D. Medina, Christoph Lass, E. P. Marcos, R. Ziebold, P. Closas, Jesús García
{"title":"On GNSS Jamming Threat from the Maritime Navigation Perspective","authors":"D. Medina, Christoph Lass, E. P. Marcos, R. Ziebold, P. Closas, Jesús García","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011348","url":null,"abstract":"Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) play a fundamental part on the maritime navigation. Beyond positioning, GNSS is key for the operation of multiple interfaces on the bridge of a ship, compromising the skipper skills to perform traditional navigation. Jamming attacks have been recognized as a major vulnerability for GNSS and their proliferation have raised concerns, given the implication of GNSS into several safety-critical applications. This work provides an overview on the jamming threat and the main countermeasures techniques, especially in the fields of robust signal processing, adaptive antenna arrays and multi sensor fusion. Moreover, the effects of a Personal Privacy Device (PPD) on positioning based on conventional methods using GPS L1 is addressed. The experimentation is conducted on the Baltic Sea, where a civilian maritime jamming testbed was allocated, as result of the cooperation of DLR with the German Federal Network Agency.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"74 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121608228","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}
Minna Väilä, Juha Jylhä, M. Ruotsalainen, Henna Perälä
{"title":"Exploiting the Momentary Dependence of Radar Observations for Non-Cooperative Target Recognition","authors":"Minna Väilä, Juha Jylhä, M. Ruotsalainen, Henna Perälä","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011215","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple radar sensors can be used in collaboration to detect targets in an area of surveillance. In this paper, we consider a case, in which a target is detected by a network of radars producing multiple observations of the radar signature of the target during a short time window. Given that this time window is sufficiently narrow, the observations have a dependence between them momentarily related to the change in the orientation of the target. We propose the fusion of these interdependent observations to aid target identification by forming a joint multi-dimensional histogram of the radar cross section (RCS). In addition, we investigate the criteria for windowing the observations to ensure adequate interdependence. We present a case study to demonstrate the ability of the proposed approach to distinguish between different targets using the measured RCS collected by a multi-radar surveillance system. Based on the experiment, we analyze the criteria for the dynamic windowing and discuss the computational requirements of the proposed concept.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121629199","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":"Improved Covariance Matrix Estimators by Multi-Penalty Regularization","authors":"Bin Zhang, Jie Zhou, Jianbo Li","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011165","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we deal with the problem of estimating a covariance matrix in limited observation scenarios. We revisit the regularization of Gaussian likelihood function and investigate the multi-penalty regularization strategies to improve the flexibility of covariance matrix estimators. Firstly, for an arbitrary target matrix, we jointly consider two penalty terms based on ridge type and Frobenius norm, and obtain a covariance matrix estimator in closed form through maximizing the corresponding multiply penalized log-likelihood function. Secondly, we generalize the existing regularized estimators by simultaneously employing multiple target matrices. The proposed regularized estimators enjoy various desirable statistical properties including positive definiteness (even when the dimensionality exceeds the number of observations), asymptotical unbiasedness and consistency in large sample scenarios. Moreover, we choose the involved tuning parameters in the sense of minimizing an approximate mean squared error based on cross-validation method. Some numerical simulations and an example application to direction-of-arrival estimation are provided for illustrating the performance of proposed estimators.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122157000","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":"Type II approximate Bayes perspective to multiple hypothesis tracking","authors":"Murat Uney","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011264","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT) is a computational procedure for recursively estimating multi-object configurations and states from measurements with association uncertainties, noise, false alarms and less than one probability of detection. From a probabilistic modelling perspective, the complete multi-object tracking (MT) model is intractable to perform statistical inference as the multi-object and measurement association configurations constitute infinite sets. In this article, we provide explicit formulae to demonstrate that MHT is a type II maximum a posteriori (MAP) approximate Bayes inference procedure over the complete MT model. In particular, we introduce a MT model that captures all typical uncertainties and show that the joint density of the global model hypotheses and the other variables involved is well defined. This model allows us to define the MT problem mathematically and contrast MHT and sequential Bayesian filtering. We argue that the computational procedures constituting an MHT algorithm such as model hypothesis pruning can be treated as a second stage of approximation for finding near-optimal solutions to the MAP problem given a computational budget.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"22 12","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120889056","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":"Multiple Hypothesis Tracking for Processing Tracklets","authors":"C. Chong, S. Mori","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011202","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple hypothesis tracking (MHT) addresses difficult data association problems by maintaining multiple association hypotheses over multiple frames of data. In many multiple target tracking (MTT) problems, sensor measurements that originate from the same targets can be grouped into tracklets for further processing by another tracker. This processing approach improves the efficiency of MHT because association is performed on tracklets instead of measurements. This paper introduces two types of tracklets: pure tracklets representing single targets and ambiguous tracklets representing multiple targets. It discusses how MHT can be used for stitching tracklets from a single sensor and associating tracklets from multiple sensors.