Belief Functions: Theory and Applications pp 343-350 | Cite as
Map-Aided Fusion Using Evidential Grids for Mobile Perception in Urban Environment
Abstract
Evidential grids have been recently used for mobile object perception. The novelty of this article is to propose a perception scheme using prior map knowledge. A geographic map is considered an additional source of information fused with a grid representing sensor data. Yager’s rule is adapted to exploit the Dempster- Shafer conflict information at large. In order to distinguish stationary and mobile objects, a counter is introduced and used as a factor for mass function specialisation. Contextual discounting is used, since we assume that different pieces of information become obsolete at different rates. Tests on real-world data are also presented.
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Mass Function Fusion Rule Belief Function Mobile Object Occupancy GridPreview
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