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Journal Article
Information Geometry-Based Two-Stage Track-Before-Detect Algorithm for Multi-Target Detection in Sea Clutter
2025
Overview
To address the challenges of radar multi-target detection in marine environments, this paper proposes an information geometry (IG)-based, two-stage track-before-detect (TBD) framework. Specifically, multi-target measurements are first modeled on the manifold, leveraging its geometric properties for enhanced detection. The designed scoring function incorporates both the feature dissimilarity between targets and clutter, as well as the precise inter-target path associations. Consequently, a novel merit function combining feature dissimilarity and transition cost is derived to mitigate the mutual interference between adjacent targets. Subsequently, to overcome the integrated merit function expansion phenomenon, a two-stage integration strategy combining dynamic programming (DP) and greedy integration (GI) algorithms was adopted. To tackle the challenges of unknown target numbers and computationally infeasible multi-hypothesis testing, a target cancellation detection scheme is proposed. Furthermore, by exploiting the independence of multi-target motions, an efficient implementation method for the detector is developed. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed algorithm inherits the superior clutter discrimination capability of IG detectors in sea clutter environments while effectively resolving track mismatches between neighboring targets. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed method was validated using real-recorded sea clutter data, showing significant improvements over conventional approaches, and the signal-to-clutter ratio was improved by at least 2 dB.
