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Hauptverfasser: García-Fernández, Ángel F., Xia, Yuxuan
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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author García-Fernández, Ángel F.
Xia, Yuxuan
author_facet García-Fernández, Ángel F.
Xia, Yuxuan
contents This paper presents a new derivation of the variational Poisson multi-Bernoulli (V-PMB) filter for multi-target estimation proposed in [#Williams15]. The proposed derivation is based on considering an augmented space that includes the set of target states with their track indices and the global hypothesis variable. Then, we show that the V-PMB projection performs a coordinate descent Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) minimisation on this augmented space to fit the best possible PMB density to the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) posterior. We also show that this V-PMB projection keeps the probability hypothesis density of the posterior. The paper also includes a comparison with the PMBM filter and other PMB filter variants, including a track-oriented Murty-based implementation, a track-oriented loopy belief propagation implementation and a global nearest neighbour implementation, showing the benefits of the V-PMB filter compared to the other PMB filters when targets get in close proximity and then separate.
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spellingShingle Variational PMB filter via coordinate descent Kullback-Leibler divergence minimisation
García-Fernández, Ángel F.
Xia, Yuxuan
Systems and Control
Applications
This paper presents a new derivation of the variational Poisson multi-Bernoulli (V-PMB) filter for multi-target estimation proposed in [#Williams15]. The proposed derivation is based on considering an augmented space that includes the set of target states with their track indices and the global hypothesis variable. Then, we show that the V-PMB projection performs a coordinate descent Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) minimisation on this augmented space to fit the best possible PMB density to the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) posterior. We also show that this V-PMB projection keeps the probability hypothesis density of the posterior. The paper also includes a comparison with the PMBM filter and other PMB filter variants, including a track-oriented Murty-based implementation, a track-oriented loopy belief propagation implementation and a global nearest neighbour implementation, showing the benefits of the V-PMB filter compared to the other PMB filters when targets get in close proximity and then separate.
title Variational PMB filter via coordinate descent Kullback-Leibler divergence minimisation
topic Systems and Control
Applications
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07309