Characterization of mine detection sensors in terms of belief functions and their fusion, first results

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2000

Volumn 2, Issue , 2000, Pages

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

^a ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

^b TELECOM PARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Dempster Shafer method; discounting factors; humanitarian mine detection; mass assignment; sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION FUSION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DEMPSTER-SHAFER METHOD; DISCOUNTING FACTORS; MASS ASSIGNMENTS; MINE DETECTIONS; SENSOR FUSION;

SENSORS;

EID: 24544451059     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IFIC.2000.859894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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