Multiple vehicle signals separation based on particle filtering in wireless sensor network*

A novel statistical method based on particle filtering is presented for multiple vehicle acoustic signals separation problem in wireless sensor network. The particle filtering method is able to deal with non-Gaussian and nonlinear models and non-stationary sources. Using some instantaneously mixed observations of several real-world vehicle acoustic signals, the proposed statistical method is compared with a conventional non-stationary Blind Source Separation algorithm and attractive simulation results are achieved. Moreover, considering the natural convenience to transmit particles between sensor nodes, the algorithm based on particle filtering is believed to have potential to enable the task of multiple vehicles recognition collaboratively performed by sensor nodes in distributed wireless sensor network.