantly, leveraging the PMBM conjugacy and the factor graph formulation enables an elegant treatment on undetected objects via a Poisson point process and efficient inference on sets of trajectories using BP, where the approximate marginal densities in the PMB approximation can be obtained without enumeration of different data association hypotheses. To achieve this, we present a particle-based implementation of the proposed filter, where smoothed trajectory estimates, if desired, can be obtained via single-object particle smoothing methods, and its performance for EOT with ellipsoidal shapes is evaluated in a simulation study.


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    Title :

    Trajectory PMB Filters for Extended Object Tracking Using Belief Propagation




    Publication date :

    2023-12-01


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    1362442 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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