Passive underwater tracking with unknown measurement noise statistics using variational Bayesian approximation

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2024-10

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Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, Volume 153

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This paper considers a bearings-only tracking problem with unknown measurement noise statistics. It is assumed that the measurement noise follows a Gaussian probability density function where the mean and the covariance of the noise are unknown. Here, an adaptive nonlinear filtering technique is proposed, where the joint distribution of the measurement noise mean and its covariance are considered to follow a normal inverse Wishart (NIW) distribution. Using the variational Bayesian (VB) approximation, joint distribution of the target state, the measurement noise mean and covariance is factorized as the product of their individual probability density function (pdf). Minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KLD) between the factorized and true joint pdfs, probability distributions of the noise mean, covariance and the target states are evaluated. The estimation of states with the proposed VB based method is compared with the maximum a posteriori (MAP) and the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) based adaptive filtering. Deterministic sigma points are used to realize the filtering algorithms. The proposed adaptive filter with VB approximation is found to be more accurate compared to their corresponding MAP-MLE based counterparts.

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Adaptive filtering, Bearings-only tracking, Gaussian filters, Normal inverse Wishart, Target motion analysis, Variational Bayesian approximation

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Das, S, Kumar, K & Bhaumik, S 2024, ' Passive underwater tracking with unknown measurement noise statistics using variational Bayesian approximation ', Digital Signal Processing: A Review Journal, vol. 153, 104648 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2024.104648