Integration of radar measurement attributes in the multiple hypothesis tracker: results for track initiation

Emmanuel Cassassolles; Ludovic Martinet; Herve Sedano; Bernard Tomasini

doi:10.1117/12.241201

31 May 1996 Integration of radar measurement attributes in the multiple hypothesis tracker: results for track initiation

Emmanuel Cassassolles, Ludovic Martinet, Herve Sedano, Bernard Tomasini

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Proceedings Volume 2759, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1996; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.241201
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1996, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

The foremost difficulties which multiple target tracking involves are the problems of track initiation and report-to- track association when there are missing reports and proliferation of false reports generated by clutter. Many solutions have been proposed to solve these problems for years using location informations of the received measurements. This work presents an extension of one of those solutions in order to utilize new available measurement features. The tracking methods we use is multiple hypothesis tracker (MHT) which previous works demonstrated efficiency, especially for track initiation resolution. The intrinsic properties and formulation of MHT allow to easily take additional report informations into account. The measurement attributes we propose to exploit are (1) Doppler velocity, (2) likelihood and (3) local false report density. In order to evaluate the contribution of these informations, obtained results for solving track initiation problems on radar simulated and real data to those given by a basic version of MHT are compared.

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Emmanuel Cassassolles, Ludovic Martinet, Herve Sedano, and Bernard Tomasini "Integration of radar measurement attributes in the multiple hypothesis tracker: results for track initiation", Proc. SPIE 2759, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1996, (31 May 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.241201

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