Signal and Information Processing

Tracking a Variable Number of Targets in Cluttered Environment

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  • School of Electronic Engineering and Optoelectronic Technology,
    Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing 210094, China

Received date: 2010-09-14

  Revised date: 2011-05-18

  Online published: 2012-05-30

Abstract

In this paper, a passive bistatic radar system using television as opportunistic illuminator is presented. When considering the existence of clutters, a new method is proposed to track a variable number of targets in a cluttered environment. A clustering algorithm is first introduced to judge whether a new target appears or an existing target vanishes, and then the UKF based cheap joint probabilistic data association method (UKFCJPDA) is used to track the targets. Numerical simulation shows good performance of this algorithm.

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WU Hao, SU Wei-min, GU Hong . Tracking a Variable Number of Targets in Cluttered Environment[J]. Journal of Applied Sciences, 2012 , 30(3) : 263 -269 . DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2012.03.008

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