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Ahmed Bacha, Adda Redouane.
Localisation multi-hypothèses pour l'aide à la conduite : conception d'un filtre "réactif-coopératif" : Multi-assumptions localization for driving assistance : design of a "reactive-cooperative" filter.
Degree: Docteur es, Génie informatique, automatique et traitement du signal, 2014, Evry-Val d'Essonne
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2014EVRY0051
► “ Lorsqu'on utilise des données provenant d'une seule source,C'est du plagiat;Lorsqu'on utilise plusieurs sources,C'est de la fusion de données ”Ces travaux présentent une approche de…
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▼ “ Lorsqu'on utilise des données provenant d'une seule source,C'est du plagiat;Lorsqu'on utilise plusieurs sources,C'est de la fusion de données ”Ces travaux présentent une approche de fusion de données collaborative innovante pour l'égo-localisation de véhicules routiers. Cette approche appelée filtre de Kalman optimisé à essaim de particules (Optimized Kalman Particle Swarm) est une méthode de fusion de données et de filtrage optimisé. La fusion de données est faite en utilisant les données d'un GPS à faible coût, une centrale inertielle, un compteur odométrique et un codeur d'angle au volant. Ce travail montre que cette approche est à la fois plus robuste et plus appropriée que les méthodes plus classiques d'égo-localisation aux situations de conduite urbaine. Cette constatation apparait clairement dans le cas de dégradations des signaux capteurs ou des situations à fortes non linéarités. Les méthodes d'égo-localisation de véhicules les plus utilisées sont les approches bayésiennes représentées par le filtre de Kalman étendu (Extended Kalman Filter) et ses variantes (UKF, DD1, DD2). Les méthodes bayésiennes souffrent de sensibilité aux bruits et d'instabilité pour les cas fortement non linéaires. Proposées pour couvrir les limitations des méthodes bayésiennes, les approches multi-hypothèses (à base de particules) sont aussi utilisées pour la localisation égo-véhiculaire. Inspiré des méthodes de simulation de Monte-Carlo, les performances du filtre à particules (Particle Filter) sont fortement dépendantes des ressources en matière de calcul. Tirant avantage des techniques de localisation existantes et en intégrant les avantages de l'optimisation méta heuristique, l'OKPS est conçu pour faire face aux bruits, aux fortes dynamiques, aux données non linéaires et aux besoins d'exécution en temps réel. Pour l'égo-localisation d'un véhicule, en particulier pour les manœuvres très dynamiques sur route, un filtre doit être robuste et réactif en même temps. Le filtre OKPS est conçu sur un nouvel algorithme de localisation coopérative-réactive et dynamique inspirée par l'Optimisation par Essaim de Particules (Particle Swarm Optimization) qui est une méthode méta heuristique. Cette nouvelle approche combine les avantages de la PSO et des deux autres filtres: Le filtre à particules (PF) et le filtre de Kalman étendu (EKF). L'OKPS est testé en utilisant des données réelles recueillies à l'aide d'un véhicule équipé de capteurs embarqués. Ses performances sont testées en comparaison avec l'EKF, le PF et le filtre par essaim de particules (Swarm Particle Filter). Le filtre SPF est un filtre à particules hybride intéressant combinant les avantages de la PSO et du filtrage à particules; Il représente la première étape de la conception de l'OKPS. Les résultats montrent l'efficacité de l'OKPS pour un scénario de conduite à dynamique élevée avec des données GPS endommagés et/ou de qualité faible.
“ When we use information from one source,it's plagiarism;Wen we use information from many,it's information fusion ”This work presents an…
Advisors/Committee Members: Gruyer, Dominique (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Fusion de données; Data fusion
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Ahmed Bacha, A. R. (2014). Localisation multi-hypothèses pour l'aide à la conduite : conception d'un filtre "réactif-coopératif" : Multi-assumptions localization for driving assistance : design of a "reactive-cooperative" filter. (Doctoral Dissertation). Evry-Val d'Essonne. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2014EVRY0051
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Ahmed Bacha, Adda Redouane. “Localisation multi-hypothèses pour l'aide à la conduite : conception d'un filtre "réactif-coopératif" : Multi-assumptions localization for driving assistance : design of a "reactive-cooperative" filter.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, Evry-Val d'Essonne. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2014EVRY0051.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Ahmed Bacha, Adda Redouane. “Localisation multi-hypothèses pour l'aide à la conduite : conception d'un filtre "réactif-coopératif" : Multi-assumptions localization for driving assistance : design of a "reactive-cooperative" filter.” 2014. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Ahmed Bacha AR. Localisation multi-hypothèses pour l'aide à la conduite : conception d'un filtre "réactif-coopératif" : Multi-assumptions localization for driving assistance : design of a "reactive-cooperative" filter. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Evry-Val d'Essonne; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2014EVRY0051.
Council of Science Editors:
Ahmed Bacha AR. Localisation multi-hypothèses pour l'aide à la conduite : conception d'un filtre "réactif-coopératif" : Multi-assumptions localization for driving assistance : design of a "reactive-cooperative" filter. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Evry-Val d'Essonne; 2014. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2014EVRY0051

Penn State University
2.
Agumamidi, Rachana Reddy.
Hard Sensor Processing for Data Fusion.
Degree: 2011, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/11868
► There is a vast amount of information available these days that can be used in the right direction to prevent several extreme/disastrous events. This information…
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▼ There is a vast amount of information available these days that can be used in the right direction
to prevent several extreme/disastrous events. This information is available in various forms such
as images, videos, textual reports and other sensor outputs from deployed sensors such as video
surveillance cameras, as well as from observations via mobile phones. All of these sensor outputs
can be combined to help us perceive information about the environment around us. One of the
important challenges in using all of these sensors is that each situation employs a different set of
hard sensors and processing algorithms. There is no single algorithm and sensor architecture that
can be used universally for all the different scenarios regarding suspicious activity recognition. Each of these scenarios is unique and employs a unique set of sensors and algorithms that must be applied separately. In this thesis, I have worked on some of the hard sensor processing algorithms and the architectures that can be utilized for multi-sensor
data fusion applied to
counterinsurgency situations and surveillance.
Advisors/Committee Members: David J Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor, David J Hall, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor, Kenneth Jenkins, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor, Kultegin Aydin, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor.
Subjects/Keywords: Data fusion; surveillance; video; tracking
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Agumamidi, R. R. (2011). Hard Sensor Processing for Data Fusion. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/11868
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Agumamidi, Rachana Reddy. “Hard Sensor Processing for Data Fusion.” 2011. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/11868.
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MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Agumamidi, Rachana Reddy. “Hard Sensor Processing for Data Fusion.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Agumamidi RR. Hard Sensor Processing for Data Fusion. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/11868.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Agumamidi RR. Hard Sensor Processing for Data Fusion. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2011. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/11868
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Delft University of Technology
3.
Borghols, E. (author).
Estimating Queue Lengths on Signalized Urban Arterials using Traffic Data Fusion.
Degree: 2015, Delft University of Technology
URL: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee35575b-4dac-4d85-bc0c-27e1e11182ff
Transport & Planning
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
Advisors/Committee Members: Van Lint, J.W.C. (mentor).
Subjects/Keywords: data fusion
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Borghols, E. (. (2015). Estimating Queue Lengths on Signalized Urban Arterials using Traffic Data Fusion. (Masters Thesis). Delft University of Technology. Retrieved from http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee35575b-4dac-4d85-bc0c-27e1e11182ff
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Borghols, E (author). “Estimating Queue Lengths on Signalized Urban Arterials using Traffic Data Fusion.” 2015. Masters Thesis, Delft University of Technology. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee35575b-4dac-4d85-bc0c-27e1e11182ff.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Borghols, E (author). “Estimating Queue Lengths on Signalized Urban Arterials using Traffic Data Fusion.” 2015. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Borghols E(. Estimating Queue Lengths on Signalized Urban Arterials using Traffic Data Fusion. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee35575b-4dac-4d85-bc0c-27e1e11182ff.
Council of Science Editors:
Borghols E(. Estimating Queue Lengths on Signalized Urban Arterials using Traffic Data Fusion. [Masters Thesis]. Delft University of Technology; 2015. Available from: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:ee35575b-4dac-4d85-bc0c-27e1e11182ff

Georgia Tech
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Akanser, Alper.
Energy-efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors.
Degree: PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2016, Georgia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55573
► The objective of this research is to design and analyze data fusion schemes for energy efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors using cooperative communications. A…
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▼ The objective of this research is to design and analyze
data fusion schemes for energy efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors using cooperative communications. A spatially correlated sensor network is read by a collector or
fusion center using the semi-cooperative spectrum
fusion (SCSF) scheme, where a cluster of sensors simultaneously transmit to the
fusion center in response to a beacon transmission by the
fusion center. In this research, the SCSF scheme is considered for parameter estimation and binary integration problems. The main contributions of the research are the theoretical analysis of estimation and detection performance, and energy consumption.
Advisors/Committee Members: Weitnauer, Mary Ann (advisor), Durgin, Gregory (committee member), Koblasz, Arthur (committee member), Wang, Hua (committee member), Guensler, Randall (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: cooperative communications; data fusion
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Akanser, A. (2016). Energy-efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors. (Doctoral Dissertation). Georgia Tech. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55573
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Akanser, Alper. “Energy-efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors.” 2016. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Tech. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55573.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Akanser, Alper. “Energy-efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors.” 2016. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Akanser A. Energy-efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55573.
Council of Science Editors:
Akanser A. Energy-efficient reading of correlated wireless sensors. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/55573

