Track-to-Track Association by Coherent Point Drift

Hao Zhu, Mingliang Wang, Ka-Veng Yuen, Henry Leung

Abstract: In this letter, we propose a probabilistic method, called the coherent point drift (CPD) algorithm, to address track-to-track association with sensor bias. In the CPD method for a pair of sensors, the local tracks of one sensor are represented by Gaussian mixture model centroids, and the local tracks of the other sensor are fitted to those of the first sensor by maximizing the likelihood. An expectation-maximization algorithm is proposed to find the correspondence matrix between the local tracks. Experiments illustrate the effectiveness of our method.