• 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 Korean Society of Computer Information Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.345-346
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• 2012

다양한 모바일 디바이스에서는 스피커와 마이크로폰의 자체에서 발생하는 반향(Echo)에 대한 문제점이 제시되어 녹음할 때 생기는 에코를 제거하기 위한 알고리즘 연구의 필요성이 증대되고 있다. 따라서 본 논문은 적응 신호 처리에 기반한 음향 반향 제어 알고리즘을 안드로이드 플랫폼 기반의 JNI를 이용한 설계 방법을 제안한다. 적응 반향 제거 애플리케이션은 일반적인 LMS 적응 필터를 적용하여 사운드에서 반향을 제거하고 FIR 필터를 사용하여 사운드의 웨이브폼에 FIR 필터를 적용한다. 안드로이드 플랫폼 기반의 JNI(Java Native Interface)를 이용한 설계는 기존에 사용되는 소스 코드를 재활용하고 프로그래밍을 쉽게하도록 도와준다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.7A
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• pp.520-528
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• 2003

This paper proposes a method of implementing synthetic stereo and an acoustic echo cancellation algorithm for multiple participant conference system. Synthetic stereo is generated by HRTF and two loudspeakers. A robust adaptive algorithm for synthetic stereo echo cancellation is proposed to reduce the weight misalignment due to near-end speech signals and ambient noises. The proposed adaptive algorithm is modified version of SMAP algorithm and the coefficients of adaptive filter is updated with cross correlation of input and estimation error signal normalized with sum of the autocorrelation of input signal and the power of the estimation error signal multiplied with projection order. This is more robust to projection order and ambient noise than conventional SMAP. Computer simulation show that the proposed algorithm effectively attenuates synthetic stereo acoustic echo.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.6
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• pp.402-409
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose an efficient integrated suppression algorithm based on combined power of acoustic echo and background noise. The proposed method combines the acoustic echo and noise power by the weighting parameter derived from the decision rule based on the estimated echo to noise power ratio. Therefore, in the proposed approach, the acoustic echo and noise signal are able to be reduced through only one suppression filter based on the estimated combined power. The proposed unified structure improves the problems of the residual echo and noise resulted from the conventional unified structure where the noise suppression (NS) operation is placed after the acoustic echo suppression (AES) algorithm or vice versa. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the objective test under various environments and yields better results compared with the conventional scheme.

• 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

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1997.06a
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• pp.23-26
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• 1997

스테레오 반향시호 제거기에 있어서 두 입력 스테레요 신호 사이에는 높은 상호상관으로 이하여 적응 필터의 수렴특성이 저한된다. 실제 확성통화 회의시스템인 경우, 입력 스테레요 신호사이에는 환경의 변화등에 의하여 미소하게 상호상관이 변하게 되지만, 기존의 적응 알고리즘으로는 이러한 미소 변화에 빠르게 적응하지 못하여 반향신호 제거량이 충분하지 못하다. 본 연구에서는 스테레요 반향신호 제거기에 상호상관의 미소한 변화를 강조할 수 있는 Projection 알고리즘을 이용하였다. 실제 확성통화 회의시스템을 구성하여 녹음한 음성신호에 대하여 시뮬레이션을 행하여 LMS , NLMS 알고리즘과 비교.평가하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.121-128
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• 2003

Acoustic Echo Cancellation(m) is very active research topic having many applications like teleconference and hands-free communication and it employs Double Talk Detector(DTD) to indicate whether the near-end speaker is active or not. However. the DTD is very sensitive to the variation of acoustical environment and it sometimes provides wrong information about the near-end speaker. In this paper, we are focusing on the development of robust DTD algorithm which is a basic building block for reliable AEC system. The proposed AEC system consists of delayless subband AEC and narrow-band DTD. Delayless subband AEC has proven to have excellent performance of echo cancellation with a low complexity and high convergence speed. In addition, it solves the signal delay problem in the existing subband AEC. On the other hand, the proposed narrowband DTD is operating on low frequency subband. It can take most advantages from the narrow subband such as a low computational complexity due to the down-sampling and the reliable DTD decision making procedure because of the low-frequency nature of the subband signal. From the simulation results of the proposed narrowband DTD and wideband DTD, we confirm that the proposed DTD outperforms the wideband DTD in a sense of removing possible false decision making about the near-end speaker activity.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.233-236
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• 2002

ES(Exponentially weighted Stepsize) 알고리즘은 연산 과정이 간단하고 수렴 속도가 빠르지만 Stepsize 값을 결정하기 위해 일정한 조건에서 결정된 공간 임펄스 응답들을 이용하기 때문에 외부 잡음이 발생할 경우 음향 반향 제거 성능이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 반향 제거기에 Stepsize 생성기를 추가하여 외부 잡음에 대한 ES 알고리즘의 단점을 개선하고 잡음에 대한 강건함을 향상시키는 새로운 반향 제거기를 개발하였다. Stepsize 생성기는 두 개의 이동 평균기를 이용하여 외부 잡음에 크기와는 독립적으로 Stepsize 값을 결정하며, 이로부터 대각선(diagonal) 모양을 가지는 Stepsize 행렬을 생성하여 반향 제거기에 적용한다. 본 논문에서는 NLMS 알고리즘, ES 알고리즘, 제안된 알고리즘의 수렴 특성을 잡음의 크기별로 시뮬레이션 하였으며, 또한 제안된 알고리즘의 잔여 에러의 크기도 다른 두 알고리즘에 비해 5[dB] 에서 10[dB]정도 작아지는 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.264-273
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• 2002

Adaptive filters cannot exactly estimate the echo path of the receiving room because of the cross-correlation of stereo signals. In this paper, a new pre-processing method reducing the cross-correlation without degradation of stereophony is proposed to enhance the performance of stereophonic acoustic echo canceller. To reduce the cross-correlation, absolutes of two orthogonal signals derived from each channel signals are added to original channel signals. Assuming that the power of each channel signal is larger than that of the cross-correlation, the computation of pre-processing can be reduced. As results of simulations, it is shown that the performance of stereo acoustic echo canceller with the proposed pre-processing method is better than that of conventional ones.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.261-268
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• 2003

Conventional acoustic echo cancellers using ES algorithm have simple structure and fast convergence speed compared with those using NLMS algorithm, but they are very weak to external noise because ES algorithm updates the adaptive filter taps based on average energy reduction rate of room impulse response in specific acoustical condition. To solve this problem, in this paper, a new update algorithm for acoustic echo canceller with stepsize matrix generator is proposed. A set of stepsizes is determined based on residual error energy which is estimated by two moving average operators, and applied to the echo canceller in matrix from, resulting in improved convergence speed. Simulations in various noise condition show that the proposed algorithm improves the robustness of acoustic echo canceller to external noise.