Observation of vehicle axles through pass-by noise: A strategy of microphone array design

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1654-1664

  Marmaroli, Patrick ^a   Carmona, Mikael ^b   Odobez, Jean Marc ^a,c   Falourd, Xavier ^a   Lissek, Hervé ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c IDIAP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustic signal processing; Direction of arrival estimation; Microphone arrays; Particle filters; Road vehicles; Vehicle detection

Indexed keywords

DIRECTION OF ARRIVAL ESTIMATION; MICROPHONE ARRAYS; PARTICLE FILTER; ROAD VEHICLES; VEHICLE DETECTION;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MICROPHONES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; ROADS AND STREETS; SENSORS; SIGNAL FILTERING AND PREDICTION; TARGET TRACKING;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84890388251     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2013.2265776     Document Type: Article

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