Maximum likelihood probabilistic multi-hypothesis tracker applied to multistatic sonar data sets
Steven Schoenecker, Peter Willett, Yaakov Bar‐Shalom · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2011
The Maximum Likelihood Probabilistic Multi-Hypothesis tracker (ML-PMHT) is an algorithm that works well against low-SNR targets in an active multistatic framework with multiple transmitters and multiple receivers. The ML-PMHT likelihood ratio formulation allows for multiple targets as well as multiple returns from any given target in a single scan, which is realistic in a multi-receiver environment where data from different receivers is combined together. Additionally, the likelihood ratio can be optimized very easily and rapidly with the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm. Here, we apply ML-PMHT to two multistatic data sets: the TNO blind 2008 data set and the Metron 2009 data set. Results are compared with previous work that employed the Maximum Likelihood Probabilistic Data Assocation (ML-PDA) tracker, an algorithm with a different assignment algorithm and as a result a different likelihood ratio formulation.