• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.281-291
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new double talk detection algorithm which detects near end signals with less degradation, tracking echo path variation of echo canceler simultaneously. Our method makes use of a cross-correlation between channel input signals and estimated error signals and a normalized cross-correlation between microphone input signals and estimated error signals. By combing thresholds for these cross-correlations pertinently, this algorithm discriminates between variation of echo path and occurrence of double talk. These two cross-correlation are used to detect double talk periods, tracking echo path variation. During the detection period, adjustive adaptive filter is ceased to prevent the echo canceler from being disturbed by near end signals. Also, the echo canceler will still be kept on for tracking any variation in echo path. Through computer simulation results, it was confirmed that the proposed algorithm shows better performance, tracking echo path variation and detecting the double talk periods, than the Ye et. al's and the NLMS algorithms from ERLE viewpoint.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.173-176
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• 1998

스테레오 음향 반향 제거기에서 발생하는 주요한 문제점들은 모노 환경에서와는 다르게 반향 경로 시스템의 긴 임펄스 응답으로 인한 느린 수렴속도와 원단화자 주위의 환경변화에 의한 최적해의 변화 등을 등 수 있다. 이러한 문제점들을 극복하기 위해 본 논문은 전송실에서의 환경 변화에 의한 반향 제거 성능저하와 저속의 수렴속도 및 과다한 계산량의 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 전송실의 환경 변화에 강인하고 계산량을 줄일 수 있는 Hyper-plane projection 알고리듬을 이용한 의사 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.86-97
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• 1998

본 논문은 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기에 적용되는 고속 Affine Projection 알고리듬 을 제안한다. 최근 스테레오 원격 회의 시스템은 보다 현실감 있는 원격 회의를 가능케 하 는 장점으로 인해 많은 관심을 끌고 있다. 그러나, 회의실의 원단화자와 마이크로폰사이의 상호교차(cross-coupling)로 인해 음향 반향이 발생하게 된다. 만약 이 반향 신호가 제거되 지 않은채 수신 룸으로 전달되면 결국 음성 통화 품질이 저하된다. 이를 방지하기 위하여 추정 반향 신호를 만들어 내고 통신 품질의 손실 없이 이 반향을 제거하는 음향 반향 제거 기가 필수적이다. 단 채널 음향 반향 제거기와 다르게 스테레오 환경하에서의 음향 반향 제 거기는 전송실의 환경변화로 인한 성능 저하와 각 반향 경로를 추정하기 위해 사용하는 각 적응 필터의 임펄스응답이 반향 경로와 일치하지 않는 등의 각종 문제점들이 발생하게 된 다. 본 논문에서는 서로 상관관계 없는 입력신호를 만들어내고 전송실의 환경변화로 인한 성능저하를 보완하기 위해 전처리단(pre-processing block)을 제안하여 일반적인 방법에 대 해 3-10dB정도의 향상된 성능을 보이며 적은 계산량으로 빠른 수렴성능을 갖는 새로운 형 태의 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.249-252
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 음향반향제거기에서 상관계수를 이용하여 동시통화 구간을 검출하는 방법에서 검출 오류로 인해 발생되는 문제점에 대해서 다룬다. 상관계수(correlation coefficient)를 이용한 DT 검출 방법에서 동시통화 구간과 반향경로의 변화를 명확하게 구분 짓는 문턱값 설정이 어렵기 때문에 때때로 검출 오류가 발생한다. 즉, 동시통화 중간에 반향경로가 변함으로써 동시통화 구간의 끝점 검출에 실패하거나 반항경로 변화를 DT로 잘못 인식하는 경우가 발생하는데, 이럴 경우 더 이상 적응필터의 계수를 갱신을 할 수 없는 상태에 빠지기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 반향제거기에 보조필터를 사용하여 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 한다. 이는 보조필터가 기준입력신호(reference signal)를 이용하여 변화된 반향신호 성분은 추정할 수 있지만 근단화자 신호는 추정할 수 없다는 점을 이용한다 실험을 통해 제안한 알고리즘이 검출 오류로 인해 발생되는 문제를 효율적으로 해결할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.17-30
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• 1999

This paper proposes a new stereophonic acoustic echo canceller to prevent impairments on the voice quality and to remove acoustic echo effectively appearing in stereo environment at the instant of abrupt change of the transmission room environment in teleconferencing system. In stereophonic acoustic echo canceller, the major defective problems are the large computational complexity of estimating echo path systems due to the long impulse response of the true echo paths and the performance degradation of echo canceller due to large correlation between dual stereo signals. Moreover, the change of the suboptimal solution for the echo canceller was considered as a critical deficient factor on to the performance of stereophonic echo canceller. To overcome these problems, this paper proposes pseudo stereophonic acoustic echo canceller using Hyper-plane projection algorithm, which shows the robustness to the environment change of the transmission room and the efficiency of computational complexity.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.34-41
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• 2000

This paper proposes a new double-talk detection algorithm which is based on the fuzzy rules, in the adaptive echo canceller of telecommunication system. In this method, the two inputs of the fuzzy inference for detecting double-talk condition are used. One is the cross-correlation coefficient between the error signal and the primary signal which is the summation of the real echo signal and the near-end signal. The other one is the cross-correlation coefficient between the estimation error signal and the primary signal. The fuzzy controller makes a fuzzification for two inputs by the membership functions of trapezoid does the max-min composition using if-then rules. The composed result is defuzzificated by the center gravity method. And by defuzzificated values, the double-talt the echo path variance, and the echo path variance during the double-talk are detected. It is confirmed by computer simulation that this fuzzy double-talk detector is able to estimate the double talk and the echo path variation condition, and even track echo path variation more accurately than the conventional algorithm during the double-talk period.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.65-70
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• 2005

This paper deals with the problem of double-talk (DT) detection in anacoustic echo canceller (AEC). In the DT detection algorithm with correlation coefficient, detection errors occasionally occur because it is hard to set the threshold to distinguish DT from echo path change (EPC). Adaptive filter falls into the situation that it stops updating its filter coefficients when EPC is erroneously considered as DT at the starting-point of EPC. In addition, in case of echo path changing during the DT period, the end-point detection of DT period fails so that the AEC cannot update its filter coefficients for a while even after the DT period ends. To solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel AEC that employs an auxiliary filter. We use the idea that though the error signal cannot be estimated using reference signal in case or DT situation but it can be in case or EPC situation. The experimental result verifies that the proposed method could solve the problems caused by DT detection error or echo path change during the DT period.

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.37 no.5
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• pp.36-47
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• 2000

The CDMA digital cellular systems provide better voice Quality than analog systems, however there exists inherent delays due to speech coding and transmission processing, which brings echoes returned by the BSC and PSTN interface. In this paper, we show the performance improvement of a proposed echo canceller by real time implementation, where Block Update NLMS algorithm is applied into the TMS320C54X DSP. By applying the proposed method into the practical mobile phone, we verify that various types of echoes (LE, ESE, AE) may be removed more precisely. We also cope with echo path change resulting from change of delay length after taking VAD to find echo path delay.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.6
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• pp.604-610
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• 2000

A stereo acoustic echo canceller has significant cross-correlation between each channel signal. As the result, the adaptive filter coefficient that estimates the acoustic echo path of a receiving room can misconverge to the path or converge slowly. In this paper, a new preprocessor using absolute difference in stereo signals is proposed to reduce cross-correlations and to improve the removal efficiency of the stereo acoustic echo. Compared to the previous preprocessor using a half wave rectifier, the newly proposed preprocessor showed better performance according to computer simulation. In addition, when the paths of transmitting room were changed the performance of the proposed preprocessor was not degraded.