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137 Citations
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Underwater Acoustic Target Tracking: A Review

  • Junhai Luo,
  • Ying Han and
  • Liying Fan

2 January 2018

Advances in acoustic technology and instrumentation now make it possible to explore marine resources. As a significant component of ocean exploration, underwater acoustic target tracking has aroused wide attention both in military and civil fields. D...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,348 Views
19 Pages

Target Positioning and Tracking in WSNs Based on AFSA

  • Shu-Hung Lee,
  • Chia-Hsin Cheng,
  • Chien-Chih Lin and
  • Yung-Fa Huang

18 April 2023

In wireless sensor networks (WSNs), the target positioning and tracking are very important topics. There are many different methods used in target positioning and tracking, for example, angle of arrival (AOA), time of arrival (TOA), time difference o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,062 Views
21 Pages

ITS Efficiency Analysis for Multi-Target Tracking in a Clutter Environment

  • Zvonko Radosavljević,
  • Dejan Ivković and
  • Branko Kovačević

22 April 2024

The Integrated Track Splitting (ITS) is a multi-scan algorithm for target tracking in a cluttered environment. The ITS filter models each track as a set of mutually exclusive components, usually in the form of a Gaussian Mixture. The purpose of this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,095 Views
19 Pages

Smoothing Linear Multi-Target Tracking Using Integrated Track Splitting Filter

  • Sufyan Ali Memon,
  • Ihsan Ullah,
  • Uzair Khan and
  • Taek Lyul Song

6 March 2022

Multi-target tracking (MTT) is a challenging issue due to an unknown number of real targets, motion uncertainties, and coalescence behavior of sensor (such as radar) measurements. The conventional MTT systems deal with intractable computational compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,555 Views
17 Pages

17 March 2025

The tracking accuracy of the traditional Strong Tracking Unscented Kalman Filter algorithm (ST-UKF) decreases when the motion state of the traffic target changes significantly. A multidimensional adaptive factor-based strong tracking UKF (MAST-UKF) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,605 Views
20 Pages

Strong Interference UAV Motion Target Tracking Based on Target Consistency Algorithm

  • Li Tan,
  • Xiaokai Huang,
  • Xinyue Lv,
  • Xujie Jiang and
  • He Liu

In recent years, unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) image target tracking technology, which obtains motion parameters of moving targets and achieves a behavioral understanding of moving targets by identifying, detecting and tracking moving targets in UAV...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
5,800 Views
13 Pages

31 March 2017

Conventional spherical simplex-radial cubature Kalman filter (SSRCKF) for maneuvering target tracking may decline in accuracy and even diverge when a target makes abrupt state changes. To overcome this problem, a novel algorithm named strong tracking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,389 Views
18 Pages

Lightweight Target-Aware Attention Learning Network-Based Target Tracking Method

  • Yanchun Zhao,
  • Jiapeng Zhang,
  • Rui Duan,
  • Fusheng Li and
  • Huanlong Zhang

30 June 2022

Siamese network trackers based on pre-trained depth features have achieved good performance in recent years. However, the pre-trained depth features are trained in advance on large-scale datasets, which contain feature information of a large number o...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,204 Views
11 Pages

Transformer-Based Maneuvering Target Tracking

  • Guanghui Zhao,
  • Zelin Wang,
  • Yixiong Huang,
  • Huirong Zhang and
  • Xiaojing Ma

4 November 2022

When tracking maneuvering targets, recurrent neural networks (RNNs), especially long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, are widely applied to sequentially capture the motion states of targets from observations. However, LSTMs can only extract feature...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,577 Views
23 Pages

8 January 2024

The estimation of the target number and individual tracks are two major tasks in multi-target tracking. The main shortcoming of traditional tracking methods is the cumbersome data association between measurements and targets. The cardinalized probabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,876 Views
22 Pages

Active Multimodal Sensor System for Target Recognition and Tracking

  • Yufu Qu,
  • Guirong Zhang,
  • Zhaofan Zou,
  • Ziyue Liu and
  • Jiansen Mao

28 June 2017

High accuracy target recognition and tracking systems using a single sensor or a passive multisensor set are susceptible to external interferences and exhibit environmental dependencies. These difficulties stem mainly from limitations to the availabl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,215 Views
26 Pages

