This thesis focuses on the Bayesian estimation problem for statistical filtering which consists in estimating hidden states from an historic of observations over time in a given stochastic model. The considered models include the popular Hidden Markov Chain models and the Jump Markov State Space Systems; in addition, the filtering problem is addressed under a general form, that is to say we consider the mono- and multi-object filtering problems. The latter one is addressed in the Random Finite Sets and Probability Hypothesis Density contexts. First, we focus on the class of particle filtering algorithms, which include essentially the sequential importance sampling and auxiliary particle filter algorithms. We explore the recursive loops for computing the filtering probability density function, and alternative particle filtering algorithms are proposed. The ``locally optimal'' filtering algorithms, i.e. the sequential importance sampling with optimal conditional importance distribution and the fully adapted auxiliary particle filtering algorithms, are statistically compared in function of the parameters of a given stochastic model. Next, variance reduction methods based on the Rao-Blackwell theorem are exploited in the mono- and multi-object filtering contexts. More precisely, these methods are mainly used in mono-object filtering when the dimension of the hidden state is large; so we first extend them for Monte Carlo approximations of the Probabilty Hypothesis Density filter. In addition, alternative variance reduction methods are proposed. Although we still use the Rao-Blackwell decomposition, our methods no longer focus on the spatial aspect of the problem but rather on its temporal one. Finally, we discuss on the extension of the classical stochastic models. We first recall pairwise and triplet Markov models and we illustrate their interest through several practical examples. We next address the multi-object filtering problem for such models in the random finite sets context. Moreover, the statistical properties of the more general triplet Markov models are used to build new approximations of the optimal Bayesian estimate (in the sense of the mean square error) in Jump Markov State Space Systems. These new approximations can produce estimates with performances alike those given by particle filters but with lower computational cost
