A metric for performance evaluation of multi-target tracking algorithms

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing

Volumn 59, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3452-3457

  Ristic, Branko ^a   Vo, Ba Ngu ^b   Clark, Daniel ^c   Vo, Ba Tuong ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Estimation; performance evaluation; tracking

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE MEASURE; FINITE SET; GROUND TRUTH; MULTI-TARGET TRACKING; MULTITARGET; NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; PARAMETER OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PRACTICAL IMPORTANCE; STATE ESTIMATES; STATE SPACE; TEMPORAL SEQUENCES; TRACKING ALGORITHM; TRACKING SYSTEM;

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; SET THEORY; VECTOR SPACES;

TARGET TRACKING;

EID: 79959198032     PISSN: 1053587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2011.2140111     Document Type: Article

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