Welcome to PyEHM’s documentation!

PyEHM is an open-source python package that includes implementations of the Efficient Hypothesis Management (EHM) Algorithms described in [EHM1], [EHM2] and covered by the patent [EHMPAT].

EHM1: Maskell, S., Briers, M. and Wright, R., 2004, August. Fast mutual exclusion. In Signal and Data Processing of Small Targets 2004 (Vol. 5428, pp. 526-536). International Society for Optics and Photonics
EHM2: Horridge, P. and Maskell, S., 2006, July. Real-time tracking of hundreds of targets with efficient exact JPDAF implementation. In 2006 9th International Conference on Information Fusion (pp. 1-8). IEEE
EHMPAT: Maskell, S., 2003, July. Signal Processing with Reduced Combinatorial Complexity. Patent Reference:0315349.1

Installation

Install via `pip`

You can install the latest release of PyEHM on PyPI by using:

python -m pip install pyehm

Install from source

To install the latest version from the GitHub repository:

python -m pip install git+https://github.com/sglvladi/pyehm#egg=pyehm

Development

If you are looking to carry out development on PyEHM, you should first clone from GitHub and install with development dependencies by doing the following:

git clone "https://github.com/sglvladi/pyehm"
cd pyehm
python -m pip install -e .[dev]

API Reference

Core API

The core components of PyEHM are the EHM and EHM2 classes, that constitute implementations of the EHM [EHM1] and EHM2 [EHM2] algorithms for data association.

The interfaces of these classes are documented below.

class pyehm.core.EHM[source]

Efficient Hypothesis Management (EHM)

An implementation of the EHM algorithm, as documented in [EHM1].

static construct_net(validation_matrix)[source]

Construct the EHM net as per Section 3.1 of [EHM1]

Parameters: validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
Returns: The constructed net object
Return type: EHMNet

static compute_association_probabilities(net, likelihood_matrix)[source]

Compute the joint association weights, as described in Section 3.3 of [EHM1]

Parameters

net (EHMNet) – A net object representing the valid joint association hypotheses
likelihood_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the unnormalised likelihoods for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Returns

A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the normalised association probabilities for all combinations of tracks and detecrtons. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Return type

numpy.ndarray

classmethod run(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)[source]

Run EHM to compute and return association probabilities

Parameters

validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
likelihood_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the unnormalised likelihoods for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Returns

A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the normalised association probabilities for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Return type

numpy.ndarray

class pyehm.core.EHM2[source]

Bases: pyehm.core.EHM

Efficient Hypothesis Management 2 (EHM2)

An implementation of the EHM2 algorithm, as documented in [EHM2].

classmethod construct_net(validation_matrix)[source]

Construct the EHM net as per Section 4 of [EHM2]

Parameters: validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
Returns: The constructed net object
Return type: EHMNet
Raises: ValueError – If the provided validation_matrix is such that tracks can be divided into separate clusters. See the Note below for work-around.

Note

If the provided validation_matrix is such that tracks can be divided into separate clusters, this method will raise a ValueError exception. To work-around this issue, you can use the gen_clusters() function to first generate individual clusters and then generate a net for each cluster, as shown below:

from pyehm.core import EHM2
from pyehm.utils import gen_clusters

validation_matrix = <Your validation matrix>

clusters, _ = gen_clusters(validation_matrix)

nets = []
for cluster in clusters:
    nets.append(EHM2.construct_net(cluster.validation_matrix)

static construct_tree(validation_matrix)[source]

Construct the EHM2 tree as per section 4.3 of [EHM2]

Parameters: validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
Returns: The constructed tree object
Return type: EHM2Tree
Raises: ValueError – If the provided validation_matrix is such that tracks can be divided into separate clusters. See the Note below for work-around.

