2CoBel : An Efficient Belief Function Extension for Two-dimensional
  Continuous Spaces
  This paper introduces an innovative approach for handling 2D compound
hypotheses within the Belief Function Theory framework. We propose a
polygon-based generic rep- resentation which relies on polygon clipping
operators. This approach allows us to account in the computational cost for the
precision of the representation independently of the cardinality of the
discernment frame. For the BBA combination and decision making, we propose
efficient algorithms which rely on hashes for fast lookup, and on a topological
ordering of the focal elements within a directed acyclic graph encoding their
interconnections. Additionally, an implementation of the functionalities
proposed in this paper is provided as an open source library. Experimental
results on a pedestrian localization problem are reported. The experiments show
that the solution is accurate and that it fully benefits from the scalability
of the 2D search space granularity provided by our representation.
