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We introduce a new information theoretic measure of quantum correlations for multiparticle systems. We use a form of multivariate mutual information -- the interaction information and generalize it to multiparticle quantum systems. There…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Sk Sazim , Pankaj Agrawal

In remote sensing, each sensor can provide complementary or reinforcing information. It is valuable to fuse outputs from multiple sensors to boost overall performance. Previous supervised fusion methods often require accurate labels for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Xiaoxiao Du , Alina Zare

While Evidence Theory (also known as Dempster-Shafer Theory, or Belief Functions Theory) is being increasingly used in data fusion, its potentialities in the Social and Life Sciences are often obscured by lack of awareness of its…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Guido Fioretti

The theory of belief functions is widely used for data from multiple sources. Different evidence combination rules have been proposed in this framework according to the properties of the sources to combine. However, most of these…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Kuang Zhou , Arnaud Martin , Quan Pan

Distributed multi-target tracking (DMTT) is addressed for sensors having different fields of view (FoVs). The proposed approach is based on the idea of fusing the posterior Probability Hypotheses Densities (PHDs) generated by the sensors on…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Guchong Li , Giorgio Battistelli , Wei Yi , Lingjiang Kong

Besides the classical motivation of fusing evidence from multiple sources, modern inferential procedures based on randomization, resampling, and data splitting often introduce analyst-generated multiplicity, where aggregating outputs across…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-29 Leonardo Cella

We introduce a general theory of epistemic random fuzzy sets for reasoning with fuzzy or crisp evidence. This framework generalizes both the Dempster-Shafer theory of belief functions, and possibility theory. Independent epistemic random…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Thierry Denoeux

This paper develops a mathematical and computational framework for analyzing the expected performance of Bayesian data fusion, or joint statistical inference, within a sensor network. We use variational techniques to obtain the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Gaurav Thakur

Data analysis based on information from several sources is common in economic and biomedical studies. This setting is often referred to as the data fusion problem, which differs from traditional missing data problems since no complete data…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-04-07 Wei Li , Shanshan Luo , Wangli Xu

This paper investigates the use of Evidence Theory to enhance the training efficiency of object detection models by incorporating uncertainty into the feedback loop. In each training iteration, during the validation phase, Evidence Theory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 M. Tahasanul Ibrahim , Rifshu Hussain Shaik , Andreas Schwung

Multi-modal sensor data fusion takes advantage of complementary or reinforcing information from each sensor and can boost overall performance in applications such as scene classification and target detection. This paper presents a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Hersh Vakharia , Xiaoxiao Du

Due to their ability to offer more comprehensive information than data from a single view, multi-view (multi-source, multi-modal, multi-perspective, etc.) data are being used more frequently in remote sensing tasks. However, as the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Kun Zhao , Qian Gao , Siyuan Hao , Jie Sun , Lijian Zhou

Dempster-Shafer structure is effective in classical settings for connecting set-valued hypotheses and representing structured ignorance, yet its practical use is limited by combination growth over focal sets and high conflict management. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Qianli Zhou , Hao Luo , Lipeng Pan , Yong Deng , Eloi Bosse

Conflict management is still an open issue in the application of Dempster Shafer evidence theory. A lot of works have been presented to address this issue. In this paper, a new theory, called as generalized evidence theory (GET), is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-21 Yong Deng

The growing demand for accurate, continuous, and non-invasive health monitoring has propelled multi-sensor data fusion to the forefront of healthcare technology. This review aims to provide an overview of the development of fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Arlene John , Barry Cardiff , Deepu John

We study the effectiveness of consensus formation in multi-agent systems where there is both belief updating based on direct evidence and also belief combination between agents. In particular, we consider the scenario in which a population…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2020-01-22 Michael Crosscombe , Jonathan Lawry , Palina Bartashevich

The integration of data and knowledge from several sources is known as data fusion. When data is only available in a distributed fashion or when different sensors are used to infer a quantity of interest, data fusion becomes essential. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Peng Wu , Tales Imbiriba , Victor Elvira , Pau Closas

In various data settings, it is necessary to compare observations from disparate data sources. We assume the data is in the dissimilarity representation and investigate a joint embedding method that results in a commensurate representation…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-01-05 Sancar Adali , Carey E. Priebe

Often in surveys, key items are subject to measurement errors. Given just the data, it can be difficult to determine the distribution of this error process, and hence to obtain accurate inferences that involve the error-prone variables. In…

Methodology · Statistics 2016-10-04 Tracy Schifeling , Jerome P. Reiter , Maria DeYoreo

Trustworthy environment perception is the fundamental basis for the safe deployment of automated agents such as self-driving vehicles or intelligent robots. The problem remains that such trust is notoriously difficult to guarantee in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-01 Florian Geissler , Alex Unnervik , Michael Paulitsch