Publication 2001 Issue No. 8 - August Abstract - On Fusers that Perform Better than Best Sensor
On Fusers that Perform Better than Best Sensor
August 2001 (vol. 23 no. 8)
pp. 904-909
 ASCII Text x Nageswara S.V. Rao, "On Fusers that Perform Better than Best Sensor," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 904-909, August, 2001.
 BibTex x @article{ 10.1109/34.946993,author = {Nageswara S.V. Rao},title = {On Fusers that Perform Better than Best Sensor},journal ={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},volume = {23},number = {8},issn = {0162-8828},year = {2001},pages = {904-909},doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/34.946993},publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},}
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Abstract—In a multiple sensor system, sensor $S_i$, $i=1, 2 \ldots , N$, outputs $Y^{(i)}\in [0,1]$, according to an unknown probability distribution $P_{Y^{(i)} | X }$, in response to input $X \in [0,1]$. We choose a fuser—that combines the outputs of sensors—from a function class ${\cal{F}} = \{ f : [0,1]^N \mapsto [0,1] \}$ by minimizing empirical error based on an iid sample. If $\cal{F}$ satisfies the isolation property, we show that the fuser performs at least as well as the best sensor in a probably approximately correct sense. Several well-known fusers, such as linear combinations, special potential functions, and certain feedforward networks, satisfy the isolation property.

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Index Terms:
Sensor fusion, multiple sensor system, information fusion, fusion rule estimation.
Citation:
Nageswara S.V. Rao, "On Fusers that Perform Better than Best Sensor," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 23, no. 8, pp. 904-909, Aug. 2001, doi:10.1109/34.946993