Optimal fusion operator selection: a neural-network-technique-based approach

Abdennasser Chebira; Kurosh Madani

doi:10.1117/12.304835

25 March 1998 Optimal fusion operator selection: a neural-network-technique-based approach

Abdennasser Chebira, Kurosh Madani

Proceedings Volume 3390, Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304835
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

In this paper, we present a neural network based method that allows the optimal selection of a data fusion policy. We build dynamically the internal layer of a functional link network (FLN), we add to the classical FLN, a pruning algorithm, that allows to find the optimal architecture of the FLN and to define an optimal fusion policy. In order to use the FLN as a universal fusion operator, the functional expansion performed by its internal layer includes fusion operators. As the FLN minimize the mean square error (MSE) during the learning step, an optimal fusion policy is reached in the sense of the MSE. Some academic simulations validate our approach.

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Abdennasser Chebira and Kurosh Madani "Optimal fusion operator selection: a neural-network-technique-based approach", Proc. SPIE 3390, Applications and Science of Computational Intelligence, (25 March 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.304835

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