Sensor fusion in anti-personnel mine detection using a two-level belief function model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 269-283

  Milisavljević, Nada ^a,b   Bloch, Isabelle ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Belief functions; Confidence degrees; Dempster Shafer method; Discounting factors; Humanitarian mine detection; Mass assignment; Sensor clustering; Sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

BOMBS (ORDNANCE); CAMERAS; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; DECISION THEORY; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INFRARED DETECTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METAL DETECTORS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

ANTIPERSONNEL MINE DETECTION; BELIEF FUNCTION MODEL; DECISION RULE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER METHOD; INFRARED CAMERA; MASS ASSIGNMENT;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0042171779     PISSN: 10946977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2003.814034     Document Type: Article

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