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www.it-ebooks.info This page intentionally left blank www.it-ebooks.info Information Fusion in Signal and Image Processing www.it-ebooks.info This page intentionally left blank www.it-ebooks.info Information Fusion in Signal and Image Processing Major Probabilistic and Non-probabilistic Numerical Approaches Edited by Isabelle Bloch www.it-ebooks.info First published in France in 2003 by Hermes Science/Lavoisier entitled “Fusion d’informations en traitement du signal et des images” First published in Great Britain and the United States in 2008 by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licenses issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned address: ISTE Ltd John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 6 Fitzroy Square 111 River Street London W1T 5DX Hoboken, NJ 07030 UK USA www.iste.co.uk www.wiley.com © ISTE Ltd, 2008 © LAVOISIER, 2003 The rights of Isabelle Bloch to be identified as the author of this work have been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data [Fusion d'informations en traitement du signal et des images English] Information fusion in signal and image processing / edited by Isabelle Bloch. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-1-84821-019-6 1. Signal processing. 2. Image processing. I. Bloch, Isabelle. TK5102.5.I49511 2008 621.382'2 dc22 2007018231 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-1-84821-019-6 Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire. www.it-ebooks.info Table of Contents Preface 11 Isabelle B LOCH Chapter 1. Definitions 13 Isabelle B LOCH and Henri MAÎTRE 1.1. Introduction . 13 1.2. Choosing a definition . . . 13 1.3. General characteristics of the data . . 16 1.4. Numerical/symbolic 19 1.4.1.Dataandinformation 19 1.4.2.Processes 19 1.4.3. Representations 20 1.5.Fusionsystems 20 1.6. Fusion in signal and image processing and fusion in other fields . . . . 22 1.7.Bibliography 23 Chapter 2. Fusion in Signal Processing 25 Jean-Pierre L E CADRE, Vincent NIMIER and Roger REYNAUD 2.1. Introduction . 25 2.2. Objectives of fusion in signal processing . . . . . . . . . 27 2.2.1. Estimation and calculation of a law a posteriori 28 2.2.2. Discriminating between several hypotheses and identifying . . . . 31 2.2.3. Controlling and supervising a data fusion chain . . 34 2.3. Problems and specificities of fusion in signal processing 37 2.3.1. Dynamic control . . 37 2.3.2. Quality of the information . . . . 42 2.3.3. Representativeness and accuracy of learning and a priori information 43 2.4.Bibliography 43 5 www.it-ebooks.info 6 Information Fusion Chapter 3. Fusion in Image Processing 47 Isabelle B LOCH and Henri MAÎTRE 3.1. Objectives of fusion in image processing 47 3.2.Fusionsituations 50 3.3. Data characteristics in image fusion . 51 3.4. Constraints . 54 3.5. Numerical and symbolic aspects in image fusion . . . . 55 3.6.Bibliography 56 Chapter 4. Fusion in Robotics 57 Michèle R OMBAUT 4.1. The necessity for fusion in robotics . . 57 4.2. Specific features of fusion in robotics 58 4.2.1. Constraints on the perception system 58 4.2.2. Proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensors . . . . . 58 4.2.3. Interaction with the operator and symbolic interpretation . . . . . 59 4.2.4. Time constraints . . 59 4.3. Characteristics of the data in robotics 61 4.3.1. Calibrating and changing the frame of reference . 61 4.3.2. Types and levels of representation of the environment . . . . . . . 62 4.4. Data fusion mechanisms . 63 4.5.Bibliography 64 Chapter 5. Information and Knowledge Representation in Fusion Problems 65 Isabelle B LOCH and Henri MAÎTRE 5.1. Introduction . 65 5.2. Processing information in fusion 65 5.3. Numerical representations of imperfect knowledge . . . 67 5.4. Symbolic representation of imperfect knowledge . . . . 68 5.5. Knowledge-based systems 69 5.6. Reasoning modes and inference . . . . 73 5.7.Bibliography 74 Chapter 6. Probabilistic and Statistical Methods 77 Isabelle B LOCH, Jean-Pierre LE CADRE and Henri MAÎTRE 6.1. Introduction and general concepts . . 