27 December 2022

Shadows are widely used in the tracking of moving targets by video synthetic aperture radar (video SAR). However, they always appear in groups in video SAR images. In such cases, track effects produced by existing single-target tracking methods are n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,279 Views
23 Pages

14 September 2024

This work presents an autonomous vision-based mobile target tracking and following system designed for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) leveraging multi-target information. It explores the research gap in applying the most recent multi-object tracking...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,603 Views
21 Pages

A Video Target Tracking and Correction Model with Blockchain and Robust Feature Location

  • Yiru Jiang,
  • Dezhi Han,
  • Mingming Cui,
  • Yuan Fan and
  • Yachao Zhou

22 February 2023

In this paper, a cutting-edge video target tracking system is proposed, combining feature location and blockchain technology. The location method makes full use of feature registration and received trajectory correction signals to achieve high accura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,734 Views
18 Pages

An Improved Q-Learning-Based Sensor-Scheduling Algorithm for Multi-Target Tracking

  • Zhiyi Qu,
  • Xue Zhao,
  • Huihui Xu,
  • Hongying Tang,
  • Jiang Wang and
  • Baoqing Li

15 September 2022

Target tracking is an essential issue in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Compared with single-target tracking, how to guarantee the performance of multi-target tracking is more challenging because the system needs to balance the tracking resource fo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
4,827 Views
21 Pages

PSO-Based Target Localization and Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Shu-Hung Lee,
  • Chia-Hsin Cheng,
  • Chien-Chih Lin and
  • Yung-Fa Huang

10 February 2023

Research of target localization and tracking is always a remarkable problem in the application of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) technology. There are many kinds of research and applications of target localization and tracking, such as Angle of Arri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,219 Views
22 Pages

Multiple Mobile Target Detection and Tracking in Small Active Sonar Array

  • Avi Abu,
  • Nikola Mišković,
  • Neven Cukrov and
  • Roee Diamant

1 June 2025

Biodiversity monitoring requires the discovery of multi-target tracking. The main requirement is not to reduce the localization error but the continuity of the tracks: a high ratio between the duration of the track and the lifetime of the target. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,641 Views
15 Pages

Small Target Recognition and Tracking Based on UAV Platform

  • Xiangrui Tian,
  • Yinjun Jia,
  • Xin Luo and
  • Jie Yin

31 August 2022

Target recognition and tracking based on multi-rotor UAVs have the advantages of low cost and high flexibility. It can monitor low-altitude targets with high intensity. It has great application prospects in national defense, military, and civil field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,283 Views
17 Pages

Dynamic Target Tracking of Small UAVs in Unstructured Environment

  • Haiqing Li,
  • Mengbo Yang,
  • Yanbo Li,
  • Liming Dai and
  • Chunhui Zhao

21 February 2023

In this paper, an adaptive multi-rotor UAV system of dynamic target tracking and path planning is proposed for the problems of occlusion, lighting change, and similar target interference in an unstructured environment. A DTE-tracker module is designe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,363 Views
17 Pages

An Improved Kernelized Correlation Filter Algorithm for Underwater Target Tracking

  • Xingmei Wang,
  • Guoqiang Wang,
  • Zhonghua Zhao,
  • Yue Zhang and
  • Binghua Duan

3 November 2018

To obtain accurate underwater target tracking results, an improved kernelized correlation filter (IKCF) algorithm is proposed to track the target in forward-looking sonar image sequences. Specifically, a base sample with a dynamically continuous scal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,094 Views
18 Pages

27 April 2021

This paper proposes a novel control strategy to address the precise trajectory tracking control problem of a ship towing system. At first, the kinematics and dynamics models of a ship towing system are established by introducing a passive steering an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,793 Views
23 Pages

14 November 2024

Aiming at the uncertainty of target motion and observation models in multi-maneuvering target tracking (MMTT), this study presents an innovative data-driven approach based on a Gaussian process (GP). Traditional multi-model (MM) methods rely on a pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,278 Views
18 Pages

Cell-Based Target Localization and Tracking with an Active Camera

  • Ji’an You,
  • Zhaozheng Hu,
  • Hanbiao Xiao and
  • Cong Xu

8 March 2022

This paper proposes a new method of target localization and tracking. The method consists of four parts. The first part is to divide the scene into multiple cells based on the camera’s parameters and calibrate the position and error of each ver...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,465 Views
20 Pages

