{"title":"A joint approach to shape-based human tracking and behavior analysis","authors":"Francesco Monti, C. Regazzoni","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711856","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a joint human tracking and recognition system is proposed. While usually these two functions are performed separately, it will be shown that it is possible to improve the estimation performances if these functions are done jointly. For this purpose, a Bayesian estimation framework is presented and implemented using sequential Monte Carlo techniques. Moreover it will be shown how the estimation can be performed efficiently by using the Generalized Hough Transform. The effectiveness of the proposed approach is demonstrated for a variety of image sequences.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126029601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Empty set biasing issues in the Transferable Belief Model for fusing and decision making","authors":"G. Powell, Matthew Roberts, A. D. Marshall","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711935","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a tutorial on how the empty set can be used within set theory. We look at common misconceptions and the effect that these can have when applied to those set based models. The role of the empty set when fusing data and information modelled in sets can be confusing and incorrectly implemented. We show how the empty set has implications when decisions are made in the Transferable Belief Model (TBM), even having the ability to completely negate the open world concept of the TBM. We aim to highlight the common problems the empty set can cause so that they can be avoided by correct implementation and also suggest appropriate improvements so that the empty set does not impair results when making decisions, specifically within the TBM.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"392 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116270186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marked Multitarget Intensity Filters","authors":"R. Streit","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711924","url":null,"abstract":"Probability Hypothesis Density and other intensity filters are based on modeling the multitarget state as a realization of a Poisson point process (PPP). Target identifiability is lost in these models; consequently, the filters require targets to have the same motion models and data likelihood functions to be the same for all targets. These are unrealistic limitations in some applications. The Marked Multitarget Intensity Filter (MMIF) presented here enables the use of heterogeneous target motion models and data likelihood functions. The MMIF uses a marked PPP target model together with a parameterized PPP intensity function. The parametric model is an affine, joint, linear-Gaussian sum on the joint measurement-target space. The “at most one measurement per target” rule is enforced in the mean.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"180 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121820942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Feature-based image fusion scheme for satellite recognition","authors":"Han Pan, G. Xiao, Zhongliang Jing","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712006","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the variety of technologies and algorithms studied, satellite recognition is not fully researched in the uncontrolled space environments. In this paper, a low complexity and efficient satellite recognition scheme by fusing infrared and visible image features for recognition was brought forward. Invariant moments are taken to represent the characteristics of satellites' pictures. Unlike optimal image feature fusion by classic intelligent computing algorithms, a low computation and efficient fusion rules are developed to improve the performance of recognition. Due to the compute power of space-based computer, a new fusion method by associating combined blur and affine moments invariant (CBAI) with Zernike moments is introduced. The experiments results with Semi-physical simulation images indicate that the recognition consistently demonstrated better performance than others solely based on either infrared or visible image.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"58 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125136947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tina Erlandsson, Tove Helldin, G. Falkman, L. Niklasson
{"title":"Information fusion supporting team situation awareness for future fighting aircraft","authors":"Tina Erlandsson, Tove Helldin, G. Falkman, L. Niklasson","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712064","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712064","url":null,"abstract":"In the military aviation domain, the decision maker, i.e. the pilot, often has to process huge amounts of information in order to make correct decisions. This is further aggravated by factors such as time-pressure, high workload and the presence of uncertain information. A support system that aids the pilot to achieve his/her goals has long been considered vital for performance progress in military aviation. Research programs within the domain have studied such support systems, though focus has not been on team collaboration. Based on identified challenges of assessing team situation awareness we suggest an approach to future military aviation support systems based on information fusion. In contrast to most previous work in this area, focus is on supporting team situation awareness, including team threat evaluation. To deal with these challenges, we propose the development of a situational adapting system, which presents information and recommendations based on the current situation.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114270385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
D. Kanevsky, Avishy Carmi, L. Horesh, P. Gurfil, B. Ramabhadran, Tara N. Sainath
{"title":"Kalman filtering for compressed sensing","authors":"D. Kanevsky, Avishy Carmi, L. Horesh, P. Gurfil, B. Ramabhadran, Tara N. Sainath","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711877","url":null,"abstract":"Compressed sensing is a new emerging field dealing with the reconstruction of a sparse or, more precisely, a compressed representation of a signal from a relatively small number of observations, typically less than the signal dimension. In our previous work we have shown how the Kalman filter can be naturally applied for obtaining an approximate Bayesian solution for the compressed sensing problem. The resulting algorithm, which was termed CSKF, relies on a pseudo-measurement technique for enforcing the sparseness constraint. Our approach raises two concerns which are addressed in this paper. The first one refers to the validity of our approximation technique. In this regard, we provide a rigorous treatment of the CSKF algorithm which is concluded with an upper bound on the discrepancy between the exact (in the Bayesian sense) and the approximate solutions. The second concern refers to the computational overhead associated with the CSKF in large scale settings. This problem is alleviated here using an efficient measurement update scheme based on Krylov subspace method.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125212166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Maupin, A. Jousselme, H. Wehn, Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, J. Happe
