@inproceedings{Vermaak:2001, title = {Nonlinear filtering for speaker tracking in noisy and reverberantenvironments}, author = {J. Vermaak and A. Blake}, booktitle = {Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 2001. Proceedings. (ICASSP '01). 2001 IEEE International Conference on}, pages = {3021-3024 vol.5}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=940294}, volume = {5}, year = {2001}, biburl = {http://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b721b73ffeb8ee938b0383110fddf752/darnok}, description = {Welcome to IEEE Xplore 2.0: Nonlinear filtering for speaker tracking in noisy and reverberantenvironments}, abstract = {This paper addresses the problem of speaker tracking in a noisy and reverberant environment using time delay of arrival (TDOA) measurements at spatially distributed microphone pairs. The tracking problem is posed within a state-space estimation framework, and models are developed for the speaker motion and the likelihood of the speaker location in the light of the TDOA measurements. The resulting state-space model is nonlinear and nonGaussian, and consequently no closed-form solutions exist for the filtering distributions required to perform tracking. Here sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods are applied to approximate the true filtering distribution with a set of samples. The resulting tracking algorithm requires no triangulation, is computationally efficient, and can straightforwardly be extended to track multiple speakers}, isbn = {0-7803-7041-4}, doi = {10.1109/ICASSP.2001.940294}, keywords = {imported } }