Assessing Sensor Reliability for Multisensor Data Fusion within the Transferable Belief Model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 782-787

  Elouedi, Zied ^a   Mellouli, Khaled ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Multisensor data fusion; Sensor reliability; Transferable belief model

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); LEARNING SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY THEORY; SENSORS;

SENSOR RELIABILITY; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODELS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 0742307275     PISSN: 10834419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCB.2003.817056     Document Type: Article

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