Note

If the provided validation_matrix is such that tracks can be divided into separate clusters, this method will raise a ValueError exception. To work-around this issue, you can use the gen_clusters() function to first generate individual clusters and then generate a tree for each cluster, as shown below:

from pyehm.core import EHM2
from pyehm.utils import gen_clusters

validation_matrix = <Your validation matrix>

clusters, _ = gen_clusters(validation_matrix)

trees = []
for cluster in clusters:
    trees.append(EHM2.construct_tree(cluster.validation_matrix)

static compute_association_probabilities(net, likelihood_matrix)[source]

Compute the joint association weights, as described in Section 4.2 of [EHM2]

Parameters

net (EHMNet) – A net object representing the valid joint association hypotheses
likelihood_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the unnormalised likelihoods for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Returns

A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the normalised association probabilities for all combinations of tracks and detecrtons. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Return type

numpy.ndarray

classmethod run(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)

Run EHM to compute and return association probabilities

Parameters

validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
likelihood_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the unnormalised likelihoods for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Returns

A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the normalised association probabilities for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis.

Return type

numpy.ndarray

Utils API

The pyehm.utils module contains helper classes and functions used by pyehm.core.

class pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode(layer, identity=None)[source]

A node in the EHMNet constructed by EHM.

Parameters

layer (int) – Index of the network layer in which the node is placed. Since a different layer in the network is built for each track, this also represented the index of the track this node relates to.
identity (set of int) – The identity of the node. As per Section 3.1 of [EHM1], “the identity for each node is an indication of how measurement assignments made for tracks already considered affect assignments for tracks remaining to be considered”.

class pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode(layer, track=None, subnet=0, identity=None)[source]

Bases: pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode

A node in the EHMNet constructed by EHM2.

Parameters

layer (int) – Index of the network layer in which the node is placed.
track (int) – Index of track this node relates to.
subnet (int) – Index of subnet to which the node belongs.
identity (set of int) – The identity of the node. As per Section 3.1 of [EHM1], “the identity for each node is an indication of how measurement assignments made for tracks already considered affect assignments for tracks remaining to be considered”.

class pyehm.utils.EHMNet(nodes, validation_matrix, edges=None)[source]

Represents the nets constructed by EHM and EHM2.

Parameters

nodes (list of EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The nodes comprising the net.
validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
edges (dict) – A dictionary that represents the edges between nodes in the network. The dictionary keys are tuples of the form `(parent, child)`, where `parent` and `child` are the source and target nodes respectively. The values of the dictionary are the measurement indices that describe the parent-child relationship.

property root: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]: The root node of the net.

property num_nodes: int: Number of nodes in the net

property num_layers: int: Number of layers in the net

property nodes: Union[List[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode], List[pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]]: The nodes comprising the net

property nodes_forward: Union[Sequence[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode], Sequence[pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]]: The net nodes, ordered by increasing layer

property nx_graph: networkx.classes.graph.Graph: A NetworkX representation of the net. Mainly used for plotting the net.

add_node(node: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode], parent: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode], detection: int)[source]

Add a new node in the network.

Parameters

node (EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The node to be added.
parent (EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The parent of the node.
detection (int) – Index of measurement representing the parent child relationship.

add_edge(parent: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode], child: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode], detection: int)[source]

Add edge between two nodes, or update an already existing edge by adding the detection to it.

Parameters

parent (EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The parent node, i.e. the source of the edge.
child (EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The child node, i.e. the target of the edge.
detection (int) – Index of measurement representing the parent child relationship.

get_parents(node: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]) → Union[Sequence[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode], Sequence[pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]][source]

Get the parents of a node.

Parameters: node (EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The node whose parents should be returned
Returns: List of parent nodes
Return type: list of EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode

get_children(node: Union[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode, pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]) → Union[Sequence[pyehm.utils.EHMNetNode], Sequence[pyehm.utils.EHM2NetNode]][source]

Get the children of a node.

Parameters: node (EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode) – The node whose children should be returned
Returns: List of child nodes
Return type: list of EHMNetNode or EHM2NetNode

plot(ax: Optional[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes] = None, annotate=True)[source]

Plot the net.

