CBMeMBer filterwith adaptive target birth intensity

Appropriately modelling target‐birth intensity is a significant but challenging issue in multi‐target tracking systems. In existing cardinality‐balanced multi‐target multi‐Bernoulli (CBMeMBer) filters, a priori knowledge about the locations where targets appear is required to model the target‐birth intensity. Since the newborn targets can appear anywhere within the observation region, it is impractical to obtain such prior information. In this study, a novel CBMeMBer filter with adaptive target‐birth intensity is presented, considering the newborn and surviving targets separately. The target‐birth function of the target‐birth intensity is modelled using current measurements rather than the known birth locations, and the target‐birth magnitude is assigned by an allocation function rather than equally assigned. The new CBMeMBer filter can remove the restriction on the requirement of prior birth location information and can adapt well after continuous missing detection occurs. Simulations of the sequential Monte Carlo and Gaussian mixture implementations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed filter.