• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.2 s.308
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• pp.73-81
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• 2006

This paper proposes the improved orthogonal projection method as a new technique advancing the performance of the acoustic echo canceller. Comparing with the widely used NLMS adaptive algorithm which is simple and stable, it shows that this method has the improvement of the convergence speed for signals with the large auto-correlation, and has small computational quantities. In order to testify performances of the orthogonal projection method whom this paper proposes, we have coded a simulation program md executed computer simulations. We observed convergence curves by using two adaptive algorithm for noises and speeches. From simulation results for two input signals, the proposed method shows the high ERLE and the fast convergence and the stable operation in case of using speeches as well as noises.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.703-711
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• 2005

This paper proposes the improved orthogonal projection method as a new technique advancing the performance of the echo cancellation for speeches in the acoustic echo canceller. Comparing with the used NLMS adaptive algorithm, it shows that this method improves the performance of the echo cancellation for signals with the large auto-correlation. In order to testify performances of the orthogonal projection method whom this paper proposes, we have coded a simulation program and executed computer simulations. We observed convergence curves by using two adaptive algorithm for noises and speeches. From simulation results for two input signals, the proposed method shows the high ERLE and the fast convergence and the stable operation in case of using speeches as well as noises.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.97-104
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• 2007

Adaptive echo canceller(AEC) has become an important component in speech communication systems, including mobile phones and speech recognition. In these applications, the acoustic echo path has a long impulse response. We propose a moving-averge least mean square(MVLMS) algorithm with a detection method for acoustic echo cancellation. Using, the result of the tests that used colored input models clearly shows that the MVLMS detection algorithm has convergence performance superior to the least mean square(LMS) detection algorithm alone. Although the computational complexity of the new MVLMS algorithm is only slightly greater than that of the standard LMS detection algorithm, the new algorithm confers a significant improvement in stability.

• 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.

• 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.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.150-155
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• 2014

본 논문에서는, 원거리 음성인식을 위한 서브밴드 필터링 기반의 빠르고 효율적인 에코제거 시스템을 제안한다. 제안하는 에코제거 시스템은 우선 채널간 유사도 (correlation) 가 높을 경우 적응필터가 오작동하는 것을 방지하기 위해 spatial decorrelation 을 적용하게 된다. 그리고 tree 형태를 가지는 IIR filterbank 기반의 subband 구조를 채택함으로써, 적은 차수로도 효과적인 analysis, synthesis 필터링을 수행할 수 있도록 한다. 이 과정에서 불가피하게 발생하는 서브 밴드간 spectral aliasing은 notch filter를 적용해 해결할 수 있다. 또한 적응 필터로는 improved proportionate normalized least-mean-square (IP-NLMS) 알고리즘을 사용해 수렴속도 및 에코제거 성능에서 우수함을 확인하였다. 마지막으로 decision-directed estimation 기반의 residual echo suppressor를 적용해 잔여 에코를 제거하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 각 단계를 구성하게 된 이론적인 배경을 소개하고, 실제 에코가 존재하는 환경에서 ERLE, 원거리 음성 인식률, computational complexity를 통해 제안하는 에코제거 시스템의 효과를 입증하도록 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.12a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2000

현대의 잡음이 많은 환경에서 적응 음향반향제거기는 배경잡음의 영향으로 원활한 통화환경을 제공할 수 없다. 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 음향반향 제거와 더불어 배경잡음을 제거하는 결합구조의 적응 음향반향제거기가 제안되었다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 결합구조가 가지는 단점을 보완하여 적응 음향반향제거기의 성능을 향상시켰다. 제안한 결합구조는 적응 음향잡음제거기의 기준입력 신호를 적응 음향잡음제거기의 오차신호와 같게 구성함으로서 배경잡음 신호뿐만 아니라 잔여반향 신호도 효율적으로 제거할 수 있다. 성능 평가를 위한 실험결과, 제안한 방법이 기존의 방법에 비하여 ERLE 성능이 수렴 구간에서 3㏈ 이상 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.161-164
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• 2000

본 논문에서 제안한 동시통화 검출기는 기존의 전대역에서 이루어지던 상호상관계수를 이용한 동시통화 검출기의 검출성능을 향상시키기 위하여 웨이브릿변환된 각각의 서브밴드 내에서 동시통화 및 반향경로를 구별하여 효율적으로 검출할 수 있도록 구성하였다. 서브밴드 동시통화 검출기 사용으로 동시통화 시에 발생하는 적응필터의 계수 발산을 막음으로써 시스템의 안정성을 높이고, 근단화자 신호가 원단화자에게 더 유쾌하게 들릴 수 있게 함으로써 원활한 통화환경을 제공할 수 있도록 구현하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.13-20
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• 2001

Adaptive digital filters with long impulse response such as acoustic echo canceller and active noise controller suffer from slow convergence and computational burden. Subband techniques and multirate signal processing have been recently developed to improve the problem of computational complexity and slow convergence in conventional adaptive filter. Any FIR transfer function can be realized as a serial connection of interpolators followed by subfilters with a sparse impulse response. In this case, each interpolator which is related to the column vector of Hadamard matrix has band-pass magnitude response characteristics shifted uniformly. Subband technique using Hadamard transform and decimation of subband signal to reduce sampling rate are adapted to system modeling and acoustic noise cancellation In this paper, delayless subband structure with nonuniform bandwidth has been proposed to improve the performance of the convergence speed without aliasing due to decimation, where input signal is split into subband one using tree-structured filter bank, and the subband signal is decimated by a decimator to reduce the sampling rate in each channel, then subfilter with sparse impulse response is transformed to full band adaptive filter coefficient using Hadamard transform. It is shown by computer simulations that the proposed method can be adapted to general adaptive filtering.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.43-49
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• 1997

Generally, echo cancelers of a TV conference system or a audio conference system are to carry out a real time processing in the case of the closed room having long reverberation time because the system requires much time to modify filter coefficients to environmental changes. Therefore this paper proposes a new subband adaptive filtering method using polyphase filter banks of MPEG(Moving Picture Experts Group) audio system to solve the problems. This method divides signal spectra of input and output into several frequency bands, and each band is adaptively filtered by using ES-NLMS (Exponential Step-Normalized Least Mean Square) algorithm. The optimal number of subband is determined by computational simulations. According to the results of simulation, ERLE of the subband model is 2dB smaller than general full band, calculation rate's of the subband model is decreased about 88%.