Decision fusion benefits assessment in a three-sensor suite framework

Optical Engineering

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 354-369

  Dasarathy, Belur V ^a  

^a DYNETICS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision fusion; Fusion strategies; Mine detection; Sensor fusion; Three sensor suite; Two sensor suite

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000961204     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.601622     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. R. R. Tenney and N. R. Sandell, "Detection with distributed sensors," IEEE Trans. Aerospace Electron. Syst. AES-17(4), 501-510 (1981).
2. B. V. Dasarathy, Decision Fusion, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA (1994).
3. B. V. Dasarathy, "Sensor fusion potential exploitation - innovative architectures and illustrative applications," in Proc. IEEE 85(1), 24-38 (1997).
4. G. A. Baraghimian and A. Klinger, "Preference voting for sensor fusion," in Sensor Fusion III, Proc. SPIE 1306, 46-57 (1990).
5. B. V. Dasarathy, "Decision fusion strategies in multi-sensor environments," IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybernet. 21(5), 1140-1154 (1991).
6. S. Chaudhuri, A. Crandall, and D. Reidy, "Multisensor data fusion for mine detection," in Sensor Fusion III, Proc. SPIE 1306, 187-204 (1990).
7. B. V. Dasarathy, "Fusion strategies for enhancing decision reliability in multisensor environments," Opt. Eng. 35(3), 603-616 (1996).
8. B. V. Dasarathy, "Decision fusion strategies for target detection with a three-sensor suite," in Sensor Fusion: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications, Proc. SPIE 3067, 14-25 (1997).
9. M. Dutkiewicz, M. Davenport, M. Rey, J. F. Boulter, and A. Blanchard, "Fusion of optical, infrared, and radar imagery for coastal surveillance," in Infrared Technology and Applications XXII, Proc. SPIE 2744, 165-175 (1996).
10. E. Drakopoulos and C. C. Lee, "Optimal multisensor fusion of correlated local decisions," IEEE Trans. Aerospace Electron. Syst. 27(4), 593-605 (1991).
11. N. S. V. Rao, E. M. Oblow, C. W. Glover, and G. E. Liepins, "N-learners problem: fusion of concepts," IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybernet. 24(2), 319-327 (1994).
12. M. G. Bello, "Hierarchical multilayer perceptron network-based fusion algorithms for detection/classification of mines using multiple acoustic images and magnetic data," in Detection and Remediation Technologies for Mines and Minelike Targets, Proc. SPIE 2765, 84-109 (1996).
13. N. R. Miller, "Information, electorates, and democracy: some extensions and interpretations of the Condorcet jury theorem," in Information Pooling and Group Decision Making, Proc. 2nd University of California, Irvine, Conf. on Political Economy, B. Gorfman and G. Owen, Eds., Jai Press, pp. 173-192, Greenwich (1986).
14. B. V. Dasarathy, "Asymmetric fusion strategies for target detection in multisensor environments," in Sensor Fusion: Architecture, Algorithms, and Applications, Proc. SPIE 3067, 26-37 (1997).