• 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 Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.59 no.3
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• pp.669-673
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new active noise control (ANC) system for canceling broadband noise. The proposed ANC system is designed based on the multiband-structured delayless subband adaptive filter (MDSAF), which has advantages of fast-convergence speed and higher noise reduction performance by eliminating the aliasing and band-edge effects caused by band-partitioning. The simulation results show that the proposed ANC system has faster convergence speed as compared to the conventional ANC systems and effectively reduces the wideband noise.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.2E
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• pp.3-9
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• 1998

Since the introduction of hands-free phone set and teleconferencing system, acoustic echo cancellation has been a challenge for engineers. Recently many researches have shown that the best solution for the acoustic echo compensation problem is represented by an adaptive filter which iteratively tries to identify the unknown impulse response of the system from loudspeaker to microphone. In this paper, we apply the delayless subband adaptive filters and fast affine projection algorithm for the identification of room impulse response. Simulation results show 3∼8 dB more enhanced performance than conventional fullband adaptive filters or subband adaptive filters. In addition, fast affine projection algorithm shows better convergence speed at the expense of the low computational complexity than conventional LMS algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1E
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• pp.20-29
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• 1998

This paper proposes a new stereophonic acoustic echo canceler with deploying delayless subband adpative filters. Due to the storong correlation between stereo signals, a stereophonic acoustic echo canceler is suffering from the slow convergence and the misalignment for estimating impulse responses corresponding to true echo paths at receiving room. Specially, dual adaptive filters for echo cancellation are significantly affected by the abrupt change of the transmission room environment so that the impariments on voice communication could be experienced. To prevent these performance degradations, this paper proposes a robust subband echo canceler employing pre-processing block so as to enhance the convergence speed and provide the insusceptibility to the environment change at transmission room.

• 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.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.52-58
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 시간 지연이 없는 서브밴드 필터 구조를 사용한 능동 소음 제어 시 스템을 제안하였다. 제안된 시스템은 기준 입력 신호와 2차 경로의 전달 함수를 컨볼루션하 여 만들어지는 filtered reference 신호가 서브밴드내에서 생성될 수 있도록, 2차 소음원과 오차 센서 사이의 전기·음향학적인 경로를 나타내는 2차 전달 함수를 각 서브밴드로 재구 성함으로써, 알고리듬 구현시 계산량을 감소시킨다. 또한 2차 경로의 전달함수가 시간에 따 라 변화하는 경우에도 능동 소음 제어 시스템의 소음 제어 성능을 유지할 수 있도록, 각 밴 드마다 두 개의 적응필터를 사용한 on-line 시스템 인지 구조를 제안하여 on-line 시스템 인 지에 필요한 계산량을 감소시켰다. 본 논문에서 제시한 능동 소음 제어 시스템의 제어 성능 과 on-line 시스템 인지 성능을 모의 실험을 통하여 검증하였다.