A Consistent Metric for Performance Evaluation of Multi-Object Filters

The concept of a miss-distance, or error, between a reference quantity and its estimated/controlled value, plays a fundamental role in any filtering/control problem. Yet there is no satisfactory notion of a miss-distance in the well-established field of multi-object filtering. In this paper, we outline the inconsistencies of existing metrics in the context of multi-object miss-distances for performance evaluation. We then propose a new mathematically and intuitively consistent metric that addresses the drawbacks of current multi-object performance evaluation metrics.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TSP
• Authors: D. Schuhmacher, Ba-Tuong Vo, Ba-Ngu Vo
• Keywords: Multi-object Filtering, Performance Evaluation, Satisfactory Notion, TSP 2008