Tracking-before-detection (TBD) is well suitable for radar detection and target tracking of low-observable objects.Probability hypothesis density (PHD) filter is regarded as an efficient solution to multitarget tracking problem.However
PHD filter is hard to use in multitarget TBD problem directly.By discussing the applicable model and hypothesis
a "standard" multitarget measurement model for TBD and "Poisson" noise are presented.Consequently
a PHD filter application to multitarget TBD problem
with analytical weighting coefficient
is deduced and can exploit the power of PHD fully.Numerical simulations show our approach has better performance than multitarget particle filter.