Abstract
The point detections obtained from radars or sonars in surveillance environments include clutter measurements, as well as target measurements. Target tracking with these data requires data association, which distinguishes the detections from targets and clutter. Various algorithms have been proposed for clutter measurement density estimation to achieve accurate and robust target tracking with the point detections. Among them, the spatial clutter measurement density estimator (SCMDE) computes the sparsity of clutter measurement, which is the reciprocal of the clutter measurement density. The SCMDE considers all adjacent measurements only as clutter, so the estimated clutter measurement density is biased for multi-target tracking applications, which may result in degraded target tracking performance. Through the study in this paper, a major source of tracking performance degradation with the existing SCMDE for multi-target tracking is analyzed, and the use of the clutter measurement probability is proposed as a remedy. It is also found that the expansion of the volume of the hyper-sphere for each sparsity order reduces the bias of clutter measurement density estimates. Based on the analysis, we propose a new adaptive clutter measurement density estimation method called SCMDE for multi-target tracking (MTT-SCMDE). The proposed method is applied to multi-target tracking, and the improvement of multi-target tracking performance is shown by a series of Monte Carlo simulation runs and a real radar data test. The clutter measurement density estimation performance and target tracking performance are also analyzed for various sparsity orders.
Highlights
Signals with strength higher than the detection threshold of the sensor are used as measurements for track initiation and track state update of target tracking
Approach, which can significantly reduce the amount of computation of JIPDA, which evaluates the probabilities of all the feasible joint events that can occur in multiple target tracking for each scan
To estimate the clutter measurement density accurately for these multi-target tracking environments, we propose a method to calculate the probability that adjacent measurements are generated from clutter and use this probability to estimate the clutter measurement density
Summary
Signals with strength higher than the detection threshold of the sensor are used as measurements for track initiation and track state update of target tracking. Unlike the track based clutter measurement density estimation methods, it produces a unique sparsity for each measurement regardless of the validation gate size of the track involved It was pointed out in [23] that the existing SCMDE generates the unbiased estimates of clutter measurement density when the point of interest is the target detection for single target tracking environments. The clutter measurement density estimation performance and multiple target tracking performance of the proposed method are analyzed through a series of Monte Carlo simulation runs in various tracking environments, as well as a set of real radar data, followed by the Conclusions. SCMDE used in multi-target tracking environments is presented in the Appendix A
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