Set-Type Belief Propagation With Applications to Poisson Multi-Bernoulli SLAMShow others and affiliations
2024 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, ISSN 1053-587X, E-ISSN 1941-0476, Vol. 72, p. 1989-2005Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Belief propagation (BP) is a useful probabilistic inference algorithm for efficiently computing approximate marginal probability densities of random variables. However, in its standard form, BP is only applicable to the vector-type random variables with a fixed and known number of vector elements, while certain applications rely on random finite sets (RFSs) with an unknown number of vector elements. In this paper, we develop BP rules for factor graphs defined on sequences of RFSs where each RFS has an unknown number of elements, with the intention of deriving novel inference methods for RFSs. Furthermore, we show that vector-type BP is a special case of set-type BP, where each RFS follows the Bernoulli process. To demonstrate the validity of developed set-type BP, we apply it to the Poisson multi-Bernoulli (PMB) filter for simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), which naturally leads to a set-type BP PMB-SLAM method, which is analogous to a vector type SLAM method, subject to minor modifications.
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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC , 2024. Vol. 72, p. 1989-2005
Keywords [en]
Vectors; Simultaneous localization and mapping; Filtering algorithms; Radio frequency; Filtering theory; Target tracking; Random variables; Belief propagation; multi-target tracking; Poisson multi-Bernoulli filter; random finite sets; simultaneous localization and mapping
National Category
Probability Theory and Statistics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-203452DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2024.3383543ISI: 001205795000005OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-203452DiVA, id: diva2:1857817
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Research Council
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