The Chaz1
1College Freshmen, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Major Undecided
Abstract
Dude, I’m at this kegger and no one remembered to bring a sharpie. I’ll set down my drink next to someone else’s, and I’ve got no idea which one’s mine. This other dude came back and he didn’t know either. Dude! Okay, so, I realized this is a data association issue, and we have to track these cups better. They look identical except for mine which I spike with some Jim Bean because I’m fancy. Which I guess still looks like everyone else’s cup. Crap! I can keep track of where my drink is, but someone inevitably puts their cup next to mine or moves it because they think it’s theirs or someone needs one some for-beer pong and is checking for an empty. We checked all the drawers in the kitchen twice and we can’t find a sharpie anywhere. Pens don’t work so the only way is to use a better data association algorithm.
Keywords: Drinking, Data Association, Multiple Solo Cup Tracking, Global Nearest Neighbor, Joint Probability Data Association, Mahalanobis, Cup Distribution, Cup Sensing, Semi-Greedy Algorithm, Multiple Hypothesis Tracker
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