Possibilistic Versus Belief Function Fusion for Antipersonnel Mine Detection

Two approaches for combining humanitarian mine detection sensors are presented-one based on belief functions and the other one based on possibility theory. The approaches are described in parallel. First, different measures are extracted from the sensor data. Mass functions and possibility distributions are then derived from the measures based on prior information. After that, the combination of masses and the combination of possibility degrees are performed in two steps, on a separate sensor level and between the sensors. Combination operators are chosen to account for different characteristics of the sensors. The selection of the decision rules is discussed for both approaches. The proposed approaches are illustrated on a set of real mines and nondangerous objects, and promising results have been obtained.

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