Track‐before‐detect algorithm based on dynamic programming for multi‐extended‐targets detection

In recent years, multi-extended-targets detection in sea clutter has gained a special interest. Dynamic programming based track-before-detect (DP-TBD) algorithm is used to detect extended targets in video data of high resolution radars. Two innovations are presented in this work. First one is a novel partition method to cluster targets into well separate groups for the problem of high-dimensional maximisation. Second one is a novel merit...