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  • 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,226 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
6 Citations
2,311 Views
17 Pages

2 January 2024

In the field of maneuvering target tracking, the combined observations of azimuth and Doppler may cause weak observation or non-observation in the application of traditional target-tracking algorithms. Additionally, traditional target tracking algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,254 Views
14 Pages

1 November 2016

An interacting multiple model for multi-node target tracking algorithm was proposed based on a fuzzy neural network (FNN) to solve the multi-node target tracking problem of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Measured error variance was adaptively adjus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,918 Views
15 Pages

11 September 2019

In order to efficiently and exactly in tracking the desired path points, autonomous cleaning vehicles have to adapt their own behavior according to the perceived environmental information. This paper proposes a target points tracking control algorith...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,570 Views
17 Pages

Consensus-Based Distributed Target Tracking with False Data Injection Attacks over Radar Network

  • Yongtao Shui,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Yu Li,
  • Yongzhi Shan,
  • Naigang Cui and
  • Baojun Pang

17 May 2021

For target tracking in radar network, any anomaly in a part of the system can quickly spread over the network and lead to tracking failures. False data injection (FDI) attacks can damage the state estimation mechanism by modifying the radar measureme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,954 Views
26 Pages

A Novel Guided Anchor Siamese Network for Arbitrary Target-of-Interest Tracking in Video-SAR

  • Jinyu Bao,
  • Xiaoling Zhang,
  • Tianwen Zhang,
  • Jun Shi and
  • Shunjun Wei

9 November 2021

Video synthetic aperture radar (Video-SAR) allows continuous and intuitive observation and is widely used for radar moving target tracking. The shadow of a moving target has the characteristics of stable scattering and no location shift, making movin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,965 Views
14 Pages

21 December 2016

Radar networks are proven to have numerous advantages over traditional monostatic and bistatic radar. With recent developments, radar networks have become an attractive platform due to their low probability of intercept (LPI) performance for target t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,532 Views
23 Pages

27 February 2025

Based on the transformer model, a deep data association and track filtering network (DeepAF) was constructed in this paper to achieve the function of data association and end-to-end track filtering. Combined with the existing track initiation methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,835 Views
29 Pages

23 November 2018

A new optimization algorithm of sensor selection is proposed in this paper for decentralized large-scale multi-target tracking (MTT) network within a labeled random finite set (RFS) framework. The method is performed based on a marginalized δ-general...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
3,776 Views
19 Pages

26 February 2020

Radar network systems have been demonstrated to offer numerous advantages for target tracking. In this paper, a low probability of intercept (LPI)-based joint dwell time and bandwidth optimization strategy is proposed for multi-target tracking in a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,219 Views
19 Pages

2 April 2019

Tracking maneuvering targets is a challenging problem for sensors because of the unpredictability of the target’s motion. Unlike classical statistical modeling of target maneuvers, a simultaneous optimization and feedback learning algorithm for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,176 Views
19 Pages

12 February 2022

This paper proposes a neural network-based nonsingular terminal sliding mode controller with prescribed performances for the target tracking problem of underactuated underwater robots. Firstly, the mathematical formulation of the target tracking prob...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,708 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
2,817 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2023

Aiming at the problem of asynchronous multi-target tracking, this paper studies the AA fusion optimization problem of multi-sensor networks. Firstly, each sensor node runs a PHD filter, and the measurement information obtained from different sensor n...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,302 Views
24 Pages

22 June 2016

Target tracking is a critical wireless sensor application, which involves signal and information processing technologies. In conventional target position estimation methods, an estimate is usually demonstrated by an average target position. In contra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,448 Views
11 Pages

2 January 2016

Moving target tracking in wireless sensor networks is of paramount importance. This paper considers the problem of state estimation for L-sensor linear dynamic systems. Firstly, the paper establishes the fuzzy model for measurement condition estimati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,409 Views
10 Pages

1 December 2011

In this study, a new target tracking algorithm is proposed for wireless sensor networks. The aim of the algorithm is to decrease energy consumption of the system by decreasing the ratio of target misses. Next location of the target is predicted by us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
13,359 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
2 Citations
1,782 Views
13 Pages

