Mass functions assessment: case of multiple hypothesis for the evidential approach

Michel Menard; El-hadi Zahzah; Ahmad Shahin

doi:10.1117/12.262889

17 December 1996 Mass functions assessment: case of multiple hypothesis for the evidential approach

Michel Menard, El-hadi Zahzah, Ahmad Shahin

Proceedings Volume 2955, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing III; (1996) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.262889
Event: Satellite Remote Sensing III, 1996, Taormina, Italy

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to define the mass functions for a set of multiple mixed hypothesis in an context of Dempster/Shafer (DS) theory which offers an interesting tool to combine data providing from heterogeneous sources more or less reliable by managing imprecision and uncertainty. This is particularly important when dealing with multi-modality imaging (satellite image), where the fusion of information increases the global knowledge about the phenomenon while decreasing the imprecision and uncertainty about it. This theory also enables us to assign masses to 2^D elements (D: decision space) rather than to D elements as in probabilistic theory. The DS has been used in many applications in the field of image analysis, but without its all powerful. When using with only simple hypothesis (an object belongs to only one class), the theory falls in the probabilistic case, which is considered as a particular case. Bloch and Barnett attempt to use double hypothesis but their method still remains particular and restrictive. We propose in this paper a method to extract for a class the consonance and dissonance degrees among several classifiers (methods), and the integration of these terms to initialize the mass functions with multiple mixed hypothesis in order to use the orthogonal Dempster/Shafer Rule. The problem must be viewed from multiclass, multi-sources (images) and multi- point of view (methods or classifiers used) context. We first show how our method works with 1 -- image, 2 -- classifiers, and 2 -- hypothesis and then generalize for P - - images, K -- sources and 2^D -- hypothesis.

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Michel Menard, El-hadi Zahzah, and Ahmad Shahin "Mass functions assessment: case of multiple hypothesis for the evidential approach", Proc. SPIE 2955, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing III, (17 December 1996); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.262889

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