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A Novel AD-PDA-BACF Algorithm for Real-Time Moving Target Shadow Tracking Using ViSAR Imagery

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Detection and tracking using video synthetic aperture radar (ViSAR) have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to their ability to produce high-resolution videos for regions of… Click to show full abstract

Detection and tracking using video synthetic aperture radar (ViSAR) have attracted a great deal of attention in recent years due to their ability to produce high-resolution videos for regions of interest. In this work, we have chosen the background-aware correlation filter (BACF) as a key algorithm due to its superior performance in real-time tracking scenarios. Dim and small shadows with weak visual features, time-varying shadows, and complex environments pose serious challenges to the target tracking problem using ViSAR videos. These factors lead to a multipeak problem in the BACF and many other correlation filter-based algorithms. As a result, incorrect target detection, template model contamination, and tracker drift or failure during long-term tracking can occur. In this work, we propose a novel appearance-distance information-assisted probabilistic data association (AD-PDA) algorithm to tackle the multipeak problem. Based on the correlation outputs of the BACF, the AD-PDA algorithm selects multiple peak locations as validated measurements. By exploiting the appearance-distance probability distribution functions, the AD-PDA algorithm calculates the mixed appearance-distance association weights and estimates target states accurately. Furthermore, we propose an efficient AD-PDA-BACF algorithm that can track targets accurately by combining the AD-PDA and BACF algorithms. This study conducts experiments using two public ViSAR video datasets released by the Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA. Our results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm outperforms several state-of-the-art algorithms in tracking dim and small targets in terms of tracking accuracy, success rate, and tracking speed.

Keywords: pda; bacf; pda bacf; real time; tracking using

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Year Published: 2023

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