Likelihood interpolation for peak detection

Robert G. Lindgren; Daniel D. Weston

doi:10.1117/12.179086

6 July 1994 Likelihood interpolation for peak detection

Robert G. Lindgren, Daniel D. Weston

Proceedings Volume 2235, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1994; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179086
Event: SPIE's International Symposium on Optical Engineering and Photonics in Aerospace Sensing, 1994, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper we present a likelihood technique for determining candidate target detections to pass to a tracker over successive temporal intervals. In a representative situation sensor data are available from each interval as matched-filter output sampled at discrete position-velocity state hypotheses. A likelihood ratio for an arbitrary target hypothesis from the continuous state domain can be constructed from the sampled filter output, and we seek local maxima in this likelihood-ratio field as the candidate detections. We obtain a readily implemented algorithm which closely follows this optimal prescription by limiting the sample points in the likelihood construction to the immediate vicinity of a discrete local maximum in the filter output.

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Robert G. Lindgren and Daniel D. Weston "Likelihood interpolation for peak detection", Proc. SPIE 2235, Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 1994, (6 July 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.179086

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