Multitarget Bayes Filtering via First-Order Multitarget Moments

IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1152-1178

  Mahler, Ronald P S ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTITARGET BAYES FILTERING; PROBABILITY HYPOTHESIS DENSITY (PHD);

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; KALMAN FILTERING; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SET THEORY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

NONLINEAR FILTERING;

EID: 1642401353     PISSN: 00189251     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TAES.2003.1261119     Document Type: Article

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