In many multi-target tracking scenarios, the amplitude of target returns are stronger than those coming from false alarms. This amplitude information can be used to improve the multi-target state estimation by obtaining more accurate target and false-alarm likelihoods. In this paper, a novel multi-Bernoulli filtering algorithm is proposed, which is based on the random finite set and incorporate the amplitude information. The amplitude likelihood functions are derived to incorporate the amplitude information into the multi-Bernoulli filter in the update step. In addition, a Gaussian Mixture (GM) implementation for the linear model and a Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) implementation for the non-linear model are proposed. Simulation results for Gaussian Mixture and Sequential Monte Carlo implementations show that the proposed filter demonstrates a significant improvement than conventional multi-Bernoulli filter in the estimation accuracy of both the number of targets and their states.
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