Data Fusion

Data fusion is the process of putting together information obtained from many heterogeneous sensors, on many platforms, into a single composite picture of the environment. The partners have a considerable track record in data fusion for both military and robotic applications, especially in information-theoretic decentralised data fusion methods pioneered in the group. Data fusion research will focus on:

1. The development of novel sensor-centric data fusion models appropriate to fusion of disparate range and image data;
2. Fusion of complex, information-rich, probabilistic representations of geometric and physical properties; and
3. development of endogenous data fusion and communication algorithms appropriate to large-scale distributed sensor networks.

Data fusion research will be led by Hugh Durrant-Whyte, an ARC Federation Fellow.