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Soft Data Fusion in Image Processing

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Data fusion is a long term of research in image processing that is becoming more and more relevant owing to the complementary developments of computer and sensory technologies. Although operator research related to soft-computing, specially in the field of fuzzy systems, has evolved considerably during this last two decades, implemented frameworks of data fusion for image processing take seldom into consideration this kind of operators. Most of pattern recognition systems with image fusion are still based in basic operators, e.g. minimum or product. The purpose of the here presented tutorial is to analyze this fact, present some of the fuzzy aggregation operators in the context of data fusion for image processing and show some applications where the usage of the fuzzy integral, one of these operators, increased the performance of image processing systems considering data fusion.

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  1. Dept. Pattern Recognition, Fraunhofer IPK, Pascalstr. 8–9, 10587, Berlin, Germany

    Aureli Soria-Frisch

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  1. Enterprise Integration, Cranfield University, Cranfield, Bedford, MK43 0AL, UK

    Rajkumar Roy PhD

  2. Department of Pattern Recognition, Fraunhofer IPK-Berlin, Pascalstrasse 8-9, Berlin, 10587, Germany

    Mario Köppen Diplom-Phys

  3. Institute of Intelligent Electronics, Helsinki University of Technology, Otakaari 5 A, FIN-02150, Espoo, Finland

    Seppo Ovaska PhD

  4. Department of Information Engineering, Mie University, 1515 Kamihama-cho, Tsu, 514-8507, Japan

    Takeshi Furuhashi PhD

  5. Royal Institute of Technology, NADA/CV AP, 10044, Stockholm, Sweden

    Frank Hoffmann

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Soria-Frisch, A. (2002). Soft Data Fusion in Image Processing. In: Roy, R., Köppen, M., Ovaska, S., Furuhashi, T., Hoffmann, F. (eds) Soft Computing and Industry. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0123-9_37

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