77 6.2. Information measurements 77 6.3. Modeling and estimation . 79 6.4. Combination in a Bayesian framework 80 6.5. Combination as an estimation problem 80 6.6. Decision 81 www.it-ebooks.info Table of Contents 7 6.7. Other methods in detection . . . . . . 81 6.8. An example of Bayesian fusion in satellite imagery . . 82 6.9. Probabilistic fusion methods applied to target motion analysis . . . . . 84 6.9.1. General presentation 84 6.9.2. Multi-platform target motion analysis . . . . . . . 95 6.9.3. Target motion analysis by fusion of active and passive measurements . 96 6.9.4. Detection of a moving target in a network of sensors . . . . . . . . 98 6.10. Discussion 101 6.11.Bibliography 104 Chapter 7. Belief Function Theory 107 Isabelle B LOCH 7.1. General concept and philosophy of the theory . . . . . . 107 7.2. Modeling 108 7.3.Estimationofmassfunctions 111 7.3.1. Modification of probabilistic models . . . . . . . . 112 7.3.2. Modification of distance models 114 7.3.3. A priori information on composite focal elements (disjunctions) . 114 7.3.4. Learning composite focal elements . . . . . . . . . 115 7.3.5. Introducing disjunctions by mathematical morphology . . . . . . 115 7.4. Conjunctive combination 116 7.4.1. Dempster’s rule 116 7.4.2. Conflict and normalization . . . 116 7.4.3. Properties . . . . . . 118 7.4.4. Discounting . . . . . 120 7.4.5. Conditioning 120 7.4.6. Separable mass functions . . . . 121 7.4.7. Complexity 122 7.5. Other combination modes 122 7.6. Decision 122 7.7. Application example in medical imaging 124 7.8.Bibliography 131 Chapter 8. Fuzzy Sets and Possibility Theory 135 Isabelle B LOCH 8.1. Introduction and general concepts . . 135 8.2. Definitions of the fundamental concepts of fuzzy sets . 136 8.2.1. Fuzzy sets . . . . . . 136 8.2.2. Set operations: Zadeh’s original definitions . . . . 137 8.2.3. α-cuts 139 8.2.4. Cardinality . . . . . 139 8.2.5. Fuzzy number . . . . 140 www.it-ebooks.info 8 Information Fusion 8.3. Fuzzy measures . . . . . . 142 8.3.1. Fuzzy measure of a crisp set . . 142 8.3.2. Examples of fuzzy measures . . 142 8.3.3. Fuzzy integrals . . . 143 8.3.4. Fuzzy set measures . 145 8.3.5. Measures of fuzziness . . . . . . 145 8.4. Elements of possibility theory . . . . . 147 8.4.1. Necessity and possibility . . . . 147 8.4.2. Possibility distribution . . . . . . 148 8.4.3. Semantics 150 8.4.4. Similarities with the probabilistic, statistical and belief interpretations 150 8.5. Combination operators . . 151 8.5.1. Fuzzy complementation . . . . . 152 8.5.2. Triangular norms and conorms . 153 8.5.3. Mean operators . . . 161 8.5.4. Symmetric sums 165 8.5.5. Adaptive operators . 167 8.6. Linguistic variables . . . . 170 8.6.1. Definition . . . . . . 171 8.6.2. An example of a linguistic variable . . . . . . . . . 171 8.6.3. Modifiers 172 8.7. Fuzzy and possibilistic logic . . . . . 172 8.7.1. Fuzzy logic . . . . . 173 8.7.2. Possibilistic logic . . 177 8.8. Fuzzy modeling in fusion 179 8.9. Defining membership functions or possibility distributions . . . . . . . 180 8.10. Combining and choosing the operators . . . . . . . . . 182 8.11. Decision 187 8.12. Application examples 188 8.12.1. Example in satellite imagery . . 188 8.12.2. Example in medical imaging 192 8.13.Bibliography 194 Chapter 9. Spatial Information in Fusion Methods 199 Isabelle B LOCH 9.1. Modeling 199 9.2. The decision level . . . . 200 9.3. The combination level 201 9.4. Application examples 201 9.4.1. The combination level: multi-source Markovian classification . . 201 9.4.2. The modeling and decision level: fusion of structure detectors using belief function theory . . . 202 www.it-ebooks.info [...]