University of Waterloo
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Khaleghi, Bahador.
Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion.
Degree: 2012, University of Waterloo
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6842
► Research on multisensor data fusion aims at providing the enabling technology to combine information from several sources in order to form a unifi ed picture.…
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▼ Research on multisensor data fusion aims at providing the enabling technology to combine
information from several sources in order to form a unifi ed picture. The literature
work on fusion of conventional data provided by non-human (hard) sensors is vast and
well-established. In comparison to conventional fusion systems where input data are generated
by calibrated electronic sensor systems with well-defi ned characteristics, research
on soft data fusion considers combining human-based data expressed preferably in unconstrained
natural language form. Fusion of soft and hard data is even more challenging, yet
necessary in some applications, and has received little attention in the past. Due to being
a rather new area of research, soft/hard data fusion is still in a
edging stage with even
its challenging problems yet to be adequately de fined and explored.
This dissertation develops a framework to enable fusion of both soft and hard data
with the Random Set (RS) theory as the underlying mathematical foundation. Random
set theory is an emerging theory within the data fusion community that, due to its powerful
representational and computational capabilities, is gaining more and more attention among
the data fusion researchers. Motivated by the unique characteristics of the random set
theory and the main challenge of soft/hard data fusion systems, i.e. the need for a unifying
framework capable of processing both unconventional soft data and conventional hard data,
this dissertation argues in favor of a random set theoretic approach as the first step towards
realizing a soft/hard data fusion framework.
Several challenging problems related to soft/hard fusion systems are addressed in the
proposed framework. First, an extension of the well-known Kalman lter within random
set theory, called Kalman evidential filter (KEF), is adopted as a common data processing
framework for both soft and hard data. Second, a novel ontology (syntax+semantics)
is developed to allow for modeling soft (human-generated) data assuming target tracking
as the application. Third, as soft/hard data fusion is mostly aimed at large networks of
information processing, a new approach is proposed to enable distributed estimation of
soft, as well as hard data, addressing the scalability requirement of such fusion systems.
Fourth, a method for modeling trust in the human agents is developed, which enables the
fusion system to protect itself from erroneous/misleading soft data through discounting
such data on-the-fly. Fifth, leveraging the recent developments in the RS theoretic data
fusion literature a novel soft data association algorithm is developed and deployed to extend
the proposed target tracking framework into multi-target tracking case. Finally, the
multi-target tracking framework is complemented by introducing a distributed classi fication
approach applicable to target classes described with soft human-generated data.
In addition, this dissertation presents a novel data-centric taxonomy of data fusion
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Subjects/Keywords: Data Fusion; Random Set Theory
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Khaleghi, B. (2012). Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion. (Thesis). University of Waterloo. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6842
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Khaleghi, Bahador. “Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion.” 2012. Thesis, University of Waterloo. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6842.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Khaleghi, Bahador. “Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion.” 2012. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Khaleghi B. Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6842.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Khaleghi B. Distributed Random Set Theoretic Soft/Hard Data Fusion. [Thesis]. University of Waterloo; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6842
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Penn State University
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Sinsley, Gregory.
Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms.
Degree: 2012, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16157
► One of the biggest challenges currently facing the robotics field is sensor data fusion. Unmanned robots carry many sophisticated sensors including visual and infrared cameras,…
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▼ One of the biggest challenges currently facing the robotics field is sensor
data fusion. Unmanned robots carry many sophisticated sensors including visual and infrared cameras, radar, laser range finders, chemical sensors, accelerometers, gyros, and global positioning systems. By effectively fusing the
data from these sensors, a robot would be able to form a coherent view of its world that could then be used to facilitate both
autonomous and intelligent operation. Another distinct
fusion problem is that of fusing
data from teammates with
data from onboard sensors. If an entire team of vehicles has the same worldview they will be able to cooperate much more effectively. Sharing worldviews is made even more difficult if the teammates have different sensor types. The final
fusion challenge the robotics field faces is that of fusing
data gathered by robots with
data gathered by human teammates (soft sensors). Humans sense the world completely differently from robots, which makes this problem particularly difficult. The advantage of fusing
data from humans is that it makes more information available to the entire team, thus helping each agent to make the best possible decisions.
This thesis presents a system for fusing
data from multiple unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned ground vehicles, and human observers. The first issue this thesis addresses is that of centralized
data fusion. This is a foundational
data fusion issue, which has been very well studied. Important issues in centralized
fusion include
data association, classification, tracking, and robotics problems. Because these problems are so well studied, this thesis does not make any major contributions in this area, but does review it for completeness. The chapter on centralized
fusion concludes with an example unmanned aerial vehicle surveillance problem that demonstrates many of the traditional
fusion methods.
The second problem this thesis addresses is that of distributed
data fusion. Distributed
data fusion is a younger field than centralized
fusion. The main issues in distributed
fusion that are addressed are distributed classification and distributed tracking.
There are several well established methods for performing distributed
fusion that are first reviewed. The chapter on distributed
fusion concludes with a multiple unmanned vehicle collaborative test involving an unmanned aerial vehicle and an unmanned ground
vehicle.
The third issue this thesis addresses is that of soft sensor only
data fusion. Soft-only
fusion is a newer field than centralized or distributed hard sensor
fusion. Because of the novelty of the field, the chapter on soft-only
fusion contains less background information and instead focuses on some new results in soft sensor
data fusion. Specifically, it discusses a novel fuzzy logic based soft sensor
data fusion method. This new method is tested using both simulations and field measurements.
The biggest issue addressed in this thesis is that of combined hard and soft
fusion.
Fusion of hard and soft
data is the newest area for research…
Advisors/Committee Members: Lyle Norman Long, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Chair/Co-Chair, David Miller, Committee Member, David J Hall, Committee Member, John Yen, Committee Member, Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair.
Subjects/Keywords: sensor data fusion; information fusion; soft sensor data fusion; random set theory; particle filter
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Sinsley, G. (2012). Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16157
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Sinsley, Gregory. “Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms.” 2012. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16157.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Sinsley, Gregory. “Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms.” 2012. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Sinsley G. Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16157.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Sinsley G. Distributed Data Fusion Across Multiple Hard and Soft Mobile Sensor Platforms. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2012. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16157
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Georgia
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Khalil, George Magdy.
Data fusion.
Degree: 2016, University of Georgia
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/35357"
► Maximizing the utility of surveys while not adding questions is of utmost importance to surveillance systems. Public health agencies need to keep the ever-decreasing number…
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▼ Maximizing the utility of surveys while not adding questions is of utmost importance to surveillance systems. Public health agencies need to keep the ever-decreasing number of participants from breaking off after an interview is started. A
common reason a participant breaks off is due to the length of the survey. It is therefore important that organizations conducting surveillance investigate innovative techniques of combining data from multiple, less extensive surveys. Data fusion is one
such technique that has been used to integrate databases to save time and money. Health insurance status is a good topic to use for the validation of data fusion because this variable is common to many data sources and has a body of literature
documenting factors associated with being insured. Besides data availability, respondents are thought to be accurate in reporting health insurance status and type (Call et al., 2008a). The goal of this research was to create "statistical twins" based on
health insurance status from two data sources. Matched respondents were considered "statistical twins" and used to test whether data fusion is an effective method of predicting a variable not originally asked in the survey, given the respondent’s
profile. Data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System’s (BRFSS’s) survey and the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) were matched by first harmonizing the variables from the two data sources. A propensity score was calculated, which was
then used to perform Mahalanobis and Nearest Neighbor matching across the two surveys. The efficiency of the match was then validated: 88.2% of the 297,734 BRFSS respondents reported being covered by a health insurance, while 83.0% of the 27, 921 NHIS
respondents reported currently being insured. Propensity scores were left-modal for both the NHIS and the BRFSS. Quantile- Quantile (QQ) plots, which plot the quantiles of one data set against another data revealed that after the match, the empirical
distributions were similar in the BRFSS and NHIS groups. Compared to the original BRFSS dataset, the 2-to1 Nearest Neighbor (NN) algorithm was the closest to the BRRFSS respondents (86.2% [86.0, 86.50] versus 88.2% [88.1, 88.3], respectively). This is
quite good considering national estimates differ by a few percentage points from survey to survey. Our imputed estimates are not within the confidence interval of the BRFSS. However, being within the narrow BRFSS confidence interval may be too rigorous a
standard because of the very large sample size of the BRFSS. Sensitivities and specificities reveal that 2-to-1 NN with replacement and Mahalanobis were more accurate than Nearest Neighbor methods with caliper, without replacement and 1-to-1
matching.
Subjects/Keywords: Data Fusion; Data Integration, Matching, BRFSS, NHIS
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Khalil, G. M. (2016). Data fusion. (Thesis). University of Georgia. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10724/35357"
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Khalil, George Magdy. “Data fusion.” 2016. Thesis, University of Georgia. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10724/35357".
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Khalil, George Magdy. “Data fusion.” 2016. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Khalil GM. Data fusion. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/35357".
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Khalil GM. Data fusion. [Thesis]. University of Georgia; 2016. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10724/35357"
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Penn State University
8.
Tarolli, Jay Gage.
Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images.
Degree: 2015, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/27090
► As the boundaries of secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) are pushed to chemically image biological systems with even greater spatial resolution, an inherent lack of…
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▼ As the boundaries of secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) are pushed to chemically image biological systems with even greater spatial resolution, an inherent lack of information to analyze becomes more pronounced. A smaller sampling volume, coupled with the desire for molecule specific information, limits the detection sensitivity in these complex systems. To improve the visual quality of biological SIMS images, information from higher resolution imaging sources is combined with the chemical information using image
fusion.
Pan-sharpening, a subset of image
fusion, was adapted to combine SIMS images with secondary electron microscopy (SEM), optical microscopy, and fluorescence microscopy images to improve the spatial resolution of the images. A synthetic model
data set and experimentally obtained SIMS images of copper mesh grids prove the efficacy of the pan-sharpening algorithm for
fusion with an SEM image. Colonies of algal cells were imaged with SIMS and fused with SEM images to determine the distributions of a wax monoester outside of the colonies and hydrocarbon containing oil bodies within the colonies with greater detail than possible before.
The desire to implement image
fusion as a universal
data processing technique for SIMS imaging requires registration of the two images before performing pan-sharpening. To accomplish this, the Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) was implemented for registering a pair of images acquired with two separate imaging modalities. Optical microscopy and fluorescence microscopy images were registered and fused with SIMS images to demonstrate the applicability of image
fusion using virtually any conceivable source of higher resolution
data.
Advisors/Committee Members: Nicholas Winograd, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor, Barbara Jane Garrison, Committee Member, Miriam Arak Freedman, Committee Member, James Z Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair.
Subjects/Keywords: Image Fusion; Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry; Data Analysis; Data Fusion
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Tarolli, J. G. (2015). Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images. (Thesis). Penn State University. Retrieved from https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/27090
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Tarolli, Jay Gage. “Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images.” 2015. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/27090.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Tarolli, Jay Gage. “Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images.” 2015. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Tarolli JG. Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2015. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/27090.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Tarolli JG. Improving the Image Quality of Time-of-flight Secondary Ion Mass spectrometry Images. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2015. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/27090
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
9.
Medjahed, Hamid.
Distress situation identification by multimodal data fusion for home healthcare telemonitoring : Identification de situation de détresse par la fusion de données multimodales pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile.
Degree: Docteur es, Science de l'ingénieur, 2010, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0002
► Aujourd'hui, la proportion des personnes âgées devient importante par rapport à l'ensemble de la population, et les capacités d'admission dans les hôpitaux sont limitées. En…
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▼ Aujourd'hui, la proportion des personnes âgées devient importante par rapport à l'ensemble de la population, et les capacités d'admission dans les hôpitaux sont limitées. En conséquence, plusieurs systèmes de télévigilance médicale ont été développés, mais il existe peu de solutions commerciales. Ces systèmes se concentrent soit sur la mise en oeuvre d’une architecture générique pour l'intégration des systèmes d'information médicale, soit sur l'amélioration de la vie quotidienne des patients en utilisant divers dispositifs automatiques avec alarme, soit sur l’offre de services de soins aux patients souffrant de certaines maladies comme l'asthme, le diabète, les problèmes cardiaques ou pulmonaires, ou la maladie d'Alzheimer. Dans ce contexte, un système automatique pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile est une solution pour faire face à ces problèmes et ainsi permettre aux personnes âgées de vivre en toute sécurité et en toute indépendance à leur domicile. Dans cette thèse, qui s’inscrit dans le cadre de la télévigilance médicale, un nouveau système de télévigilance médicale à plusieurs modalités nommé EMUTEM (Environnement Multimodale pour la Télévigilance Médicale) est présenté. Il combine et synchronise plusieurs modalités ou capteurs, grâce à une technique de fusion de données multimodale basée sur la logique floue. Ce système peut assurer une surveillance continue de la santé des personnes âgées. L'originalité de ce système avec la nouvelle approche de fusion est sa flexibilité à combiner plusieurs modalités de télévigilance médicale. Il offre un grand bénéfice aux personnes âgées en surveillant en permanence leur état de santé et en détectant d’éventuelles situations de détresse.
The population age increases in all societies throughout the world. In Europe, for example, the life expectancy for men is about 71 years and for women about 79 years. For North America the life expectancy, currently is about 75 for men and 81 for women. Moreover, the elderly prefer to preserve their independence, autonomy and way of life living at home the longest time possible. The current healthcare infrastructures in these countries are widely considered to be inadequate to meet the needs of an increasingly older population. Home healthcare monitoring is a solution to deal with this problem and to ensure that elderly people can live safely and independently in their own homes for as long as possible. Automatic in-home healthcare monitoring is a technological approach which helps people age in place by continuously telemonitoring. In this thesis, we explore automatic in-home healthcare monitoring by conducting a study of professionals who currently perform in-home healthcare monitoring, by combining and synchronizing various telemonitoring modalities,under a data synchronization and multimodal data fusion platform, FL-EMUTEM (Fuzzy Logic Multimodal Environment for Medical Remote Monitoring). This platform incorporates algorithms that process each modality and providing a technique of multimodal data fusion which can ensures a…
Advisors/Committee Members: Dorizzi, Bernadette (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Télémédecine; Fusion multimodale; Télévigilance; Telemedicine; Multimodal data fusion; Telemonitoring
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Medjahed, H. (2010). Distress situation identification by multimodal data fusion for home healthcare telemonitoring : Identification de situation de détresse par la fusion de données multimodales pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile. (Doctoral Dissertation). Evry, Institut national des télécommunications. Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0002
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Medjahed, Hamid. “Distress situation identification by multimodal data fusion for home healthcare telemonitoring : Identification de situation de détresse par la fusion de données multimodales pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile.” 2010. Doctoral Dissertation, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0002.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Medjahed, Hamid. “Distress situation identification by multimodal data fusion for home healthcare telemonitoring : Identification de situation de détresse par la fusion de données multimodales pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile.” 2010. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Medjahed H. Distress situation identification by multimodal data fusion for home healthcare telemonitoring : Identification de situation de détresse par la fusion de données multimodales pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Evry, Institut national des télécommunications; 2010. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0002.
Council of Science Editors:
Medjahed H. Distress situation identification by multimodal data fusion for home healthcare telemonitoring : Identification de situation de détresse par la fusion de données multimodales pour la télévigilance médicale à domicile. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Evry, Institut national des télécommunications; 2010. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2010TELE0002
10.
Derville, Alexandre.
Développement d'algorithmes de métrologie dédiés à la caractérisation de nano-objets à partir d'informations hétérogènes : Development of nano-object characterization algorithms from heterogeneous data.
Degree: Docteur es, Mathématiques appliquées, 2018, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE)
URL: http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAM082
► Ces travaux de thèse s’inscrivent dans le contexte technico/économique des nanomatériaux notamment les nanoparticules et les copolymères. Aujourd’hui, une révolution technologique est en cours avec…
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▼ Ces travaux de thèse s’inscrivent dans le contexte technico/économique des nanomatériaux notamment les nanoparticules et les copolymères. Aujourd’hui, une révolution technologique est en cours avec l’introduction de ces matériaux dans des matrices plus ou moins complexes présentes dans notre quotidien (santé, cosmétique, bâtiment, agroalimentaire...). Ces matériaux confèrent à ces produits des propriétés uniques (mécanique, électrique, chimique, thermique, ...). Cette omniprésence associée aux enjeux économiques engendre deux problématiques liées au contrôle des procédés de fabrication et à la métrologie associée. La première est de garantir une traçabilité de ces nanomatériaux afin de prévenir tout risque sanitaire et environnemental et la seconde est d’optimiser le développement des procédés afin de pérenniser des filières économiques rentables. Pour cela, les deux techniques les plus courantes de métrologie utilisées sont : la microscopie électronique à balayage (MEB) et la microscopie à force atomique (AFM).Le premier volet des travaux est consacré au développement d’une méthodologie de
fusion de données permettant d’analyser automatiquement les données en provenance de chaque microscope et d’utiliser leurs points forts respectifs afin de réduire les incertitudes de mesure en trois dimensions. Une première partie a été consacrée à la correction d’un défaut majeur d’asservissement de l’AFM qui génère des dérives et/ou sauts dans les signaux. Nous présentons une technique dirigée par les données permettant une correction de ces signaux. La méthode présentée a l’avantage de ne pas faire d’hypothèses sur les objets et leurs positions. Elle peut être utilisée en routine automatique pour l’amélioration du signal avant l’analyse des objets.La deuxième partie est consacrée au développement d’une méthode d’analyse automatique des images de nanoparticules sphériques en provenance d’un AFM ou d’un MEB. Dans le but de développer une traçabilité en 3D, il est nécessaire d’identifier et de mesurer les nanoparticules identiques qui ont été mesurées à la fois sur l’AFM et sur le MEB. Afin d’obtenir deux estimations du diamètre sur la même particule physique, nous avons développé une technique qui permet de mettre en correspondance les particules. Partant des estimations pour les deux types de microscopie, avec des particules présentes dans les deux types d'images ou non, nous présentons une technique qui permet l'agrégation d’estimateurs sur les populations de diamètres afin d'obtenir une valeur plus fiable des propriétés du diamètre des particules.Le second volet de cette thèse est dédié à l’optimisation d’un procédé de fabrication de copolymères à blocs (structures lamellaires) afin d’exploiter toutes les grandeurs caractéristiques utilisées pour la validation du procédé (largeur de ligne, période, rugosité, taux de défauts) notamment à partir d’images MEB afin de les mettre en correspondance avec un ensemble de paramètres de procédé. En effet, lors du développement d’un nouveau procédé, un plan d’expériences est effectué.…
Advisors/Committee Members: Coeurjolly, Jean-François (thesis director), Clausel, Marianne (thesis director).
Subjects/Keywords: Statistiques; Fusion de données; Nano-Object; Data fusion; 510; 004
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Derville, A. (2018). Développement d'algorithmes de métrologie dédiés à la caractérisation de nano-objets à partir d'informations hétérogènes : Development of nano-object characterization algorithms from heterogeneous data. (Doctoral Dissertation). Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE). Retrieved from http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAM082
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Derville, Alexandre. “Développement d'algorithmes de métrologie dédiés à la caractérisation de nano-objets à partir d'informations hétérogènes : Development of nano-object characterization algorithms from heterogeneous data.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE). Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAM082.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Derville, Alexandre. “Développement d'algorithmes de métrologie dédiés à la caractérisation de nano-objets à partir d'informations hétérogènes : Development of nano-object characterization algorithms from heterogeneous data.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Derville A. Développement d'algorithmes de métrologie dédiés à la caractérisation de nano-objets à partir d'informations hétérogènes : Development of nano-object characterization algorithms from heterogeneous data. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE); 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAM082.
Council of Science Editors:
Derville A. Développement d'algorithmes de métrologie dédiés à la caractérisation de nano-objets à partir d'informations hétérogènes : Development of nano-object characterization algorithms from heterogeneous data. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE); 2018. Available from: http://www.theses.fr/2018GREAM082

