{"title":"Bayesian fusion: Modeling and application","authors":"J. Sander, J. Beyerer","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698254","url":null,"abstract":"Bayesian statistics leads to a powerful fusion methodology, especially for the fusion of heterogeneous information sources. If fusion problems are handled under consideration of the full expressiveness and the full range of methods provided by Bayesian statistics, the Bayesian fusion methodology possesses an impressive wide range of applications. We discuss this by having a closer look at selected aspects of Bayesian modeling. Thereby, also parallels to other methods used for information fusion will be drawn. With regard to the practical tractability of Bayesian fusion problems, selected approaches to deal with its potentially high complexity are discussed.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133924701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Horst Kloeden, Nesrine Damak, R. Rasshofer, E. Biebl
{"title":"Sensor resource management with cooperative sensors for preventive vehicle safety applications","authors":"Horst Kloeden, Nesrine Damak, R. Rasshofer, E. Biebl","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698261","url":null,"abstract":"Preventive vehicle safety applications require a reliable detection, classification, and localization of objects in the vehicle's surroundings. This is typically achieved by combining object detections of multiple local perception sensors, such as camera, radar, or lidar. However, to enable the detection of occluded objects as well as to improve the reliability of object classification, the principle of cooperative sensors has been recently proposed. The sensor principle uses a communication signal for object classification and localization. Therefore, in contrast to typical perception sensors, a fusion system including a cooperative sensor system requires a strategy to schedule the measurements of different objetcs considering a limited communication capacity. In this paper, we propose an information based approach for sensor resource management suited for cooperative sensor systems in vehicular applications. We will apply the strategy to a pedestrian perception system and analyze the behavior in different critical traffic situations in comparison to other possible approaches. Finally, we will use real world measurement data gathered with a prototype sensor at 5.9 GHz to justify the theoretical results.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115277233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multi hypothesis parameter tracking in relative time of arrival","authors":"C. Degen, F. Govaers, W. Koch","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698252","url":null,"abstract":"The passive non-cooperative localization and tracking of mobile terminals in urban scenarios, called blind mobile localization (BML), is a highly demanding task which occurs for instance in safety, emergency and security applications. In BML the measurement set consists out of several multipaths which are usually parametrized by their direction of arrival (DoA) and their relative time of arrival (RToA). Clutter multipaths can occur due to obstacles like pedestrians, cars, etc. near the receiver side. If a clutter multipath is received before the first measurement of a target, i.e., if it possesses a negative RToA compared to the target related measurements, the computation of the particular likelihood function is deteriorated and thus the accuracy of any BML fusion algorithm decreases. In this paper a pre-processing of the measurement set by an application of a multi-hypothesis tracking (MOT) in the parameter space is proposed. Therefore, two extensions of the MOT-approach processing additional global clutter hypothesis are derived. Finally, a ray-tracing simulation is used to numerically assess the proposed methods for different clutter levels in terms of the optimal subpattern assignment (OSPA) metric.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"175 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131183203","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluation of a TDoA based acoustic localization system","authors":"Christian Steffes, Lisa Meyer","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698255","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, a distributed sensor network is evaluated concerning its abilities to localize acoustic events based on Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) measurements. In field trials, the localization accuracy of the sensor network is determined experimentally. The variance of the TDoA measurement error is derived and used in Cramér Rao Lower Bound accuracy analysis and simulations for the given scenario.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121888006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An exact solution to track-to-track fusion using accumulated state densities","authors":"W. Koch, F. Govaers, A. Charlish","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698253","url":null,"abstract":"Originally the Accumulated State Density (ASD) has been proposed to provide an exact solution to the out-of-sequence measurement problem. To this end, the posterior of the joint density of all states accumulated over time was derived for a single sensor scenario. An exact solution for T2TF has been published as the Distributed Kalman Filter (DKF). However, the DKF is exact only if global knowledge in terms of the measurement models for all sensors are available at a local processor. This paper demonstrates that an exact solution for T2TF can also be achieved as a convex combination of local ASDs generated at each node in a distributed sensor system. This method crucially differs from the DKF, in that an exact solution is achieved without each processing platform being required to have knowledge of the global information. Therefore, this theoretical development has significant potential for achieving exact T2TF in practical problems. The resulting algorithm is called the Distributed Accumulated State Density (DASD) filter.