Parameters

ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes) – Axes on which to plot the net
annotate (bool) – Flag that dictates whether or not to draw node and edge labels on the plotted net. The default is True

class pyehm.utils.EHM2Tree(track, children, detections, subtree)[source]

Represents the track tree structure generated by construct_tree().

The EHM2Tree object represents both a tree as well as the root node in the tree.

Parameters

track (int) – The index of the track represented by the root node of the tree
children (list of EHM2Tree) – Sub-trees that are children of the current tree
detections (set of int) – Set of accumulated detections
subtree (int) – Index of subtree the current tree belongs to.

property depth: int: The depth of the tree

property nodes: List[pyehm.utils.EHM2Tree]: The nodes/subtrees in the tree

property nx_graph: networkx.classes.graph.Graph: A NetworkX representation of the tree. Mainly used for plotting the tree.

plot(ax: Optional[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes] = None)[source]

Plot the tree.

Parameters: ax (matplotlib.axes.Axes) – Axes on which to plot the tree

class pyehm.utils.Cluster(tracks=None, detections=None, validation_matrix=None, likelihood_matrix=None)[source]

A cluster of tracks sharing common detections.

Parameters

tracks (list of int) – Indices of tracks in cluster
detections (list of int) – Indices of detections in cluster
validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – The validation matrix for tracks and detections in the cluster
likelihood_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – The likelihood matrix for tracks and detections in the cluster

pyehm.utils.gen_clusters(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix=None)[source]

Cluster tracks into groups sharing detections

Parameters

validation_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – An indicator matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) indicating the possible (aka. valid) associations between tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis (hence contains all ones).
likelihood_matrix (numpy.ndarray) – A matrix of shape (num_tracks, num_detections + 1) containing the unnormalised likelihoods for all combinations of tracks and detections. The first column corresponds to the null hypothesis. The default is None, in which case the likelihood matrices of the generated clusters will also be None.

Returns

list of Cluster objects – A list of Cluster objects, where each cluster contains the indices of the rows (tracks) and columns (detections) pertaining to the cluster
list of int – A list of row (track) indices that have not been associated to any detections

Plugins

Stone Soup

class pyehm.plugins.stonesoup.JPDAWithEHM(hypothesiser: stonesoup.hypothesiser.probability.PDAHypothesiser)[source]

Bases: stonesoup.dataassociator.probability.JPDA

Joint Probabilistic Data Association with Efficient Hypothesis Management (EHM)

This is a faster alternative of the standard JPDA algorithm, which makes use of Efficient Hypothesis Management (EHM) to efficiently compute the joint associations. See Maskell et al. (2004) [EHM1] for more details.

associate(tracks, detections, timestamp, **kwargs)[source]

Associate tracks and detections

Parameters

tracks (set of stonesoup.types.track.Track) – Tracks which detections will be associated to.
detections (set of stonesoup.types.detection.Detection) – Detections to be associated to tracks.
timestamp (datetime.datetime) – Timestamp to be used for missed detections and to predict to.

Returns

Mapping of track to Hypothesis

Return type

mapping of stonesoup.types.track.Track : stonesoup.types.hypothesis.Hypothesis

class pyehm.plugins.stonesoup.JPDAWithEHM2(hypothesiser: stonesoup.hypothesiser.probability.PDAHypothesiser)[source]

Bases: pyehm.plugins.stonesoup.JPDAWithEHM

Joint Probabilistic Data Association with Efficient Hypothesis Management 2 (EHM2)

This is an enhanced version of the JPDAWithEHM algorithm, that makes use of the Efficient Hypothesis Management 2 (EHM2) algorithm to efficiently compute the joint associations. See Horridge et al. (2006) [EHM2] for more details.

associate(tracks, detections, timestamp, **kwargs)

Associate tracks and detections

Parameters

tracks (set of stonesoup.types.track.Track) – Tracks which detections will be associated to.
detections (set of stonesoup.types.detection.Detection) – Detections to be associated to tracks.
timestamp (datetime.datetime) – Timestamp to be used for missed detections and to predict to.

