When rails are laid in a railway track, small gaps are left between the ends of adjoining rails to allow for the expansion of the rails when the temperature rises. Rail joints are provided to form a continuous rail path which are normally laid in standard lengths bolted together by fishplates. When two rail joints are exactly opposing each other, they are called square &#10&#10(side by side) jo...

When rails are laid in a railway track, small gaps are left between the ends of adjoining rails to allow for the expansion of the rails when the temperature rises. Rail joints are provided to form a continuous rail path which are normally laid in standard lengths bolted together by fishplates. When two rail joints are exactly opposing each other, they are called square (side by side) joints...

This paper develops methods for associating two sets of sensor tracks in the presence of missing tracks and translation bias. Key results include (1) Extension of the Maximum A Posteriori Probability method of matching tracks to use feature information as well as kinematic information; (2) translation bias removal techniques that are computationally tractable for large numbers of tracks, and ef...

This paper presents a easy to read review of the architectures for track-to-track fusion (T2TF). Based on whether the fusion algorithm uses the track estimates from the previous fusion and the configuration of information feedback, T2TF is categorized into six configurations, namely, T2TF with no memory with no, partial and full information feedback, and T2TF with memory with no, partial and fu...

We (ICTNET team) participated in Web Track of TREC2009, and in this paper, we summarize our work on Diversity task of Web Track, which is new in this year. The goal of the diversity task is to return a ranked list of pages that together provide complete coverage for a query, while avoiding excessive redundancy in the result list. For this task, we cluster the results of ad hoc task, and rerank ...

Algorithms for synchronous track-to-track fusion (T2TF) have been widely studied. For the optimal T2TF, it is critical to take into account the crosscovariances between tracks of the same target due to (i) the common process noise, and (ii) information feedback [2]. The optimal memoryless (without memory–“woM”) T2TF with no information feedback (T2TFwoMnf) was studied in [3], [11]. In [15], the...