2 September 2025

In recent years, Transformer-based target tracking algorithms have performed well in ordinary scenarios. However, when applied to satellite video scenarios, the tracking effect of the algorithms is not satisfactory due to the small size of satellite...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,454 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2022

A small drone is capable of capturing distant objects at a low cost. In this paper, long distance (up to 1 km) ground target tracking with a small drone is addressed for oblique aerial images, and two novel approaches are developed. First, the coordi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,210 Views
14 Pages

Multi-Target Tracking Using Windowed Fourier Single-Pixel Imaging

  • Jinyu Zhang,
  • Taiyang Hu,
  • Xiaolang Shao,
  • Mengxuan Xiao,
  • Yingjiao Rong and
  • Zelong Xiao

28 November 2021

The single-pixel imaging (SPI) technique enables the tracking of moving targets at a high frame rate. However, when extended to the problem of multi-target tracking, there is no effective solution using SPI yet. Thus, a multi-target tracking method u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
388 Views
28 Pages

9 December 2025

Video satellites feature agile attitude maneuverability and the capability for continuous target imaging, making them an effective complement to ground-based remote sensing technologies. Existing research on video satellite tracking methods generally...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,182 Views
24 Pages

A Novel Loss Recovery and Tracking Scheme for Maneuvering Target in Hybrid WSNs

  • Hanwang Qian,
  • Pengcheng Fu,
  • Baoqing Li,
  • Jianpo Liu and
  • Xiaobing Yuan

25 January 2018

Tracking a mobile target, which aims to timely monitor the invasion of specific target, is one of the most prominent applications in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Traditional tracking methods in WSNs only based on static sensor nodes (SNs) have se...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,109 Views
14 Pages

15 February 2017

Tracking the target that maneuvers at a variable turn rate is a challenging problem. The traditional solution for this problem is the use of the switching multiple models technique, which includes several dynamic models with different turn rates for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,705 Views
21 Pages

29 July 2022

As a key technology in wireless sensor networks (WSNs), target tracking plays an essential role in many applications. To improve energy efficiency, clustering is widely used in tracking to organize the network to achieve data fusion and reduce commun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,394 Views
33 Pages

Underwater Target Tracking Method Based on Forward-Looking Sonar Data

  • Wenjing Zeng,
  • Renzhe Li,
  • Heng Zhou and
  • Tiedong Zhang

25 February 2025

Underwater dynamic targets often display significant blurriness in their forward-looking sonar imagery, accompanied by sparse feature representation. This phenomenon presents several challenges, including disturbances in the trajectories of underwate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
13,358 Views
27 Pages

Distributed Peer-to-Peer Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xue Wang,
  • Sheng Wang,
  • Dao-Wei Bi and
  • Jun-Jie Ma

25 June 2007

Target tracking is usually a challenging application for wireless sensor networks(WSNs) because it is always computation-intensive and requires real-time processing. Thispaper proposes a practical target tracking system based on the auto regressive m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
473 Views
23 Pages

24 October 2025

A tracking method based on adaptive morphological correlation and neural predictive models is presented. The morphological correlation filters are optimized according to the aggregated binary dissimilarity-to-matching ratio criterion and are adapted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,402 Views
22 Pages

Situation Awareness and Tracking Algorithm for Countering Low-Altitude Swarm Target Threats

  • Nannan Zhu,
  • Fuli Zhong,
  • Xueyue Lei,
  • Guo Niu,
  • Hongtu Xie and
  • Yue Zhang

26 March 2025

The escalating threat posed by low-altitude swarm targets underscores the critical need for precise tracking and situation awareness to secure key areas. While existing tracking methods based on random matrix theory offer promising opportunities, the...