Returns

Mapping of track to Hypothesis

Return type

mapping of stonesoup.types.track.Track : stonesoup.types.hypothesis.Hypothesis

Examples

Basic Example

Standard JPDA vs EHM vs EHM2

Note

Click here to download the full example code

Basic Example

import numpy as np

Formulating the possible associations between targets and measurements

Both EHM and EHM2 operate on a validation_matrix and a likelihood_matrix. The validation_matrix is an indicator matrix that represents the possible associations between different targets and measurements, while the likelihood_matrix contains the respective likelihoods/probabilities of these associations. Both matrices have a shape (N_T, N_M+1), where N_T is the number of targets and N_M is the numer of measurements.

For example, assume we have the following scenario of 4 targets and 4 measurements (taken from Section 4.4 of [EHM2]):

Target index	Gated measurement indices
0	0, 1
1	0, 1, 2, 3
2	0, 1, 2
3	0, 3, 4

where the null measurement hypothesis is given the index of 0. Then the validation_matrix would be a (4, 5) numpy array of the following form:

validation_matrix = np.array([[1, 1, 0, 0, 0],   # 0 -> 0,1
                              [1, 1, 1, 1, 0],   # 1 -> 0,1,2,3
                              [1, 1, 1, 0, 0],   # 2 -> 0,1,2
                              [1, 0, 0, 1, 1]])  # 3 -> 0,3,4

The likelihood_matrix is such that each element likelihood_matrix[i, j] contains the respective likelihood of target i being associated to measurement j. Therefore, based on the above example, the likelihood_matrix could be the following:

likelihood_matrix = np.array([[0.1, 0.9, 0, 0, 0],
                              [0.1, 0.3, 0.2, 0.4, 0],
                              [0.7, 0.1, 0.2, 0, 0],
                              [0.2, 0, 0, 0.75, 0.05]])

Computing joint association probabilities

Based on the above, we can use EHM or EHM2 to compute the joint association probabilities matrix assoc_matrix as follows:

from pyehm.core import EHM, EHM2

assoc_matrix_ehm = EHM.run(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)
print('assoc_matrix_ehm =\n {}\n'.format(assoc_matrix_ehm))
# or
assoc_matrix_ehm2 = EHM2.run(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)
print('assoc_matrix_ehm2 =\n {}'.format(assoc_matrix_ehm2))

assoc_matrix_ehm =
 [[0.17948718 0.82051282 0.         0.         0.        ]
 [0.25925926 0.07692308 0.4045584  0.25925926 0.        ]
 [0.85754986 0.01139601 0.13105413 0.         0.        ]
 [0.35555556 0.         0.         0.55555556 0.08888889]]

assoc_matrix_ehm2 =
 [[0.17948718 0.82051282 0.         0.         0.        ]
 [0.25925926 0.07692308 0.4045584  0.25925926 0.        ]
 [0.85754986 0.01139601 0.13105413 0.         0.        ]
 [0.35555556 0.         0.         0.55555556 0.08888889]]

Note that both EHM and EHM2 should produce the same results, although EHM2 should, in principle, be significantly faster for large numbers of targets and measurements.

# Check if the probability matrices produced by EHM and EHM2 are equal
print(np.allclose(assoc_matrix_ehm, assoc_matrix_ehm2))

True

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Note

Click here to download the full example code

Standard JPDA vs EHM vs EHM2

Both EHM and EHM2 provide an exact solution to the problem posed by the Joint Probabilistic Data Association (JPDA) algorithm. However, even though in the naive implementation JPDA the number of hypotheses, and as a direct consequence the time required to evaluate these, increases exponentially with number of targets and measurements, EHM and EHM2 produce results in sub-exponential time.

