Energy minimization for data merging and fusion
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1. A data fusion method comprising the steps of:
- (a) receiving data; and
(b) applying energy minimization to produce fusion vectors.
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Abstract
A data merging/fusion comprises using a preprocessing step, an energy minimization step, and a postprocessing step to merge or fuse data. In a particular embodiment, ordinal data are processed by mapping the ordinal data to a lower triangular matrix of ordinal data, processing the matrix using non-metric individual differences multidimensional scaling and subsequently processing the result.
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1. A data fusion method comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving data; and
(b) applying energy minimization to produce fusion vectors. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A data fusion method comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving ordinal data;
(b) creating matrices of length data using the ordinal data;
(c) applying energy minimization to the matrices; and
(e) producing fusion vectors in response to the energy minimization. - View Dependent Claims (13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. A data fusion process for data comprising:
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using individual differences multidimensional scaling with one or more input length matrices into which the data for fusion has been converted to produce at least a source space output; and
using the source space output to interpret the fused data. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24)
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25. A data fusion process comprising:
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forming input length matrices with ordinal data;
applying an energy minimization process with the input length matrices to produce at least a source space output; and
interpreting the source space output as an indicator of data fusion. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. Computer executable software program code stored on a computer readable medium, the code for data fusion of input data, the code comprising:
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first code that receives data and forms one or more data structures using the data;
second code that applies an energy minimization process to the one or more data structures and produces fusion vectors; and
third code that uses the fusion vectors to provide user output information.
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35. A method for data fusion, the method comprising the steps of:
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receiving one or more sets of ordinal data Sk, the ordinal data including ranking values for a predetermined characteristic among a plurality of input domains;
mapping the ordinal data into one or more empty lower triangular length matrices Tk to define lengths in the one or more matrices Tk;
processing the matrices Tk using an energy minimization process to produce output data; and
processing the output data to provide fused data. - View Dependent Claims (36)
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