Smoothing Multi-Scan Target Tracking in Clutter

This paper presents a fixed interval smoothing multi-scan algorithm for target tracking in clutter. Both the probability of target existence and the target trajectory probability density function are calculated using all available measurements. This improves both the false track discrimination and the target trajectory estimate. The fixed interval smoothing fuses the forward and the backward multi-scan predictions, to obtain the smoothing predictions and smoothing innovations. Both trajectory estimates and the data association probabilities are calculated using the smoothing innovations. An overlapping batch procedure is described which limits the smoothing delay.

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