Title
Earth-Mover's distance as a tracking regularizer
Abstract
Tracking time-varying signals is an important part of many engineering systems. Recently, signal processing techniques have been developed to improve tracking performance when the signal of interest is known a-priori to be sparse. Leveraging sparsity, however, depends heavily on gridding the space, treating the signal as a collection of active or inactive pixels in an image, rather than traditional methods which track the continuous spatial coordinates. Using the dynamics constraint in this setting is challenging, as a model which approximately predicts target location may result in seemingly large errors, as measured by the ℓ <sub xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">p</sub> -norm typically used in such algorithms. To take advantage of approximate spatial priors without introducing unnecessary penalties, we present a tracking algorithm using the earth-mover's distance (EMD) as an alternate dynamics regularization term. We note that while requiring a higher computational burden, the EMD can more effectively utilize target location prediction when the space is gridded.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/CAMSAP.2017.8313061
2017 IEEE 7th International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Dynamic Filtering,Earth-mover's Distance,Compressive Sensing,Kalman Filtering
Signal processing,Earth mover's distance,Noise measurement,Spatial reference system,Computer science,Algorithm,Kalman filter,Regularization (mathematics),Pixel,Prior probability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-1252-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam S. Charles111310.21
Nicholas P. Bertrand201.01
Lee, J.323.79
Christopher Rozell447245.93