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We propose a diffusion expectation-maximization algorithm with adaptive combiner for distributed estimation over sensor networks. Due to the spatial distribution of the nodes, variation of node profile across the network is a common phenomena in real applications. The unreliable nodes exist and provide inaccurate estimates, which may be caused by high levels of noise or malicious attacks. Instead...
In the multiple target tracking scenarios, the correct matching between targets and measurements is critical. There have been many approaches to resolve this problem called data association. In this paper, a regression method is proposed to resolve the data association problem. In the logistic regression model, nine potential predictor variables are designed which are related to the geometric information...
Dempster-Shafer theory of evidence is widely applied to uncertainty modelling and knowledge reasoning because of its advantages in dealing with uncertain information. But some conditions or requirements, such as exclusiveness hypothesis and completeness constraint, limit the development and application of that theory to a large extend. To overcome the shortcomings and enhance its capability of representing...
This paper establishes a risk assessment index system for oil and gas resource countries, with 46 screened indicators across 5 dimensions, namely political risk, economic risk, investment risk, oil and gas resources risk, and the Chinese factor. Furthermore, by using the principal component analysis method, the 46 risk indicators were narrowed down to 16 principal components. Subsequently, a support...
Dempster-Shafer (D-S) evidence theory is widely used for information fusion field. However, one of the main issues of D-S evidence theory is that, when large amount of focal elements in Basic Probability Assignment (BPA) are available, the fusion of BPA requires high computational cost and long computing time. This problem greatly limits its application. In this paper, a novel method for approximating...
We propose a dynamic portfolio rebalancing approach within the mean-risk framework, in which the riskaversion coefficient is adjusted according to market trend information captured by a technical indicator. We employ Gini's Mean Difference as the risk measure and the moving average as the technical indicator. We conduct a thorough empirical evaluation with a rolling horizon approach using the S&P...
This paper proposes a new approach for constrained multiple model (MM) maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation through the expectation-maximization (EM) method by using our previously developed constrained sequential list Viterbi algorithm (CSLVA). The approach is general and applicable for any type of constraints provided they are verifiable. Specific algorithms for implementation are designed, and...
Detection of surface water in natural environment via multi-spectral imagery has been widely utilized in many fields, such land cover identification. However, due to the similarity of the spectra of water bodies, built-up areas, approaches based on high-resolution satellites sometimes confuse these features. A popular direction to detect water is spectral index, often requiring the ground truth to...
Bearing-only and ground moving target indicator (GMTI) filtering are important practical nonlinear filtering problems that have been widely studied. The bearing-only filtering problem is regarded as a challenging nonlinear filtering problem. The degree of nonlinearity (DoN) of these problems were previously studied using differential geometry based parameter-effects and intrinsic curvatures. In this...
The multiple hypothesis tracker (MHT) has historically been considered a gold standard for multi-target tracking. In this paper we show that the key formula for hypothesis probabilities in Reid's MHT can be derived from the modern theory of finite set statistics (FISST) insofar as appropriate assumptions (Poisson models for clutter and undetected targets, no target-death, linear-Gaussian Markov target...
Observability in bearings-only target analysis (BOTMA) is studied when the target is in constant-velocity motion and the observer maneuvers gently (a constant turn motion or a constant acceleration motion). During our study, we proved that the rendezvous routes of the observer and the target play a key role in this analysis. We establish necessary and sufficient conditions of observability and we...
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