Variance estimation and ranking of Gaussian mixture distributions in target tracking applications

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn 2, Issue , 2002, Pages 2195-2201

  Trailović, Lidija ^a   Pao, Lucy Y ^a  

^a UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERRORS; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSORS;

GAUSSIAN MIXTURE DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSOR PROCESSING; TARGET TRACKING; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

STOCHASTIC CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0036990404     PISSN: 01912216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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