http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inffus.2014.02.001 1566-2535/ 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. ‘‘Context-awareness’’ might have entered the mainstream language and gained popular attention thanks to the ever increasing adoption of smart portable devices making their way into every activity of our lives. This has happened to the point that the concept of ‘‘smart’’ app (or device) has been pai...

User verification systems that use a single biometric indicator often have to contend with noisy sensor data, restricted degrees of freedom, non-universality of the biometric trait and unacceptable error rates. Attempting to improve the performance of individual matchers in such situations may not prove to be effective because of these inherent problems. Multibiometric systems seek to alleviate...

The objective of image fusion for medical images is to combine multiple images obtained from various sources into a single image suitable for better diagnosis. Most of the state-of-the-art image fusing technique is based on nonfuzzy sets, and the fused image so obtained lags with complementary information. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets (IFS) are determined to be more suitable for civilian, and medi...

Information Extraction (IE) technology is facing new challenges of dealing with large-scale heterogeneous data sources from different documents, languages and modalities. Information fusion, a new emerging area derived from IE, aims to address these challenges. We specify the requirements and possible solutions to perform information fusion. The issues include redundancy removal, contradiction ...

In retrieval, indexing and classification of multimedia data an efficient information fusion of the different modalities is essential for the system’s overall performance. Since information fusion, its influence factors and performance improvement boundaries have been lively discussed in the last years in different research communities, we will review their latest findings. They most importantl...

This paper presents a novel approach to automatic classifying and identifying of tree leaves using image segmentation fusion. With the development of mobile devices and remote access, automatic plant identification in images taken in natural scenes has received much attention. Image segmentation plays a key role in most plant identification methods, especially in complex background images. Wher...

introduction to extract and combine information from different modalities, fusion techniques are commonly applied to promote system performance. in this study, we aimed to examine the effectiveness of fusion techniques in emotion recognition. materials and methods electrocardiogram (ecg) and galvanic skin responses (gsr) of 11 healthy female students (mean age: 22.73±1.68 years) were collected ...