Target identification based on the transferable belief model interpretation of Dempster-Shafer model

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 457-471

  Delmotte, François ^a   Smets, Philippe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE VALENCIENNES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; GENERAL BAYESIAN THEOREM; PIGNISTIC PROBABILITIES; TARGET IDENTIFICATION; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODEL;

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION;

EID: 3142737308     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2004.826266     Document Type: Article

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