• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.26-33
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• 1993

본 논문은 반향제거기 등에 적용 가능한 적응 FIR 필터의 고속 수렴 알고리즘을 제시하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 지연 평가와 영역 제한에 의한 탭위치 제어 등 두가지 특징을 가지고 있다. 반향 경로에 다중 반향이 발생했을 때에도 적용 가능한 위치 탐색에 제한을 두는 방법으로 제한된 탭위치 제어를 수행한다. 백색 가우시안 신호를 입력으로 사용한 반향제거기 시뮬레이션에 의해서 Full-tap NLMS, STWQ, 그리고 본 논문에서 제시한 알고리즘의 수렴특성을 비교한 결과, 제시한 알고리즘은 STWQ나 Full-tap NLMS 알고리즘에 비해서 256탭 적용필터에서 약 70% 정도 수렴 시간을 감소시키며, 또한 다중반향 발생 하에서 다른 알고리즘에 비해서 우수한 수렴 특성을 갖는다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.129-132
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 음향 반향 제거기의 새로운 동시 통화 검출기를 제안하여 근단화자신호에 의한 적응 필터의 계수 오조정을 줄이고자 하였다. 제안한 동시 통화 검출기는 마이크 입력 신호의전력과 추정 오차 신호와 마이크 입력 신호간의 상호 상관의 비를 이용하여 동시 통화를 검출하는 방법이다. 제안한 동시 통화 검출기는 주변 잡음이 없는 상황에서는 다른 동시 통화 검출기와 비교하여 우수한 성능을 보였다. 그리고 전체적인 음향 반향 제거기의 향상을 가져왔다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.3
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• pp.263-271
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• 2000

In this paper, an acoustic echo canceller(AEC) is implemented by ADSP-2181. This AEC uses a noise robust adaptive algorithm and a postprocessing method which attenuates residual echo using cross-correlation between estimated error signal and microphone input signal. We propose new postprocessing method that uses two thresholds to prevent signal distortion after postprocessing and to improve the performance of AEC without extra computational burden. Through experiments using a 16 bit fixed-point DSP board (ADSP-2181 EZ-KIT Lite board), it is shown that the noise robust adaptive algorithm performs well in the double-talk situations and the convergence speed is comparable to NLMS. Using the postprocessor, ERLE is improved about 20 dB. As a result, the AEC with a postprocessor shows better performance than conventional ones.

• 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

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.28-34
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• 2001

In stereo acoustic echo canceller scheme, coefficients of adaptive filter converge very slowly or misconverge to real acoustic echo path in receiving room. This is due to cross-correlation in stereo signals. In this paper, a new preprocess algorithm is proposed to improve the performance of stereo AEC(acoustic echo canceller) without computational burden. The proposed algorithm reduces cross-correlation using Gram-Schmidt orthogonality principles and nonlinear filtering. Computer simulations demonstrate that this algorithm performs well compared to conventional ones. When the acoustic path of transmitting room is changed, stereo AEC using proposed algorithm is well performed.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.44-50
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• 2002

Conventional acoustic echo cancelers using ES(Exponentially weighted Stepsize) algorithm have simple operational configuration and fast convergence speed batter then NLMS algorithm, but they are very weak in external noise because ES algorithm updates filter taps using an average energy reduction rate of room impulse response in specific acoustical condition. So, a new configuration of acoustic echo canceler with stepsize generator and selector is proposed in this thesis. The proposed stepsize generator and selector improve conventional acoustic echo canceler's weakness in external noise and improve the system robustness. The stepsize generator generates additional stepsize value using moving averager, which is the residual noise energy of error signal multiplied by constant ${\gamma}$. The stepsize selector selects the stepsize value that has better performance in an acoustic echo canceler using a coefficient decision factor ${\Delta}_{differ}$ The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm reduces residual error by 5[dB] to 10[dB], improves misadjustment regardless of external noise's SNR. 

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.432-437
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• 1998

NLMS 알고리즘을 채용한 음향반향제거기는 주변잡음에 대해서 적응필터의 계수가 오조정되어 반향제거기의 성능이 저하된다. 본 논문에서 음향반향제거기의 마이크 입력신호와 추정 오차신호의 상관도를 이용해서 주변 잡음신호에 의한 계수 오조정이 작은 적응 알고리즘과 잔여반향을 제거하기 위한 후처리기로 구성된 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다. 기존의 NLMS 알고리즘이 입력신호의전력으로 적응상수를 정규화하지만 제안하는 알고리즘은 마이크 입력신호와 추정 오차신호의상관도와 입력신호 전력의 합으로 정규화한다. 적응필터가 반향 경로를 추정한 경우, 추정 오차신호에는 근단화자 신호가 대부분을 차지한다. 따라서 근단화자 신호가 있는 경우에는 상관도 값이 커져서 적응 상수가 작아지고 근단화자 신호에 의한 계수의 오조정을 줄일 수 있다. 후처리기도 마이크 입력신호와 추정 오차신호의 상관도를 마이크 입력신호의 전력으로 정규화한 값으로 추정 오차신호를 감쇠시킴으로써 근단화자 신호는 감쇠를 적게 하고 잔여반향을 감쇠시킨다. 멀티미디어 PC를 이용한 실험을 통해서 제안하는 알고리즘이 기존의 알고리즘에 비해서 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인했다.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.1-10
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• 2007

In this thesis, we study the implementation of hands-free phone in a car, taking acoustic echo canceller, in order to remove acoustic echo effectively. Conventional coustic echo canceller used for only adaptive filtering has much difficulty to solve both echo and double-talk problem. To tackle this problem, we propose acoustic echo canceller consisting of adaptive filter using a modified NLMS, VAD to catch exact voice activity duration using two independent forgetting factors, double-talk detector to detect fast and precise double talk duration using cross-correlation between microphone signal and residual echo, and output controller using VAD and double-talk detector. The proposed hands-free phone taking acoustic echo canceller shows the performance that has not acoustic echo and guarantees full duplex.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.38-49
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• 1994

This paper proposes Echo canceller used in simultaneous two-way ('full-duplex') transmission of data signals over two-wire circuits which can be achieved by using a hybrid coupler. This Echo canceller uses sequential processing instead of parallel processing with conventional adaptive digital filter. This structure reduces the number of multipliers. Thus, this structure is much more suitable for IC implementation. This Echo canceller operates according to the 'Stochastic Iteration Algorithm(SIA).' SIA algorithm has merit of good performance and small hardware requirement.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.35S no.9
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• pp.104-110
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• 1998

This paper proposes a architecture of the nonlinear echo canceller for the full-duplex transmission, which is easy to implement. The architecture is designed to cancel the nonlinear echo signals due to the hybrid or the data converter, as well as the linear echo signals, by adding a small number of taps to the FIR structure for the linear echo cancellation. The number of tap to be add depends on how much the linear echo signals are cancelled. A computer program for this architecture was written and run. Numerical results of the computer simulations show good performances on cancellations of the nonlinear echo signals by adding a small number of taps.