30 June 2024

Aiming at the problem that traditional wireless sensor networks produce errors in the positioning and tracking of motorised targets due to noise interference, this paper proposes a motorised target tracking method with a convolutional bi-directional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
7,556 Views
30 Pages

8 November 2012

This paper proposes a distributed method for cooperative target tracking in hierarchical wireless sensor networks. The concept of leader-based information processingis conducted to achieve object positioning, considering a cluster-based network topol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,713 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of Byzantine Attacks for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Yukun Yang,
  • Pengwen Xiong,
  • Qing Wang and
  • Qiang Zhang

5 August 2019

Herein, the problem of target tracking in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is investigated in the presence of Byzantine attacks. More specifically, we analyze the impact of Byzantine attacks on the performance of a tracking system. First, under the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,756 Views
19 Pages

27 December 2024

In the future, radar will encounter a more intricate and ever-changing electromagnetic interference environment. Consequently, one crucial trajectory for radar system evolution is the incorporation of network and cognition capabilities to meet these...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,626 Views
14 Pages

11 December 2014

Tracking the locations and identities of moving targets in the surveillance area of wireless sensor networks is studied. In order to not rely on high-cost sensors that have been used in previous researches, we propose the integrated localization and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,042 Views
24 Pages

An Effective and Robust Decentralized Target Tracking Scheme in Wireless Camera Sensor Networks

  • Pengcheng Fu,
  • Yongbo Cheng,
  • Hongying Tang,
  • Baoqing Li,
  • Jun Pei and
  • Xiaobing Yuan

20 March 2017

In this paper, we propose an effective and robust decentralized tracking scheme based on the square root cubature information filter (SRCIF) to balance the energy consumption and tracking accuracy in wireless camera sensor networks (WCNs). More speci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,306 Views
19 Pages

22 November 2018

Collaborative target tracking is one of the most important applications of wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in which the network must rely on sensor scheduling to balance the tracking accuracy and energy consumption, due to the limited network resour...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,064 Views
26 Pages

SVM+KF Target Tracking Strategy Using the Signal Strength in Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Xing Wang,
  • Xuejun Liu,
  • Ziran Wang,
  • Ruichao Li and
  • Yiguang Wu

9 July 2020

Target Tracking (TT) is a fundamental application of wireless sensor networks. TT based on received signal strength indication (RSSI) is by far the cheapest and simplest approach, but suffers from a low stability and precision owing to multiple paths...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,633 Views
19 Pages

27 April 2017

We study the problem of energy-efficient target tracking in underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). Since sensors of UWSNs are battery-powered, it is impracticable to replace the batteries when exhausted. This means that the battery life affects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,101 Views
21 Pages

5 May 2015

This paper deals with the problem of multi-target tracking in a distributed camera network using the square-root cubature information filter (SCIF). SCIF is an efficient and robust nonlinear filter for multi-sensor data fusion. In camera networks, mu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,491 Views
20 Pages

Efficient multiple target tracking (MTT) is the key to achieving green, precision, and large-scale aquaculture, marine exploration, and marine farming. The traditional MTT methods based on Bayes estimation have some pending problems such as an unknow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,671 Views
19 Pages

An Energy Efficient Synchronization Protocol for Target Tracking in Wireless Sensor Array Networks

  • Jie Shen,
  • Ming Yin,
  • Ji-An Luo,
  • Zhi-Bo Wang,
  • Zhi Wang and
  • Zhen-Hui Li

19 March 2019

Time synchronization is an important middleware function that supports the Quality of Service (QoS) of systems in wireless sensor array networks. Instead of providing high synchronization accuracy for all application scenarios, we argue that synchron...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
14,550 Views
31 Pages

27 August 2009

Existing 3-dimensional acoustic target tracking methods that use wired/wireless networked sensor nodes to track targets based on four sensing coverage do not always compute the feasible spatio-temporal information of target objects. To investigate th...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,375 Views
19 Pages

23 April 2024

This paper investigates the influence of time synchronization on sensor fusion and target tracking. As a benchmark, we design a target tracking system based on track-to-track fusion architecture. Heterogeneous sensors detect targets and transmit meas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,333 Views
21 Pages

