Boosting target tracking using particle filter with flow control

Nima Moshtagh; Moses W. Chan

doi:10.1117/12.2015444

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20 May 2013 Boosting target tracking using particle filter with flow control

Nima Moshtagh, Moses W. Chan

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Proceedings Volume 8744, Automatic Target Recognition XXIII; 87440I (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015444
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2013, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

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Target detection and tracking with passive infrared (IR) sensors can be challenging due to significant degradation and corruption of target signature by atmospheric transmission and clutter effects. This paper summarizes our efforts in phenomenology modeling of boosting targets with IR sensors, and developing algorithms for tracking targets in the presence of background clutter. On the phenomenology modeling side, the clutter images are generated using a high fidelity end-to-end simulation testbed. It models atmospheric transmission, structured clutter and solar reflections to create realistic background images. The dynamics and intensity of a boosting target are modeled and injected onto the background scene. Pixel level images are then generated with respect to the sensor characteristics. On the tracking analysis side, a particle filter for tracking targets in a sequence of clutter images is developed. The particle filter is augmented with a mechanism to control particle flow. Specifically, velocity feedback is used to constrain and control the particles. The performance of the developed “adaptive” particle filter is verified with tracking of a boosting target in the presence of clutter and occlusion.

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Nima Moshtagh and Moses W. Chan "Boosting target tracking using particle filter with flow control", Proc. SPIE 8744, Automatic Target Recognition XXIII, 87440I (20 May 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2015444

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