In this paper we propose a new knowledge model using the Dempster-Shafer’s evidence theory for image segmentation and fusion. The proposed method is composed essentially of two steps. First, mass distributions in Dempster-Shafer theory are obtained from the membership degrees of each pixel covering the three image components (R, G and B). Each membership’s degree is determined by applying Fuzzy...

Multimodal biometric technology relatively is a technology developed to overcome those limitations imposed by unimodal biometric systems. The paradigm consolidates evidence from multiple biometric sources offering considerable improvements in reliability with reasonably overall performance in many applications. Meanwhile, the issue of efficient and effective information fusion of these evidence...

Dempster-Shafer theory provides a sensor fusion framework that autonomously accounts for obstacle occlusion in dynamic, urban environments. However, to discern static and moving obstacles, the Dempster-Shafer approach requires manual tuning of parameters dependent on the situation and sensor types. The proposed methodology utilizes a deep fully convolutional neural network to improve the robust...

The essential goal of R. A. Fisher's fiducial argument was to make posterior inferences about unknown parameters without resorting to a prior distribution. Over the past decade, there have been two major attempts at developing a .statistical theory that would accomplish this convincingly. One of these efforts has been described in a series of publications by Fraser, the other ir. papers by Demp...

Based on Cumulative Number of Confirmed Human Cases of Avian Influenza (H5N1) Reported to World Health Organization (WHO) in the 2011 from 15 countries, Indonesia has the largest number death because Avian Influenza which 146 deaths. In this research, the researcher built an Avian Influenza (H5N1) Expert System for identifying avian influenza disease and displaying the result of identification ...

and key words This paper presents an historical overview of the evolution of the notion of probability . The different kinds of probability and the opposition between objectivists (or frequencists) and subjectivists are presented . Then we show how some works, following the wor k by Cox, aim at deducing what is called by others axioms of probabilities, from a given set of basic postulates which...

In many real-life situations, we only have partial information about the actual probability distribution. For example, under Dempster-Shafer uncertainty, we only know the masses m1, . . . , mn assigned to different sets S1, . . . , Sn, but we do not know the distribution within each set Si. Because of this uncertainty, there are many possible probability distributions consistent with our knowle...

1 Faculty of Electronics and Telecommunications, Multimedia Dept. Bd. V. Parvan 2, 300223 Timisoara, Romania, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] 2 Mathematics, Image and Applications Laboratory, University of La Rochelle Avenue Michel Crepeau 17042 La Rochelle, France, e-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Abstract – Detection of moving objects has been widel...

We are interested in improving risk and reliability analysis of complex systems where our knowledge of system performance is provided by large simulation codes, and where moreover input parameters are known only imprecisely. Such imprecision lends itself to interval representations of parameter values, and thence to quantifying our uncertinay through Dempster-Shafer or Probability Bounds repres...