A Theoretical Foundation for the Stein-Winter "Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD)" Multitarget Tracking Approach

Abstract

In several unpublished manuscripts written from 1993 to 1995, Michael Stein, C.L. Winter, and Robert Tenney introduced a multitarget tracking and evidential-accumulation concept called a "Probability Hypothesis Surface" (PHS). A PHS is the graph of a probability distribution-the Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD)-that, when integrated over a region in target state space, gives the expected number of targets in that region. The PHD is uniquely defined by this property: Any other density function that satisfies it must be the PHD.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 20, 2000
Accession Number
ADA400161

Entities

People

  • Ronald P. Mahler

Organizations

  • Army Research Office

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Data Fusion
  • Detectors
  • Estimators
  • Filters
  • Filtration
  • Fuzzy Sets
  • Information Science
  • Integrals
  • Kalman Filters
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Multitarget Tracking
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
  • Probability Hypothesis Density Filters
  • Statistics
  • Target Tracking

Readers

  • Military History
  • Sensor Fusion and Tracking Systems.
  • Statistical inference.

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects