A Comparison of Information Functions and Search Strategies for Sensor Planning in Target Classification

作者：Zhang Guoxian^*; Ferrari Silvia; Cai Chenghui

来源：IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics , 2012, 42(1): 2-16.

DOI：10.1109/TSMCB.2011.2165336

• Classification
• detection
• information driven
• information theory
• management
• optimal
• planning
• search
• sensor
• strategy
• target

This paper investigates the comparative performance of several information-driven search strategies and decision rules using a canonical target classification problem. Five sensor models are considered: one obtained from classical estimation theory and four obtained from Bernoulli, Poisson, binomial, and mixture-of-binomial distributions. A systematic approach is presented for deriving information functions that represent the expected utility of future sensor measurements from mutual information, Renyi divergence, Kullback-Leibler divergence, information potential, quadratic entropy, and the Cauchy-Schwarz distance. The resulting information-driven strategies are compared to direct-search, alert-confirm, task-driven (TS), and log-likelihood-ratio (LLR) search strategies. Extensive numerical simulations show that quadratic entropy typically leads to the most effective search strategy with respect to correct-classification rates. In the presence of prior information, the quadratic-entropy-driven strategy also displays the lowest rate of false alarms. However, when prior information is absent or very noisy, TS and LLR strategies achieve the lowest false-alarm rates for the Bernoulli, mixture-of-binomial, and classical sensor models.

• 出版日期2012-2