Active binaural localization of intermittent moving sources in the presence of false measurements

This paper takes place within the field of active sound source localization in a binaural context. A stochastic filtering strategy is presented for the localization of a still or moving source from a moving binaural sensor. The proposed method accounts for the source intermittence as well as for false measurements induced by the non-stationarity of the emitted signal. Its effectiveness is showed on experimental results.

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