Problem formulation

In this example we will be comparing the computational performance of the EHM and EHM2, against a naive implementation of JPDA, for a relatively dense scenario of 11 targets and 9 measurements. The validation and likelihood matrices for this scenario are defined below (For more information on how these matrices are defined, see the Basic Example):

import itertools
import datetime
import numpy as np

from pyehm.core import EHM, EHM2

validation_matrix = np.array([[1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0],   # 0  -> 0,1,2,4,6,7
                              [1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0],   # 1  -> 0,1,3,4,5,6,7
                              [1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0],   # 2  -> 0,1,3,5,6,7,8
                              [1, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1],   # 3  -> 0,1,2,3,6,7,9
                              [1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0],   # 4  -> 0,2,3,8
                              [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0],   # 5  -> 0,1,2,5,6,7,8
                              [1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 1],   # 6  -> 0,1,5,6,8,9
                              [1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],   # 7  -> 0,1,2
                              [1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 0],   # 8  -> 0,3,4,5,6,7,8
                              [1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0],   # 9  -> 0,4,6,7,8
                              [1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1]])  # 10 -> 0,2,9

likelihood_matrix = np.array([[0.9, 0.13, 0.1, 0, 0.97, 0, 0.94, 0.55, 0, 0],
                              [0.55, 0.31, 0, 0.61, 0.27, 0.38, 0.34, 0.58, 0, 0],
                              [0.61, 0.55, 0, 0.32, 0, 0.25, 0.8, 0.94, 0.62, 0],
                              [0.45, 0.53, 0.61, 0.19, 0, 0, 0.95, 0.61, 0, 0.17],
                              [0.67, 0, 0.79, 0.99, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.71, 0],
                              [0.51, 0.37, 0.04, 0, 0, 0.53, 0.92, 0.44, 0.95, 0],
                              [0.31, 0.03, 0, 0, 0, 0.08, 0.68, 0, 0.04, 0.31],
                              [0.23, 0.09, 0.21, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0],
                              [0.62, 0, 0, 0.19, 0.17, 0.31, 0.69, 0.89, 0.63, 0],
                              [0.44, 0, 0, 0, 0.53, 0, 0.49, 0.01, 0.31, 0],
                              [0.32, 0, 0.56, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.23]])

EHM vs EHM 2

It is worth noticing that in the above example, targets 7 and 10 are conditionally independent of targets 8 and 9, given target 6. This is because targets 7 and 10 share a common measurement (2), but do not share any measurements with targets 8 or 9, which in turn have common measurements (4, 6, 7, 8). Yet, all of them share measurements with target 6.

This is important since EHM2 takes advantage of this conditional independence to reduce the number of nodes in the constructed net and, as a result, achieve better computational performance than EHM.

To better understand the above, let us examine the number of nodes in the nets produced by the two algorithms:

# Net constructed using EHM
net1 = EHM.construct_net(validation_matrix)

# Net constructed using EHM2
net2 = EHM2.construct_net(validation_matrix)

print('No. of nodes in EHM net: {}'.format(net1.num_nodes))
print('No. of nodes in EHM2 net: {}'.format(net2.num_nodes))

No. of nodes in EHM net: 2050
No. of nodes in EHM2 net: 1317

Standard JPDA

Below we define the function jpda that computes the joint association probabilities based on the standard JPDA recursion, which performs a full enumeration of all the joint hypotheses.

def jpda(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix):
    num_tracks, num_detections = validation_matrix.shape

    possible_assoc = list()
    for track in range(num_tracks):
        track_possible_assoc = list()
        v_detections = np.flatnonzero(validation_matrix[track, :])
        for detection in v_detections:
            track_possible_assoc.append((track, detection))
        possible_assoc.append(track_possible_assoc)

