Date of Award
5-2009
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.
Degree Program
Engineering
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Major Professor
Jilkov, Vesselin
Second Advisor
Li, X. Rong
Third Advisor
Chen, Huimin
Abstract
Knowledge of the lane that a target is located in is of particular interest in on-road surveillance and target tracking systems. We formulate the problem and propose two approaches for on-road target estimation with lane tracking. The first approach for lane tracking is lane identification based ona Hidden Markov Model (HMM) framework. Two identifiers are developed according to different optimality goals of identification, i.e., the optimality for the whole lane sequence and the optimality of the current lane where the target is given the whole observation sequence. The second approach is on-road target tracking with lane estimation. We propose a 2D road representation which additionally allows to model the lateral motion of the target. For fusion of the radar and image sensor based measurement data we develop three, IMM-based, estimators that use different fusion schemes: centralized, distributed, and sequential. Simulation results show that the proposed two methods have new capabilities and achieve improved estimation accuracy for on-road target tracking.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Yangsheng, "Ground Target Tracking with Multi-Lane Constraint" (2009). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 925.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/925
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