... this model The system aspect of fusion will be discussed further in an example in Chapter 10 1.6 Fusion in signal and image processing and fusion in other fields Fusion in signal and image processing has specific features that need to be taken into account at every step when constructing a fusion process These specificities also require modifying and complexifying certain theoretical tools, often taken... chapter: fusion consists of combining information originating from several sources in order to improve decision making In the field of signal processing, the goal of information fusion is to obtain a system to assist decision making, whose main quality (among others) is to be robust when faced with various imprecisions, uncertainties and forms of incompleteness regarding the information sources The basic fusion. .. of information are contradictory, more specific information is preferred Finally, information can be static or dynamic, and again, this leads to different ways of modeling and describing it The information handled in a fusion process is comprised, on the one hand, of the elements of information we wish to fuse together and, on the other hand, of additional information used to guide or assist the combination... GDR-PRC ISIS and to their directors, Odile Macchi and Jean-Marc Chassery Its authors were the coordinators of the workgroup on information fusion and the related actions The GDR was the first initiative that led to bringing together the French community of people working on information fusion in signal and image processing, to build ties with other communities (man-machine communications, robotics and automation,... combining information originating from several sources in order to improve decision making Chapter written by Isabelle B LOCH and Henri M AÎTRE 13 www.it-ebooks.info 14 Information Fusion This definition, which is largely the result of discussions led within the GDR-PRC ISIS1 workgroup on information fusion, is general enough to encompass the diversity of fusion problems encountered in signal and image. .. spatial information in image fusion or in robotics These specificities will be discussed in detail in the case of fusion in signal, image and robotics in the following chapters The quality of the data to be processed and its heterogenity are often more significant than in other fields (problems in combining expert opinions, for example) This causes an additional level of complexity, which has to be taken into... updating Revising or updating consists of completing or modifying an element of information based on new information It can be considered as one of the fields of fusion Sometimes, fusion is considered in a stricter sense, where combination is symmetric As for revision, it is not symmetric and it draws a distinction between information known beforehand and new information Here, we will be considering... and Roger R EYNAUD 25 www.it-ebooks.info 26 Information Fusion The major concepts are directly related to information processing Data fusion systems rely mostly on a series of modeling, estimation, retiming and data association, combination (or fusion itself) of elements of information, and then decision making or supervision steps Going from the knowledge of a bit of information to a mathematical representation... Processing 27 fundamental It is therefore useful to rely on other forms of representing information in order to increase the model’s reliability by considering information of smaller meaning, or by adding mechanisms for sorting, windowing, etc., to authorize this semantic information to be taken into account A certain number of difficulties in data fusion are caused by generic problems that are independent... discussed: signal processing in Chapter 2, image processing in Chapter 3 and robotics in Chapter 4 The second part is concerned with the major theories of fusion After an overview of the modes of knowledge representation used in fusion (Chapter 5), we present the principles of probabilistic and statistical fusion in Chapter 6, of belief function theory in Chapter 7, of fuzzy and possibilistic fusion in Chapter . www.it-ebooks.info This page intentionally left blank www.it-ebooks.info Information Fusion in Signal and Image Processing www.it-ebooks.info This page intentionally. 19 1.4.1.Dataandinformation 19 1.4.2.Processes 19 1.4.3. 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  • Information Fusion in Signal and Image Processing

