Title
Context-based multi-level information fusion for harbor surveillance
Abstract
Harbor surveillance is a critical and challenging part of maritime security procedures. Building a surveillance picture to support decision makers in detection of potential threats requires the integration of data and information coming from heterogeneous sources. Context plays a key role in achieving this task by providing expectations, constraints and additional information for inference about the items of interest. This paper proposes a fusion system for context-based situation and threat assessment with application to harbor surveillance. The architecture of the system is organized in two levels. The lowest level uses an ontological model to formally represent input data and to classify harbor objects and basic situations by deductive reasoning according to the harbor regulations. The higher level applies Belief-based Argumentation to evaluate the threat posed by suspicious vessels. The functioning of the system is illustrated with several examples that reproduce common harbor scenarios.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.inffus.2014.01.011
Information Fusion
Keywords
Field
DocType
ontologies,higher-level fusion,context,maritime surveillance,belief argumentation system
Ontology (information science),Ontology,Architecture,Inference,Argumentation theory,Maritime security,Deductive reasoning,Threat assessment,Artificial intelligence,Mathematics,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
21,
1566-2535
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
32
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan Gómez-Romero140421.69
Miguel A. Serrano2777.94
Jesús García323830.37
José M. Molina460467.82
Galina L. Rogova510512.09