Multisensor fusion for 3D target tracking using track-before-detect particle filter

Nima Moshtagh; Paul M. Romberg; Moses W. Chan

doi:10.1117/12.2178518

21 May 2015 Multisensor fusion for 3D target tracking using track-before-detect particle filter

Nima Moshtagh, Paul M. Romberg, Moses W. Chan

Proceedings Volume 9474, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXIV; 947405 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178518
Event: SPIE Defense + Security, 2015, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

This work presents a novel fusion mechanism for estimating the three-dimensional trajectory of a moving target using images collected by multiple imaging sensors. The proposed projective particle filter avoids the explicit target detection prior to fusion. In projective particle filter, particles that represent the posterior density (of target state in a high-dimensional space) are projected onto the lower-dimensional observation space. Measurements are generated directly in the observation space (image plane) and a marginal (sensor) likelihood is computed. The particles states and their weights are updated using the joint likelihood computed from all the sensors. The 3D state estimate of target (system track) is then generated from the states of the particles. This approach is similar to track-before-detect particle filters that are known to perform well in tracking dim and stealthy targets in image collections. Our approach extends the track-before-detect approach to 3D tracking using the projective particle filter. The performance of this measurement-level fusion method is compared with that of a track-level fusion algorithm using the projective particle filter. In the track-level fusion algorithm, the 2D sensor tracks are generated separately and transmitted to a fusion center, where they are treated as measurements to the state estimator. The 2D sensor tracks are then fused to reconstruct the system track. A realistic synthetic scenario with a boosting target was generated, and used to study the performance of the fusion mechanisms.

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Nima Moshtagh, Paul M. Romberg, and Moses W. Chan "Multisensor fusion for 3D target tracking using track-before-detect particle filter", Proc. SPIE 9474, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXIV, 947405 (21 May 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2178518

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