Track quality based multitarget tracking algorithm
Abhijit Sinha, Zhen Ding, Thia Kirubarajan, M. Farooq · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2006
In multitarget tracking alongside the problem of measurement to track association, there are decision problems related to track confirmation and termination. In general, such decisions are taken based on the total number of measurement associations, length of no association sequence, total lifetime of the track in question. For a better utilization of available information, confidence of the tracker on a particular track can be used. This quantity can be computed from the measurement-to-track association likelihoods corresponding to the particular track, target detection probability for the sensor-target geometry and false alarm density. In this work we propose a multitarget tracker based on a track quality measure which uses assignment based data association algorithm. The derivation of the track quality is provided. It can be noted that in this case one needs to consider different detection events than that of the track quality measures available in the literature for probabilistic data association (PDA) based trackers. Based on their quality and length of no association sequence tracks are divided into three sets, which are updated separately. The results show that discriminating tracks on the basis of their track quality can lead to longer track life while decreasing the average false track length.