Assessing the Performance of Multisensor Fusion Processes

In recent years, numerous prototypical systems have been developed for multisensor data fusion (DF). A paper by Hall and co-workers1 describes more than 50 such systems developed for Department of Defense (DoD) applications some 15 years ago. Such systems have become ever more sophisticated. Indeed, many of the prototypical systems summarized by Hall and co-workers1 use advanced identi cation techniques such as knowledge-based or expert systems, Dempster-Shafer interface techniques, adaptive neural networks, and sophisticated tracking algorithms.