Crowdsourcing soft data for improved urban situation assessment

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 669-675

  Park, Barry ^a   Johannson, Anders ^a   Nicholson, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

crowdsourcing; fusion; tracking; trust; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CROWDSOURCING; DATA ASSOCIATION; HUMAN OBSERVERS; PARTICLE FILTERING; SITUATION ASSESSMENT; TRUST; UNCERTAINTY;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; FUSION REACTIONS; INFERENCE ENGINES; SURFACE DISCHARGES;

INFORMATION FUSION;

EID: 84890849767     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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