Using exponential mixture models for suboptimal distributed data fusion

NSSPW - Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 160-163

  Julier, Simon J ^a   Bailey, Tim ^b   Uhlmann, Jeffrey K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; MIXTURES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DISTRIBUTED DATA FUSION; EXPONENTIAL MIXTURES; MINIMUM VALUE; POINTWISE BOUNDS;

SIGNAL PROCESSING;

EID: 48049123076     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NSSPW.2006.4378844     Document Type: Conference Paper

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