An evaluation of several fusion algorithms for anti-tank landmine detection and discrimination

Information Fusion

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 161-174

  Frigui, Hichem ^a   Zhang, Lijun ^a   Gader, Paul ^b   Wilson, Joseph N ^b   Ho, K C ^c   Mendez Vazquez, Andres ^b  

^a University of Louisville   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian fusion; Borda count; Context dependent fusion; Decision template; Dempster Shafer; Fuzzy integral; Landmine detection

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN FUSION; BORDA COUNT; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; DECISION TEMPLATE; DEMPSTER-SHAFER; FUZZY INTEGRAL; LAND MINE DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; METAL DETECTORS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; STATISTICAL TESTS; TANKS (CONTAINERS);

EXPLOSIVES;

EID: 84855891896     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.inffus.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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