The field of sequential Monte Carlo methods
This paper provides an introduction to the field of sequential Monte Carlo methods which are also known as particle filters methods. The best known algorithm to solve the problem of non-linear non-Gaussian filtering is the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) but in settings where the dynamics are significantly non-linear or the noise intensities are high, the EKF can perform quite poorly. Particle filtering methods are powerful tools for online estimation and tracking in nonlinear and non-Gaussian dynamical...