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127905627","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gaussian mixture tracking: MHT and ITS comparison","authors":"T. Song, D. Musicki, Hyoung-Won Kim, F. Govaers","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698257","url":null,"abstract":"A Gaussian Mixture (GM) target tracking solution is a natural consequence of the multi-target tracking in clutter, given a linear target trajectory propagation and a linear target measurement equation. We examine and compare two prominent GM target trackers: the Multi Hypothesis Tracking (MHT) and the Integrated Track Splitting. Both incorporate the false track discrimination capabilities, enabling automatic target tracking in the presence of clutter measurements and missed detections.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125130977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A particle filter for Wi-Fi azimuth and position tracking with pedestrian dead reckoning","authors":"J. Seitz, Thorsten Vaupel, J. Thielecke","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698251","url":null,"abstract":"A tracking algorithm for estimating the azimuth angle regarding north and a two-dimensional position of a mobile unit carried by a pedestrian is presented. Using Wi-Fi signal strength measurements the position of a mobile receiver can be estimated using so called fingerprinting methods. If the signal strengths measurements are collected with directional antennas additionally the azimuth can be estimated. For sensor data fusion of Wi-Fi signal strength measurements, acceleration measurements and angular rate measurements a particle filter is presented. The well known Wi-Fi fingerprinting approach is used to calculate the particle weights and pedestrian dead reckoning to sample the particles. Measurements have been collected inside and outside of an office building to evaluate the performance. Including step detection based on acceleration measurements reduces mainly the positioning error, including angular rate measurements reduces mainly the azimuth estimation error. Electronic compasses, which are susceptible to faults, are not needed to estimate the azimuth indoors. Especially in indoor environments this approach facilitates the use of electronic guides that offer additional information by means of augmented reality, e.g. on museum exhibits in visual range.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116575842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using a hybrid data generator for testing of ABF-algorithms","authors":"D. Nagel, Stephen Smith","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698248","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698248","url":null,"abstract":"Testing of Algorithms for Adaptive Beamforming (ABF) is always a critical issue. With flight trials data, the conditions and parameters for targets, jammers and clutter are often not well known. In contrast, with simulated data, all parameters and conditions are well defined. However, the value of simulated data in this field is often poor due to the absence of real-world effects such as non-linearities. Especially for evaluation of algorithms for airborne radars, the use of flight trials data with various scenarios is essential. The disadvantage of using flight trials data is that, in most cases, the performance improvement when applying the algorithms is not unambiguously evident. For these reasons, a hybrid data generator has been developed which can combine measured data from flight trials with simulated data from complicated target or jammer manoeuvers. The measured data includes clutter and noise signals as well as targets of opportunity and can also contain different types of jammer signals. The synthetic target generator (STG) is able to simulate targets as well as CW and broadband noise jammers. The advantage of the hybrid data generator is that the Signal-to-Noise and Jammer-to-Noise ratios of synthetic targets and jammers can be exactly adapted to the measured data. The quality criterion of ABF algorithms for noise jammers is the so called burn-through range [2]. For CW jammers it is easy to evaluate the jamming signal reduction after applying the ABF algorithms. This paper is not concerned with the different ABF algorithms, it only illustrates the method of evaluating the numerous algorithms. Further, the influence of non-linear effects are theoretically described in [3].","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129789565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rhian Davies, L. Mihaylova, N. Pavlidis, I. Eckley
{"title":"The effect of recovery algorithms on compressive sensing background subtraction","authors":"Rhian Davies, L. Mihaylova, N. Pavlidis, I. Eckley","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698258","url":null,"abstract":"Background subtraction is a key method required to aid processing surveillance videos. Current methods require storing each pixel of every video frame, which can be wasteful as most of this information refers to the uninteresting background. Compressive sensing can offer an efficient solution by using the fact that foreground is often sparse in the spatial domain. By making this assumption and applying a specific recovery algorithm to a trained background, it is possible to reconstruct the foreground, using only a low dimensional representation of the difference between the current frame and the estimated background scene. Although new compressive sensing background subtraction algorithms are being created, no study has been made of the effect of recovery algorithms on performance of background subtraction. This is considered by applying both Basis Pursuit and Orthogonal Matching Pursuit (OMP) to a standard test video, and comparing their accuracy.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134237730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Target existence probability in the distributed Kalman filter","authors":"Daniel Svensson, F. Govaers, M. Ulmke, W. Koch","doi":"10.1109/SDF.2013.6698265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SDF.2013.6698265","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the target existence probability for a single target in clutter is derived. More specifically, the paper considers target existence in the distributed Kalman filter. First, a conceptual solution is derived explicitly for a two-sensor case, and second a moment-matching approximation is performed, which enables computational tractability. The results can be generalized to arbitrary numbers of sensors.","PeriodicalId":228075,"journal":{"name":"2013 Workshop on Sensor Data Fusion: Trends, Solutions, Applications (SDF)","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123372912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}