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121196029","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":"Flexible Expected Shortfall Estimation Using Parametric & Non-Parametric Methods with Applications in Finance, Insurance & Climatology","authors":"Sabyasachi Guharay, KC Chang, Jie Xu","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011398","url":null,"abstract":"Techniques employing Data fusion concepts are regularly being used in Quantitative Risk Management (QRM) for robust analysis. In our previous work, we studied the most commonly used risk metric of interest, Value-at-Risk $(mathbf{VaR})$. While VaR is a commonly used risk metric, an alternative risk metric, Expected Shortfall (ES) is well known to have better theoretical properties than VaR. We extend our previous work on studying VaR to include estimating the ES also known as Conditional Value-at-Risk (CVaR). The standard approach of estimating CVaR involves using Monte Carlo simulation (MCS) approach (denoted henceforth as classical approach). This approach involves breaking down the losses into loss severity and loss frequency assuming independence among them. In practice, this assumption may not always hold. To overcome this limitation and handle cases with both light & heavy-tail data, we propose using both a parametric & non-parametric approach. We implement Data-driven Partitioning of Frequency and Severity (DPFS) using K-means Clustering, and Copula-based Parametric modeling of Frequency and Severity (CPFS). These two approaches are verified using simulation experiments on synthetic data and validated on five publicly available datasets from diverse domains. The classical approach estimates CVaR inaccurately for 80% of the simulated data sets and for 60% of the real-world data sets studied in this work. Both the DPFS and the CPFS methodologies attain CVaR estimates within 99% historical bootstrap confidence interval bounds for both simulated and realworld data. Overall, we find that the CPFS method performs better in CVaR estimation for real-world datasets than our previous studies for VaR estimation.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126622133","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}
Pranay Sharma, A. Saucan, Donald J. Bucci, P. Varshney
{"title":"On Decentralized Self-localization and Tracking Under Measurement Origin Uncertainty","authors":"Pranay Sharma, A. Saucan, Donald J. Bucci, P. Varshney","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011400","url":null,"abstract":"We propose an algorithm for simultaneous Cooperative Self-localization (CS) of a network of mobile agents and multi-target tracking (MTT) under complete data association uncertainty. Specifically, the associations between measurements and objects, i.e., agents and targets, are unknown. Existing CS-MTT algorithms do not assume origin uncertainty for both interagent and agent-target measurements. Due to the joint density being intractable, a message passing scheme is employed to approximately infer the marginals of agent and target states, where the number of targets is unknown and time-varying. Based on average consensus, we propose a distributed Gaussian implementation of the proposed method, which only requires communication between one-hop neighbors. Numerical experiments show the improved performance of the proposed CS-MTT algorithm as compared to the conventional approach of separate localization followed by tracking.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125290373","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":"Quality measure and optimization for grid flow approaches","authors":"Carolyn Kalender","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011160","url":null,"abstract":"With increasing calculation power of modern systems, the focus of Stochastic Filtering turns to nonlinear effects. Fully nonlinear solutions to the estimation problem are provided by an approximation of the full probability density function (pdf) in particle filters or the Fokker-Planck equation. Several papers deal with overcoming the problem of degeneration in the measurement update for these nonlinear solutions by particle flow (for the particle filters) or grid flow (for grid based approaches). For the grid flow approach a suggestion for a reasonable choice of the concrete flow exists, but without regarding a measurable quality in comparison to other possible flows. In this contribution a quality measure together with a possible optimization process for the grid flow approach is introduced.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125417060","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":"Extremely Tiny Siamese Networks with Multi-level Fusions for Visual Object Tracking","authors":"Yi Cao, H. Ji, Wenbo Zhang, S. Shirani","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011338","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011338","url":null,"abstract":"Siamese architectures have enhanced the performance of visual object tracking a lot these years. Though their great influence, less work focuses on designing tiny networks for tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel tiny Siamese (TinySiam) architecture with extremely tiny parameters and computations. Due to the limited computation requirement, the tracker could run in an extremely fast speed and has the potential to be exploited directly in embedded devices. For efficient designs in the tiny network, we first utilize the layer-level fusion between different layers by concatenating their features in the building block, which ensures the information reusing. Second, we use channel shuffle and channel split operations to ensure the channel-level feature fusion in different convolution groups, which increases the information interaction between groups. Third, we utilize the depth-wise convolution to effectively decrease convolution parameters, which benefits fast tracking a lot. The final constructed network (24K parameters and 59M FLOPs) drastically lowers model complexity. Experimental results on GOT-10k and DTB70 benchmarks for both ordinary and aerial tracking illustrate the excellently real-time attribute (129 FPS on GOT-10k and 166 FPS on DTB70) and the robust tracking performance of our TinySiam Tracker.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123771982","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}
E. Bosse, Julian Falardeau, Isabelle Prévost, E. Shahbazian, Olivier Labonté
{"title":"Domain Specific Fusion of Unstructured Text for Situation Understanding (Poster)","authors":"E. Bosse, Julian Falardeau, Isabelle Prévost, E. Shahbazian, Olivier Labonté","doi":"10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23919/fusion43075.2019.9011243","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the initial design and the current and envisaged functionalities of a novel tool for information extraction and reasoning from open source data (OSD), namely, the Open Source Information Collection, Analysis and Reasoning (OSCAR). It has the ability to ingest and process vast amount of OSD to provide situation understanding and decision support about domain specific situations. The data are pre-filtered using a custom created knowledge base (KB) while the information is extracted using the Rule Based Information Extraction (RuBIE), a Natural Language Processing (NLP) and tagging tool. The extracted information is subsequently clustered and transformed into a relation graph of entities of interest. This proof of concept is presented in the context of a use case based on the social crisis in Venezuela in 2019.","PeriodicalId":348881,"journal":{"name":"2019 22th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION)","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126365487","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}