Deep Architecture for DOA Trajectory Localization

Abstract

We propose a data-based joint localization and tracking task called trajectory localization with source trajectories identified for a block (multiple measurements) of array data. This is in contrast to localization tasks where directions of arrival (DOA) are estimated per measurement. We employ parametric motion models with focus on linear trajectories. Deep learning based U-Net architecture is proposed to estimate the linear trajectory parameters. The results show that the proposed method gives better and fast trajectory estimates as compared to the trajectory localization (TL) methods of conventional beamforming (TL-CBF) and sparse Bayesian learning (TL-SBL).