A Localized Adaptive Particle Filter within an Operational NWP Framework

An adaptive color-based particle filter

Robust real-time tracking of non-rigid objects is a challenging task. Particle filtering has proven very successful for non-linear and nonGaussian estimation problems. The article presents the integration of color distributions into particle filtering, which has typically been used in combination with edge-based image features. Color distributions are applied, as they are robust to partial occl...

Self Adaptive Particle Filter

The particle filter has emerged as a useful tool for problems requiring dynamic state estimation. The efficiency and accuracy of the filter depend mostly on the number of particles used in the estimation and on the propagation function used to re-allocate these particles at each iteration. Both features are specified beforehand and are kept fixed in the regular implementation of the filter. In ...

Robust Adaptive Unscented Particle Filter

A Particle Filter Framework for Contour Detection

We investigate the contour detection task in complex natural images. We propose a novel contour detection algorithm which locally tracks small pieces of edges called edgelets. The combination of the Bayesian modeling and the edgelets enables the use of semi-local prior information and image-dependent likelihoods. We use a mixed offline and online learning strategy to detect the most relevant ed...

A Uniformly Convergent Adaptive Particle Filter

Particle filters are Monte Carlo methods that aim to approximate the optimal filter of a partially observed Markov chain. In this paper, we study the case in which the transition kernel of the Markov chain depends on unknown parameters: we construct a particle filter for the simultaneous estimation of the parameter and the partially observed Markov chain (adaptive estimation) and we prove the c...