Detection Thresholds for Tracking in Clutter—A Connection Between Estimation and Signal Processing

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1985, Pages 221-229

  Fortmann, Thomas E ^a   Bar Shalom, Yaakov ^b   Scheffe, Molly ^c   Gelfand, Saul ^d  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

DETECTION THRESHOLDS; ESTIMATION; RICCATI EQUATION; TRACKING IN CLUTTER;

SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

EID: 0022027151     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: 15582523     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAC.1985.1103935     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. R. E. Kalman and R. S. Bucy, ''New results in filtering and prediction theory.” Trans. ASME: J. Basic Eng.,vol. 83, pp. 95–108, Mar. 1961.
2. I.B. Rhodes, “A tutorial introduction to estimation and filtering,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr.,vol. AC-16, pp. 688–706, Dec. 1971.
3. A. H. Jazwinski, Stochastic Processes and Filtering Theory. New York: Academic, 1970.
4. P. S. Maybeck, Stochastic Models, Estimation, and Control—Volume 1. New York: Academic, 1979.
5. B. D. O. Anderson, Optimal Filtering. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1979.
6. Y. Bar-Shalom and E. Tse, “Tracking in a cluttered environment with probabilistic data association,” Automatica, vol. 11, pp. 451–460, Sept. 1975.
7. T. E. Fortmann and S. Baron, “Problems in multi-target sonar tracking,” in Proc. 1978 IEEE Conf. Decision Contr., San Diego, CA, Jan. 1979.
8. T. E. Fortmann, Y. Bar-Shalom, and M. Scheffe, “Sonar tracking of multiple targets using joint probabilistic data association,” IEEE J. Oceanic Eng., vol. OE-8, pp. 173–184, July 1983; early version in Proc. 1980 IEEE Conf. Decision Contr., Albuquerque, NM, Dec. 1980.
9. R. Singer, R. Sea, and K. Housewright, “Derivation and evaluation of improved tracking filters for use in dense multitarget environments,” IEEE Trans. Inform. Theory, vol. IT-20, pp. 423–432, July 1974.
10. D. B. Reid, “An algorithm for tracking multiple targets,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. AC-24, pp. 843–854, Dec. 1979.
11. E. Taenzer, “Tracking multiple targets simultaneously with a phased array radar,” IEEE Trans. Aerosp. Electron. Syst.,vol. AES-16, pp. 604–614, Sept. 1980.
12. C. L. Morefield, “Application of 0–1 integer programming to multitarget tracking problems,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. AC-22, 302–312, June 1977.
13. D. L. Alspach, “A Gaussian sum approximation to the multitarget identification—tracking problem,” Automatica, vol. 11, pp. 285–296, May 1975.
14. R. W. Sittler, “An optimal data association problem in surveillance theory,” IEEE Trans. Mil. Electron., vol. MIL-8, pp. 125–139, Apr. 1964.
15. Y. Bar-Shalom, “Tracking methods in a multitarget environment,” IEEE Trans. Automat. Contr., vol. AC-23, pp. 618–626, Aug. 1978.
16. H. L. Wiener, W. W. Willman, I. R. Goodman, and J. H. Kullback, “Naval ocean-surveillance correlation handbook, 1978,” Naval Res. Lab., NRL Rep. 8340, Oct. 1979.
17. I. R. Goodman, H. L. Wiener, and W. W. Willman, “Naval ocean-surveillance correlation handbook, 1979,” Naval Res. Lab., NRL Rep. 8402, Sept. 1980.
18. T. E. Fortmann and Y. Bar-Shalom, “Modification of the likelihood function to account for probabilistic data association,” BBN Labs., Inc., Cambridge, MA, BBN Rep. 3964A (revised), Contract N00039-78-C-0296, Nov. 1979.
19. A. D. Whalen, Detection of Signals in Noise. New York: Academic, 1971.
20. T. E. Fortmann, Y. Bar-Shalom, M. Scheffe, and S. Gelfand, “Detection thresholds for tracking in clutter—A connection between estimation and signal processing,” BBN Labs., Inc., Cambridge, MA, BBN Rep. 5495, Dec. 1983.
21. 1211 S. Gelfand, T. E. Fortmann, and Y. Bar-Shalom, “Adaptive detection threshold optimization for tracking in clutter,” BBN Labs., Inc., Cambridge, MA, BBN Rep. 5249, Jan. 1983; revised in Proc. Amer. Contr. Conf, San Diego, CA, June 1984.
22. Y. Bar-Shalom and K. Birmiwal, “Consistency and robustness of the PDAF for Target tracking in cluttered environments,” Automatica, vol. 19, pp. 431–437, July 1983.
23. Y. Bar-Shalom and A. G. Jaffer, “Adaptive nonlinear filtering for tracking with measurements of uncertain origin,” Proc. IEEE Conf. Decision Contr., New Orleans, LA, Dec. 1972, pp. 243–247.
24. G. C. Carter, C. H. Knapp, and A. H. Nuttall, “Estimation of the magnitude-squared coherence function via overlapped fast Fourier transform processing,” IEEE Trans. Audio Electroacoust., vol. AU-21, pp. 337–344, Aug. 1973.