A Gaussian Mixture PHD filter for Extended Target Tracking, Report no. LiTH-ISY-R-2956

In extended target tracking, targets potentially produce more than one measurement per time step. Multiple extended targets are therefore usually hard to track, due to the resulting complex data association. The main contribution of this paper is the implementation of a Probability Hypothesis Density (phd) lter for tracking of multiple extended targets. A general modi cation of the phd lter to handle extended targets has been presented recently by Mahler, and the novelty in this work lies in the realisation of a Gaussian mixture phd lter for extended targets. Furthermore, we propose a method to easily partition the measurements into a number of subsets, each of which is supposed to contain measurements that all stem from the same source. The method is illustrated in simulation examples, and the advantage of the implemented extended target phd lter is shown in a comparison with a standard phd lter.