Unifying Tree-Reweighted Belief Propagation and Mean Field for Tracking Extended Targets

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Main Authors: Ma, Weizhen, Jing, Zhongliang, Dong, Peng, Leung, Henry
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author Ma, Weizhen
Jing, Zhongliang
Dong, Peng
Leung, Henry
author_facet Ma, Weizhen
Jing, Zhongliang
Dong, Peng
Leung, Henry
contents This paper proposes a unified tree-reweighted belief propagation (BP) and mean field (MF) approach for scalable detection and tracking of extended targets within the framework of factor graph. The factor graph is partitioned into a BP region and an MF region so that the messages in each region are updated according to the corresponding region rules. The BP region exploits the tree-reweighted BP, which offers improved convergence than the standard BP for graphs with massive cycles, to resolve data association. The MF region approximates the posterior densities of the measurement rate, kinematic state and extent. For linear Gaussian target models and gamma Gaussian inverse Wishart distributed state density, the unified approach provides a closed-form recursion for the state density. Hence, the proposed algorithm is more efficient than particle-based BP algorithms for extended target tracking. This method also avoids measurement clustering and gating since it solves the data association problem in a probabilistic fashion. We compare the proposed approach with algorithms such as the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filter and the BP-based Poisson multi-Bernoulli filter. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves enhanced tracking performance.
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spellingShingle Unifying Tree-Reweighted Belief Propagation and Mean Field for Tracking Extended Targets
Ma, Weizhen
Jing, Zhongliang
Dong, Peng
Leung, Henry
Signal Processing
This paper proposes a unified tree-reweighted belief propagation (BP) and mean field (MF) approach for scalable detection and tracking of extended targets within the framework of factor graph. The factor graph is partitioned into a BP region and an MF region so that the messages in each region are updated according to the corresponding region rules. The BP region exploits the tree-reweighted BP, which offers improved convergence than the standard BP for graphs with massive cycles, to resolve data association. The MF region approximates the posterior densities of the measurement rate, kinematic state and extent. For linear Gaussian target models and gamma Gaussian inverse Wishart distributed state density, the unified approach provides a closed-form recursion for the state density. Hence, the proposed algorithm is more efficient than particle-based BP algorithms for extended target tracking. This method also avoids measurement clustering and gating since it solves the data association problem in a probabilistic fashion. We compare the proposed approach with algorithms such as the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture filter and the BP-based Poisson multi-Bernoulli filter. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm achieves enhanced tracking performance.
title Unifying Tree-Reweighted Belief Propagation and Mean Field for Tracking Extended Targets
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.19036