A comparison of "clutter-agnostic" PHD filters

Ronald Mahler

doi:10.1117/12.920799

17 May 2012 A comparison of "clutter-agnostic" PHD filters

Ronald Mahler

Proceedings Volume 8392, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XXI; 83920L (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920799
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2012, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Abstract

This paper describes a general approach for deriving PHD/CPHD filters that must estimate the background clutter process, rather than being provided with it a priori. I first derive general time- and measurementupdate equations for clutter-agnostic PHD filters. I then consider two different Markov motion models. For the Uncoupled Motion (UM) model, targets can transition only to targets, and clutter generators can transition only to clutter generators. For the Coupled Motion (CM) model, targets can transition to clutter generators and vice-versa. I demonstrate that R. Streit's "multitarget intensity filter" (MIF) is actually a PHD filter with a CM model. Streit has made the following claims for the MIF: it subsumes the conventional PHD filter as a special case, and can estimate both the clutter rate λ_k+1 and the target-birth rate B_k+1|_k. I exhibit counterexamples to these claims. Because of the CM model, the MIF (1) does not subsume the conventional PHD filter as a special case; (2) cannot estimate B_k+1|k when there are no clutter generators; and (3) cannot estimate λ_k+1 when the target birth-rate and target death-rate are "conjugate." By way of contrast, PHD filters with UM models do include the PHD filter as a special case, and can estimate the clutter intensity function κ_k+1(z). I also show that the MIF is essentially identical to the UM-model PHD filter when the target birth-rate and death-rate are both small.

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Ronald Mahler "A comparison of "clutter-agnostic" PHD filters", Proc. SPIE 8392, Signal Processing, Sensor Fusion, and Target Recognition XXI, 83920L (17 May 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.920799

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