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Heinrich Ruser, Fernando Puente León

Information Fusion – An Overview

Keywords: information fusion, data fusion, sensor integration, fusion models, multi-sensor system

Information fusion denotes the process of combining data from different sensors or information sources to obtain new or more precise knowledge on physical quantities, events, or situations. This paper undertakes a systematization of the existing models and approaches to information fusion and presents general criteria to accomplish the fusion task. Starting with the requirements of the measurement task, both the type and the knowledge of the information sources and the measurands as well as the mathematical complexity constrain the choice of the fusion algorithms. We give an overview of different approaches which play an important role in many applications.

tm – Technisches Messen, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag

Print ISSN: 0171-8096
Volume: 74, 03/2007
Pages: 093 - 102

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