Unexpected properties and optimum-distributed sensor detectors for dependent observation cases

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 62-72

  Zhu, Yunmin ^a   Blum, Rick S ^b,d   Luo, Zhi Quan ^c,d   Wong, Kon Max ^c  

^a SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d IEEE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

BINARY DECISIONS; MULTIPLE BIT SENSOR DECISIONS; NONRANDOMIZED FUSION RULE; OPTIMUM DISTRIBUTED SIGNAL DETECTION SYSTEM; RANDOM GAUSSIAN SIGNAL;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0033889518     PISSN: 00189286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/9.827356     Document Type: Article

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