Distributed Sensor Networks, 2nd Edition

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Object Detection and Classification

Akbar M. Sayeed

University of Wisconsin-Madison

6.1      Introduction

6.2      A Signal Model for Sensor Measurements

Example: Temporal Point Sources

6.3      Object Detection

Soft Decision Fusion • Hard Decision Fusion

6.4      Object Classification

Soft Decision Fusion • Hard Decision Fusion • Numerical Results

6.5      Conclusions

Realistic Modeling of Communication Links • Multi-Object Classification • Nonideal Practical Settings

Acknowledgment

References

6.1      Introduction

Wireless sensor networks are an emerging technology for monitoring the physical world with a densely distributed network of wireless nodes [1,2]. Each node has limited communication and computation ability and can sense ...