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r302 r984 7 7 8 8 BDM is a collection of methods for selected tasks of Bayesian decision-making, such as estimation, filtering and control. 9 It is implemneted in C++ with available interfaces to matlab (called bdmtoolbox) and Python (preliminary). 9 10 10 11 \section fea Features 11 12 At present the following algorithms are implemented: 12 - \b Bayesian \b filtering : Kalman filter, EKF, patricle filter (PF),13 - \b Bayesian \b filtering : Kalman filter, EKF, patricle filter (PF), 13 14 - these can be combined mutualy together in mode demanding schemes, see marginalized particle filter MPF 14 15 15 - \b Classification using mixtures of exponential famiuly models (MixEF), 16 - \b Density \b estimation : using mixtures (MixEF), density composition (merger) 16 - \b Classification using mixtures of exponential famiuly models (MixEF), 17 - \b Density \b estimation : using mixtures (MixEF), density composition (merger) 18 - \b LQG \b control : so far only for ARX and Kalman filters 17 19 18 20 \section down Download and Use 19 21 The library is available under GPL, see installation instructions on page \ref install 20 22 21 Precompiled Mex files for use within Matlab are available \ref mexfiles 23 It is split into library and applications. One of the applications is toolbox for matlab, which can be downloaded in binary form for win32, see \ref install. 22 24 23 \section app Design Approach 24 The toolbox is designed using \b object-oriented approach with two design criteria: 25 \li relation to mathematics, 26 \li efficient evaluation, 27 while the first one is more important than the latter. 25 \section app Publications 28 26 29 Hence, each mathematical object such as probability density is 30 represented by one software object. The resulting algorithms are 31 then implemented as operations on these objects. In cases when 32 more efficient solution can be achived when this structure is not respected, 33 a parallel implementation is created and clearly marked as specific. 34 35 OpenMP is used to achive efficient implementation on parallel architectures. 27 Publications that were made with the toolbox are: 28 - \b Software papers: 29 - \b Distributed \b identification : 30 - \b Baysian \b filtering : 31 32 The status of replicability of the published experiments is available in \ref published. 36 33 37 34 \section impl Implementation 38 35 39 BDM is build on top of \c IT++ which wraps numerically efficient operations of linear algebra into easy to use C++ classes. Thanks to this excellent library, writing of numerical algorithms is as easy as in Matlab but we gain significant advantages: 40 41 \li computational speed comparable to built-in Matlab function, and surpassing interpreted Matlab in order of magnitudes, 42 \li native support for object-oriented programming, 43 \li support for templates which is often more appropriate than object-oriented programming, 44 \li cross-platform compatibility. 45 46 47 */ 36 BDM is build on top of \c IT++ which wraps numerically efficient operations of linear algebra into easy to use C++ classes with Matlab-like syntax. 37 */