# Multi-Object Tracking based on Imaging Radar 3D Object Detection

Source: [Multi-Object Tracking based on Imaging Radar 3D Object Detection](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa73741e209131cea5ca16>)

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Data updated: 2025-10-26T02:50:15.439Z

Authors: Patrick Palmer, Martin Kr\\"uger, Richard Altendorfer, Torsten Bertram

Published: 2024-06-03T05:46:23.000Z

## Abstract

Effective tracking of surrounding traffic participants allows for an accurate state estimation as a necessary ingredient for prediction of future behavior and therefore adequate planning of the ego vehicle trajectory. One approach for detecting and tracking surrounding traffic participants is the combination of a learning based object detector with a classical tracking algorithm. Learning based object detectors have been shown to work adequately on lidar and camera data, while learning based object detectors using standard radar data input have proven to be inferior. Recently, with the improvements to radar sensor technology in the form of imaging radars, the object detection performance on radar was greatly improved but is still limited compared to lidar sensors due to the sparsity of the radar point cloud. This presents a unique challenge for the task of multi-object tracking. The tracking algorithm must overcome the limited detection quality while generating consistent tracks. To this end, a comparison between different multi-object tracking methods on imaging radar data is required to investigate its potential for downstream tasks. The work at hand compares multiple approaches and analyzes their limitations when applied to imaging radar data. Furthermore, enhancements to the presented approaches in the form of probabilistic association algorithms are considered for this task.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01011>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.01011.pdf>)