    # Compute all possible joint hypotheses
    joint_hyps = itertools.product(*possible_assoc)

    # Compute valid joint hypotheses
    valid_joint_hypotheses = (joint_hypothesis for joint_hypothesis in joint_hyps if is_valid_hyp(joint_hypothesis))

    # Compute likelihood for valid joint hypotheses
    valid_joint_hypotheses_lik = dict()
    for joint_hyp in valid_joint_hypotheses:
        lik = 1
        # The likelihood of a joint hypothesis is the product of the likelihoods of its member hypotheses
        for hyp in joint_hyp:
            track = hyp[0]
            detection = hyp[1]
            lik *= likelihood_matrix[track, detection]
        valid_joint_hypotheses_lik[joint_hyp] = lik

    # Compute the joint association probabilities
    assoc_matrix = np.zeros((num_tracks, num_detections))
    for track in range(num_tracks):
        v_detections = np.flatnonzero(validation_matrix[track, :])
        for detection in v_detections:
            # The joint assoc. probability for a track-detection hypothesis is the sum of the likelihoods of all
            # joint hypotheses that include this hypothesis
            prob = np.sum([lik for hyp, lik in valid_joint_hypotheses_lik.items() if (track, detection) in hyp])
            assoc_matrix[track, detection] = prob
        # Normalise
        assoc_matrix[track, :] /= np.sum(assoc_matrix[track, :])

    return assoc_matrix


def is_valid_hyp(joint_hyp):
    used_detections = set()
    for hyp in joint_hyp:
        detection = hyp[1]
        if not detection:
            pass
        elif detection in used_detections:
            return False
        else:
            used_detections.add(detection)
    return True

Comparison

Now we can compare the above against EHM and EHM2, both in terms of accuracy and computation time. The accuracy comparison is just a safe-guard check to make sure that EHM and EHM2 produce the same result as the standard JPDA.

# EHM
now = datetime.datetime.now()
assoc_matrix_ehm = EHM.run(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)
dt_ehm = datetime.datetime.now() - now

# EHM2
now = datetime.datetime.now()
assoc_matrix_ehm2 = EHM2.run(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)
dt_ehm2 = datetime.datetime.now() - now

# Standard JPDA
now = datetime.datetime.now()
assoc_matrix_jpda = jpda(validation_matrix, likelihood_matrix)
dt_jpda = datetime.datetime.now() - now

# Check if all results are the same
print(np.allclose(assoc_matrix_jpda, assoc_matrix_ehm, atol=1e-15)
      and np.allclose(assoc_matrix_jpda, assoc_matrix_ehm2, atol=1e-15))

# Compare the execution times
print('JPDA: {} seconds'.format(dt_jpda.total_seconds()))
print('EHM: {} seconds'.format(dt_ehm.total_seconds()))
print('EHM2: {} seconds'.format(dt_ehm2.total_seconds()))

True
JPDA: 127.102514 seconds
EHM: 0.232843 seconds
EHM2: 0.159956 seconds

The above results demonstrate the advantages of using the EHM and EHM2 classes over the standard JPDA. Both the EHM and EHM2 algorithms exhibit significant computational gains compared to the standard JPDA, all while producing exactly the same results. We can also observe that EHM2 is noticeably faster than EHM.

Total running time of the script: ( 2 minutes 7.652 seconds)

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License

PyEHM is licenced under Eclipse Public License 2.0. See License for more details.

This software is the property of QinetiQ Limited and any requests for use of the software for commercial use or other use outside of the Eclipse Public Licence should be made to QinetiQ Limited.

The current QinetiQ contact is Richard Lane (rlane1 [at] qinetiq [dot] com).

Welcome to PyEHM’s documentation!

Installation

Install via pip

Install from source

Development

API Reference

Core API

Utils API

Plugins

Stone Soup

Examples

Basic Example

Formulating the possible associations between targets and measurements

Computing joint association probabilities

Standard JPDA vs EHM vs EHM2

Problem formulation

EHM vs EHM 2

Standard JPDA

Comparison

License

Install via `pip`