    • Table of Contents

    • Preface

    • Chapter 1. Definitions

      • 1.1. Introduction

      • 1.2. Choosing a definition

      • 1.3. General characteristics of the data

      • 1.4. Numerical/symbolic

        • 1.4.1. Data and information

        • 1.4.2. Processes

        • 1.4.3. Representations

      • 1.5. Fusion systems

      • 1.6. Fusion in signal and image processing and fusion in other fields

      • 1.7. Bibliography

    • Chapter 2. Fusion in Signal Processing

      • 2.1. Introduction

      • 2.2. Objectives of fusion in signal processing

        • 2.2.1. Estimation and calculation of a law a posteriori

        • 2.2.2. Discriminating between several hypotheses and identifying

        • 2.2.3. Controlling and supervising a data fusion chain

      • 2.3. Problems and specificities of fusion in signal processing

        • 2.3.1. Dynamic control

        • 2.3.2. Quality of the information

        • 2.3.3. Representativeness and accuracy of learning and a priori information

      • 2.4. Bibliography

    • Chapter 3. Fusion in Image Processing

      • 3.1. Objectives of fusion in image processing

      • 3.2. Fusion situations

      • 3.3. Data characteristics in image fusion

      • 3.4. Constraints

      • 3.5. Numerical and symbolic aspects in image fusion

      • 3.6. Bibliography

    • Chapter 4. Fusion in Robotics

      • 4.1. The necessity for fusion in robotics

      • 4.2. Specific features of fusion in robotics

        • 4.2.1. Constraints on the perception system

        • 4.2.2. Proprioceptive and exteroceptive sensors

        • 4.2.3. Interaction with the operator and symbolic interpretation

        • 4.2.4. Time constraints

      • 4.3. Characteristics of the data in robotics

        • 4.3.1. Calibrating and changing the frame of reference

        • 4.3.2. Types and levels of representation of the environment

      • 4.4. Data fusion mechanisms

      • 4.5. Bibliography

    • Chapter 5. Information and Knowledge Representation in Fusion Problems

      • 5.1. Introduction

      • 5.2. Processing information in fusion

      • 5.3. Numerical representations of imperfect knowledge

      • 5.4. Symbolic representation of imperfect knowledge

      • 5.5. Knowledge-based systems

      • 5.6. Reasoning modes and inference

      • 5.7. Bibliography

    • Chapter 6. Probabilistic and Statistical Methods

      • 6.1. Introduction and general concepts

      • 6.2. Information measurements

      • 6.3. Modeling and estimation

      • 6.4. Combination in a Bayesian framework

      • 6.5. Combination as an estimation problem

      • 6.6. Decision

      • 6.7. Other methods in detection

      • 6.8. An example of Bayesian fusion in satellite imagery

      • 6.9. Probabilistic fusion methods applied to target motion analysis

        • 6.9.1. General presentation

        • 6.9.2. Multi-platform target motion analysis

        • 6.9.3. Target motion analysis by fusion of active and passive measurements

        • 6.9.4. Detection of a moving target in a network of sensors

      • 6.10. Discussion

      • 6.11. Bibliography

    • Chapter 7. Belief Function Theory

      • 7.1. General concept and philosophy of the theory

      • 7.2. Modeling

      • 7.3. Estimation of mass functions

        • 7.3.1. Modification of probabilistic models

        • 7.3.2. Modification of distance models

        • 7.3.3. A priori information on composite focal elements (disjunctions)

        • 7.3.4. Learning composite focal elements

        • 7.3.5. Introducing disjunctions by mathematical morphology

      • 7.4. Conjunctive combination

        • 7.4.1. Dempster’s rule

        • 7.4.2. Conflict and normalization

        • 7.4.3. Properties

        • 7.4.4. Discounting

        • 7.4.5. Conditioning

        • 7.4.6. Separable mass functions

        • 7.4.7. Complexity

      • 7.5. Other combination modes

      • 7.6. Decision

      • 7.7. Application example in medical imaging

      • 7.8. Bibliography

    • Chapter 8. Fuzzy Sets and Possibility Theory

      • 8.1. Introduction and general concepts

      • 8.2. Definitions of the fundamental concepts of fuzzy sets

        • 8.2.1. Fuzzy sets

        • 8.2.2. Set operations: Zadeh’s original definitions

        • 8.2.3. α-cuts

        • 8.2.4. Cardinality

        • 8.2.5. Fuzzy number

      • 8.3. Fuzzy measures

        • 8.3.1. Fuzzy measure of a crisp set

        • 8.3.2. Examples of fuzzy measures

        • 8.3.3. Fuzzy integrals

        • 8.3.4. Fuzzy set measures

        • 8.3.5. Measures of fuzziness

      • 8.4. Elements of possibility theory

        • 8.4.1. Necessity and possibility

        • 8.4.2. Possibility distribution

        • 8.4.3. Semantics

        • 8.4.4. Similarities with the probabilistic, statistical and belief interpretations

