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| author | Larsen, Martin Vonheim Mathiassen, Kim |
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| contents | Multi-sensor tracking in the real world involves asynchronous sensors with partial coverage and heterogeneous detection performance. Although probabilistic tracking methods permit detection probability and clutter intensity to depend on state and sensing context, many practical frameworks enforce globally uniform observability assumptions. Under multi-rate and partially overlapping sensing, this simplification causes repeated non-detections from high-rate sensors to erode tracks visible only to low-rate sensors, potentially degrading fusion performance.
We introduce DetectorContext, an abstraction for the open-source multi-target tracking framework Stone Soup. DetectorContext exposes detection probability and clutter intensity as state-dependent functions evaluated during hypothesis formation. The abstraction integrates with existing probabilistic trackers without modifying their update equations. Experiments on asynchronous radar-lidar data demonstrate that context-aware modeling restores stable fusion and significantly improves HOTA and GOSPA performance without increasing false tracks. |
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| spellingShingle | Context-Aware Sensor Modeling for Asynchronous Multi-Sensor Tracking in Stone Soup Larsen, Martin Vonheim Mathiassen, Kim Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Multi-sensor tracking in the real world involves asynchronous sensors with partial coverage and heterogeneous detection performance. Although probabilistic tracking methods permit detection probability and clutter intensity to depend on state and sensing context, many practical frameworks enforce globally uniform observability assumptions. Under multi-rate and partially overlapping sensing, this simplification causes repeated non-detections from high-rate sensors to erode tracks visible only to low-rate sensors, potentially degrading fusion performance. We introduce DetectorContext, an abstraction for the open-source multi-target tracking framework Stone Soup. DetectorContext exposes detection probability and clutter intensity as state-dependent functions evaluated during hypothesis formation. The abstraction integrates with existing probabilistic trackers without modifying their update equations. Experiments on asynchronous radar-lidar data demonstrate that context-aware modeling restores stable fusion and significantly improves HOTA and GOSPA performance without increasing false tracks. |
| title | Context-Aware Sensor Modeling for Asynchronous Multi-Sensor Tracking in Stone Soup |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.15137 |