The Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter for Jump Markov Systems Under Glint Noise

Abstract

This paper proposes a novel labeled multi-Bernoulli (LMB) filter for jump Markov systems (JMS) to track the multiple maneuvering objects under glint noise. By modeling the glint noise as a Student's t-distribution and using the variational Bayesian method to acquire the approximate state distribution, we present an efficient implementation of the LMB filter with joint prediction and update for JMS. Simulation results illustrate that the proposed filter outperforms the existing filters for multi-object tracking under glint noise.

Keywords

• Multi-object tracking
• glint noise
• labeled multi-Bernoulli filter
• variational Bayesian method
• jump Markov systems