An evidential fusion approach for activity recognition in ambient intelligence environments

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 61, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1235-1245

  Sebbak, Faouzi ^a,b,c   Chibani, Abdelghani ^b   Amirat, Yacine ^b   Mokhtari, Aicha ^a   Benhammadi, Farid ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

^c ECOLE MILITAIRE POLYTECHNIQUE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Ambient Assisted Living (AAL); Ambient intelligence; Combination rule; Conflict resolution; Dempster Shafer theory; Ubiquitous networked robots

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; AMBIENT ASSISTED LIVING (AAL); AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE; COMBINATION RULES; CONFLICT RESOLUTION; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; NETWORKED ROBOT;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SENSOR NETWORKS; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84885330464     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2013.05.010     Document Type: Conference Paper

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