Related concepts of entropy play a very important role in dealing with uncertainty in terms of Shannon's information theory. However, for uncertain information involving epistemic uncertainty, which is usually modelled by using Dempster-Shafer theory, the concepts of cross entropy and relative entropy are still not well defined currently. Facing this issue, by reviewing and importing existing related work, this study gives new definitions of cross entropy and relative entropy of mass functions, which are respectively named as cross plausibility entropy and relative plausibility entropy since they are both based on an uncertainty measure called plausibility entropy. The properties of cross an... More >

Extended target tracking in occlusion scenarios often suffers from split errors due to sensor limitations and complex target interactions, leading to degraded tracking performance for autonomous vehicles and surveillance systems. To address this issue, in this paper, we propose a Gaussian Wasserstein distance-enhanced spatio-temporal similarity method for split error correction. We first analyze the spatio-temporal characteristics of split extended targets and model their geometric uncertainties via elliptical Gaussian distributions. Then, we integrate the Gaussian Wasserstein distance into the clue-aware trajectory similarity calculation framework to simultaneously capture positional and sh... More >

In Dempster-Shafer evidence theory (DST), the determination of basic belief assignment (BBA) is an important yet challenging issue before the evidence fusion. The rational mass determination of compound focal elements is crucial for fully taking advantage of DST, i.e., the ability to represent the ambiguity. In this paper, for the compound focal elements, we select and construct the compound-class samples with ambiguous class membership. Then, we use these samples to construct an end-to-end model called Evidential Radial Basis Function Network (E-RBFN), with the input as the sample and the output as the corresponding BBA. The E-RBFN can directly determine the mass values for all focal elemen... More >