Kullback-leibler averaging for multitarget density fusion

Kai Da, Tiancheng Li, Yongfeng Zhu, Hongqi Fan, Qiang Fu

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Abstract

This paper addresses the linear and log-linear fusion approaches to multitarget density fusion which yield arithmetic average (AA) and geometric average (GA), respectively. We reaffirm Abbas’s finding in 2009 that both AA and GA can be related to the minimization of the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) between the fusing densities and the fused result, which differ from each other in the reference used to measure the KLD: the AA uses the fusing densities while the GA uses the fused density. We derive the explicit AA expressions for fusing some known multitarget densities and discuss the implementation issues. The results serve as the theoretical basis for designing distributed random finite set filters for distributed multitarget tracking.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDistributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 16th International Conference, 2019
EditorsFrancisco Herrera, Kenji Matsui, Sara Rodríguez-González
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages253-261
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030238865
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, DCAI 2019 - Ávila, Spain
Duration: 26 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameAdvances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
Volume1003
ISSN (Print)2194-5357
ISSN (Electronic)2194-5365

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, DCAI 2019
Country/TerritorySpain
CityÁvila
Period26/06/1928/06/19

Keywords

  • Arithmetic average
  • Average consensus
  • Linear fusion
  • Random finite set
  • Sensor network
  • Target tracking

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