Bayesian multi-class covariance matrix filtering for adaptive environment learning
Abstract
Covariance matrix estimation is a crucial task in adaptive signal processing applied to several surveillance systems, including radar and sonar. In this paper we propose a dynamic environment learning strategy to track both the covariance matrix and its class; the class represents a set of structured covariance matrices. We assume that the posterior distribution of the covariance given the class, is basically a mixture of inverse Wishart, while the class posterior distribution evolves according to a Markov chain. The proposed multi-class inverse Wishart mixture filter is shown to outperform the class-clairvoyant maximum likelihood estimator in terms of covariance estimate accuracy, as well as the Bayesian information criterion rule in terms of classification performance.
Report Number
CMRE-PR-2019-033Source
In: 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, 3-7 September 2018, pp. 266-270, doi: 10.23919/EUSIPCO.2018.8553440Date
2019/05Author(s)
Braca, Paolo
; Aubry, Augusto
; Millefiori, Leonardo
; De Maio, Antonio
; Marano, Stefano