Adaptive Target Birth Intensity for ET-PHD Filter

An adaptive tracking algorithm based on Extended target Probability Hypothesis Density (ETPHD) filter is proposed for extended target tracking problem with priori unknown target birth intensity.The algorithm is implemented by gaussian mixture, where the target birth intensity is generated by measurement-driven, and the persistent and the newborn targets intensity are respectively predicted and updated. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm improves the performance of the probability hypothesis density filter in the extended target tracking.