On frequency tracking in harmonic acoustic signals

Acoustic frequency tracking of a harmonic signal with continuously varying frequency is considered. The Rao-Blackwellized point mass filter (RBPMF), previously proposed by the authors for mechanical vibration tracking, is applied to the problem. The RBPMF is compared with two periodogram-based methods, and the similarities and differences between them are explained. Both experimental and simulation results in a Doppler frequency tracking scenario are presented, and the results show that the RBPMF can have significantly less estimation error than the competing methods.