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Title: | Fusion of Soft and Hard Data for Event Prediction and State Estimation |
Authors: | Thirumalaisamy, Abirami |
Advisor: | Kirubarajan, Thia |
Department: | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Keywords: | Dempster-Shafer belief theory, Random finite set theory, Modified Dempster's rule of combination, soft and hard data fusion, airborne surveillance of surface targets, event prediction, social data analysis |
Publication Date: | Nov-2015 |
Abstract: | Social networking sites such as Twitter, Facebook and Flickr play an important role in disseminating breaking news about natural disasters, terrorist attacks and other events. They serve as sources of first-hand information to deliver instantaneous news to the masses, since millions of users visit these sites to post and read news items regularly. Hence, by exploring e fficient mathematical techniques like Dempster-Shafer theory and Modi ed Dempster's rule of combination, we can process large amounts of data from these sites to extract useful information in a timely manner. In surveillance related applications, the objective of processing voluminous social network data is to predict events like revolutions and terrorist attacks before they unfold. By fusing the soft and often unreliable data from these sites with hard and more reliable data from sensors like radar and the Automatic Identi cation System (AIS), we can improve our event prediction capability. In this paper, we present a class of algorithms to fuse hard sensor data with soft social network data (tweets) in an e ffective manner. Preliminary results using are also presented. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11375/18382 |
Appears in Collections: | Open Access Dissertations and Theses |
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