Michigan Technological University
11.
Demars, Casey D.
Target detection, tracking, and localization using multi-spectral image fusion and RF Doppler differentials.
Degree: PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2018, Michigan Technological University
URL: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/720
► It is critical for defense and security applications to have a high probability of detection and low false alarm rate while operating over a…
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▼ It is critical for defense and security applications to have a high probability of detection and low false alarm rate while operating over a wide variety of conditions. Sensor
fusion, which is the the process of combining
data from two or more sensors, has been utilized to improve the performance of a system by exploiting the strengths of each sensor. This dissertation presents algorithms to fuse multi-sensor
data that improves system performance by increasing detection rates, lowering false alarms, and improving track performance. Furthermore, this dissertation presents a framework for comparing algorithm error for image registration which is a critical pre-processing step for multi-spectral image
fusion.
First, I present an algorithm to improve detection and tracking performance for moving targets in a cluttered urban environment by fusing foreground maps from multi-spectral imagery. Most research in image
fusion consider visible and long-wave infrared bands; I examine these bands along with near infrared and mid-wave infrared. To localize and track a particular target of interest, I present an algorithm to fuse output from the multi-spectral image tracker with a constellation of RF sensors measuring a specific cellular emanation. The
fusion algorithm matches the Doppler differential from the RF sensors with the theoretical Doppler Differential of the video tracker output by selecting the sensor pair that minimizes the absolute difference or root-mean-square difference. Finally, a framework to quantify shift-estimation error for both area- and feature-based algorithms is presented. By exploiting synthetically generated visible and long-wave infrared imagery, error metrics are computed and compared for a number of area- and feature-based shift estimation algorithms.
A number of key results are presented in this dissertation. The multi-spectral image tracker improves the location accuracy of the algorithm while improving the detection rate and lowering false alarms for most spectral bands. All 12 moving targets were tracked through the video sequence with only one lost track that was later recovered. Targets from the multi-spectral tracking algorithm were correctly associated with their corresponding cellular emanation for all targets at lower measurement uncertainty using the root-mean-square difference while also having a high confidence ratio for selecting the true target from background targets. For the area-based algorithms and the synthetic air-field image pair, the DFT and ECC algorithms produces sub-pixel shift-estimation error in regions such as shadows and high contrast painted line regions. The edge orientation feature descriptors increase the number of sub-field estimates while improving the shift-estimation error compared to the Lowe descriptor.
Advisors/Committee Members: Dr. Michael C. Roggemann.
Subjects/Keywords: Sensor fusion; image processing; data fusion; target tracking; Signal Processing
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Demars, C. D. (2018). Target detection, tracking, and localization using multi-spectral image fusion and RF Doppler differentials. (Doctoral Dissertation). Michigan Technological University. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/720
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Demars, Casey D. “Target detection, tracking, and localization using multi-spectral image fusion and RF Doppler differentials.” 2018. Doctoral Dissertation, Michigan Technological University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/720.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Demars, Casey D. “Target detection, tracking, and localization using multi-spectral image fusion and RF Doppler differentials.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Demars CD. Target detection, tracking, and localization using multi-spectral image fusion and RF Doppler differentials. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Michigan Technological University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/720.
Council of Science Editors:
Demars CD. Target detection, tracking, and localization using multi-spectral image fusion and RF Doppler differentials. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Michigan Technological University; 2018. Available from: https://digitalcommons.mtu.edu/etdr/720

