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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010604</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub"></issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2019.13.COIMG-127</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2470-1173(20190113)2019:13L.1271;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ei_24701173_v2019n13_input/s2.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/ei/2019/00002019/00000013/art00002</article-id>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Multi-target tracking with an event-based vision sensor and a partial-update GMPHD filter</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Foster</surname>
            <given-names>Benjamin J.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Ye</surname>
            <given-names>Dong Hye</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Bouman</surname>
            <given-names>Charles A.</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>13</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2019</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2019</volume>
      <issue>13</issue>
      <fpage>127-1</fpage>
      <lpage>127-7</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2019</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>
          <italic>Tracking a large number of small, similar, high-speed/- agility targets is a challenging problem for current tracking systems that make use of traditional visual sensors. Such targets necessitate very high tracker update rates to keep up with meandering and mutually-occluding target
 paths. Event-based vision sensors may offer a solution to this problem as they report only “event-based” pixelwise changes in intensity as they occur with a time resolution approaching 1 μs [1], providing data that is much sparser and higher in time-resolution than traditional
 vision systems. However, this class of sensor presents unique challenges; for example, a single object in the sensor’s field of view may produce multiple synchronous or nearly-synchronous events. In addition, performing direct measurement-to-track association for event data on ms to
 ms timescales introduces problematic computational burdens for scenarios involving large numbers of targets.</italic>
          
          <italic>The work described in this paper is twofold. We first define and apply an event-clustering procedure to raw events to reduce the amount of data passed into the tracker. This
 transformation from events to event-clusters provides a) discrimination between event-clusters that correspond to true targets and those that do not and b) reduction in tracking computation time. Second, we define and apply a partial-update Gaussian mixture probability hypothesis density (GMPHD)
 filter [2] for tracking using event-cluster data. We demonstrate increased computational performance over the standard GMPHD filter while achieving comparable tracking performance per the optimal sub-pattern assignment (OSPA) metric [3].</italic>
        </p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>multi-target tracking</kwd>
        <kwd>GMPHD filter</kwd>
        <kwd>event-based vision sensor</kwd>
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