On the Stability and the Approximation of Branching Distribution Flows, with Applications to Nonlinear Multiple Target Filtering

Stochastic Analysis and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 951-997

  Caron, F ^a   Del Moral, P ^a   Pace, M ^a   Vo, B N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bernoulli filter; Functional contraction inequalities; Interacting particle systems; Nonlinear multi target filtering; Particle filters; Probability hypothesis density filter; Semigroup stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855856864     PISSN: 07362994     EISSN: 15329356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07362994.2011.598797     Document Type: Article

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