      • 8.5. Combination operators

        • 8.5.1. Fuzzy complementation

        • 8.5.2. Triangular norms and conorms

        • 8.5.3. Mean operators

        • 8.5.4. Symmetric sums

        • 8.5.5. Adaptive operators

      • 8.6. Linguistic variables

        • 8.6.1. Definition

        • 8.6.2. An example of a linguistic variable

        • 8.6.3. Modifiers

      • 8.7. Fuzzy and possibilistic logic

        • 8.7.1. Fuzzy logic

        • 8.7.2. Possibilistic logic

      • 8.8. Fuzzy modeling in fusion

      • 8.9. Defining membership functions or possibility distributions

      • 8.10. Combining and choosing the operators

      • 8.11. Decision

      • 8.12. Application examples

        • 8.12.1. Example in satellite imagery

        • 8.12.2. Example in medical imaging

      • 8.13. Bibliography

    • Chapter 9. Spatial Information in Fusion Methods

      • 9.1. Modeling

      • 9.2. The decision level

      • 9.3. The combination level

      • 9.4. Application examples

        • 9.4.1. The combination level: multi-source Markovian classification

        • 9.4.2. The modeling and decision level: fusion of structure detectors using belief function theory

        • 9.4.3. The modeling level: fuzzy fusion of spatial relations

      • 9.5. Bibliography

    • Chapter 10. Multi-Agent Methods: An Example of an Architecture and its Application for the Detection, Recognition and Identification of Targets

      • 10.1. The DRI function

        • 10.1.1. The application context

        • 10.1.2. Design constraints and concepts

        • 10.1.3. State of the art

      • 10.2. Proposed method: towards a vision system

        • 10.2.1. Representation space and situated agents

        • 10.2.2. Focusing and adapting

        • 10.2.3. Distribution and co-operation

        • 10.2.4. Decision and uncertainty management

        • 10.2.5. Incrementality and learning

      • 10.3. The multi-agent system: platform and architecture

        • 10.3.1. The developed multi-agent architecture

        • 10.3.2. Presentation of the platform used

      • 10.4. The control scheme

        • 10.4.1. The intra-image control cycle

        • 10.4.2. Inter-image control cycle

      • 10.5. The information handled by the agents

        • 10.5.1. The knowledge base

        • 10.5.2. The world model

      • 10.6. The results

        • 10.6.1. Direct analysis

        • 10.6.2. Indirect analysis: two focusing strategies

        • 10.6.3. Indirect analysis: spatial and temporal exploration

        • 10.6.4. Conclusion

      • 10.7. Bibliography

    • Chapter 11. Fusion of Non-Simultaneous Elements of Information: Temporal Fusion

      • 11.1.Time variable observations

      • 11.2. Temporal constraints

      • 11.3. Fusion

        • 11.3.1. Fusion of distinct sources

        • 11.3.2. Fusion of single source data

        • 11.3.3. Temporal registration

      • 11.4. Dating measurements

      • 11.5. Evolutionary models

      • 11.6. Single sensor prediction-combination

      • 11.7. Multi-sensor prediction-combination

      • 11.8. Conclusion

      • 11.9. Bibliography

    • Chapter 12. Conclusion

      • 12.1. A few achievements

      • 12.2. A few prospects

      • 12.3. Bibliography

    • Appendices

      • A. Probabilities: A Historical Perspective

        • A.1. Probabilities through history

          • A.1.1. Before 1660

          • A.1.2. Towards the Bayesian mathematical formulation

          • A.1.3. The predominance of the frequentist approach: the “objectivists”

          • A.1.4. The 20th century: a return to subjectivism

        • A.2. Objectivist and subjectivist probability classes

        • A.3. Fundamental postulates for an inductive logic

          • A.3.1. Fundamental postulates

          • A.3.2. First functional equation

          • A.3.3. Second functional equation

          • A.3.4. Probabilities inferred from functional equations

          • A.3.5. Measure of uncertainty and information theory

          • A.3.6. De Finetti and betting theory

        • A.4. Bibliography

      • B. Axiomatic Inference of the Dempster-Shafer Combination Rule

        • B.1. Smets’s axioms

        • B.2. Inference of the combination rule

        • B.3. Relation with Cox’s postulates

        • B.4. Bibliography

    • List of Authors

    • Index

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