Comparison of soft and hard assignment ML trackers on multistage data

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Willett, Peter ^a   Coraluppi, Stefano ^b   Blanding, Wayne ^a  

^a University of Connecticut   (United States)

^b NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRID SEARCH; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD PROBABILISTIC DATA ASSOCIATION (MLPDA); PROBABILISTIC MULTI-HYPOTHESIS TRACKER (PMHT); RADAR SURVEILLANCE;

ALGORITHMS; DATA PROCESSING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 34047124337     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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