Distributed Multi-Object Tracking Under Limited Field of View Heterogeneous Sensors with Density Clustering

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Main Authors: Chen, Fei, Van Nguyen, Hoa, Leong, Alex S., Panicker, Sabita, Baker, Robin, Ranasinghe, Damith C.
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Published: 2023
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author Chen, Fei
Van Nguyen, Hoa
Leong, Alex S.
Panicker, Sabita
Baker, Robin
Ranasinghe, Damith C.
author_facet Chen, Fei
Van Nguyen, Hoa
Leong, Alex S.
Panicker, Sabita
Baker, Robin
Ranasinghe, Damith C.
contents We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown sensor field-of-views (FoVs), sensors with limited local computational resources and communication channel capacity. The resulting distributed multi-object tracking algorithm involves solving an NP-hard multidimensional assignment problem either optimally for small-size problems or sub-optimally for general practical problems. For general problems, we propose an efficient distributed multi-object tracking algorithm that performs track-to-track fusion using a clustering-based analysis of the state space transformed into a density space to mitigate the complexity of the assignment problem. The proposed algorithm can more efficiently group local track estimates for fusion than existing approaches. To ensure we achieve globally consistent identities for tracks across a network of nodes as objects move between FoVs, we develop a graph-based algorithm to achieve label consensus and minimise track segmentation. Numerical experiments with synthetic and real-world trajectory datasets demonstrate that our proposed method is significantly more computationally efficient than state-of-the-art solutions, achieving similar tracking accuracy and bandwidth requirements but with improved label consistency.
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spellingShingle Distributed Multi-Object Tracking Under Limited Field of View Heterogeneous Sensors with Density Clustering
Chen, Fei
Van Nguyen, Hoa
Leong, Alex S.
Panicker, Sabita
Baker, Robin
Ranasinghe, Damith C.
Multiagent Systems
Signal Processing
We consider the problem of tracking multiple, unknown, and time-varying numbers of objects using a distributed network of heterogeneous sensors. In an effort to derive a formulation for practical settings, we consider limited and unknown sensor field-of-views (FoVs), sensors with limited local computational resources and communication channel capacity. The resulting distributed multi-object tracking algorithm involves solving an NP-hard multidimensional assignment problem either optimally for small-size problems or sub-optimally for general practical problems. For general problems, we propose an efficient distributed multi-object tracking algorithm that performs track-to-track fusion using a clustering-based analysis of the state space transformed into a density space to mitigate the complexity of the assignment problem. The proposed algorithm can more efficiently group local track estimates for fusion than existing approaches. To ensure we achieve globally consistent identities for tracks across a network of nodes as objects move between FoVs, we develop a graph-based algorithm to achieve label consensus and minimise track segmentation. Numerical experiments with synthetic and real-world trajectory datasets demonstrate that our proposed method is significantly more computationally efficient than state-of-the-art solutions, achieving similar tracking accuracy and bandwidth requirements but with improved label consistency.
title Distributed Multi-Object Tracking Under Limited Field of View Heterogeneous Sensors with Density Clustering
topic Multiagent Systems
Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00605