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A Four-Model Based IMM Algorithm for Real-Time Visual Tracking of High-Speed Maneuvering Targets

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In recent years, visual tracking algorithms based on state estimators have been developed in order to improve the performance during tracking tasks. However, this performance changes according to target type, object kinematics and scenario complexity. When working with high-speed maneuvering targets, tracking errors increase considerably due to low response of estimators as well as the kinematic mismatch betwen the real motion profile and the one assumed by the estimator. Some examples of objects that present this high-speed behavior are rockets, aircrafts and missiles. To overcome this visual tracking problem, this work proposes an interacting multiple model algorithm based on four kinematic models: constant velocity, constant acceleration, constant turn and thrust acceleration. We present three different scenarios with complex maneuvers for comparison study, and experimental results show that visual tracking is improved when using the proposed strategy.

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The authors would like to thank the Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México, CONACyT and Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Armada de México for funding this project.

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  1. Instituto Politécnico Nacional de México, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica - Unidad Culhuacan, Av. Santa Ana 951, San Francisco Culhuacan, Culhuacan CTM, C.P. 04260, CDMX, México

    Edwards Ernesto Sánchez-Ramírez & Alberto Jorge Rosales-Silva

  2. Instituto Tecnológico Superior de Huichamapn S/N, Col. El Saucillo, C.P. 42411, Huichapan, Hidalgo, México

    Jean Marie Vianney-Kinani

  3. Instituto de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Armada de México, Veracruz, México

    Rogelio Antonio Alfaro-Flores

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Sánchez-Ramírez, E.E., Rosales-Silva, A.J., Vianney-Kinani, J.M. et al. A Four-Model Based IMM Algorithm for Real-Time Visual Tracking of High-Speed Maneuvering Targets. J Intell Robot Syst 95, 761–775 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-018-0926-1

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