NSYSU
12.
Shiu, Jia-yu.
Dual-IMM System for Target Tracking and Data Fusion.
Degree: Master, Electrical Engineering, 2009, NSYSU
URL: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830109-170446
► In solving target tracking problems, the Kalman filter (KF) is one of the most widely used estimators. Whether the state of target movement adapts to…
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▼ In solving target tracking problems, the Kalman filter (KF) is one of the most widely used estimators. Whether the state of target movement adapts to the changes in the observations depends on the model assumptions. The interacting multiple model (IMM) algorithm uses interaction of a bank of parallel Kalman filters to solve the hypothetical model of tracking maneuvering target. Based on the function
of soft switching, the IMM algorithm, with parallel Kalman filters of different dimensions, can perform well by adjusting the model weights. Nonetheless, the uncertainty in measured
data and the types of sensing systems used for target tracking may still hinder the signal processing in the IMM. In order to improve the performance of target tracking and signal estimation, the concept of
data fusion can be adapted in the IMM-based structures. Multiple IMM based estimators can be used in the structure of multi-sensor
data fusion. In this thesis, we propose a dual-IMM estimator structure, in which
data fusion of the two IMM estimators is achieved by updating associated model probabilities. Suppose that two sensors for measuring the moving target is affected by the different degrees of noise, the measured
data
can be processed first through two separate IMM estimators. Then, the IMM-based estimators exchange with each other the estimates, model probabilities and model transition probabilities. The dual-IMM estimator will integrate the shared
data
based on the proposed dual-IMM algorithm. The dual-IMM estimator can be used to avoid degraded performance of single IMM with insufficient
data or undesirable environmental effects. The simulation results show that a single IMM estimator with smaller measurement noise level can be used to compensate the other IMM, which is affected by larger measurement noise. Improved overall performance from the dual-IMM estimator is obtained. Generally speaking, the two IMM estimators in the proposed structure achieve better performance when same level of measurement noise is assumed. The proposed dual-IMM estimator structure can be easily
extended to multiple-IMM structure for estimation and
data fusion.
Advisors/Committee Members: Tzung-Shi Chen (chair), King-Chu Hung (chair), Chin-Der Wann (committee member), Chen-Wen Yen (chair).
Subjects/Keywords: data fusion; Kalman filter; target tracking; IMM
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Shiu, Jia-yu. “Dual-IMM System for Target Tracking and Data Fusion.” 2009. Thesis, NSYSU. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830109-170446.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Shiu, Jia-yu. “Dual-IMM System for Target Tracking and Data Fusion.” 2009. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Shiu J. Dual-IMM System for Target Tracking and Data Fusion. [Internet] [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830109-170446.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Shiu J. Dual-IMM System for Target Tracking and Data Fusion. [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2009. Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0830109-170446
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

NSYSU
13.
Lin, Yu-Tsen.
Improved Particle Filter for Target Tracking in Decentralized Data Fusion System.
Degree: Master, Electrical Engineering, 2009, NSYSU
URL: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906109-030910
► In this thesis, we investigate a decentralized data fusion system with improved particle filters for target tracking. In many application areas, it becomes essential to…
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▼ In this thesis, we investigate a decentralized
data fusion system with improved
particle filters for target tracking. In many application areas, it becomes essential
to use nonlinear and non-Gaussian elements to accurately model the underlying
dynamics of a physical system. Particle filters have a great potential for solving
highly nonlinear and non-Gaussian estimation problems, in which the traditional
Kalman filter and extended Kalman filter may generally fail. To improve the tracking
performance of particle filters, initialization of the particles is studied. We
construct an initial state distribution by using least square estimation. In addition,
to enhance the tracking capability of particle filters, representation of target velocity
by another set of particles is considered. We include another layer of particle
filter inside the original particle filter for updating the velocity. In our proposed
architecture, we assume that each sensor node contain a particle filter and there
is no
fusion center in the sensor network. Approximated a posteriori distribution
at the sensor is obtained by using the local particle filters with the Gaussian mixture
model (GMM), so that more compact representations of the distribution for
transmission can be obtained. To achieve information sharing and integration, the
GMM-covariance intersection algorithm is used in formulating the decentralized
fusion
solutions. Simulation results are presented to illustrate that the performance
of the improved particle filter is better than standard particle filter. In addition,
simulation results of target tracking in the sensor system with three sensor nodes
are given to show the effectiveness and superiority of the proposed architecture.
Advisors/Committee Members: Jiann-Der Lee (chair), Shiunn-Jang Chern (chair), Jieh-Chian Wu (chair), Chin-Der Wann (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: decentralized data fusion; target tracking; particle filter
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Lin, Y. (2009). Improved Particle Filter for Target Tracking in Decentralized Data Fusion System. (Thesis). NSYSU. Retrieved from http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906109-030910
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Lin, Yu-Tsen. “Improved Particle Filter for Target Tracking in Decentralized Data Fusion System.” 2009. Thesis, NSYSU. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906109-030910.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Lin, Yu-Tsen. “Improved Particle Filter for Target Tracking in Decentralized Data Fusion System.” 2009. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Lin Y. Improved Particle Filter for Target Tracking in Decentralized Data Fusion System. [Internet] [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2009. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906109-030910.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Lin Y. Improved Particle Filter for Target Tracking in Decentralized Data Fusion System. [Thesis]. NSYSU; 2009. Available from: http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0906109-030910
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University of California – Berkeley
14.
Holland, Kyle.
Statistical Methods in Photogrammetry and Image-Lidar Fusion.
Degree: Environmental Science, Policy, & Management, 2013, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/92d798fm
► A primary application of photogrammetry is to process, discriminate and classify optical imagery into 3D objects. Light detection and ranging (lidar) is an active sensor…
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▼ A primary application of photogrammetry is to process, discriminate and classify optical imagery into 3D objects. Light detection and ranging (lidar) is an active sensor that measures the surfaces of 3D objects as discrete points in a point cloud. From the perspective of 3D objects in a common scene, point clouds and photogrammetry are related. Through this relationship there are numerous photogrammetric applications of lidar.This dissertation is concerned with three specific applications of lidar: modeling radiometric properties as a basis for comparison with imagery, estimating camera pose and data fusion. It is partial to the problems of object discrimination and classification, and presents solutions in a statistical context.A reflectance image is derived from reflectance, shadow and projection models. The reflectance image model is applied to compare the point cloud and imagery. The collinear equations of imaging are reparameterized as an object to image space transformation and estimated using maximum likelihood. Reflectance images are applied to quantify errors in this transformation across multiple images and to study the convergence properties of estimates. Finally, the process of image-lidar fusion is discussed in the context of uncertainty and probability. An estimator is specified for image-lidar fusion, derived from a generalized theory of the process. The estimator is shown to be unbiased and relatively efficient compared to the sample mean.
Subjects/Keywords: Remote sensing; Data Fusion; Lidar; Photogrammetry
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Holland, Kyle. “Statistical Methods in Photogrammetry and Image-Lidar Fusion.” 2013. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/92d798fm.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Holland, Kyle. “Statistical Methods in Photogrammetry and Image-Lidar Fusion.” 2013. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Holland K. Statistical Methods in Photogrammetry and Image-Lidar Fusion. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/92d798fm.
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Holland K. Statistical Methods in Photogrammetry and Image-Lidar Fusion. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2013. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/92d798fm
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Cornell University
15.
Schoenberg, Jonathan.
Data Fusion And Distributed Robotic Perception.
Degree: PhD, Aerospace Engineering, 2012, Cornell University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29366
► This thesis explores data fusion and distributed robotic perception through a series of theoretical developments, analyses and experiments. First, a GSF with component extended Kalman…
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▼ This thesis explores
data fusion and distributed robotic perception through a series of theoretical developments, analyses and experiments. First, a GSF with component extended Kalman filters (EKF) is proposed as an approach to localize an autonomous vehicle in an urban environment with limited GPS availability. The GSF is used because of its ability to represent the posterior distribution of the vehicle pose with better efficiency (fewer terms, less computational complexity) than a corresponding bootstrap particle filter with various numbers of particles due to the interaction with measurement hypothesis tests. A series of in-depth empirical studies are performed using 37 minutes of recorded
data from Cornell University's autonomous vehicle driven in an urban environment, including a 32 minute GPS blackout. Second, a distributed grid-based terrain mapping algorithm using Gaussian Mixture Models is developed for use in tree connected and arbitrary connected sensor networks. The distributed
data fusion rules are developed that operates directly on the sufficient statistics summarizing the grid-cell height and uncertainty. The distributed grid-based terrain mapping algorithms is demonstrated in an experimental environment involving 8 autonomous robots operating in an indoor environment for 120 seconds. Third, an algorithm to segment 3D points in dense range maps generated from the
fusion of a single optical camera and a multiple emitter/detector laser range finder is presented. The algorithm is demonstrated on
data collected with the Cornell University DARPA Urban Challenge vehicle. Finally, two information theoretic procedures for fusing multiple distributions with unknown correlation are developed. The first approach developed is Entropy Weighted Chernoff
fusion; this
fusion procedure biases the WEP
fusion weight towards the distribution with the lowest entropy. An information loss for the WEP conservative
fusion rule is introduced and an approximation derived by computing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the Naive Bayes and WEP fused distributions. The approximation is minimized for the second
fusion approach: Minimum-Information-Loss
fusion; the procedure generates the least conservative fused distribution in the family of WEP results. Experimental results include the
fusion of multiple occupancy grid maps over an optimally connected sensor network, demonstrating consistent map estimates.
Advisors/Committee Members: Campbell, Mark (chair), Psiaki, Mark Lockwood (committee member), Koutsourelakis, Phaedon-Stelios (committee member), Kress Gazit, Hadas (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Distributed Data Fusion; Robotic Perception; Estimation
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Schoenberg, J. (2012). Data Fusion And Distributed Robotic Perception. (Doctoral Dissertation). Cornell University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29366
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Schoenberg, Jonathan. “Data Fusion And Distributed Robotic Perception.” 2012. Doctoral Dissertation, Cornell University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29366.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Schoenberg, Jonathan. “Data Fusion And Distributed Robotic Perception.” 2012. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Schoenberg J. Data Fusion And Distributed Robotic Perception. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29366.
Council of Science Editors:
Schoenberg J. Data Fusion And Distributed Robotic Perception. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Cornell University; 2012. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29366

