Principal Component Analysis – A Realization of Classification Success in Multi Sensor Data Fusion

Abstract

Although the concept of MSDF was first introduced in the 1960s and implemented in the 1970s in the robotic and defense application, today, the application of MSDF has proliferated into various nonmilitary applications. However the method is still disparate, where it is impossible to create a one-fits-all data fusion framework. The applications of MSDF are now multidisciplinary in nature. Some specific applications of MSDF include multimodal biometric systems using face and palm-print (Raghavendra et al.