Visual tracking is a key research area in computer vision, as tracking technology is increasingly being applied in daily life, it has high-research significance. Visual tracking technology usually faces various challenging interference factors, among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,036 Views
12 Pages

18 July 2019

In this paper, a state estimation problem is considered for a target tracking scheme in wireless network environments. Firstly, a unified algorithm of finite memory structure (FMS) filtering and smoothing is proposed for a discrete-time state-space m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,583 Views
21 Pages

Study on Active Tracking of Underwater Acoustic Target Based on Deep Convolution Neural Network

  • Maofa Wang,
  • Baochun Qiu,
  • Zeifei Zhu,
  • Huanhuan Xue and
  • Chuanping Zhou

17 August 2021

The active tracking technology of underwater acoustic targets is an important research direction in the field of underwater acoustic signal processing and sonar, and it has always been issued that draws researchers’ attention. The commonly used Kalma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,370 Views
28 Pages

3 July 2023

This paper develops a collaborative trajectory planning and resource allocation (CTPRA) strategy for multi-target tracking (MTT) in a spectral coexistence environment utilizing airborne radar networks. The key mechanism of the proposed strategy is to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,154 Views
21 Pages

14 July 2021

Target tracking in low-altitude Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) videos faces many technical challenges due to the relatively small sizes, various orientation changes of the objects and diverse scenes. As a result, the tracking performance is still not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,777 Views
34 Pages

20 January 2023

We present a method to acquire 3D position measurements for decentralized target tracking with an asynchronous camera network. Cameras with known poses have fields of view with overlapping projections on the ground and 3D volumes above a reference gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,122 Views
15 Pages

13 July 2023

The key issue of multiple extended target tracking is to differentiate the origins of the measurements. The association of measurements with the possible origins within the target’s extent is difficult, especially for occlusions or detection bl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,743 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,895 Views
19 Pages

21 October 2020

To solve the problem of dwell time management for multiple target tracking in Low Probability of Intercept (LPI) radar network, a Nash bargaining solution (NBS) dwell time allocation algorithm based on cooperative game theory is proposed. This algori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
524 Views
23 Pages

12 December 2025

In the field of remote sensing, tracking highly maneuvering targets is challenging due to its rapidly changing patterns and uncertainties, particularly under non-Gaussian noise conditions. In this paper, we consider the problem of tracking highly man...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,489 Views
19 Pages

In order to address the issue of low tracking accuracy caused by particle depletion in the particle filter, a mobile target tracking algorithm tailored for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is presented. This algorithm, based on the golden-section gray...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,433 Views
22 Pages

19 April 2021

Target Tracking (TT) is an application of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) which necessitates constant assessment of the location of a target. Any change in position of a target and the distance from each intermediate sensor node to the target is pass...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,210 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
6 Citations
3,902 Views
17 Pages

A Passive Tracking System Based on Geometric Constraints in Adaptive Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Biao Zhou,
  • Deockhyeon Ahn,
  • Jungpyo Lee,
  • Chao Sun,
  • Sabbir Ahmed and
  • Youngok Kim

29 September 2018

Target tracking technologies in wireless sensor network (WSNs) environments fall into two categories: active and passive schemes. Unlike with the active positioning schemes, in which the targets are required to hold cooperative devices, the research...

  • Article
  • Open Access
407 Views
18 Pages

Quantifying the Advantage of Vector over Scalar Magnetic Sensor Networks for Undersea Surveillance

  • Wenchao Li,
  • Xuezhi Wang,
  • Qiang Sun,
  • Allison N. Kealy and
  • Andrew D. Greentree

16 February 2026

Magnetic monitoring of maritime environments is an important problem for monitoring and optimising shipping, as well as national security. New developments in compact, fibre-coupled quantum magnetometers have led to the opportunity to critically eval...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,727 Views
19 Pages

7 November 2017

Target tracking is one of the broad applications of underwater wireless sensor networks (UWSNs). However, as a result of the temporal and spatial variability of acoustic channels, underwater acoustic communications suffer from an extremely limited ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,183 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...

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