A Bayesian approach to multiple target detection and tracking

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 55, Issue 5 I, 2007, Pages 1589-1604

  Morelande, Mark R ^a   Kreucher, Christopher M ^b   Kastella, Keith ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b GENERAL DYNAMICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes' procedures; Object detection and tracking; Particle filters

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

JOINT MULTITARGET PROBABILITY DENSITY; MULTIPLE TARGET; PARTICLE FILTERS;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 34247863674     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2006.889470     Document Type: Article

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