Penn State University
16.
Morgan, Jacob.
Data Fusion for Additive Manufacturing Process Inspection.
Degree: 2019, Penn State University
URL: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16433jpm5610
► In-situ monitoring of the powder bed fusion additive manufacturing (PBFAM) process is a rapidly expanding area of interest because it offers insight into process physics…
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▼ In-situ monitoring of the powder bed
fusion additive manufacturing (PBFAM) process is a rapidly expanding area of interest because it offers insight into process physics and is potentially a lower cost alternative to current post-build nondestructive inspection. Ultimately, sensor
data may be used as feedback for a real-time fault remediation system. However, it is unclear what defects look like in the sensor
data and multiple modalities cannot be used together because they are in arbitrary frames of reference. The goal of this thesis is to present a framework for automatically registering in-situ sensor
data to post-build inspection
data. This will enable defects found in the post-build inspection to be mapped to the sensor
data to serve as a ground truth for developing automatic defect recognition (ADR) algorithms.
In this work, high resolution images and multispectral point sensor
data collected during the build are registered to a post-build computed tomography (CT). These sensing modalities can be thought of as 2D raster
data, 2D point cloud
data, and 3D raster
data respectively. A unique optimization approach for registering each modality to a common frame of reference is presented. The process is automated so that large datasets may be generated for use in developing future ADR algorithms. Voids that are clearly visible in the CT can be mapped into the in-situ sensing modalities.
Advisors/Committee Members: Richard L. Tutwiler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor, William Evan Higgins, Committee Member, Edward William Reutzel, Committee Member.
Subjects/Keywords: data fusion; additive manufacturing; computer vision
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Morgan, Jacob. “Data Fusion for Additive Manufacturing Process Inspection.” 2019. Thesis, Penn State University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16433jpm5610.
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Morgan, Jacob. “Data Fusion for Additive Manufacturing Process Inspection.” 2019. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Morgan J. Data Fusion for Additive Manufacturing Process Inspection. [Internet] [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2019. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16433jpm5610.
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Council of Science Editors:
Morgan J. Data Fusion for Additive Manufacturing Process Inspection. [Thesis]. Penn State University; 2019. Available from: https://submit-etda.libraries.psu.edu/catalog/16433jpm5610
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University of Toronto
17.
Bachmann, Christian.
Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Traffic Speed and Travel Time Estimation.
Degree: 2011, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30172
► In this thesis, seven multi-sensor data fusion based estimation techniques are investigated. All methods are compared in terms of their ability to fuse data from…
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▼ In this thesis, seven multi-sensor data fusion based estimation techniques are investigated. All methods are compared in terms of their ability to fuse data from loop detectors and Bluetooth tracked probe vehicles to accurately estimate freeway traffic speed. In the first case study, data generated from a microsimulation model are used to assess how data fusion might perform with present day conditions, having few probe vehicles, and what sort of improvement might result from an increased proportion of vehicles carrying Bluetooth-enabled devices in the future. In the second case study, data collected from the real-world Bluetooth traffic monitoring system are fused with corresponding loop detector data and the results are compared against GPS collected probe vehicle data, demonstrating the feasibility of implementing data fusion for real-time traffic monitoring today. This research constitutes the most comprehensive evaluation of data fusion techniques for traffic speed estimation known to the author.
MAST
Advisors/Committee Members: Abdulhai, Baher, Roorda, Matthew J., Civil Engineering.
Subjects/Keywords: Data Fusion; Traffic Speed; Estimation; ITS; 0543
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Bachmann, C. (2011). Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Traffic Speed and Travel Time Estimation. (Masters Thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30172
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Bachmann, Christian. “Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Traffic Speed and Travel Time Estimation.” 2011. Masters Thesis, University of Toronto. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30172.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Bachmann, Christian. “Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Traffic Speed and Travel Time Estimation.” 2011. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Bachmann C. Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Traffic Speed and Travel Time Estimation. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Toronto; 2011. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30172.
Council of Science Editors:
Bachmann C. Multi-sensor Data Fusion for Traffic Speed and Travel Time Estimation. [Masters Thesis]. University of Toronto; 2011. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/30172

University of Waikato
18.
Mungro, Meenakshee.
Rating the Significance of Detected Network Events
.
Degree: 2014, University of Waikato
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/8808
► Existing anomaly detection systems do not reliably produce accurate severity ratings for detected network events, which results in network operators wasting a large amount of…
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▼ Existing anomaly detection systems do not reliably produce accurate severity ratings for detected network events, which results in network operators wasting a large amount of time and effort in investigating false alarms. This project investigates the use of
data fusion to combine evidence from multiple anomaly detection methods to produce a consistent and accurate representation of the severity of a network event. Four new detection methods were added to Netevmon, a network anomaly detection framework, and ground truth was collected from a latency training dataset to calculate the set of probabilities required for each of the five
data fusion methods chosen for testing. The evaluation was performed against a second test dataset containing manually assigned severity scores for each event and the significance ratings produced by the
fusion methods were compared against the assigned severity score to determine the accuracy of each
data fusion method.
The results of the evaluation showed that none of the
data fusion methods achieved a desirable level of accuracy for practical deployment. However, Dempster-Shafer was the most promising of the
fusion methods investigated due to correctly classifying more significant events than the other methods, albeit with a slightly higher false alarm rate. We conclude by suggesting some possible options for improving the accuracy of Dempster-Shafer that could be investigated as part of future work.
Advisors/Committee Members: Nelson, Richard (advisor).
Subjects/Keywords: Data fusion;
Anomaly detection;
Network latency
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Mungro, M. (2014). Rating the Significance of Detected Network Events
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mungro, Meenakshee. “Rating the Significance of Detected Network Events
.” 2014. Masters Thesis, University of Waikato. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10289/8808.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mungro, Meenakshee. “Rating the Significance of Detected Network Events
.” 2014. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mungro M. Rating the Significance of Detected Network Events
. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Waikato; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/8808.
Council of Science Editors:
Mungro M. Rating the Significance of Detected Network Events
. [Masters Thesis]. University of Waikato; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10289/8808

