Space efficient quantization for distributed estimation by a multi-sensor fusion system

Information Fusion

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 299-308

  Megalooikonomou, Vasileios ^a   Yesha, Yaacov ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed estimation; Multi sensor fusion; Neural networks; Quantization; Regression trees

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; NEURAL NETWORKS; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; TRACKING RADAR; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MULTISENSOR FUSION; REGRESSION TREES;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

EID: 7544250367     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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