A statistical overview of recent literature in information fusion

The objective of this paper is to make a picture of the recent articles pub lished on information fusion. Indeed, a great number of documents dealing w ith this technique are available in the literature. A classification scheme including application fields, fusion goals, fusion system architecture and mathematical tools is proposed. This overview of the last three years allo ws us to compute the article distribution into each class. Finally, some el ements of preliminary analysis of this classification are drawn.