University of California – Berkeley
19.
Proulx, Frank Roland.
Bicyclist Exposure Estimation Using Heterogeneous Demand Data Sources.
Degree: Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016, University of California – Berkeley
URL: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9sx6r5h1
► Quantifying risks and the effects of risk factors requires controlling for exposure,or the number of opportunities for the adverse outcome in question to occur. In…
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▼ Quantifying risks and the effects of risk factors requires controlling for exposure,or the number of opportunities for the adverse outcome in question to occur. In thecontext of traffic crashes, traffic volumes are frequently used as an exposure measure.Efforts to study bicyclist crash risk have historically been hindered by the lack ofwidespread exposure data. This study presents methods to estimate bicycle trafficvolumes across an entire urban network.The first major chapter of the dissertation presents a data schema for classifyingbicycle demand datasets. There is an ever-growing abundance of transportation data,with some of the fastest growth seen in realm of non-motorized demand. However,all of the available datasets provide incomplete information about the system. Forexample, some only represent a time series of observations at a single location inspace (automated counters), while others cover all space and time but only representa small subset of the population of people and trips (crowdsourced data). In orderto understand how these heterogeneous sources of information correspond to oneanother, it was deemed necessary to first identify their differences. Six metadatacharacteristics were defined, which are termed the population scope, trip aggregation,temporal scope, temporal resolution, spatial scale, and demographics. Levels aredefined for each dimension, and examples of generic datasets are discussed in termsof their metadata dimension.The second major chapter of the dissertation presents a method of fusing multiplelink-level demand estimates to infer peak-hour bicycle traffic volumes. Whilethe method is agnostic to the specific sources being used, it is presented with acase study of San Francisco, CA using data from regional travel demand models,a smartphone crowdsourcing application, and bikeshare system ridership. The defined process entails first converting the datasets to a common format in terms oftheir metadata dimensions, and then fitting these homogenized link-level estimatesto observed counts using a weighted regression technique modeled after GeographicallyWeighted Regression. The fitting parameters associated with each dataset arehypothesized to vary geospatially, and the means by which this variation occurs iscontrolled by the specified weighting scheme. A distance decay weighting, where observationsfurther from a given location contribute less to the parameter estimates, isfound to produce the best results. Cross-validation is employed for model comparisonand the selection of features and hyperparameter values. It is shown that, on thebasis of cross-validated Root-Mean Square Deviation, that fusing data sources providesgreater predictive accuracy than can be achieved using any individual source,and that utilizing localized regression is more predictive than using a single globalparameter for each data set.The final chapter is about inferring the temporal distribution of traffic based oncontinuous automated count data. Latent Dirichlet Allocation is applied as a signaldecomposition model to…
Subjects/Keywords: Transportation; Bicycle; Data Fusion; Traffic Volume
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Proulx, Frank Roland. “Bicyclist Exposure Estimation Using Heterogeneous Demand Data Sources.” 2016. Thesis, University of California – Berkeley. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9sx6r5h1.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Proulx, Frank Roland. “Bicyclist Exposure Estimation Using Heterogeneous Demand Data Sources.” 2016. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Proulx FR. Bicyclist Exposure Estimation Using Heterogeneous Demand Data Sources. [Internet] [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2016. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9sx6r5h1.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Proulx FR. Bicyclist Exposure Estimation Using Heterogeneous Demand Data Sources. [Thesis]. University of California – Berkeley; 2016. Available from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9sx6r5h1
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
20.
LIU XUAN.
Data Fusion in Managing Crowdsourcing Data Analytics Systems.
Degree: 2013, National University of Singapore
URL: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/48692
Subjects/Keywords: Data Fusion; Crowdsourcing
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XUAN, LIU. “Data Fusion in Managing Crowdsourcing Data Analytics Systems.” 2013. Thesis, National University of Singapore. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/48692.
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XUAN, LIU. “Data Fusion in Managing Crowdsourcing Data Analytics Systems.” 2013. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
XUAN L. Data Fusion in Managing Crowdsourcing Data Analytics Systems. [Internet] [Thesis]. National University of Singapore; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/48692.
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XUAN L. Data Fusion in Managing Crowdsourcing Data Analytics Systems. [Thesis]. National University of Singapore; 2013. Available from: http://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/48692
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

University of Melbourne
21.
MENDIS, CHAMPAKE.
Bio-inspired algorithms for data fusion in hazardous threat detection.
Degree: 2014, University of Melbourne
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/44192
► Bio-inspired systems focus on the design, development and understanding of systems composed of algorithms that mimic the behaviours or processes of biological entities. In order…
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▼ Bio-inspired systems focus on the design, development and understanding of systems composed of algorithms that mimic the behaviours or processes of biological entities. In order to achieve a better abstraction, these bio-inspired algorithms can be constructed on a multi-agent platform which comprises multiple interaction between autonomous agents. These components are equipped with cognitive and processing abilities and have access to information extracted from the environment. In our endeavour to explore the viability of using bio-inspired algorithms in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear environments, we carried out four research studies.
First, we present a numerical verification of a simple population and physics-based epidemiological model for dynamic collaboration in a network of chemical sensors. The modelling approach is based on the known analogy between the information spread in a sensor network and the propagation of epidemics across a population. In this framework, we verify the derived analytical expressions, which relate the parameters to the network (e.g., number of sensors, their density, sensing time, etc.), with parameters of the external challenge (e.g., the chemical pollutant) and the environment (e.g., turbulence). Using numerical simulations of wireless sensor networks with random, line and circle topologies, we show that simulated and analytical results agree.
Secondly, we apply the epidemiology based protocol to a wireless chemical sensor network in a chemical environment with spatial characteristics. The chemical tracers dispersed by turbulent motion in the environment display rather complex and even chaotic properties. Meanwhile, chemical tracer detecting sensors with air sampling o consume significant energy, hazardous chemical releases are rare events which will not require continuity in detection. If all sensors in a wireless chemical sensor network (WCSN) are left in the active state continuously, it would result in significant power consumption. Therefore, dynamic sensor activation is crucial for the longevity of WCSNs. Moreover, the statistical characteristics of chemical tracers to be detected (temporal and spatial correlations, etc.) and placement of chemical sensors can also become the key parameters that influence the WCSN design and performance. In this research study, we investigate the effect of the spatial correlation of a chemical tracer field, and also the effect of network topology, on the performance of a WCSN that employs an epidemiology-based dynamic sensor activation protocol. We present a simulation framework that comprises models of the spatially correlated tracer field, individual chemical sensor nodes, and the sensor network. After validating this simulation framework against an analytical model, we perform simulation experiments to evaluate the effect of spatial correlation and network topology on selected performance metrics: response time, level of sensor activation, and network scalability. Our simulations show that the spatial correlation of…
Subjects/Keywords: Epidemiological; Gossip; Genetic Algorith; CBRN, Data Fusion
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
MENDIS, CHAMPAKE. “Bio-inspired algorithms for data fusion in hazardous threat detection.” 2014. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Melbourne. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/11343/44192.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
MENDIS, CHAMPAKE. “Bio-inspired algorithms for data fusion in hazardous threat detection.” 2014. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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MENDIS C. Bio-inspired algorithms for data fusion in hazardous threat detection. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/44192.
Council of Science Editors:
MENDIS C. Bio-inspired algorithms for data fusion in hazardous threat detection. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Melbourne; 2014. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11343/44192

Georgia Tech
22.
Liu, Kaibo.
Data fusion for system modeling, performance assessment and improvement.
Degree: PhD, Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2013, Georgia Tech
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52937
► Due to rapid advancements in sensing and computation technology, multiple types of sensors have been embedded in various applications, on-line automatically collecting massive production information.…
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▼ Due to rapid advancements in sensing and computation technology, multiple types of sensors have been embedded in various applications, on-line automatically collecting massive production information. Although this
data-rich environment provides great opportunity for more effective process control, it also raises new research challenges on
data analysis and decision making due to the complex
data structures, such as heterogeneous
data dependency, and large-volume and high-dimensional characteristics.
This thesis contributes to the area of System Informatics and Control (SIAC) to develop systematic
data fusion methodologies for effective quality control and performance improvement in complex systems. These advanced methodologies enable (1) a better handling of the rich
data environment communicated by complex engineering systems, (2) a closer monitoring of the system status, and (3) a more accurate forecasting of future trends and behaviors. The research bridges the gaps in methodologies among advanced statistics, engineering domain knowledge and operation research. It also forms close linkage to various application areas such as manufacturing, health care, energy and service systems.
This thesis started from investigating the optimal sensor system design and conducting multiple sensor
data fusion analysis for process monitoring and diagnosis in different applications. In Chapter 2, we first studied the couplings or interactions between the optimal design of a sensor system in a Bayesian Network and quality management of a manufacturing system, which can improve cost-effectiveness and production yield by considering sensor cost, process change detection speed, and fault diagnosis accuracy in an integrated manner. An algorithm named “Best Allocation Subsets by Intelligent Search” (BASIS) with optimality proof is developed to obtain the optimal sensor allocation design at minimum cost under different user specified detection requirements.
Chapter 3 extended this line of research by proposing a novel adaptive sensor allocation framework, which can greatly improve the monitoring and diagnosis capabilities of the previous method. A max-min criterion is developed to manage sensor reallocation and process change detection in an integrated manner. The methodology was tested and validated based on a hot forming process and a cap alignment process.
Next in Chapter 4, we proposed a Scalable-Robust-Efficient Adaptive (SERA) sensor allocation strategy for online high-dimensional process monitoring in a general network. A monitoring scheme of using the sum of top-r local detection statistics is developed, which is scalable, effective and robust in detecting a wide range of possible shifts in all directions. This research provides a generic guideline for practitioners on determining (1) the appropriate sensor layout; (2) the “ON” and “OFF” states of different sensors; and (3) which part of the acquired
data should be transmitted to and analyzed at the
fusion center, when only limited resources are available.
To improve the…
Advisors/Committee Members: Shi, Jianjun (advisor), Gebraeel, Nagi (committee member), Mei, Yajun (committee member), Kvam, Paul (committee member), Li, Jing (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: Data fusion; Multiple Sensors; Sensor allocation; Prognostics
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Liu, Kaibo. “Data fusion for system modeling, performance assessment and improvement.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, Georgia Tech. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52937.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Liu, Kaibo. “Data fusion for system modeling, performance assessment and improvement.” 2013. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Liu K. Data fusion for system modeling, performance assessment and improvement. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52937.
Council of Science Editors:
Liu K. Data fusion for system modeling, performance assessment and improvement. [Doctoral Dissertation]. Georgia Tech; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1853/52937

