A Tracker for Multiple Dynamic Targets Using Multiple Sensors

We describe a clustering-based algorithm for tracking a dynamically varying number of targets observed by multiple sensors. The algorithm relies on discrete target detections (e.g., laser "hits") and a simple model of the targets to be tracked (e.g. a human is modeled in 2-D as a circle). The algorithm is evaluated in the context of a 4 versus 4 basketball game (8 targets) using 4 SICK LMS291 laser scanners as input. Our evaluations show that the sensor system correctly reports the number of targets roughly 99% of the time. We also demonstrate use of the tracker with two video datasets of multiple changing numbers of ants and fish, respectively

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