Binaural tracking of multiple moving sources

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 728-739

  Roman, Nicoleta ^a   Wang, Deliang ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaural processing; Hidden Markov model (HMM); Moving source tracking; Multisource tracking

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; AUDITORY SCENE ANALYSIS; BINAURAL CUES; BINAURAL PROCESSING; FREQUENCY CHANNELS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL (HMM); HMM MODELS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOVING SOUND SOURCES; MOVING SOURCE TRACKING; MULTISOURCE TRACKING; SOURCE LOCATIONS; TARGET SPACES; TIME FRAMES; TIME FREQUENCIES; TRACKING ALGORITHMS;

CONTROL THEORY; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 64849095806     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2008.918978     Document Type: Article

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