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
- 2010-12-09 - For those of you who still have some work to do on your computer and maths assignments there will be an additional chance to have your solutions corrected in March. More information on the assignments page.
- 2010-11-11 - The exam has been corrected and can be collected at the student office. Several students did not succeed with this exam and will have to take the re-exam in December. Plesase not though that you only need to give answers to the parts that you failed in the first exam.
- 2010-10-23 - One more important thing about the exam: the parts ot the exam that you pass (Explanation, analysis, application and user) you won't have to write again (if you have to take the re-exam). For instance, say that you pass the explanation and analysis parts on the exam, but not the rest. Then you only have to solve the application and user parts on the re-exam (this is only valid for the re-exam).
- 2010-10-22 - News about the exam. You are no longer allowed to bring your own pocket calculator to the exam. Instead you can borrow one in the exam room. I will personally visit the exam room twice during the exam (at about 10 and 11.30) at what time you can ask questions. These news have been added to the summary slides which have been updated on the literature page.
- 2010-10-20 - I was asked today whether I would give out the answers to exam 2008-10-30. I have decided not to as I might want to reuse some question or parts of a question.
- 2010-10-14 - Grading criteria
added. - 2010-10-13 - Date for the re-exam set to Mon Dec 20.
- 2010-10-12 - The schedule for October 14th has changed! I had to move the presentations by Pontus Svenson from FOI to October 21st. On Oct 21st I had to add a lecture from 15-17 in the afternoon. Check the changes for October 14th and 21st here.
- 2010-10-11 - The guest lecture on Oct 13th will end no later than 15:00 (schedule has been updated).
- 2010-10-10 - the ev_assignment.zip file for the evidential theory computer assignment has been updated.
- 2010-10-10 - Added information to the BN computer assignment: GeNIe files should be sent to Alexander's ordinary work address. More info on the assignments page.
- 2010-09-29 - Room changes in schedule (room P102->P104). Also the Neverlost schedule has been updated.
- 2010-09-28 - Minor changes made to the Assignments page to emphasize what you should present your work in your respective groups.
- 2010-09-28 - Information about upcoming seminars
- 2010-09-19 - Assignment groups have been added - if you are not part of a group yet send Ronnie a message about which group you want to belong to (maximum 2 or 3 members)
- 2010-09-17 - Added slides from lecture 4 and Chapter 4.
- 2010-09-14 - Some course material (e.g., compendium chapters 1, 2, and 3 and bibliography) has been added to the literature page.
- 2010-09-13 - Post-exam discussion added to the schedule (meeting for discussing the solutions to the exam)
- 2010-09-13 - Assignments page has been updated with all assignments.
- 2010-09-09 - An error was discovered in question 1.6 of the first math assignment (thanks for bringing this to my attention!). The error has been corrected on the assignments page.
- 2010-09-09 - The protected course material should now be available to you. If you cannot log in let me know. Note that you have to be registered on the course to be able to log in.
- 2010-09-09 - Schedule has been updated. Remaining changes are probably only room changes as some of the classrooms may be to small.
- 2010-09-07 - Math assignment 1 has been added
- 2010-09-07 - Page about exams opened
- 2010-09-07 - Page about assignments opened, but still under construction.
- 2010-09-06 - Math and computer assignment deadlines have been added to the schedule (one deadline is still missing).
- 2010-09-06 - Due to the large number of registered students, we have had to change some classrooms. Check the schedule and neverlost for details.
- 2010-08-25 - Preliminary schedule has been added
- 2010-06-17 - Page is being re-constructed for the fall 2010 course