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. 2020 Mar 4;20(5):1412. doi: 10.3390/s20051412
T2TA Track-to-track association
T2TASB Track-to-track association with sensor bias
LTGP Local track geometry preservation
GMM Gaussian mixture model
EM Expectation-maximization
NN Nearest neighbor
GNN Global nearest neighbor
ML Maximum likelihood
OSPA Optimal sub-pattern assignment
CPD Coherent point drift
Xks Local tracks from sensor s at time k
K Total number of discrete time steps
Nks Number of tracks at time k by sensor s
xt,k1 t-th data from sensor 1 at time k
xl,k2 Centroid of the l-th component from sensor 2 at time k
N Gaussian distribution
σk2 Equal isotropic covariance at time k
f Nonrigid transformation
I Identity matrix
D Size of a local track vector
πt,lk Membership probability of t-th row and l-th column element in πk at time k
πk Membership probability matrix at time k
Zk Indicator matrix
ztk a 1×Nk1 binary vector for l=1,2,Nk2 at time k
zt,lk t-th row and l-th column element in ztk at time k
Wk an Nk2×D dimensional weight matrix of the Gaussian kernel
Gk an Nk2×Nk2 Gaussian kernel matrix
gij an i-th row and j-th column element in Gk
β the width parameter in the smoothing Gaussian filter
Tr(.) Trace of a matrix
L Nk2×Nk2 weighted matrix
Llj a l-th row and j-th column element in L
Gk(i,.) i-th row of Gk
γ Trade-off parameter controlling between Q and E(L)
Rk an Nk1×Nk2 matrix
Ck Cost matrix of T2TASB at time k as an Nk1×(Nk2+1) matrix
[xt,k1,yt,k1] x-axis and y-axis positions of target xt,k1
[xj,k1,yj,k2] x-axis and y-axis positions of target xj,k2