From Event: SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing, 2019
This paper will investigate the fusion of various detection and classification systems. The architecture of combining these systems is the main interest of this work. We assume the detection and classification systems are known and they are legacy systems such that we know their receiver operating characteristic (ROC) functions, or their approximate ROC functions. Given an objective function we seek the optimal architecture that maximizes the objective function. Combining detection systems sequentially has been around for decades, especially in the bio-medical field where tests are preformed sequentially such that the outcome of one test will determine which test will be performed next. In military applications, we often use multiple detection systems in parallel and combine the outputs into a “fusion” center to determine the final answer. We conjecture that there might be a parallel and series mixture that would yield better performance. Part of determining this mixture is determining which systems go "where" in the mix. We investigate this architecture.
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Mark E. Oxley and Christine M. Schubert-Kabban, "Sequential and parallel fusion of detection and classification systems," Proc. SPIE 11018, Signal Processing, Sensor/Information Fusion, and Target Recognition XXVIII, 110180G (Presented at SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing: April 16, 2019; Published: 7 May 2019); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2518787.