Numerical Analysis of Target Enumeration via Euler Characteristic Integrals: 2 Dimensional Disk Supports

In this paper, we look at the types of errors that are introduced when using the Euler characteristic integral approach to count the number of targets in a discrete sensor field. In contrast to other theoretical analyses, this paper examines discrete sensor fields rather than continuous ones. The probabilities of first and second order errors are worked out combinatorially, and a general formula is found which is discovered to be proportional to much higher order errors. Asymptotic results are also derived. Thus, this work gives us the bias of the Euler characteristic integral as a point estimator for the number of targets in a sensor field, and a general understanding of how the Euler characteristic integral fails, or more often succeeds.Comment: 20 pages, 12 figures, 2 table