by A. Charles, N. Bertrand, J. Lee and C.J. Rozell
Abstract:
Tracking time-varying signals is an important part of many engineering systems. Recently, signal processing techniques have been developed to improve tracking performance when the signal of interest is known a-priori to be sparse. Leveraging sparsity, however, depends heavily on gridding the space, treating the signal as a collection of active or inactive pixels in an image, rather than traditional methods which track the continuous spatial coordinates. Using the dynamics constraint in this setting is challenging, as a model which approximately predicts target location may result in seemingly large errors, as measured by the lp-norm typically used in such algorithms. To take advantage of approximate spatial priors without introducing unnecessary penalties, we present a tracking algorithm using the earth-mover’s distance (EMD) as an alternate dynamics regularization term. We note that while requiring a higher computational burden, the EMD can more effectively utilize target location prediction when the space is gridded.
Reference:
Earth-Mover's Distance as a Tracking RegularizerA. Charles, N. Bertrand, J. Lee and C.J. Rozell. December 2017.
Bibtex Entry:
@CONFERENCE{charles.17c,
author = {Charles, A. and Bertrand, N. and Lee, J. and Rozell, C.J.},
title = {{Earth-Mover's Distance} as a Tracking Regularizer},
booktitle = {{IEEE International Workshop on Computational Advances in Multi-Sensor Adaptive Processing (CAMSAP)}},
year = 2017,
month = dec,
address = {Cura\c{c}ao, Dutch Antilles},
abstract = {Tracking time-varying signals is an important part of many engineering systems. Recently, signal processing techniques have been developed to improve tracking performance when the signal of interest is known a-priori to be sparse. Leveraging sparsity, however, depends heavily on gridding the space, treating the signal as a collection of active or inactive pixels in an image, rather than traditional methods which track the continuous spatial coordinates. Using the dynamics constraint in this setting is challenging, as a model which approximately predicts target location may result in seemingly large errors, as measured by the lp-norm typically used in such algorithms. To take advantage of approximate spatial priors without introducing unnecessary penalties, we present a tracking algorithm using the earth-mover’s distance (EMD) as an alternate dynamics regularization term. We note that while requiring a higher computational burden, the EMD can more effectively utilize target location prediction when the space is gridded.}
}