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Residual Echo Suppression Based on Tracking Echo-Presence Uncertainty

Tracking Echo-Presence Uncertainty 기반의 잔여 반향 억제

  • 박윤식 (인하대학교 전자공학과 DSP연구실) ;
  • 장준혁 (인하대학교 전자공학과)
  • Published : 2009.10.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to residual echo suppression (RES) algorithm based on tracking echo-presence uncertainty (TEPU) to improve the performance of acoustic echo suppression (AES) in the frequency domain. In the proposed method, the ratio of the microphone input and the echo-suppressed output signal power is employed as the threshold value for the decision rule to estimate the echo-presence uncertainty applied to the RES filter. The proposed RES scheme estimates the echo presence uncertainty in each frequency bin and effectively reduces residual echo signal in a simple fashion. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the objective test and yields better results compared with the conventional schemes.

본 논문에서는 주파수영역에서 음향학적 반향 억제 (AES, acoustic echo suppression) 성능을 개선시키기 위해 tracking echo-presence uncertainty (TEPU) 기법에 근거한 새로운 잔여 반향 억제 (RES, residual echo suppression) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 RES를 위해 마이크로폰 입력신호 대 원단의 반향신호가 제거된 결과신호의 전력 비 (ratio)를 문턱 (threshold) 값에 의한 decision rule에 적용하여 추정된 echo-presence uncertainty를 RES 필터로 이용한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 각각의 주파수 채널에서 echo-presence uncertainty를 도출하여 용이하게 잔여 반향신호를 제거하는 장점을 가진다. 실제로 잔여 반향신호를 제거하기 위한 기존의 방법과 객관적인 실험을 통해 비교 평가한 결과 우수한 성능을 보였다.

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