Multi-target tracking with target state dependent detection

Target tracking in surveillance, guidance, radar, sonar systems plays an important role for prediction and estimation of target's information. In reality, target tracking is usually attended in imperfect target detection environment and in cluttered environment caused by false alarm, multipath fading, and non-specific noise. Target tracking algorithms usually treat the probability of detection as independent of the target state. In most cases, this assumption is not true, with subsequent degradation in the target tracking performance from both expected and optimal levels. One typical example is the Doppler frequency based clutter rejection, the other is obfuscation (shadowing) of ground based targets, and the third is anti-jamming notch filtering. In this paper, we present an algorithm for multi-target tracking with target state dependent detection.