The Track Repulsion Effect in Automatic Tracking

Abstract

The track coalescence effect degrades the performance of probabilistic data association trackers in dense target scenarios. Recently, it has been observed that an opposite effect exists with trackers that utilize hard data association, which we denote as the track repulsion effect. In this paper, we examine this effect in the context of a crossing target scenario, and explore the effectiveness of a track-oriented multi-hypothesis tracker in combating this effect, with both single-stage and multistage processing configurations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA533001

Entities

People

  • Craig Carthel
  • Maxence Dingboe
  • Owen O'neill
  • Peter Willett
  • Stefano Coraluppi
  • Tod Luginbuhl

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Sonar
  • Algorithms
  • Automatic
  • Automatic Tracking
  • Batch Processing
  • Coalescence
  • Computations
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Crossings
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Association
  • Data Fusion
  • Detection
  • Multiple Hypothesis Tracking
  • Multitarget Tracking
  • Surveillance
  • Target Tracking

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  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics