Multi-Target Tracking via Mixed Integer Optimization

Abstract

The field of multi-target tracking faces two primary challenges: (i) data association and (ii) trajectory estimation. MTT problems are well researched with many algorithms solving these two problems separately, however few algorithms attempt to solve these simultaneously and even fewer utilize optimization. In this paper we introduce a new mixed integer optimization (MIO) model which solves the data association and trajectory estimation problems simultaneously by minimizing an easily interpretable global objective function. Furthermore, we propose a greedy heuristic which quickly finds good solutions. We extend both the heuristic and the MIO model to scenarios with missed detections and false alarms.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 13, 2016
Accession Number
AD1033655

Entities

People

  • Dimitris Bertsimas
  • Shimrit Shtern
  • Zachary Saunders

Organizations

  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Air Force
  • Algorithms
  • Data Association
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Filters
  • Heuristic Methods
  • Linear Programming
  • Multiple Hypothesis Tracking
  • Multitarget Tracking
  • Optimization
  • Probability
  • Simulations
  • Statistical Algorithms
  • Target Tracking

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Operations Research
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.