• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.123-129
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• 2000

This paper addresses a new double detection algorithm which is based on the fuzzy control in the adaptive echo canceller of communication system. In this method, the two input of the fuzzy inference for detecting double talk condition are used. The one is the cross-correlation coefficient between the error signal and the primary signal which is the summed signal of the real echo signal and the near-end signal. The other is the cross-correlation coefficient between the estimation error signal and the primary signal. The fuzzy controller made a fuzzification for two inputs by the membership functions of trapezoid and them became the composition using inference rules. The composed result is defuzzificated by the center gravity method. The output is compared with two threshold values to detect double talk and echo path variation effectively. It is confirmed by computer simulation that this fuzzy double talk detector is able to track echo path variation accurately.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.471-473
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a double talk and noise robust acoustic echo canceler for hands-free telephony applications. The proposed system includes a double-talk detection method that detects the double-talk durations, which uses covariance between microphone input signa and estimated microphone input signal. And proposed adaptive algorithm for estimating acoustic echo path, uses normalized auto-covariance matrix of input signal with multiplication of residual error power and projection order of AP(affine projeciton) algorithm. It is confirmed that the proposed algorithm shows better performance from acoustic interference cancellation (AIC) viewpoint in double talk and noisy environments.

• 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

• 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.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.65-70
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• 2005

This paper deals with the problem of double-talk (DT) detection in anacoustic echo canceller (AEC). In the DT detection algorithm with correlation coefficient, detection errors occasionally occur because it is hard to set the threshold to distinguish DT from echo path change (EPC). Adaptive filter falls into the situation that it stops updating its filter coefficients when EPC is erroneously considered as DT at the starting-point of EPC. In addition, in case of echo path changing during the DT period, the end-point detection of DT period fails so that the AEC cannot update its filter coefficients for a while even after the DT period ends. To solve these problems, in this paper, we propose a novel AEC that employs an auxiliary filter. We use the idea that though the error signal cannot be estimated using reference signal in case or DT situation but it can be in case or EPC situation. The experimental result verifies that the proposed method could solve the problems caused by DT detection error or echo path change during the DT period.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.1E
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• pp.17-24
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• 2008

Blind speech separation (BSS) is well-known as a powerful technique for speech enhancement in many real world environments. In this paper, we propose a new application of BSS - acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) in a car environment. For this purpose, we develop a block-online BSS algorithm which provides robust separation than a batch version in changing environments with moving speakers. Simulation results using real world recordings show that the block-online BSS algorithm is very robust to speaker movement. When combined with AEC, simulation results using real audio recording in a car confirm the expectation that BSS improves double talk detection and echo suppression.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.1A
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• pp.58-65
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• 2002

This paper deals with a delay problem in the endpoint detection of double-talk detection algorithm using correlation coefficient in the acoustic echo canceller. In case that past power is much bigger than current power like at the end of double-talking period, the power, estimated using forgetting factor, decreases slowly to cause a delay problem in the endpoint detection. In this paper, two methods are proposed to solve this problem. One is that the current power is periodically replaced by a new average power and the other is that the past power in recursive equation is periodically removed or replaced by other values. The simulation results show that proposed methods outperform conventional method in the endpoint of double-talking periods without increasing the computational burden much more.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.195-200
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• 2012

We present a new algorithm which can improve the tracking performance of the double-talk robust algorithm. A detection method of the echo path change and a modification method for the update equation of the conventional adaptive filter are proposed. A duration of the high error signal to scale parameter ratio varies according to the call status and this property is used to detect the echo path change. The proposed update equation of the adaptive filter improves the tracking performance by prohibiting wrong selection of the error signal. Simulations using real speech signals and echo paths of the ITU-T G.168 standard confirmed that as compared to the conventional algorithm, the proposed algorithm improved the tracking performance by more than 4 dB.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.56.2-56.2
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• 2013

Compact binaries are important sources of gravitational waves. They are also prime targets for long baseline laser interferometers. In this talk, we present latest progresses made in the Galactic merger rate calculations for compact binaries in the Galactic disk, with an emphasis on NS-NS binaries. For the first time, the non-recycled pulsar found in the Double Pulsar system (PSR J0737-3039B) is included in the rate calculation. We then discuss the prospects of detecting gravitational waves for Earth-based detectors such as advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) in US and advanced Virgo in Europe, extrapolating the Galactic rate estimates up to the detection volume of the advanced LIGO-Virgo network, Our results support the expectation that gravitational waves emitted from compact binary mergers will be detected within a decade. However, the detection rate of gravitational waves associated with NS-NS mergers is most likely to be several per year that is much smaller than what has been previously known.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.75-83
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• 2008

The interior of an automobile is a very noisy environment with both stationary cruising noise and the reverberated music or speech coming out from the audio system. For robust speech recognition in a car environment, it is necessary to extract a driver's voice command well by removing those background noises. Since we can handle the music and speech signals from an audio system in a car, the reverberated music and speech sounds can be removed using an acoustic echo canceller. In this paper, we implement an acoustic echo canceller with robust double-talk detection algorithm using TMS-320C6711 DSK. First we developed the echo canceller on the PC for verifying the performance of echo cancellation, then implemented it on the TMS320C6711 DSK. For processing of one speech sample with 8kHz sampling rate and 256 filter taps of the echo canceller, the implemented system used only 0.035ms and achieved the ERLE of 20.73dB.