Least committed basic belief density induced by a multivariate Gaussian: Formulation with applications

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 419-436

  Caron, François ^a   Ristic, Branko ^b   Duflos, Emmanuel ^a   Vanheeghe, Philippe ^a  

^a ECOLE CENTRALE DE LILLE   (France)

^b DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Belief function theory; Evidential theory; Multivariate Gaussian pdf; Particle filtering; Target classification; Target tracking; Transferable belief model

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; TARGET TRACKING;

BELIEF FUNCTION THEORY; EVIDENTIAL THEORY; MULTIVARIATE GAUSSIAN PDF; PARTICLE FILTERING; TARGET CLASSIFICATION; TRANSFERABLE BELIEF MODELS (TBM);

DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY;

EID: 42949178002     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2006.10.003     Document Type: Article

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