• DocumentCode
    3397128
  • Title

    An Empirical Study into the Use of Chernoff Information for Robust, Distributed Fusion of Gaussian Mixture Models

  • Author

    Julier, Simon J.

  • Author_Institution
    Naval Res. Lab., ITT AES, Washington, DC
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    10-13 July 2006
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    8
  • Abstract
    This paper considers the problem of developing algorithms for the distributed fusion of Gaussian mixture models through the use of Chernoff information. We derive a first order approximation and show that, in a distributed tracking problem in which sensor nodes are equipped with only range-only or bearing-only sensors, it yields consistent estimates
  • Keywords
    Gaussian processes; approximation theory; sensor fusion; Chernoff information; Gaussian mixture model; bearing-only sensor; distributed fusion; first order approximation; Closed-form solution; Context modeling; Cost function; Fuses; Laboratories; Network topology; Probability distribution; Robustness; Sensor fusion; Uncertainty; Chernoff Information; Covariance Intersection; Gaussian Mixture Models;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Fusion, 2006 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Florence
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-0953-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    0-9721844-6-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICIF.2006.301755
  • Filename
    4086041