The aim of this paper is to compare three regularized particle filters in an online data processing context. We carry out the comparison in terms of hidden states filtering and parameters estimation, considering a Bayesian paradigm and a univariate stochastic volatility model. We discuss the use of an improper prior distribution in the initialization of the filtering procedure and show that the...

This paper deals with the problem of tracking football players in a football match using data from a single moving camera. Tracking footballers from a single video source is di cult: not only do the football players occlude each other, but they frequently enter and leave the camera's eld of view, making initialisation and destruction of a player's tracking a di cult task. The system presented h...

Particle filter and Gaussian mixture implementations of random finite set filters have been proposed to tackle the issue of jointly estimating the number of targets and their states. The Gaussian mixture PHD (GM-PHD) filter has a closed-form expression for the PHD for linear and Gaussian target models, and extensions using the extended Kalman filter or unscented Kalman Filter have been develope...

Structural system identification using recursive methods has been a research direction of increasing interest in recent decades. The two prominent methods, including the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and the Particle Filter (PF), also known as the Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC), are advantageous in this field. In this study, the system identification of a shake table test of a 4-story steel struct...

The PHD / Intensity filter requires some kind of post-processing procedure to extract target state estimates and their associated areas of uncertainty (AOUs). This is true for both Gaussian sum and sequential Monte Carlo, or particle, implementations of the filter. The method used here for the track extraction process is most directly applicable to particle implementations. Extension to the Gau...

This paper deals with the problem of maneuvering target tracking in wireless tracking service. It results in a mixed linear/non-linear Models estimation problem. For maneuvering tracking systems, these problems are traditionally handled using the extended Kalman filter or Particle filter. In this paper, Marginalized Particle Filter is presented for applications in such problem. The algorithm ma...

In this paper, we propose a new particle filter based on sequential importance sampling. The algorithm uses a bank of unscented filters to obtain the importance proposal distribution. This proposal has two very "nice" properties. Firstly, it makes efficient use of the latest available information and, secondly, it can have heavy tails. As a result, we find that the algorithm outperforms standar...