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A years-long mystery about a shiny blob found at the bottom of the ocean has finally been solved. When the strange golden orb was discovered on a deep-sea dive in Alaska waters in 2023, marine ...

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Abstract: Grounded in Bayesian filtering (BF), random matrix-based extended object tracking (EOT) offers an efficient framework for the joint estimation of a target’s kinematic state and extension.