Asymptotic efficiency of the PHD in multitarget/multisensor estimation

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 553-564

  Braca, Paolo ^a   Marano, Stefano ^b   Matta, Vincenzo ^b   Willett, Peter ^c  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

multiple sensors; PHD; probability hypothesis density; random finite sets; RFS; Unlabeled multi object estimation

Indexed keywords

MULTI-OBJECT ESTIMATION; MULTIPLE SENSORS; PHD; PROBABILITY HYPOTHESIS DENSITY; RANDOM FINITE SETS; RFS;

FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; SENSORS; STATISTICAL MECHANICS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84877908436     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2013.2257161     Document Type: Article

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