Fusion of uncertain combat identity declarations and implication rules using the belief function theory

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5913, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-12

  Ristic, Branko ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Belief function; Data fusion; Evidential theory; Implication rules; Target identification; Transferrable belief model

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; DATA PROCESSING; FUNCTIONS; MILITARY AIRCRAFT; PROBABILITY; SENSORS;

BELIEF FUNCTION; EVIDENTIAL THEORY; IMPLICATION RULES; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF FUNCTION;

SPACE SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 27844452111     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.611365     Document Type: Conference Paper

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