Topological and Statistical Behavior Classifiers for Tracking Applications
This work addresses tracking accuracy in surveillance or autonomous systems, but it appears incremental as it combines existing methods in a new way.
The paper tackled target tracking by integrating topological data analysis and statistical models into multiple hypothesis tracking, achieving improved classification on synthetic vehicular data.
We introduce the first unified theory for target tracking using Multiple Hypothesis Tracking, Topological Data Analysis, and machine learning. Our string of innovations are 1) robust topological features are used to encode behavioral information, 2) statistical models are fitted to distributions over these topological features, and 3) the target type classification methods of Wigren and Bar Shalom et al. are employed to exploit the resulting likelihoods for topological features inside of the tracking procedure. To demonstrate the efficacy of our approach, we test our procedure on synthetic vehicular data generated by the Simulation of Urban Mobility package.