Description
This article reviews the basic theory and up to date methods for including contextual information in fusion process design and implementation. Chapters are contributed by the most international experts, spanning a lot of developments and applications. The book highlights high- and low-level information fusion problems, performance evaluation under highly demanding conditions, and design principles. A particular center of attention is placed on approaches that integrate research from different communities, emphasizing the good thing about combining different techniques to conquer the constraints of a single viewpoint. Features: introduces the terminology and core elements in information fusion and context; presents key themes for context-enhanced information fusion; discusses design issues in developing context-aware fusion systems; provides mathematical grounds for modeling the contextual influences in representative fusion problems; describes the fusion of hard and soft data; reviews a diverse range of applications.