Bayesian unified registration and tracking

Ronald Mahler; Adel El-Fallah

doi:10.1117/12.885145

5 May 2011 Bayesian unified registration and tracking

Ronald Mahler, Adel El-Fallah

Proceedings Volume 8050, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XX; 80500H (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885145
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Multitarget detection and tracking algorithms typically presume that sensors are spatially registered-i.e., that all sensor states are precisely specified with respect to some common coordinate system. In actuality, sensor observations may be contaminated by unknown spatial misregistration biases. This paper demonstrates that these biases can be estimated by exploiting the data collected from a sufficiently large number of unknown targets, in a unified methodology in which sensor registration and multitarget tracking are performed jointly in a fully unified fashion. We show how to (1) model single-sensor bias, (2) integrate the biased sensors into a single probabilistic multiplatform-multisensor-multitarget system, (3) construct the optimal solution to the joint registration/tracking problem, and (4) devise a principled computational approximation of this optimal solution. The approach does not presume the availability of GPS or other inertial information.

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Ronald Mahler and Adel El-Fallah "Bayesian unified registration and tracking", Proc. SPIE 8050, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XX, 80500H (5 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885145

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