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Many sensors, such as range, sonar, radar, GPS and visual devices, produce measurements which are contaminated by outliers. This problem can be addressed by using fat-tailed sensor models, which account for the possibility of outliers.…

This paper introduces a new multi-modal model based on the Transformer architecture and tensor product fusion strategy, combining BERT's text vectors and ViT's image vectors to classify students' psychological conditions, with an accuracy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ao Xiang , Zongqing Qi , Han Wang , Qin Yang , Danqing Ma

We examine the problem of time delay estimation, or temporal calibration, in the context of multisensor data fusion. Differences in processing intervals and other factors typically lead to a relative delay between measurement updates from…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-18 Jonathan Kelly , Christopher Grebe , Matthew Giamou

Disturbance noises are always bounded in a practical system, while fusion estimation is to best utilize multiple sensor data containing noises for the purpose of estimating a quantity--a parameter or process. However, few results are…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Bo Chen , Guoqiang Hu , Daniel W. C. Ho , Li Yu

In a distributed sensor fusion architecture, using standard Kalman filter (naive fusion) can lead to degraded results as track correlations are ignored and conservative fusion strategies are employed as a sub-optimal alternative to the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Nikhil Sharma , Shovan Bhaumik , Ratnasingham Tharmarasa , Thiagalingam Kirubarajan

This paper proposes a new approach to multi-sensor data fusion. It suggests that aggregation of data from multiple sensors can be done more efficiently when we consider information about sensors' different characteristics. Similar to most…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-09-10 Mohammad Amin Ahmad Akhoundi , Ehsan Valavi

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

The fusion between an inertial navigation system and global navigation satellite systems is regularly used in many platforms such as drones, land vehicles, and marine vessels. The fusion is commonly carried out in a model-based extended…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-05 Barak Or , Itzik Klein

We present ConFusion, an open-source package for online sensor fusion for robotic applications. ConFusion is a modular framework for fusing measurements from many heterogeneous sensors within a moving horizon estimator. ConFusion offers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-04 Timothy Sandy , Lukas Stadelmann , Simon Kerscher , Jonas Buchli

We present a system for the boresighting of sensors using inertial measurement devices as the basis for developing a range of dynamic real-time sensor fusion applications. The proof of concept utilizes a COTS FPGA platform for sensor fusion…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2011-11-09 Steve Chappell , Alistair Macarthur , Dan Preston , Dave Olmstead , Bob Flint , Chris Sullivan

This paper addresses the density based multi-sensor cooperative fusion using random finite set (RFS) type multi-object densities (MODs). Existing fusion methods use scalar weights to characterize the relative information confidence among…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-07-21 Wei Yi , Lei Chai

A distributed sensor fusion architecture is preferred in a real target-tracking scenario as compared to a centralized scheme since it provides many practical advantages in terms of computation load, communication bandwidth, fault-tolerance,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-10 Nikhil Sharma , Ratnasingham Tharmarasa , Thiagalingam Kirubarajan

This research paper delves into the Linear Kalman Filter (LKF), highlighting its importance in merging data from multiple sensors. The Kalman Filter is known for its recursive solution to the linear filtering problem in discrete data,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Parsa Veysi , Mohsen Adeli , Nayerosadat Peirov Naziri , Ehsan Adeli

As biometric technology is increasingly deployed, it will be common to replace parts of operational systems with newer designs. The cost and inconvenience of reacquiring enrolled users when a new vendor solution is incorporated makes this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Julian Fierrez , Daniel Ramos , Joaquin Gonzalez-Rodriguez

We consider multi-sensor fusion estimation for clustered sensor networks. Both sequential measurement fusion and state fusion estimation methods are presented. It is shown that the proposed sequential fusion estimation methods achieve the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-01-18 Wen-An Zhang , Ling Shi

In this paper, a new robust Student's t based stochastic cubature filter (RSTSCF) is proposed for nonlinear state-space model with heavy-tailed process and measurement noises. The heart of the RSTSCF is a stochastic Student's t spherical…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-04 Yulong Huang , Yonggang Zhang

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) enable a wealth of new applications where remote estimation is essential. Individual sensors simultaneously sense a dynamic process and transmit measured information over a shared channel to a central fusion…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Yilin Mo , Emanuele Garone , Alessandro Casavola , Bruno Sinopoli

The fusion of sensor data is essential for a robust perception of the environment in autonomous driving. Learning-based fusion approaches mainly use feature-level fusion to achieve high performance, but their complexity and hardware…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Timo Osterburg , Franz Albers , Christopher Diehl , Rajesh Pushparaj , Torsten Bertram

In sensing applications where multiple sensors observe the same scene, fusing sensor outputs can provide improved results. However, if some of the sensors are providing lower quality outputs, the fused results can be degraded. In this work,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-03-14 Pan Wei , John E. Ball , Derek T. Anderson

This paper analyses the centralized fusion linear estimation problem in multi-sensor systems with multiple packet dropouts and correlated noises. Packet dropouts are modeled by independent Bernoulli distributed random variables. This…