A Novel Dynamic Programming Algorithm for Track-Before-Detect in Radar Systems

In this paper we present a novel procedure for multi-frame detection in radar systems. The proposed architecture consists of a pre-processing stage, which extracts a set of candidate alarms (or plots) from the raw data measurements (e.g., this can be the Detector and Plot-Extractor of common radar s...

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Vydáno v:IEEE transactions on signal processing Ročník 61; číslo 10; s. 2608 - 2619
Hlavní autoři: Grossi, Emanuele, Lops, Marco, Venturino, Luca
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: New York, NY IEEE 01.05.2013
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ISSN:1053-587X, 1941-0476
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Shrnutí:In this paper we present a novel procedure for multi-frame detection in radar systems. The proposed architecture consists of a pre-processing stage, which extracts a set of candidate alarms (or plots) from the raw data measurements (e.g., this can be the Detector and Plot-Extractor of common radar systems), and a track-before-detect (TBD) processor, which jointly elaborates observations from multiple scans (or frames) and confirms reliable plots. A computationally efficient dynamic programming algorithm for the TBD processor is derived, which does not require a discretization of the state space and operates directly on the input plot-lists. Finally, a simple algorithm to solve possible data association problems arising at the track-formation step is given, and a thorough complexity and performance analysis is provided, showing that large detection gains with respect to the standard radar processing are achievable with negligible complexity increase.
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ISSN:1053-587X
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DOI:10.1109/TSP.2013.2251338