1. Fusion paradigms in cognitive technical systems for human–computer interaction
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Felix Schüssel, Klaus Dietmayer, Michael Weber, Florian Nothdurft, Thilo Hörnle, Thomas Geier, Friedhelm Schwenker, Gerald Krell, Stephan Reuter, Susanne Biundo, Frank Honold, Michael Glodek, Wolfgang Minker, and Günther Palm
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Fusion ,Human–computer interaction ,business.industry ,Computer science ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,Technical systems ,Scene understanding ,Cognition ,Machine learning ,computer.software_genre ,Computer Science Applications ,Artificial Intelligence ,Robustness (computer science) ,Cognitive technical systems ,Artificial intelligence ,business ,computer - Abstract
Recent trends in human–computer interaction (HCI) show a development towards cognitive technical systems (CTS) to provide natural and efficient operating principles. To do so, a CTS has to rely on data from multiple sensors which must be processed and combined by fusion algorithms. Furthermore, additional sources of knowledge have to be integrated, to put the observations made into the correct context. Research in this field often focuses on optimizing the performance of the individual algorithms, rather than reflecting the requirements of CTS. This paper presents the information fusion principles in CTS architectures we developed for Companion Technologies. Combination of information generally goes along with the level of abstractness, time granularity and robustness, such that large CTS architectures must perform fusion gradually on different levels — starting from sensor-based recognitions to highly abstract logical inferences. In our CTS application we sectioned information fusion approaches into three categories: perception-level fusion, knowledge-based fusion and application-level fusion. For each category, we introduce examples of characteristic algorithms. In addition, we provide a detailed protocol on the implementation performed in order to study the interplay of the developed algorithms.
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