Special Topic: Information Fusion

Information fusion technique plays an important role in target detection, tracking and recognition. It may contain some uncertain information in sensor observation because of the influence of noisy environment. We can efficiently reduce the uncertainty and improve the robustness of systems via multi-source information fusion thanks to the complementary knowledge from different sources. In applications, the sensing environment becomes more and more complex, and new kinds of sensors are emerging. This causes the heterogeneous and even conflicting information. So information fusion is faced with great challenges. Recently, many new fusion mechanisms have been developed, e.g.,