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Opto-Electronic Engineering, Volume. 52, Issue 6, 250050(2025)

The cascade matching method for multi-object tracking of 3D LiDAR point clouds

Gang Chen^1、*, Wenbiao Zhang², Hongyan Wang², En Li³, and Tao Sun²

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¹School of Mechanical Engineering, Jiaxing University, Jiaxing, Zhejiang 314001, China

²School of Information Science and Engineering, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310018, China

³Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China

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Category: Article

Received: Feb. 24, 2025

Accepted: Apr. 30, 2025

Published Online: Sep. 3, 2025

The Author Email: Gang Chen (陈刚)

DOI:10.12086/oee.2025.250050

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