A novel fuzzy evidential reasoning paradigm for data fusion with applications in image processing

Soft Computing

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1169-1180

  Zhu, H ^a   Basir, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Dempster Shafer evidence theory; Fuzzy evidential reasoning; Image classification and segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746452598     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-005-0039-1     Document Type: Article

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