• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.132-139
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• 2009

In this paper, a speech feature based double-talk detector method is proposed for an acoustic echo cancellation in hands-free communication system. The double-talk detector is an important element, since it controls the update of the adaptive filter for an acoustic echo cancellation. In previous research, the double talk detector is considered in the signal processing stage without taking the speech characteristics into account. However, in the proposed method, speech features which are used for the speech recognition is used for the discriminative features between the far-end and near-end speech. We obtained a substantial improvement over the previous double-talk detector methods using the only signal in time domain.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.35-46
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• 2000

In this paper, we propose a subband acoustic echo canceller using the weighted Overlap-add adaptive filter bank to prevent the decrease of convergence speed in full-band US processing, and make it possible to realize the adaptive filter in block-parallel processing, this paper introduces the weighted overlap-add technique for subband echo canceller. Moreover, we propose a new double-talk detector which employs dedicated filter in addition to the energy comparison method simultaneously. The computer simulation results show that the performance of the proposed subband adaptive echo canceller double-talk detection

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.162-166
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel approach of an acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) algorithm which is differently adopted in the relevant period condition by the suppression parameter of a parametric wiener filter (PWF). The PWF uses the suppression parameter to compensate uncertainty of acoustic echo signal estimation. The existing PWF method using the fixed suppression parameter derives the distortion of the near-end signal at the double-talk. To solve this problem, the boundary condition is devised using decision of the double-talk detection (DTD) algorithm and voice activity detector (VAD). The boundary condition makes it possible to treat differently depending on the case of the single-talk and double-talk. According to the experimental results, the proposed approach is found to be effective for acoustic echo cancellation using the boundary condition.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.203-208
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• 2013

In this paper, we proposed a performance improvement method of the double talk detector which can operate before the echo canceller converges. Microphone input signal is filtered by the linear prediction filter and this filtered signal is used for detection. The coefficients of the linear prediction filter are given by the far-end talker signal. During single talk, filtered signal has low power since the characteristics of the echo signal is similar with those of the far-end talker signal. But, during double talk, the filtered signal does not have low power because the signal of different characteristics is included in the microphone signal. Double talk is detected by this difference. Simulations using real speech signals verified that the proposed method outperformed the conventional methods.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.237-245
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• 2012

This paper describes an acoustic echo canceller with double-talk by the blind signal separation. The acoustic echo canceller is deteriorated or diverged in the double-talk period. So we use the blind signal separation to estimate the near-end speech signal and to eliminate the estimated signal from the residual signal. The blind signal separation extracts the near-end signal with dual microphones by the iterative computations using the 2nd order statistical character. Because the mixture model of blind signal separation is multi-channel in the closed reverberation environment, we used the copied coefficients of echo canceller without computing the separation coefficients. By this method, the acoustic echo canceller operates irrespective of double-talking. We verified performances of the proposed acoustic echo canceller by simulations. The results show that the acoustic echo canceller with this algorithm detects the double-talk periods thoroughly, and then operates stably in the normal state without the divergence of coefficients after ending the double-talking. And it shows the ERLE of averagely 20dB higher than the normal LMS algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.483-490
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• 2009

In this paper, we develop a speech interface that has acoustic echo cancelling and barge-in functionalities in the car environment. In the echo canceller, DT (Double-Talk) detection algorithm using the correlation coefficients between reference and desired signals can make DT detection errors often in the background noise. We reduce the DT detection errors by using the average power of noise and echo estimated from the input signal. In addition, to make it possible for drivers to give speech command to the system by interrupting the speaker output, barge-in functionality is implemented with the combination of DT detection and appropriate gain control of the speaker output. Through the computer simulation with the assumed car environment and experiment in the real laboratory environment, implemented speech interface has shown good performance in removing acoustic echo signals in the noisy environment with proper operation of barge-in functionality.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.746-751
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• 2001

