• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.135-138
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• 2002

본 논문은 반향경로의 순지연 시간 추정 및 보상을 이용한 네트워크 반향 제거기의 실시간 구현에 관한 연구이다. VoIP 게이트웨이와 연결된 복잡한 교환기망(PSTN)에서 발생되는 건 반향은 통화품질의 저하를 초래한다. 긴 순지연 시간을 포함하는 반향을 실시간 구현에 적합한 연산량으로 제거하기 위해, 간축 영역에서 반향 경로를 추정하여 순지연 시간을 추정후 보상하는 반향제거기를 구현하였다. 순지연 시간의 안정적인 추정을 위해 문턱치 보다 큰 유효 계수를 이용하여 순지연 시간을 추정하는 기법을 제안하였으며, 실시간 구현시 순간 최대 연산량을 줄이기 위해 추정된 반향 경로를 분할하여 순지연 시간을 추정하는 기법을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템을 Texas Instruments사의 16비트 고정소수점 DSP TMS320C5409를 사용하여 구현하였고, 시뮬레이터를 통하여 성능을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2000

스테레오 음향 반향 제거기는 채널신호간에 상호상관(cross-correlation) 때문에 적응필터 계수가 수신실의 반향 경로를 정확하게 추정하지 못한다. 본 논문에서는 상호상관을 줄이기 위해서 채널신호간 차의 절대값과 시변 감쇠상수를 이용하는 새로운 전처리 필터를 제안한다. 시뮬레이션을 통해서 제안하는 전처리 필터가 기존의 방법에 비해서 우수함을 보인다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.347-355
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• 2000

This paper presents an adaptive AEC(acoustic echo canceller) based on the wavelet transform using M-channel subband QMF filter banks. The proposed algorithm improves the performance of AEC with a realtime process by a low complexity of wavelet transform filter banks, a subband processing and a orthogonality of wavelet subband filter. Adaptive filter coefficients of each subband are updated using LMS algorithm with a low complexity and a easy realization for a realtime processing and a reduction of hardware cost. For a input signal, a white Gaussian noise and a real speech signal with a environment noises are used for a performance estimation of the proposed algorithm. As a result of computer simulation, the proposed AEC has a low asymptotic error, a low computation complexity and a robust performance.

• 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.

• 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.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.2388-2396
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• 2012

This paper is on an simplified orthogonal projection method which cancel the acoustic echo signals in the stereo acoustic echo canceller. Comparing with the NLMS algorithm which is widely used for simplicity and stability, it shows that this method has the improvement of the convergence performances for signals with the high auto-correlation, and has small computational quantities. To verify the convergence characteristics of the proposed algorithm, we simulated about various input signals. And we compared the results of simulation for this algorithm with the ones for the NLMS algorithm. By these works, it was proved that the stereo acoustic echo canceller adopting the proposed algorithm shows about 3dB more high ERLE than the NLMS algorithm for the white noise signals, and 5dB for the colored voice signals.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.419-426
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• 2017

This paper describes an acoustic echo canceller with double-talk using BSS(: Blind Signal Separation) based on the geometric concept. The acoustic echo canceller may be deteriorated or diverged during the double-talk period. So we use the blind signal separation to detect the double talking by separating the near-end speech signal from the mixed microphone signal. In the closed reverberation environment, the blind signal separation extracts the near-end signal from unknown signals with the transformation and rotation based on the geometric concept. By this method, the acoustic echo canceller operates irrespective of double-talking. We verified performances of the proposed acoustic echo canceller by computer simulations. The results show that the acoustic echo canceller with this algorithm detects the double-talk periods thoroughly, and operates stably in the normal state without diverging of coefficients after ending the double-talking.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.161-169
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• 2012

This paper presents a robust speech end-point detector using double talk detection in echoic conditioned speech recognition robot. The proposed method consists of combining conventional end-point detector result and double talk detector result. We have tested the proposed method in isolated word recognition system under echoic conditioned environment. As a result, the proposed algorithm shows superior performance of 30 % to the available techniques in the points of speech recognition rates.

• 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 the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.4 no.1
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• pp.66-69
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• 2009

An adaptive echo canceller is necessary for an application such as a speakerphone, 3G image telephony and VoIP service system. These echo cancellers need to have many taps for filtering echo signals. Many taps cause computation data to increase and convergence speed to be low. To overcome these problems, An adaptive echo canceller with the advanced convergence speed is proposed in this paper. To improve the speed, we divide an echo band into subbands and place a subband filter to be adaptive for each subband. Each subband filter recognizes the echo signal as subband echo signals. So, dynamic range of subband is small, the convergence speed is fast. Moreover, as the number of Tap and weight update are estimated in each subband, the implementation complex of a adaptive filter is low.