A target identification comparison of Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer multisensor fusion

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 569-577

  Buede, Dennis M ^a,b   Girardi, Paul ^c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b George Mason University   (United States)

^c SPRINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN MULTISENSOR FUSION; DEMPSTER SHAFER MULTISENSOR FUSION; TARGET IDENTIFICATION;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0031238325     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.618256     Document Type: Review

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