In the target tracking and its engineering applications, recursive state
estimation of the target is of fundamental importance. This paper presents a
recursive performance bound for dynamic estimation and filtering problem, in
the framework of the finite set statistics for the first time. The number of
tracking algorithms with set-valued observations and state of targets is
increased sharply recently. Nevertheless, the bound for these algorithms has
not been fully discussed. Treating the measurement as set, this bound can be
applied when the probability of detection is less than unity.
In radar systems, tracking targets in low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)
environments is a very important task. There are some algorithms designed for
multitarget tracking. Their performances, however, are not satisfactory in low
SNR environments. Track-before-detect (TBD) algorithms have been developed as a
class of improved methods for tracking in low SNR environments. However,
multitarget TBD is still an open issue. In this paper, multitarget TBD
measurements are modeled, and a highly efficient filter in the framework of
finite set statistics (FISST) is designed.
When the spatial sample size is extremely large, which occurs in many
environmental and ecological studies, operations on the large covariance matrix
are a numerical challenge. Covariance tapering is a technique to alleviate the
numerical challenges.