Alfred Hero - Interests in Sensor Management
Sensor management deals with resource allocation, scheduling and
adaptive deployment of multiple sensors for detection, tracking, and
estimation. For more recent publications than those listed below see .html .
Journal Publications
C. Kreucher,
K. Kastella,
and A. Hero, "Multitarget Tracking using the Joint Multitarget Probability Density,"
IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems,
39(4):1396-1414,
October 2005.
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C. Kreucher,
K. Kastella,
and A. Hero.
Sensor Management Using An Active Sensing Approach.
Signal Processing,
85(3):607-624,
March 2005.
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Conference Proceedings
C. Kreucher,
A. Hero,
and K. Kastella.
A Comparison of Task Driven and Information Driven Sensor Management for Target Tracking.
To Appear in The 44th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) Special Session on Information Theoretic Methods for Target Tracking,
December 12-15 .
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C. Kreucher,
A. Hero,
K. Kastella,
and B. Shapo.
Information-based Sensor Management for Simultaneous Multitarget Tracking and Identification.
The Proceedings of The Thirteenth Annual Conference on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP),
June 7 - 8 2005.
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C. Kreucher,
K. Kastella,
and A. Hero.
Multiplatform Information-based Sensor Management.
The Proceedings of the SPIE Defense Transformation and Network-Centric Systems Symposium,
volume 5820,
pages 141-151,
March 28 - April 1 2005.
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M. Morelande,
C. Kreucher,
and K. Kastella.
Multiple Target Tracking with a Pixelized Sensor.
The Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP),
volume V,
pages 585-588,
March 18 - 23 2005.
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C. Kreucher and A. Hero.
Non-myopic Approaches to Scheduling Agile Sensors for Multitarget Detection, Tracking, and Identification (Invited Paper).
The Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) Special Section on Advances in Waveform Agile Sensor Processing,
volume V,
pages 885-888,
March 18 - 23 2005.
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C. Kreucher,
M. Morelande,
K. Kastella,
and A. Hero.
Particle Filtering for Multitarget Detection and Tracking (Invited Paper).
The Proceedings of The Twenty Sixth Annual IEEE Aerospace Conference,
March 5 - 12 2005.
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C. Kreucher,
A. Hero,
K. Kastella,
and D. Chang.
Efficient Methods of Non-myopic Sensor Management for Multitarget Tracking.
The Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC),
volume 1,
pages 722-727,
December 14 - 17 2004.
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C. Kreucher,
D. Blatt,
A. Hero,
and K. Kastella.
Adaptive Multi-modality Sensor Scheduling for Detection and Tracking of Smart Targets.
The 2004 Defense Applications of Signal Processing Workshop (DASP),
October 31 - November 5 2004.
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C. Kreucher,
A. Hero,
and K. Kastella.
Multiple Model Particle Filtering for Multitarget Tracking.
The Proceedings of The Twelfth Annual Conference on Adaptive Sensor Array Processing (ASAP),
March 16 - 18 2004.
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C. Kreucher,
K. Kastella,
and A. Hero.
Information Based Sensor Management for Multitarget Tracking.
The 2003 Workshop on Multiple Hypothesis Tracking: A Tribute to Samuel S. Blackman,
pages 77 - 81,
May 30 2003.
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C. Kreucher,
K. Kastella,
and A. Hero.
Multi-target Sensor Management Using Alpha Divergence Measures (General Dynamics Medal Paper Award Winner, 2003).
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, The Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN),
number 2634,
pages 209 - 222,
April 22 - 23 2003.
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Some links
Survey paper on reinforcement
learning (RL) by Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Michael L. Littman, Andrew
W. Moore.
Sutton and Barto's 1998 book on RL
Prof. Alfred Hero III
Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Michigan
1301 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
Tel. (313) 763-0564
FAX: (313) 763-8041
WWW:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~hero/hero.html
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