University of Newcastle
23.
Alqhtani, Samar.
Multiple kernel fusion for event detection from multimedia data in Twitter.
Degree: PhD, 2017, University of Newcastle
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354671
► Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Social media is an active space for sharing text and image content about all kinds of events. In…
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▼ Research Doctorate - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Social media is an active space for sharing text and image content about all kinds of events. In particular, Twitter is a platform for instant sharing of information about current events, both planned and unplanned. Twitter provides a large dynamic stream of data on emerging events, such as natural disasters or emergencies. Much of the previous work to analyse Twitter feeds for data containing natural disasters has focused on the text of tweets. A system is proposed in this study for detecting such events using tweets by analysing both their text and images. In this thesis, a system for detecting ‘hot’ events, specifically disasters like earthquakes, bushfires, and wildfires, is proposed. The system uses visual information as well as textual information to improve the performance of detection. It starts with monitoring a Twitter stream to pick up tweets having texts and images, and storing them in a database. After that, Twitter data is pre-processed to eliminate unwanted data and transform unstructured data into structured data. For the feature extraction and representation step, features in both texts and images are extracted to apply a mining tool for event detection. For feature extraction from the text, the bag of words (BoW) method, calculated using the term frequency–inverse document frequency (TF–IDF) technique, is used. For images, the features extracted are: histogram of oriented gradients (HOG) descriptors for object detection, grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) for texture description, color histogram, and scale-invariant features transform (SIFT). Furthermore, depending on the data, the visual features extraction method changes. Each image is represented as a “bag of visual words”. After that, text features and image features are input to the multiple kernel learning (MKL) for fusion. MKL can automatically combine both feature types in order to achieve the best performance. The proposed system – which includes data collection from Twitter, data pre-processing, feature extraction and representation, data fusion, and event detection – is tested on four data sets from four events. The test events used in this thesis are: Napa earthquake 2014, Washington wildfires 2015, California wildfires 2015, and Illapel earthquake 2015. The method is compared in two ways: the first comparison is with text only or images only. The other comparison method includes three different types of fusion: concatenation fusion, Dempster–Shafer fusion, or kernel-based fusion with sub-gradient descent (SD) optimization. In the Napa earthquake data, for the first comparison, the proposed method achieved the best performance, with a fusion accuracy of 0.95, compared to 0.89 with text only, and 0.87 with images only. For the second comparison, the systems with different fusions achieved 0.92 accuracy with concatenation fusion, 0.91 for Dempster–Shafer fusion, and 0.91 for kernel-based fusion with sub-gradient descent (SD) optimization. The proposed system has demonstrated that event…
Advisors/Committee Members: University of Newcastle. Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, School of Electrical Engineering and Computing.
Subjects/Keywords: event detection; multimedia data; data mining; machine learning; data fusion; Twitter
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Alqhtani, S. (2017). Multiple kernel fusion for event detection from multimedia data in Twitter. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Newcastle. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354671
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Alqhtani, Samar. “Multiple kernel fusion for event detection from multimedia data in Twitter.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Newcastle. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354671.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Alqhtani, Samar. “Multiple kernel fusion for event detection from multimedia data in Twitter.” 2017. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Alqhtani S. Multiple kernel fusion for event detection from multimedia data in Twitter. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Newcastle; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354671.
Council of Science Editors:
Alqhtani S. Multiple kernel fusion for event detection from multimedia data in Twitter. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Newcastle; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1354671

University of Toronto
24.
Zhu, Sirui.
Integration of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data.
Degree: 2017, University of Toronto
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/79465
► Technologies such as smart phone and GPS give collect spatial-temporal data with sample sizes that far exceed conventional survey methods, but lack the flexibility that…
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▼ Technologies such as smart phone and GPS give collect spatial-temporal data with sample sizes that far exceed conventional survey methods, but lack the flexibility that a conventional survey offers. This study develops a data fusion method to impute new variables of interest for a large GPS data set, by establish link to a different data set that has the variables of interest and shares common data with the GPS data set. As a case study, this study uses Ontarioâ s Roadside Commercial Vehicle Survey (CVS) to enrich a GPS data from Xata Inc. The enrichment process has three parts, converting raw GPS data into GPS trips, matching CVS trips to GPS trips, and imputing the missing variables for GPS trips. The research concluded that imputation methods can produce a synthetic dataset with large sample size and rich information from roadside interview data with good accuracy at an aggregate level such as corridor.
M.A.S.
Advisors/Committee Members: Roorda, Matthew J, Civil Engineering.
Subjects/Keywords: Commercial Vehicle Survey; Data fusion; Data integration; Freight data; GPS; 0709
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Zhu, S. (2017). Integration of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data. (Masters Thesis). University of Toronto. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/1807/79465
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhu, Sirui. “Integration of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data.” 2017. Masters Thesis, University of Toronto. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/1807/79465.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhu, Sirui. “Integration of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data.” 2017. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhu S. Integration of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. University of Toronto; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/79465.
Council of Science Editors:
Zhu S. Integration of Commercial Vehicle GPS and Roadside Intercept Survey Data. [Masters Thesis]. University of Toronto; 2017. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/79465

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
25.
Zhang, Ke IEDA.
Data fusion methods for modeling and monitoring in complex systems.
Degree: 2018, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-95999
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► Recent advances in measurement and sensing technology have generated data-rich environments in many industrial and service applications with complex systems, which has led to an…
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▼ Recent advances in measurement and sensing technology have generated data-rich environments in many industrial and service applications with complex systems, which has led to an increasing need to handling datasets generated from multiple sources. These data contain detailed information of the engineering process, and provide great opportunity for getting better understanding of the system and thus improving quality. However, difficulties and challenges remain in modeling and monitoring data from such systems due to great variety and variability of such datasets with various sources. This thesis contains three projects which conducts data fusion methods to address the issues in different applications. In the first project, a hierarchical Bayesian method is proposed to model and monitor the customer reviews with both textual content and numerical ratings in E-commerce feedback systems. The second project is concerned with modeling and improving estimation of covariance structure of data from multiple sensors with combining associated data sources including geographical information and group information. The method is applied in a sensor system designed to detect and predict landslides and hill-slopes. The third project propose a statistical transfer learning based method to integrate information from multiple sites and sensors with auto-correlated sensor readings for newly set-up sensors. These essays provide effective solutions of integrating multiple data sources to help modeling and monitoring complex systems appeared in modern engineering applications.
Subjects/Keywords: Multisensor data fusion
; Data processing
; Statistical matching
; Data sets
; Mathematical models
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Zhang, K. I. (2018). Data fusion methods for modeling and monitoring in complex systems. (Thesis). Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Retrieved from http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-95999 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012637664603412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-95999/1/th_redirect.html
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Zhang, Ke IEDA. “Data fusion methods for modeling and monitoring in complex systems.” 2018. Thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-95999 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012637664603412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-95999/1/th_redirect.html.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhang, Ke IEDA. “Data fusion methods for modeling and monitoring in complex systems.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhang KI. Data fusion methods for modeling and monitoring in complex systems. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-95999 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012637664603412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-95999/1/th_redirect.html.
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
Council of Science Editors:
Zhang KI. Data fusion methods for modeling and monitoring in complex systems. [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2018. Available from: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-95999 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012637664603412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-95999/1/th_redirect.html
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Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Colorado State University
26.
Mitra, Saptashwa.
Adaptive spatiotemporal data integration using distributed query relaxation over heterogeneous observational datasets.
Degree: MS(M.S.), Computer Science, 2018, Colorado State University
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/191379
► Combining data from disparate sources enhances the opportunity to explore different aspects of the phenomena under consideration. However, there are several challenges in doing so…
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▼ Combining
data from disparate sources enhances the opportunity to explore different aspects of the phenomena under consideration. However, there are several challenges in doing so effectively that include inter alia, the heterogeneity in
data representation and format, collection patterns, and integration of foreign
data attributes in a ready-to-use condition. In this study, we propose a scalable query-oriented
data integration framework that provides estimations for spatiotemporally aligned
data points. We have designed Confluence, a distributed
data integration framework that dynamically generates accurate interpolations for the targeted spatiotemporal scopes along with an estimate of the uncertainty involved with such estimation. Confluence orchestrates computations to evaluate spatial and temporal query joins and to interpolate values. Our methodology facilitates distributed query evaluations with a dynamic relaxation of query constraints. Query evaluations are locality-aware and we leverage model-based dynamic parameter selection to provide accurate estimation for
data points. We have included empirical benchmarks that profile the suitability of our approach in terms of accuracy, latency, and throughput at scale.
Advisors/Committee Members: Pallickara, Sangmi Lee (advisor), Pallickara, Shrideep (committee member), Li, Kaigang (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: data integration; real time queries; vector data; raster data; data fusion; spatiotemporal
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Mitra, S. (2018). Adaptive spatiotemporal data integration using distributed query relaxation over heterogeneous observational datasets. (Masters Thesis). Colorado State University. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10217/191379
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Mitra, Saptashwa. “Adaptive spatiotemporal data integration using distributed query relaxation over heterogeneous observational datasets.” 2018. Masters Thesis, Colorado State University. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/191379.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Mitra, Saptashwa. “Adaptive spatiotemporal data integration using distributed query relaxation over heterogeneous observational datasets.” 2018. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Mitra S. Adaptive spatiotemporal data integration using distributed query relaxation over heterogeneous observational datasets. [Internet] [Masters thesis]. Colorado State University; 2018. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/191379.
Council of Science Editors:
Mitra S. Adaptive spatiotemporal data integration using distributed query relaxation over heterogeneous observational datasets. [Masters Thesis]. Colorado State University; 2018. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/10217/191379

