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Many tracking approaches for extended\/group targets have been proposed. However, these approaches make assumptions about the target shape, which have limitations in practical applications. To address this problem, in this work, an extended\/group target tracking algorithm based on B-spline is proposed. Specifically, the extension of an extended or a group target was modeled as a spatial probability distribution characterized by the control points of a B-spline function that was then jointly propagated with the measurement rate model and kinematic component model over time using the Poisson multi-Bernoulli mixture (PMBM) filter framework. In addition, an amplitude-aided measurement partitioning approach is proposed to improve the accuracy caused by distance-based approaches. The simulation results demonstrate that the extension, shape and orientation of targets can be estimated better by the proposed algorithm, even if the shape changes. 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