NDLI: Time-Reversal Approach to the Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation Problem

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Dinh-Quy Nguyen Woon-Seng Gan Khong, A.W.H.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC) plays an important role in delivering realistic teleconferencing experience. The fundamental problem of SAEC system is that stereophonic channels are linearly related and this results in slow convergence of the adaptive filters. In this paper, we present a novel algorithm by employing a selective time-reversal block to solve the SAEC problem which results in a significant increase in the convergence performance of adaptive filters such that the stereophonic image as well as quality are preserved. The proposed algorithm employs time-reversal operation on selective blocks of input data samples for one of the two channels to decorrelate stereophonic channels in the SAEC system. To achieve good stereophonic perception, time-reversal operation is only applied to the selective blocks whose magnitudes fall below a pre-determined threshold. Theoretical and numerical simulation results are also studied and investigated to show that the proposed algorithm achieves faster convergence in terms of normalized misalignment and better stereophonic perception with less audio distortion compared to the well-known nonlinear transformation algorithm for the SAEC system.
Sponsorship	IEEE Signal Processing Society
Starting Page	385
Ending Page	395
Page Count	11
File Size	1500868
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15587916
Volume Number	19
Issue Number	2
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-02-01
Publisher Place	U.S.A.
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Echo cancellers Convergence Decorrelation Adaptive filters Signal processing algorithms Teleconferencing Noise shaping Gallium nitride Digital signal processing Laboratories time-reversal Decorrelation techniques nonlinear transformation stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC)
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Acoustics and Ultrasonics Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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