Track-initiation with the measurements of optical sensors by using MHT techniques

Abstract

The fundamental problem of target tracking in a dense multiple-target environment with clutter, false alarms, missed detections, and so forth is the uncertain origin of measurements. In such a dense multiple-target environment, there is a need to perform track-initiation procedure by which the track of each target is detected. After we perform the track-initiation procedure, we can perform track-maintenance procedure. In this paper, we propose a new track-initiation method using measurements obtained by the optical sensors in a multiple-target environment. Moreover, we estimate the performance of the proposed method.