Analytic Combinatorics for Multiple Object Tracking

Dr. Roy L. Streit joined Metron in 2005. His research interests include multi-target tracking, multi-sensor data fusion, distributed autonomous systems, signal processing, medical imaging and statistical methods for pharmacovigilance and business analytics. His recent research involves applications of analytic combinatorics to data association problems in multi-target, multi-sensor tracking and to combinatorial optimization problems in natural language processing and common subgraph matching in high level fusion. Dr. Streit is a Life Fellow of the IEEE and a Senior Fellow at Metron.  He is a co-author (with colleagues at Metron) of Bayesian Multiple Target Tracking, Second Edition, Artech House, 2014. He is the author of Poisson Point Processes: Imaging, Tracking, and Sensing, Springer, 2010. Both books have been translated into Chinese. He has published numerous scientific journal papers, book chapters, and invited and contributed papers at international conferences and workshops. He holds seven US patents. He was a NATO Science and Technology Organization Lecturer (SET-157, 2010-2012) on multisensor fusion and also (IST-134, 2015-2016) on advanced algorithms for fusing hard and soft information. He was an Invited Lecturer on radar and sonar tracking, Hanyang University, Ansan, Republic of Korea, 2014. He is currently on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society. He was President of the International Society for Information Fusion (ISIF) in 2012, and continues to serve on the ISIF Board of Directors. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the ISIF Perspectives Magazine. He served as General Co-Chair of the ISIF/IEEE Fusion Conference held in Xi'an, China, in 2017, Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2015 ISIF/IEEE Fusion Conference, Washington, DC, and General Co-Chair (with Murat Efe) for the 2013 ISIF/IEEE Fusion Conference, Istanbul, Turkey. He was the Awards Chair for the 2016 ISIF/IEEE Fusion Conference, Heidelberg, Germany. Prior to joining Metron, Dr. Streit was a Chief Research Scientist in the Senior Executive Service (SES) at the U.S. Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). The focus of his work was the development, evaluation and application of multi-sensor data fusion algorithms in support of submarine sonar and combat control automation. He initiated and led multi-disciplinary exploratory and advanced development efforts to demonstrate new and advanced capabilities for integrated target classification, detection, and tracking. He and his team proposed and developed novel multi-spectral multi-target tracking algorithms that were demonstrated on four major submarine passive sonar arrays. Dr. Streit served as Exchange Scientist at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Adelaide, Australia, from 1987-1989. He was a Visiting Scientist at Yale University, Computer Science Department, 1982-4; Visiting Scholar at Stanford University, Operation Research Department, 1981-2; and Visiting Scientist at Adelaide University, Statistics Department, Australia, 1989. He served from 1996-2005 on the Sonar Technology Panel of The Technical Cooperation Program (TTCP), a multinational governmental organization supporting scientific exchange between member nations. He received the Solberg Award from the American Society of Naval Engineers in 1999, and the Department of the Navy Superior Civilian Achievement Award in 2001.
 Dr. Robert Blair Angle received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently a Senior Research Scientist at Metron, Inc. Since joining Metron in 2008, he has worked as the technical lead on a variety of projects involving mathematical and statistical modeling, machine learning, tracking, simulation, signal processing, and software development. During his tenure at Metron, he has written or co-written several proposals which have led to new funding and research. 

Introduction.- Extended object tracking.- Multiple sensors.- Other high computational complexity tracking problems.- Multiframe assignment and combinatorial optimization.- Saddle Point Method.- Multicomplex Algebra.- Automatic Differentiation.- Conclusion.