  Filters developed in order to detect short bursts of gravitational waves in
interferometric detector outputs are compared according to three main points.
Conventional Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROC) are first built for all
the considered filters and for three typical burst signals. Optimized ROC are
shown for a simple pulse signal in order to estimate the best detection
efficiency of the filters in the ideal case, while realistic ones obtained with
filters working with several ``templates'' show how detection efficiencies can
be degraded in a practical implementation. Secondly, estimations of biases and
statistical errors on the reconstruction of the time of arrival of pulse-like
signals are then given for each filter. Such results are crucial for future
coincidence studies between Gravitational Wave detectors but also with neutrino
or optical detectors. As most of the filters require a pre-whitening of the
detector noise, the sensitivity to a non perfect noise whitening procedure is
finally analysed. For this purpose lines of various frequencies and amplitudes
are added to a Gaussian white noise and the outputs of the filters are studied
in order to monitor the excess of false alarms induced by the lines. The
comparison of the performances of the different filters finally show that they
are complementary rather than competitive.
