Special Topics - The Kalman Filter (1 of 55) What is a Kalman Filter?

Why HN readers recommended it

HN repeatedly recommends this series as a clear, step-by-step way to really understand Kalman filtering.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Michel van Biezen

Topic

kalman filtering

Format

course

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

5

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2025

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From the original HN conversations

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• Michel van Biezen has an excellent video series on Kalman filters: [VIDEO] He walks you though all the way from the rationale, to a simple algebraic example, to the full blown Linear Algebraic Matrix solution. It's really worth watching even just the first couple videos …

• For anyone who read this blog post and thought "Wow that's interesting, but I don't understand half of this. I need a whole youtube series to explain this to me." Well we're in luck. [VIDEO] . It's a great set of 55 video lectures on …

• Great explanation! If you want a very detailed deep dive into Kalman Filters, I found this sequence of videos really helpful: [VIDEO] It's 55 short videos, each one going over a specific topic or example.