DA721A (Advanced course) and
DA912F (Post-graduate course)
Introduction
The need for information fusion arises in many fields of research (traditional application areas include military operations, mobile robotics, and computer vision). Information fusion is a process which deals with the combination of data from various resources. In many applications, no single source provides the required data (or usage of a single resource is not a cost efficient solution for the problem at hand). It is fundamental that information fusion is not a stand-alone process. Rather, it is an integral part of some system which relies on the perception of an environment for a successful operation.
Information fusion may result in improved information of different abstraction levels. The lowest levels concern detecting and describing objects. The highest levels concern situation assessment, i.e., describing and interpreting relations between objects. The lowest levels have been fairly well explored during the past decades, but a purposeful exploration of the highest levels has only recently begun. Whereas it is important to understand the lowest levels, this course focuses on the highest levels.
As an automated process, information fusion may relieve human operators of repetitive tasks and render possible new real-time applications (for which manual data processing is neither efficient nor sufficient).
News and messages
- 2009-03-19 - Course evaluation report completed
- 2008-10-14 - Unnecessary extra lecture October 21st removed from schedule.
- 2008-10-14 - Lecture 10 slides added to the protected literature page.
- 2008-10-09 - Pontus Svenson's lecture and guest lecture slides added to the protected literature page.
- 2008-10-07 - October 10 11.15-11.55 in G110. Lecture by adjunct professor Håkan Warston (from SAAB Microwave) Håkan Warston: ”Lägesuppfattning i nätverksbaserade ledningssystem". Unfortunately, the lecture will be given in Swedish.
- 2008-10-02 - Solutions to some previous exams added to the protected literature page.
- 2008-09-28 - Instructions for Evidential theory maths assignment added. Slides for lecture 7 has also been added on the protected literature page.
- 2008-09-22 - NOTE! After discussing with the math assignment teachers, some changes to the requirements turned out to be necessary. As a consequence, I have dropped the requirement on computer written reports for the math assignments (but it still remains for the computer assignments). Please check the updated requirements on the assignments page.
- 2008-09-22 - Lecture 5 slides added to the protected literature page.
- 2008-09-19 - Lecture 3 slides added to the protected literature page.
- 2008-09-17 - Computer assignments added. Bayesian network math assignment added.
- 2008-09-16 - Instructions on how to write an assignment report added to the Assignments page.
- 2008-09-16 - If you have never used the computers in the E-building, you might need an account for the computer assignments (assisted in room E-206). Let Ronnie know if you need an account (if you're not sure, you probably need one).
- 2008-09-10 - A previous exam and some text added to the Exam page.
- 2008-09-08 - A password protected page containing some of the course material has been added (you can find a link to it on the literature page). If you are a student of the course and haven't already received the login information by E-mail, get in touch with the course leader.
- 2008-09-02 - Schedule updated. More info about literature and reading instructions will be added during the course.
- 2008-08-30 - Homepage opened
If you visited this webpage before this date you might have received the wrong information. Some old information from the course last year remained. For instance the schedule (which will be updated in the coming days). The page also mentioned seminars and a special test (called dugga). These have been removed. Please report suspicious things (information and links). - 2008-06-16 - Homepage is being built and information currently contained maybe incorrect