The combination of ACDA and FCM for Data Association in multi-target tracking

For improving the performance of ACDA (Ant Colony Data Association) for data association in multi-target tracking, we propose the combined method of ACDA and FCM. Since FCM is a determinate algorithm, in nature based on NN (Nearest Neighbor), it could generate reasonable results in any case, which is a backup when ACDA becomes divergent. Experiments have been done in three cases-ACDA as data association method only, FCM only, and the combined method of ACDA and FCM. The results show that the performance of the combined method is superior to the other two methods.