  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,399 Views
13 Pages

An Adaptive Constant Acceleration Model for Maneuvering Target Tracking

  • Jieyu Huang,
  • Junwei Xie,
  • Haolong Zhai,
  • Zhengjie Li and
  • Weike Feng

28 February 2025

An adaptive constant acceleration (ACA) model is proposed for the maneuvering target tracking problem. Based on the Taylor series expansion of acceleration, we establish the relationship between the Jerk and the velocity as well as the acceleration s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,370 Views
11 Pages

11 September 2021

Target detection and tracking can be widely used in military and civilian scenarios. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have high maneuverability and strong concealment, thus they are very suitable for using as a platform for ground target detection and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
13,862 Views
30 Pages

15 December 2008

This paper surveys the developments of last 10 years in the area of vision based target tracking for autonomous vehicles navigation. First, the motivations and applications of using vision based target tracking for autonomous vehicles navigation are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,774 Views
18 Pages

IRSDT: A Framework for Infrared Small Target Tracking with Enhanced Detection

  • Jun Fan,
  • Jingbiao Wei,
  • Hai Huang,
  • Dafeng Zhang and
  • Ce Chen

24 April 2023

Currently, infrared small target detection and tracking under complex backgrounds remains challenging because of the low resolution of infrared images and the lack of shape and texture features in these small targets. This study proposes a framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,019 Views
14 Pages

Dynamic Learning Rate of Template Update for Visual Target Tracking

  • Da Li,
  • Song Li,
  • Qin Wei,
  • Haoxiang Chai and
  • Tao Han

23 April 2023

The trackers based on discriminative correlation filter (DCF) have achieved remarkable performance in visual target tracking in recent years. Since the targets are usually affected by various factors such as deformation, rotation, motion blur and so...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,217 Views
25 Pages

20 January 2022

An elliptical Hough transform (EHT) algorithm is proposed in the framework of track-before-detect (TBD) for joint detection and tracking of weak exoatmospheric targets. The new approach exploits the fact that when restricted to a two-body problem, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,520 Views
16 Pages

11 October 2016

In this paper, an adaptive collaborative Gaussian Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density (ACo-GMPHD) filter is proposed for multi-target tracking with automatic track extraction. Based on the evolutionary difference between the persistent targets and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,213 Views
18 Pages

13 September 2023

This work studied two sub-problems of the cooperative state estimation and cooperative optimization of tracking paths in multiple unmanned underwater vehicle (multi-UUV) cooperative target tracking. The mathematical model of each component of the mul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,294 Views
17 Pages

29 April 2019

In many wireless sensors, the target kinematic states include location and Doppler information that can be observed from a time series of range and velocity measurements. In this work, we present a tracking strategy for comprising target velocity com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,820 Views
16 Pages

20 July 2024

In modern radar detection systems, the particle filter technique has become one of the core algorithms for real-time target detection and tracking due to its good nonlinear and non-Gaussian system state estimation capability. However, when dealing wi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,048 Views
23 Pages

Sea-Surface Target Visual Tracking with a Multi-Camera Cooperation Approach

  • Jinjun Rao,
  • Kai Xu,
  • Jinbo Chen,
  • Jingtao Lei,
  • Zhen Zhang,
  • Qiuyu Zhang,
  • Wojciech Giernacki and
  • Mei Liu

17 January 2022

Cameras are widely used in the detection and tracking of moving targets. Compared to target visual tracking using a single camera, cooperative tracking based on multiple cameras has advantages including wider visual field, higher tracking reliability...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,385 Views
23 Pages

To solve the problem of false tracks generated by breakdowns and clutter in point-target tracking in polar coordinates, a fusion tracking algorithm based on a converted measurement Kalman filter and random matrix expansion is proposed. The converted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
328 Views
28 Pages

Multi-Target Tracking with Collaborative Roadside Units Under Foggy Conditions

  • Tao Shi,
  • Xuan Wang,
  • Wei Jiang,
  • Xiansheng Huang,
  • Ming Cen,
  • Shuai Cao and
  • Hao Zhou

3 February 2026

The Intelligent Road Side Unit (RSU) is a crucial component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs), where roadside LiDAR are widely utilized for their high precision and resolution. However, water droplets and atmospheric particles in fog signi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
77 Citations
14,625 Views
13 Pages

29 January 2007

Sensor systems are not always equipped with the ability to track targets. Sudden maneuvers of a target can have a great impact on the sensor system, which will increase the miss rate and rate of false target detection. The use of the generic particle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,263 Views
14 Pages

8 September 2015

More measurements are generated by the target per observation interval, when the target is detected by a high resolution sensor, or there are more measurement sources on the target surface. Such a target is referred to as an extended target. The prob...

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