In most of the existing probability hypothesis density (PHD) filters, the clutter is modeled as a Poisson random finite set (RFS) with a known intensity. The clutter intensity is characterized as a product of the average number of clutter (false alarm) points per scan and the probability density of clutter spatial distribution. The PHD filter is generalized to the problem of multi-target tracking (MTT) in clutter with an unknown intensity. In the proposed approach, the unknown clutter intensity is first estimated for the PHD filter. Estimation of the clutter intensity involves the estimation of the average clutter number per scan and the estimation of the clutter density. The clutter density is estimated as finite mixture models (FMM) via either expectation maximum (EM) or Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm. Then, the estimated intensity is used directly in the PHD filter to perform multi-target detecting and tracking. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation results show that the proposed approach outperforms the naive PHD filter of assuming uniform clutter distribution significantly especially when the nominal clutter model is obviously different from the ground truth.


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    Title :

    Estimating Unknown Clutter Intensity for PHD Filter


    Contributors:
    Feng Lian, (author) / Chongzhao Han, (author) / Weifeng Liu, (author)


    Publication date :

    2010-10-01


    Size :

    2985464 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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