Speaker localization and tracking with a microphone array on a mobile robot using von Mises distribution and particle filtering

Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1185-1196

  Marković, Ivan ^a   Petrović, Ivan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Microphone array; Particle filtering; Speaker localization; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SIGNALS; AZIMUTH ANGLES; AZIMUTH ESTIMATION; CROSS CORRELATIONS; CROSS-CORRELATION FUNCTION; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-MODAL; NON-LINEAR; PARTICLE FILTERING; POST-PROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SPEAKER LOCALIZATION; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; VOICE ACTIVITY DETECTION ALGORITHMS; VON MISES DISTRIBUTION;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; ESTIMATION; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

MICROPHONES;

EID: 77957280273     PISSN: 09218890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2010.08.001     Document Type: Article

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