일반적으로 음향 반향 제거기에서 적응필터의 안정성을 보장하기 위해서 동시통화 검출기(DTD)를 사용하여 원단화자 신호와 근단화자 신호의 존재 여부에 따라 적응필터 계수의 적응 여부를 결정한다. 본 논문에서는 두 개의 상호상관계수를 이용하여 계산량과 메모리 소자수 면에서 효율적인 동시통화 검출 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 마이크로폰의 입력신호와 추정된 반향 신호간의 상호상관계수, 그리고 마이크로폰의 입력신호와 오차신호간의 상호상관계수를 이용하여, 주행 상황과 같이 심한 잡음 환경에서도 동시통화 구간의 시작점과 끝점 검출에 강인한 특성을 갖는다. 또한, 기존의 상호상관도를 이용하는 방법에 비하여 적은 양의 계산과 메모리를 필요로 하여 저가의 고정소수점 DSP를 이용한 실시간 구현에 적합하다. 성능 평가를 위하여 차내 핸즈프리 통신 환경에서 얻은 실측 데이터를 사용하여 기존의 방법과 비교하였다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.195-200
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• 2012

We present a new algorithm which can improve the tracking performance of the double-talk robust algorithm. A detection method of the echo path change and a modification method for the update equation of the conventional adaptive filter are proposed. A duration of the high error signal to scale parameter ratio varies according to the call status and this property is used to detect the echo path change. The proposed update equation of the adaptive filter improves the tracking performance by prohibiting wrong selection of the error signal. Simulations using real speech signals and echo paths of the ITU-T G.168 standard confirmed that as compared to the conventional algorithm, the proposed algorithm improved the tracking performance by more than 4 dB.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.285-289
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel double-talk detection (DTD) technique based on soft decision in the frequency domain. In the proposed method, global near-end speech presence probability (GNSPP) considering the statistical model assumption and voice activity detection (VAD) decision of the near-end and far-end signal are applied to the DTD algorithm in the frequency domain instead of the traditional hard decision scheme using cross-correlation coefficients. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the objective test under various environments, and yields better results compared with the conventional scheme.

• KDI Journal of Economic Policy
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.1-17
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• 1989

본고(本稿)에서는 최근 미국연방준비은행(美國聯邦準備銀行)의 Hallman Porter Small이 개발한 인플레추정방법, 즉 화폐수량식에 장기균형유통속도(長期均衡流通速度)($V^*$), 잠재생산력(潛在生産力)($Q^*$), 장기균형기준물가(長期均衡基準物價)(P*)등의 개념을 적용하여 인플레식(式)을 추정하는 방법을 우리나라에 적용하여 보았다. 이를 위해 $V^*$는 인플레의 변동에 의해 구조적(構造的)으로 변동(變動)될 수 있다는 점과 $Q^*$는 고용(雇傭)뿐 아니라 투자의 함수라고 가정하고 자본스톡 및 $Q^*$를 내생적으로 추정하는 등으로 $V^*$, $Q^*$의 개념을 재정립하였다. 추정결과(推定結果)에 의하면 87년초 이후부터 실질생산(實質生産) 잠재(潛在)GNP를 초과하게 되었으며 통화공급(通貨供給) 역시 확대되어 $P^*$가 P를 넘어서는 현상, 즉 물가상승압력(物價上昇壓力)이 누적되어 왔으며, 이에 따른 물가불안이 해소되기에는 정책대응여하에 따라 상당한 기간이 소요될 수도 있을 것으로 냐타났다. 즉, 시뮬레이션결과 종합해 보면 물가상승압력(物價上昇壓力)의 완화를 위해서는 투자진작을 통한 잠재생산력(潛在生産力)의 확충과 아울러 긴축기조(緊縮基調)의 유지라는 일견(一見) 상반(相反)되는 정책기조(政策基調)를 동시에 추진해 나가야 할 것으로 나타났다. 현재의 경기국면에 대한 대응책으로는 통화공급(通貨供給)을 확대시키는 단순한 총량적 정책보다는 긴축기조(緊縮基調)를 유지하면서도 통화(通貨)의 신축적(伸縮的)인 공급이 투자(投資) 고용(雇傭) 등의 생산부문(生産部門)으로 원활히 흐를 수 있도록 하는 동시에 금융구조(金融構造) 경제구조(經濟構造)를 개선해 나가는 미시적이고도 포괄적인 정책이 요구된다 하겠다.