Divergence detectors for multitarget tracking algorithms

Ronald Mahler

doi:10.1117/12.2015450

23 May 2013 Divergence detectors for multitarget tracking algorithms

Ronald Mahler

Proceedings Volume 8745, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XXII; 87450F (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015450
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

Single-target tracking filters will typically diverge when their internal measurement or motion models deviate too much from the actual models. Niu, Varshney, Alford, Bubalo, Jones, and Scalzo have proposed a metric-- the normalized innovation squared (NIS)--that recursively estimates the degree of nonlinearity in a single-target tracking problem by detecting filter divergence. This paper establishes the following: (1) NIS can be extended to generalized NIS (GNIS), which addresses more general nonlinearities; (2) NIS and GNIS are actually anomaly detectors, rather than filter-divergence detectors; (3) NIS can be heuristically generalized to a multitarget NIS (MNIS) metric; (4) GNIS also can be rigorously extended to multitarget problems via the multitarget GNIS (MGNIS); (5) explicit, computationally tractable formulas for MGNIS can be derived for use with CPHD and PHD filters; and thus (6) these formulas can be employed as anomaly detectors for use with these filters.

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Ronald Mahler "Divergence detectors for multitarget tracking algorithms", Proc. SPIE 8745, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XXII, 87450F (23 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015450

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