Distributed Sensor Networks, 2nd Edition

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Distributed MultiTarget Detection in Sensor Networks

Xiaoling Wang

The University of Tennessee

Hairong Qi

The University of Tennessee

Steve Beck

BAE Systems

13.1    Blind Source Separation

13.2    Source Number Estimation

Bayesian Source Number Estimation • Sample-Based Source Number Estimation • Variational Learning

13.3    Distributed Source Number Estimation

Distributed Hierarchy in Sensor Networks • Posterior Probability Fusion Based on Bayes’ Theorem

13.4    Performance Evaluation

Evaluation Metrics • Experimental Results • Discussion

13.5    Conclusions

References

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