Hierarchical and conditional combination of belief functions induced by visual tracking

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 410-428

  Klein, John ^a   Lecomte, Christèle ^a   Miché, Pierre ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

Combination rules; Dempster Shafer theory; Visual tracking

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION OF BELIEF FUNCTIONS; COMBINATION RULES; CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; MASS FUNCTIONS; PARTICLE FILTER; SUB-PROBLEMS; VISUAL TRACKING;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FORMAL LOGIC;

EID: 76049114914     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2009.12.001     Document Type: Article

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