University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
27.
Zhao, Bo.
Truth finding in databases.
Degree: PhD, 0112, 2013, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42470
► In practical data integration systems, it is common for the data sources being integrated to provide conflicting information about the same entity. Consequently, a major…
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▼ In practical
data integration systems, it is common for the
data sources being integrated to provide conflicting information about the same entity. Consequently, a major challenge for
data integration is to derive the most complete and accurate integrated records from diverse and sometimes conflicting sources. We term this challenge the truth finding problem. We observe that some sources are generally more reliable than others, and therefore a good model of source quality is the key to solving the truth finding problem. In this thesis, we propose probabilistic models that can automatically infer true records and source quality without any supervision on both categorical
data and numerical
data. We further develop a new entity matching framework that considers source quality based on truth-finding models.
On categorical
data, in contrast to previous methods, our principled approach leverages a generative process of two types of errors (false positive and false negative) by modeling two different aspects of source quality. In so doing, ours is also the first approach designed to merge multi-valued attribute types. Our method is scalable, due to an efficient sampling-based inference algorithm that needs very few iterations in practice and enjoys linear time complexity, with an even faster incremental variant. Experiments on two real world datasets show that our new method outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches to the truth finding problem on categorical
data.
While in practice, numerical
data is not only ubiquitous but also of high value, e.g. price, weather, census, polls and economic statistics. Quality issues on numerical
data can also be even more common and severe than categorical
data due to its characteristics. Therefore, in this thesis we propose a new truth-finding method specially designed for handling numerical
data. Based on Bayesian probabilistic models, our method can leverage the characteristics of numerical
data in a principled way, when modeling the dependencies among source quality, truth, and claimed values. Experiments on two real world datasets show that our new method outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches in both effectiveness and efficiency.
We further observe that modeling source quality not only can help decide the truth but also can help match entities across different sources. Therefore, as a natural next step, we integrate truth finding with entity matching so that we could infer matching of entities, true attributes of entities and source quality in a joint fashion. This is the first entity matching approach that involves modeling source quality and truth finding. Experiments show that our approach can outperform state-of-the-art baselines.
Advisors/Committee Members: Han, Jiawei (advisor), Han, Jiawei (Committee Chair), Zhai, ChengXiang (committee member), Roth, Dan (committee member), Yu, Philip S. (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: data integration; truth finding; data fusion; data quality; entity matching; data mining; probabilistic graphical models
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Zhao, B. (2013). Truth finding in databases. (Doctoral Dissertation). University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42470
Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Zhao, Bo. “Truth finding in databases.” 2013. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42470.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Zhao, Bo. “Truth finding in databases.” 2013. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Zhao B. Truth finding in databases. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2013. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42470.
Council of Science Editors:
Zhao B. Truth finding in databases. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign; 2013. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42470

KTH
28.
Harch, Gais.
Automatiserad matchning av relaterad data från olika datakällor.
Degree: Computer and Electronic Engineering, 2014, KTH
URL: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146329
► Sociala medier innehåller idag massor av information som kan bidra till att ge applikationer och produkter ett stort mervärde genom att ge en förbättrad…
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▼ Sociala medier innehåller idag massor av information som kan bidra till att ge applikationer och produkter ett stort mervärde genom att ge en förbättrad användarupplevelse. I vissa fall kan sådan information inte erhållas utan att först matcha data från en eller flera datakällor genom en data fusion. Eniro Initiatives AB vill undersöka möjligheter för att genomföra en automatiserad data fusion genom att koppla företag från sitt API till motsvarande företag på sociala medier. Problematiken ligger i att den enda helt säkra källan till matchning av alla svenska företag är dess organisationsnummer, vilket är data som inte finns tillgänglig hos API:er från utländska företag. Syftet var att undersöka möjligheter för att på automatiserat sätt kunna matcha relaterad data från olika datakällor. I detta examensarbete har en prototyp utvecklats som matchar företag från Eniros API med företags sidor från Facebooks API. Resultatet från tester av denna prototyp visar dock brister, då det uppkom fall där redundant information bidrog till att prototypen kunde godkänna inofficiella sidor med koppling till det relevanta företaget, vilket inte var önskvärt.
Social media today contains a lot of information that can add a great value for applications and products by achieve an improved user experience. In some cases, such information cannot be obtained without matching data from one or several data sources through a data fusion. Eniro Initiatives AB wants to explore opportunities to implement an automated data fusion model by matching companies from its own API to the corresponding company on social media. The problem is that the only completely secured data of matching of all Swedish companies is its corporate identity, which is data that is not available with APIs that origin from foreign companies. The aim was to explore possibilities for the automated way to match related data from different data sources. In this thesis, a prototype was developed to match companies from Eniro’s API with company pages from Facebook's API. The results from the tests of this prototype shows small deficiencies where redundant information made the prototype able to approve unofficial pages with links to the relevant company, which was not desirable.
Subjects/Keywords: data fusion; text recognition; text matching; company data; data fusion; text recognition; textmatchning; företagsdata; Computer Engineering; Datorteknik
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Harch, Gais. “Automatiserad matchning av relaterad data från olika datakällor.” 2014. Thesis, KTH. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146329.
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Harch, Gais. “Automatiserad matchning av relaterad data från olika datakällor.” 2014. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Harch G. Automatiserad matchning av relaterad data från olika datakällor. [Internet] [Thesis]. KTH; 2014. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146329.
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation
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Harch G. Automatiserad matchning av relaterad data från olika datakällor. [Thesis]. KTH; 2014. Available from: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-146329
Note: this citation may be lacking information needed for this citation format:
Not specified: Masters Thesis or Doctoral Dissertation

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
29.
Chen, Yunfan CSE.
A crowdsourced probabilistic approach on data fusion refinement.
Degree: 2017, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
URL: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-88948
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https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012530569703412
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http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-88948/1/th_redirect.html
► Data fusion has played an important role in data mining because high quality data is required in a lot of applications. As on-line data may…
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▼ Data fusion has played an important role in data mining because high quality data is required in a lot of applications. As on-line data may be out-of-date and errors in the data may propagate with copying and referring between sources, it is hard to achieve satisfying results with merely applying existing data fusion methods to fuse Web data. To best understand the current studies, we first present an extensive survey about the Data Fusion field. Since we use crowdsourcing as a tool to solve the problem, we then survey the crowdsourcing researches as well. In this paper, we make use of the crowd to achieve high quality data fusion. We design a framework selecting a set of tasks to ask crowds in order to improve the confidence of data. Since data are correlated and crowds may provide incorrect answers, how to select a proper set of tasks to ask the crowd is a very challenging problem. In this paper, we design an approximation solution to address these challenges since we prove that the problem is at NP-hard. To further improve the efficiency, we design a pruning strategy and a preprocessing method, which effectively improve the performance of the approximation solution. Furthermore, we find that under certain scenarios, we are not interested in all the facts, but only a specific set of facts. Thus, for these specific scenarios, we also develop another approximation solution which is much faster than the general approximation solution. Then, we verify the solutions with extensive experiments on a real crowdsourcing platform. We apply multiple existing machine-based data fusion methods and apply our refinement method on those results to show our method is general enough with many methods.
Subjects/Keywords: Human computation
; Mathematical models
; Multisensor data fusion
; Data mining
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Chen, Yunfan CSE. “A crowdsourced probabilistic approach on data fusion refinement.” 2017. Thesis, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Accessed March 08, 2021.
http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-88948 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012530569703412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-88948/1/th_redirect.html.
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Chen, Yunfan CSE. “A crowdsourced probabilistic approach on data fusion refinement.” 2017. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
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Chen YC. A crowdsourced probabilistic approach on data fusion refinement. [Internet] [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-88948 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012530569703412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-88948/1/th_redirect.html.
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Council of Science Editors:
Chen YC. A crowdsourced probabilistic approach on data fusion refinement. [Thesis]. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; 2017. Available from: http://repository.ust.hk/ir/Record/1783.1-88948 ; https://doi.org/10.14711/thesis-991012530569703412 ; http://repository.ust.hk/ir/bitstream/1783.1-88948/1/th_redirect.html
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University of Florida
30.
Peng, Yang.
Multimodal Fusion a Theory and Applications.
Degree: PhD, Computer Science - Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 2017, University of Florida
URL: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0051801
► As data grows larger and larger nowadays, Big Data and Data Science are becoming more and more prominent in Computer Science. In Data Science, not…
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▼ As
data grows larger and larger nowadays, Big
Data and
Data Science are becoming more and more prominent in Computer Science. In
Data Science, not only the volume of
data is important for research, but also the variety of
data has drawn a lot of attention from researchers. In recent years, we have seen more and more complex datasets with multiple kinds of
data. For example, Wikipedia is a huge dataset with unstructured text, semi-structured documents, structured knowledge and images. We call a dataset with different types of
data as a multimodal dataset. This dissertation focuses on employing multimodal
fusion on multimodal
data to improve performance for various tasks, as well as providing scalability and high efficiency.
Advisors/Committee Members: WANG,ZHE (committee chair), RANKA,SANJAY (committee member), SAHNI,SARTAJ KUMAR (committee member), WONG,TAN FOON (committee member).
Subjects/Keywords: big-data – data-science – multimodal-fusion – query-driven – scalability
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Chicago Manual of Style (16th Edition):
Peng, Yang. “Multimodal Fusion a Theory and Applications.” 2017. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Florida. Accessed March 08, 2021.
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0051801.
MLA Handbook (7th Edition):
Peng, Yang. “Multimodal Fusion a Theory and Applications.” 2017. Web. 08 Mar 2021.
Vancouver:
Peng Y. Multimodal Fusion a Theory and Applications. [Internet] [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Florida; 2017. [cited 2021 Mar 08].
Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0051801.
Council of Science Editors:
Peng Y. Multimodal Fusion a Theory and Applications. [Doctoral Dissertation]. University of Florida; 2017. Available from: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UFE0051801
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