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This paper is to serve as an introduction to the multi-sensory signal fusion. It represents a literature survey and particularly shows the relations to Artificial Intelligence.
At the beginning a rough definition of the term fusion is given and the necessity of fusing sensor data is clarified. Later on the spectrum of the terminology is shown by explaining details of fusion and by remarking related problems. Finally the wide spread of applications and their relations to the field of Artificial Intelligence are enumerated and verified by various examples.
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Zimmermann, A. (1991). Multi-Sensory Signal Fusion. In: Popović, D. (eds) Analysis and Control of Industrial Processes. Advances in System Analysis, vol 6. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-88847-1_19
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