Addressing uncertainty in multi-modal fusion for improved object detection in dynamic environment

Information Fusion

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 311-324

  Kumar, Praveen ^a   Mittal, Ankush ^a   Kumar, Padam ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

Author keywords

Belief theory; Multi modal fusion; Object detection and tracking; Sensor reliability; Video surveillance

Indexed keywords

BELIEF THEORY; MULTI-MODAL FUSION; OBJECT DETECTION; OBJECT DETECTION AND TRACKING; VIDEO SURVEILLANCE;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; FACE RECOGNITION; FUZZY LOGIC; INFRARED RADIATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MONITORING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY THEORY; SENSORS;

SECURITY SYSTEMS;

EID: 77953611086     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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