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Comments on "Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Process Models for Extended and Group Object Tracking with Irregular Shapes"

In the study "Spatio-temporal Gaussian process models for extended and group object tracking with irregular shapes" (IEEE Trans. Veh. Tech., vol. 68, no. 3, pp. 2137-2151, Mar. 2019), the extended object tracking problem was tackled by an approach based on spatio-temporal Gaussian processes (STGP). The performance of the proposed STGP-based trackers was comparatively evaluated through simulations and real data together with another state-of-the-art method (referred to as GP-EKF) proposed in "Extended target tracking using Gaussian processes" (IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 63, no. 16, pp. 4165-4178, Aug. 2015). Unfortunately, we recognized that there are major errors in the implementation of the experiments presented in the STGP paper, which led to incorrect performance evaluation results. In this correspondence, our aim is to share the correct results of these experiments and to respond to some claims regarding GP-EKF, which we believe, would contribute to a better understanding of the methods.