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18 August 1995 Detection of multiple airborne targets from multisensor data
Mark A. Foltz, Anuj Srivastava, Michael I. Miller, Ulf Grenander
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Abstract
Previously we presented a jump-diffusion based random sampling algorithm for generating conditional mean estimates of scene representations for the tracking and recongition of maneuvering airborne targets. These representations include target positions and orientations along their trajectories and the target type associated with each trajectory. Taking a Bayesian approach, a posterior measure is defined on the parameter space by combining sensor models with a sophisticated prior based on nonlinear airplane dynamics. The jump-diffusion algorithm constructs a Markov process which visits the elements of the parameter space with frequencies proportional to the posterior probability. It consititutes both the infinitesimal, local search via a sample path continuous diffusion transform and the larger, global steps through discrete jump moves. The jump moves involve the addition and deletion of elements from the scene configuration or changes in the target type assoviated with each target trajectory. One such move results in target detection by the addition of a track seed to the inference set. This provides initial track data for the tracking/recognition algorithm to estimate linear graph structures representing tracks using the other jump moves and the diffusion process, as described in our earlier work. Target detection ideally involves a continuous research over a continuum of the observation space. In this work we conclude that for practical implemenations the search space must be discretized with lattice granularity comparable to sensor resolution, and discuss how fast Fourier transforms are utilized for efficient calcuation of sufficient statistics given our array models. Some results are also presented from our implementation on a networked system including a massively parallel machine architecture and a silicon graphics onyx workstation.
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Mark A. Foltz, Anuj Srivastava, Michael I. Miller, and Ulf Grenander "Detection of multiple airborne targets from multisensor data", Proc. SPIE 2562, Radar/Ladar Processing and Applications, (18 August 1995); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.216952
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KEYWORDS
Target detection

Sensors

Detection and tracking algorithms

Data modeling

Imaging systems

Diffusion

Target recognition

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