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Songhwai Oh, Inseok Hwang, Kaushik Roy, and Shankar Sastry. "A Fully Automated Distributed Multiple-Target Tracking and Identity Management Algorithm". AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference, August, 2005.

Abstract
In this paper, we consider the problem of tracking multiple targets and managing their identities in sensor networks. Each sensor is assumed to be able to track multiple targets, manage the identities of targets within its surveillance region, and communicate with its neighboring sensors. The problem is complicated by the fact that the number of targets within the surveillance region of a sensor changes over time. We propose a scalable distributed multiple-target tracking and identity management (DMTIM) algorithm that can track multiple targets and manage their identities efficiently in a distributed sensor network environment. DMTIM finds a globally consistent solution by maintaining local consistency among neighboring sensors. DMTIM consists of data association, multiple-target tracking, identity management, and information fusion. The data association and multiple-target tracking problems are efficiently solved by Markov chain Monte Carlo data association (MCMCDA) which can track an unknown number of targets. DMTIM manages identities of targets by incorporating local information and maintains local consistency among neighboring sensors via information fusion.

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  Songhwai Oh, Inseok Hwang, Kaushik Roy, and Shankar Sastry.
  "A Fully Automated Distributed Multiple-Target Tracking
  and Identity Management Algorithm". AIAA Guidance,
  Navigation, and Control Conference, August, 2005.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{OhHwangRoySastry05_FullyAutomatedDistributedMultipleTargetTrackingIdentity,
      author = {Songhwai Oh, Inseok Hwang, Kaushik Roy, and
                Shankar Sastry},
      title = {A Fully Automated Distributed Multiple-Target
                Tracking and Identity Management Algorithm},
      booktitle = {AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control Conference},
      month = {August},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {In this paper, we consider the problem of tracking
                multiple targets and managing their identities in
                sensor networks. Each sensor is assumed to be able
                to track multiple targets, manage the identities
                of targets within its surveillance region, and
                communicate with its neighboring sensors. The
                problem is complicated by the fact that the number
                of targets within the surveillance region of a
                sensor changes over time. We propose a scalable
                distributed multiple-target tracking and identity
                management (DMTIM) algorithm that can track
                multiple targets and manage their identities
                efficiently in a distributed sensor network
                environment. DMTIM finds a globally consistent
                solution by maintaining local consistency among
                neighboring sensors. DMTIM consists of data
                association, multiple-target tracking, identity
                management, and information fusion. The data
                association and multiple-target tracking problems
                are efficiently solved by Markov chain Monte Carlo
                data association (MCMCDA) which can track an
                unknown number of targets. DMTIM manages
                identities of targets by incorporating local
                information and maintains local consistency among
                neighboring sensors via information fusion.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/49.html}
  }
  

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