KEYWORDS: Target detection, Electronic filtering, Monte Carlo methods, Detection and tracking algorithms, Image filtering, Radar, Particles, Filtering (signal processing), Kinematics, Signal to noise ratio
We explore the use of an improved particle filter to detect and track stealth targets (STs) in noisy imagery with unknown detection profile. Recently, a cardinality-balanced multitarget multi-Bernoulli (CBMeMBer) of variational Bayesian (VB) approximation has been proposed for tracking multitargets with unknown measurement variances. However, VB-CBMeMBer filter has been implemented with a known detection profile, which is unsuitable for ST tracking. The Bayesian track-before-detect (TBD) is an efficient way to detect low observable targets. A new VB-CBMeMBer-TBD filter is proposed to cope with jointly unknown detection profile and measurement variances for ST tracking. Furthermore, a sequential Monte Carlo implementation is applied to estimate augmented kinematic ST state. The results show that the proposed filter is more accurate than other filters in cardinality estimation and less optimal subpattern assignment errors.
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