Target Detection, Tracking and Identification Using Multi-Sensor Systems
A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensor Networks".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 February 2024) | Viewed by 9327
Special Issue Editors
Interests: multi-target tracking; sensor networks; resources management; multi-sensor information fusion
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: wireless positioning; machine learning; MQS; transfer learning; multi-agent interactive
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: multi-target tracking; sensor networks; resources management; multi-sensor information fusion
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the physical limitations of sensing ability, target detection, tracking and identification (DTI) with a single sensor can no longer meet the increasing requirements of both civilian and military applications. Thanks to the rapid development of wireless communication and distributed computing technologies, cooperative sensing using multi-sensor systems provides a natural and effective solution to address these challenges. Integrating information from multiple sensors, possibly of different types and backgrounds, can yield performance superior to that of any single sensor. As a result, multi-sensor cooperative detection, tracking, and identification are gaining considerable attention in autonomous vehicles, distributed multi-static radar systems and various large-scale systems.
The core topics of this research include distributed filtering, sensor registration and control, network consensus and synchronization, multi-source data clustering/fusion and network topological design/analysis. These problems are imperative but also challenging in terms of their multidisciplinary nature and inherent complexity. Various theories, techniques and algorithms, including some learning-based methods, are continuously being proposed and developed, and yet it more advanced research efforts and endeavors are still called for.
This Special Issue will focus on the latest advances in multi-sensor cooperative detection, tracking and identification. Prospective authors are invited to submit novel and original manuscripts about its technological underpinnings and practical applications, as well as providing an overview of the state-of-the-art techniques and future applications. Potential topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Efficient multi-sensor signal and data processing methods.
- Cognitive sensing and learning methods for multi-sensor systems.
- Sensor management and resource aware design for target detection, localization and tracking using multi-sensor systems.
- Multi-sensor data clustering, flooding, fitting and learning.
- Artificial intelligence approaches to multi-sensor target detection, tracking and identification.
- Distributed MIMO and multi-static radar systems.
- Joint sensor registration/control and target tracking in multi-sensor systems.
- Out-of-sequence measurements and tracks in multi-sensor multi-target systems.
- Measures of performance for multi-sensor multi-target systems.
Prof. Dr. Wei Yi
Prof. Dr. Xiansheng Guo
Dr. Ye Yuan
Guest Editors
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