A new mass functions assignment in the Dempster-Shafer theory : the fuzzy statistical approach

This paper describes a new analysis of the evidential reasoning based on the fuzzy statistical approach. The evidential reasoning uses the Dempster-Shafer (DS) theory with a new approach to assign the mass functions. We test the proposed method on a basic simulated noisy fuzzy image composed on three pure classes, and we compare the mass functions representation with standard statistical methods and fuzzy methods. For a real study, we apply the new data fusion process to remote sensing data fusion.