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Based on sequential Monte Carlo implementation of Probability Hypothesis Density (PHD) filter, this paper proposes a heuristic method called the Refined PHD (R-PHD) filter to improve multi-target tracking performance under low detection probability. In detail, this paper defines a survival probability which is dependent on target state, and labels individual extracted targets and corresponding particles. When miss detection occurs due to low detection probability, posterior particle weights will be revised according to the prediction step. Finally, we transform the target confirmation problem into a hypothesis test problem, and utilize sequential probability ratio test to distinguish real targets and false alarms in real time. Computer simulations with respect to different detection probabilities, average numbers of false alarms and continuous miss detection durations are provided to corroborate the superiority of the proposed method, compared with standard PHD filter, Cardinalized PHD (CPHD) filter and Cardinality Balanced Multi-target Multi-Bernoulli (CBMeMBer) filter.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19132842","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,26]],"date-time":"2019-06-26T07:24:17Z","timestamp":1561533857000},"page":"2842","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":15,"title":["Refined PHD Filter for Multi-Target Tracking under Low Detection Probability"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Sen","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on ATR, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Qinglong","family":"Bao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"National Key Laboratory of Science and Technology on ATR, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha 410073, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zengping","family":"Chen","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Electronics and Communication Engineering, SUN YAT-SEN University, Guangzhou 510275, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,26]]},"reference":[{"doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Jiang, D., Liu, M., Gao, Y., Gao, Y., Fu, W., and Han, Y. 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