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PSNF: a refined strongest neighbor filter for tracking in clutter

  • University of New Orleans

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Abstract

A simple and commonly used method for tracking in clutter is the so-called Strongest Neighbor Filter (SNF). It uses the measurement with the strongest intensity (amplitude) in the neighborhood of the predicted target measurement location, known as the 'strongest neighbor' measurement, as if it were the true one. Its performance is significantly better than that of the Nearest Neighbor Filter (NNF) but usually worse than that of the Probabilistic Data Association Filter (PDAF), while its computational complexity is the lowest one among the three filters. The SNF is, however, not consistent in the sense that its actual tracking errors are well above its on-line calculated error standard deviations. Based on the theoretical results obtained recently of the SNF, a probabilistic strongest neighbor filter (PSNF) is presented here. This new filter is consistent and is substantially superior to the PDAF in both performance and computation. The proposed filter is obtained by modifying the standard SNF to account for the probability that the strongest neighbor measurement is not target-originated, which is accomplished by using probabilistic weights.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Editors Anon
Pages2355-3592
Number of pages1238
StatePublished - 1996
Externally publishedYes
EventProceedings of the 1996 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Part 3 (of 4) - Kobe, Jpn
Duration: 11 Dec 199613 Dec 1996

Publication series

NameProceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Volume3
ISSN (Print)0191-2216

Conference

ConferenceProceedings of the 1996 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Part 3 (of 4)
CityKobe, Jpn
Period11/12/9613/12/96

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