Particle Swarm Optimized Unscented Particle Filter for Target Tracking

In this paper, a novel particle swarm optimized (PSO) unscented particle filter (PSO-UPF) algorithm is proposed for target tracking. Unscented particle filter (UPF) can obtain the better sequential importance sampling than the traditional PF algorithm. Then we use PSO to optimize the state equation of UPF. So that the particle set can tend to the high likelihood region before the weights updated, thereby the impoverishment of particles can be overcome. While, the optimization process makes the particles which far away from the true state tend to the region where the true state has a greater probability of emergence, it can enhance the effect of each particle. Experiment results show that our modified particle filter algorithm uses fewer particles than the general particle filters and its performance outperforms them. And the accuracy of video tracking is improved.

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