Title
A Student's t Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density Filter for Multi-Target Tracking with Outliers.
Abstract
In multi-target tracking, the outliers-corrupted process and measurement noises can reduce the performance of the probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter severely. To solve the problem, this paper proposed a novel PHD filter, called Student's tmixture PHD (STM-PHD) filter. The proposed filter models the heavy-tailed process noise and measurement noise as a Student's t distribution as well as approximates the multi-target intensity as a mixture of Student's t components to be propagated in time. Then, a closed PHD recursion is obtained based on Student's t approximation. Our approach can make full use of the heavy-tailed characteristic of a Student's t distribution to handle the situations with heavy-tailed process and the measurement noises. The simulation results verify that the proposed filter can overcome the negative effect generated by outliers and maintain a good tracking accuracy in the simultaneous presence of process and measurement outliers.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.3390/s18041095
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multi-target tracking,PHD filter,Student's t mixture,outliers,robustness
Probability hypothesis density filter,Multi target tracking,Outlier,Process noise,Algorithm,Electronic engineering,Robustness (computer science),Engineering,Recursion,T distribution
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
4.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.41
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zhuowei Liu140.75
Shuxin Chen252.79
Hao Wu351.78
Renke He451.78
Lin Hao541.76