• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.57-63
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• 1997

This paper proposes a new stereophonic acoustic echo canceller to preven the performance degradation at the instant of far-end talker's movement or change in transmission room environment in stereophonic teleconferencing system. In stereophonic acoustic echo canceller, the filter coefficients of the adaptive filters for echo cancellation do not have unique solutions and not converge to their optimum values. Therefore, the change of the far-end transmission room environment leads to degradation of ERLE(Echo Return Loss Enhanceement). Moreover, their computational complexity increases as the number of the filter coefficient increases, and their adaptive filters converge very slowly. So the real-time implementation is very difficult. To overcome these problems we propose a pre-processor consisting of an adaptive filter for making pseudo stereophonic signal, and it results in improved performance at the instant of environment change at far-end side and reduction of the total complexity.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.3-11
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• 1999

The conventional stereophonic acoustic echo cancellers need two adaptive filters to estimate one channel echo signal. Since the two channel signals are strongly correlated, the ESR of the input signals is considerably increased whatever the input signals may be. This causes the slow convergence of the adaptive filter for echo cancellation. To speed up the convergence, the AP algorithm is frequently used for the stereophonic acoustic echo canceller although there isn't a fast version for 2-channel case. The AP algorithm can be approximated with the Gram-Schmidt orthogonalization and a TDL structure. We propose a two channel algorithm for stereophonic acoustic echo canceller with the approximated AP algorithm.

• 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 Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.10-16
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• 1998

본 논문은 음향반향제거기에서 동시통화구간을 검출하고 처리하는 알고리듬에 대하 여 논하고 있다. 새로운 동시통화처리 알고리듬은 송신신호와 잔류신호간의 상호상관계수를 이용하여 동시통화 여부 및 구간을 검출하고 이 구간에서는 반향제거기의 계수적응을 중지 하도록 하는 것이다. 본 알고리듬을 사용함으로서 동시통화구간의 검출에 소요되는 계산량 이 대폭 감소할 뿐만 아니라 비정상상태의 원인이 동시통화에 의한 것인지 아니면 반향경로 응답의 변화에 의한 것인지를 구별할 수가 있다. 음향반향제거기에 제안한 알고리듬을 적용 하여 모의실험을 수행하므로서 본 알고리듬의 성능을 분석하였고 기존의 알고리듬을 적용한 경우와 비교, 검토하였다. 실험 결과 본 알고리듬을 적용한 음향반향제거기는 동시통화구간 을 완벽하게 검출하므로서 동시통화 후에도 계수가 발산하지않고 안정적으로 정상상태를 유 지함을 확인하였다.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.541-544
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• 2000

본 논문은 부밴드별 반향제거 필터 뱅크를 구현하기 위한 가중 Overlap-add 적응필터를 이용한 단일 채널 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다. 기준 입력 신호의 고유치 분포율에 의존하여 수렴 특성이 결정되는 NLSM알고리즘을 사용하여 전대역 처리 과정에서 발생하는 수렴성능의 저하를 방지하고, 효율적인 블록별 병렬 처리가 가능한 부밴드 처리기법인 가중 Overlap-add 방식을 적용한 적응 반향제거기의 성능을 고찰한다 또한 본 논문에서는 동시 통화 검출을 위한 전용 필터와 에너지 비교 방법을 동시에 사용하는 새로운 형태의 동시통화 검출 기법을 제안한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.460-461
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 기존의 단일입출력 환경에서의 칼만필터 기반 반향제거방법을 다중입출력 구조로 확장하는 방법을 제안한다. 다중입출력 구조의 반향제거방법은 단일입출력방식보다 우수한 반향제거 성능을 보이면서도 더욱 낮은 음성왜곡도를 보였다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.979-986
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• 2018

This paper deals with acoustic echo cancellation using blind signal separation method. This method does not degrade the echo cancellation performance even during double-talk. In the closed echo environment, the mixing model of acoustic signals is multi-channel, so the convolutive blind signal separation method is applied and the mixing coefficients are calculated by using the feedback model without directly calculating the separation coefficients for signal separation. The coefficient update is performed by iterative calculations based on the second-order statistical properties, thus estimates the near-end speech. A number of simulations have been performed to verify the performance of the proposed blind signal separation method. The simulation results show that the acoustic echo canceller using this method operates safely regardless of the presence of double-talk, and the PESQ is improved by 0.6 point compared with the general adaptive FIR filter structure.