Multi-Sensor Integration Using Concurrent Computing

This paper addresses methods for high and low level multi-sensor integration based on maintaining consistent labelings of features detected in different sensor domains. Implementation in a concurrent computing environment is discussed. Keywords: Multi-Sensor Integration, Sensor Fusion, Consistent Labeling, Markov Random Field, Concurrent Computing, Hypercube, Simulated Annealing.

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