Research Article

Maintaining Track Continuity for Extended Targets Using Gaussian-Mixture Probability Hypothesis Density Filter

Algorithm 2

Scheme of the track propagation and termination.
Given:
Output of Algorithm 1,  ; Extended targets state
estimates , and their labels ;
Track set , Undefined tree set ,
Candidate terminated track set .
Propagation and Termination:
,
For
 If
  
  ,
  , ,
  .
 Else If
  {: set of the labels of }
  ,
  ,
  
  : set of the labels of ,
  .
 Else
  Track Initiation and Confirmation Steps.
 End If
End For
If
,
 For
  If (i.e. lasts three time steps)
  is the time steps that undefined tree lasts}
   ,
   Terminate the track in whose label equals to .
  Else
   ,
   , .
  End If
 End For
,
 Update the number of undefined trees .
End If
,
If
tracks in whose labels are the same as ,
,
 For    is the cardinality of set
  ,
  ,
  ,
  .               
 End for                      
End If