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Main Authors: Behera, Priyank, Kenley, C. Robert
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02637
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author Behera, Priyank
Kenley, C. Robert
author_facet Behera, Priyank
Kenley, C. Robert
contents Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) is foundational for radar, defense, and autonomous systems, where tracking accuracy directly affects decision-making and safety. For linear systems with Gaussian process and measurement noise, the Kalman filter remains the gold standard for state estimation. However, its performance can degrade in real-world scenarios where measurement noise is temporally correlated. This violates the white-noise assumptions that Kalman filters have. Various approaches include state augmentation of the Kalman filter, but this approach is susceptible to failure due to ill-conditioned problem formulations. This work investigates the limitations of classical Kalman filtering in colored noise environments and presents an influence diagram-based approach to the Joint Probabilistic Data Association Filter (JPDAF). Simulation results on benchmark scenarios demonstrate that the Influence Diagram JPDAF (ID-JPDAF) achieves lower root mean square error (RMSE) than classical methods. These findings highlight the potential of influence diagram models for advancing multi-target tracking performance in radar and related applications.
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spellingShingle Influence Diagrams for Robust Multi-Target Tracking
Behera, Priyank
Kenley, C. Robert
Optimization and Control
Multi-Target Tracking (MTT) is foundational for radar, defense, and autonomous systems, where tracking accuracy directly affects decision-making and safety. For linear systems with Gaussian process and measurement noise, the Kalman filter remains the gold standard for state estimation. However, its performance can degrade in real-world scenarios where measurement noise is temporally correlated. This violates the white-noise assumptions that Kalman filters have. Various approaches include state augmentation of the Kalman filter, but this approach is susceptible to failure due to ill-conditioned problem formulations. This work investigates the limitations of classical Kalman filtering in colored noise environments and presents an influence diagram-based approach to the Joint Probabilistic Data Association Filter (JPDAF). Simulation results on benchmark scenarios demonstrate that the Influence Diagram JPDAF (ID-JPDAF) achieves lower root mean square error (RMSE) than classical methods. These findings highlight the potential of influence diagram models for advancing multi-target tracking performance in radar and related applications.
title Influence Diagrams for Robust Multi-Target Tracking
topic Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02637