Paper Number: 286

Date: Tuesday, 11 July 2006

Time: 11:00

Duration: 20 minutes

Session: Nonlinear Filtering I

Location: Bargello

 

Tracking of Groups of Targets Using Generalized Janossy Measure Density Function

          Shozo Mori

          Chee-Yee Chong

 

Abstract: This paper describes an approach to tracking multiple groups of targets using the concept of the generalized Janossy measure density function. Each group is modeled by a group state that consists of a group common state and an unknown number of individual target component states. In order to represent a probability distribution of such a group state, we propose to use a generalized version of the Janossy measure density function. We will formulate our tracking problem as a distributed estimation problem in which each local sensor processing unit (node) produces single-frame-based group-level detections and a central fusion center fuses those detections into group tracks. A simple illustrative example will be given.

 

Presenter Biography: Dr. Shozo Mori is a principal engineer at BAE Systems, Advanced Information Technologies. His main intersts are multiple hyptohesis tracking, data and sensor fusion, and application of finite point process and random finite set theories to data fusion problems.