{"title":"A situation analysis toolbox: Application to coastal and offshore surveillance","authors":"P. Maupin, A. Jousselme, H. Wehn, Snezana Mitrovic-Minic, J. Happe","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711888","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a toolbox to evaluate motion strategies in a realistic surveillance context for the purpose of enhancing decision support capabilities. Five components of the toolbox (Discretization, State Generation, State Searching, Behaviour Simulation and Visualization) implement the theoretical concepts put forward in previous works which outlined formal definitions of situation, situation awareness and situation analysis defined with the interpreted systems semantics.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"53 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114004922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rohit Kumar, D. Castañón, E. Ermis, Venkatesh Saligrama
{"title":"A new algorithm for outlier rejection in particle filters","authors":"Rohit Kumar, D. Castañón, E. Ermis, Venkatesh Saligrama","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5712014","url":null,"abstract":"Filtering algorithms have found numerous application in various fields. One of the main factors that affect the performance of filtering algorithms is when the instrument recording the observations is faulty and yields observations which are outliers, that subsequently degrade the performance of the filter. A standard procedures to deal with this issue is to reject any measurement that is at least three standard deviations away from the predicted measurement. This method works very well for linear Gaussian estimation. For particle filter which does not require any Gaussian assumptions, the aforementioned noise rejection procedure yields poor performance. In this paper, we present a new outlier rejection procedure for particle filters that uses the theory from kernel density estimation and probability level sets. The proposed solution does not impose any constraint on the type of noise or the system transformation, and consequently the particle filter realizes its full potential. Simulation examples are presented in the end to show that our proposed algorithms works better than conventional outlier rejection algorithm.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114023163","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Image fusion for human observers: How should we choose the method?","authors":"M. Loew, James Bonick, C. Walters","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711838","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711838","url":null,"abstract":"Image fusion is used to improve target detection and identification. In human-observer applications it is useful to rank fusion methods according to how well they assist the observer in a decision task. Two images (medium- and long-wave infrared), acquired for each of a number of outdoor scenes, were fused by each of nine methods. For each scene, a set of observers assessed each of the 36 pairwise combinations of fused images, choosing from each pair the one that was deemed best for target identification. We used that set of preferences to rank the fusion methods for their effectiveness in the identification task. A classical technique for ranking these “discriminal processes” is Thurstone's Law of Comparative Judgment and its implementation as the Thurstone-Mosteller (TM) Method of Paired Comparisons, which is reviewed briefly here. To make meaningful statements about preferences, one should have a measure of uncertainty for each rank. The TM method, however, cannot readily provide such a measure. An alternative, the Bradley-Terry (BT) method, does permit calculation of confidence intervals for ranks. To our knowledge, BT has not previously been applied in the evaluation of fusion methods. We present results from a multi-observer, multi-view trial, evaluated using TM and BT. The methods yield similar rankings of the fusion methods. But the additional information provided by BT - that is, whether there are significant differences between the ranks - can have a substantial impact on the implementation of fusion in real systems. There could be meaningful tradeoffs among fusion methods - e.g., performance vs. computation time - that may not be exploited in the absence of those insights.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122497706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Costa, Kuo-Chu Chang, Kathryn B. Laskey, T. Levitt, Wei Sun
{"title":"High-level fusion: Issues in developing a formal theory","authors":"P. Costa, Kuo-Chu Chang, Kathryn B. Laskey, T. Levitt, Wei Sun","doi":"10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711860","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIF.2010.5711860","url":null,"abstract":"Network-centric operations demand an increasingly sophisticated level of interoperation and information fusion for an escalating number and throughput of sensors and human processes. The resulting complexity of the systems being developed to face this environment render lower level fusion techniques alone simply insufficient to ensure interoperability, as they fail to consider subtle, but critical, aspects inherent in knowledge interchange. A fundamental mathematical theory of high-level information fusion is needed to address (1) the representation of semantics and pragmatics, (2) the mathematical framework supporting its algorithmic and computing processes, and (3) scalability of products such as common and user-defined operational pictures. We argue that there is no silver bullet for addressing these elements, and therefore any successful approach to the problem of high-level fusion must be systemic. In this paper, we propose the development of mathematical foundations that systemically address this problem from a decision theoretic perspective, and might seed the development of such fundamental theory. As a case study illustrating these techniques we present our current development of PROGNOS, a HLF system focused on the maritime domain.","PeriodicalId":341446,"journal":{"name":"2010 13th International Conference on Information Fusion","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131295241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}