Bearing-only acoustic tracking of moving speakers for robot audition
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Author(s)
Evers, C
Moore, AH
Naylor, PA
Sheaffer, J
Rafaely, B
Type
Conference Paper
Abstract
This paper focuses on speaker tracking in robot audition for human-robot interaction. Using only acoustic signals, speaker tracking in enclosed spaces is subject to missing detections and spurious clutter measurements due to speech inactivity, reverberation and interference. Furthermore, many acoustic localization approaches estimate speaker direction, hence providing bearing-only measurements without range information. This paper presents a probability hypothesis density (PHD) tracker that augments the bearing-only speaker directions of arrival with a cloud of range hypotheses at speaker initiation and propagates the random variates through time. Furthermore, due to their formulation PHD filters explicitly model, and hence provide robustness against, clutter and missing detections. The approach is verified using experimental results.
Date Issued
2015-07-21
Date Acceptance
2015-01-01
Citation
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2015, pp.1206-1210
ISSN
1546-1874
Publisher
IEEE
Start Page
1206
End Page
1210
Journal / Book Title
Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Copyright Statement
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Sponsor
Commission of the European Communities
Grant Number
609465
Source
2015 IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
Publication Status
Published
Start Date
2015-07-21
Finish Date
2015-07-24
Coverage Spatial
Singapore