This paper evaluates the performance of multiple target tracking (MTT) algorithms in real-life stressful radar tracking environments. Real closely spaced maneuver radar data, generated by six F-18 fighters and other targets, were collected jointly by the defence departments of Canada and United States to support this practical MTT algorithm evaluation study. A set of performance metrics was defined here to compare the suboptimal nearest neighbor (SNN), global nearest neighbor (GNN), and various variants of the joint probabilistic data association (JPDA) MTT trackers. Results reveal an interesting result that all these MTT algorithms exhibited very close performance. In addition, the weighted sum approach of the PDA/JPDA trackers which are theoretically effective were observed to perform poorly in tracking closely spaced targets. Overall speaking, the GNN filter based on the Munkres algorithm had the best performance in terms of both tracking performance and robustness.


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    Title :

    Evaluation of multiple radar target trackers in stressful environments


    Contributors:
    Leung, H. (author) / Zhijian Hu (author) / Blanchette, M. (author)


    Publication date :

    1999-04-01


    Size :

    1174308 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English