EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 321967, 13 pages
doi:10.1155/2008/321967
Research Article

Variable-Mass Particle Filter for Road-Constrained Vehicle Tracking

Giorgos Kravaritis and Bernard Mulgrew

Institute for Digital Communications, The University of Edinburgh, King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JL, UK

Received 20 July 2006; Revised 21 March 2007; Accepted 13 August 2007

Academic Editor: T.-H. Li

Copyright © 2008 Giorgos Kravaritis and Bernard Mulgrew. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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