Can the Bayesian and Dempster-Shafer approaches be reconciled? Yes

2005 7th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION

Volumn 2, Issue , 2005, Pages 864-871

  Mahler, Ronald ^a  

^a LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes filter; Dempster Shafer; Random sets

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION;

BAYES FILTERS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER APPROACHES; PIGNISTIC TRANSFORMS; RANDOM SETS;

STATE ESTIMATION;

EID: 33847171577     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2005.1591949     Document Type: Conference Paper

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