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A New Integrated Suppression Algorithm Based on Combined Power of Acoustic Echo and Background Noise

결합된 음향학적 반향 및 배경 잡음 전력에 기반한 새로운 통합 제거 알고리즘

  • Received : 2010.05.18
  • Accepted : 2010.07.29
  • Published : 2010.08.31
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose an efficient integrated suppression algorithm based on combined power of acoustic echo and background noise. The proposed method combines the acoustic echo and noise power by the weighting parameter derived from the decision rule based on the estimated echo to noise power ratio. Therefore, in the proposed approach, the acoustic echo and noise signal are able to be reduced through only one suppression filter based on the estimated combined power. The proposed unified structure improves the problems of the residual echo and noise resulted from the conventional unified structure where the noise suppression (NS) operation is placed after the acoustic echo suppression (AES) algorithm or vice versa. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the objective test under various environments and yields better results compared with the conventional scheme.

본 논문에서는 주파수 영역에서 결합된 음향학적 반향 및 배경 잡음 전력에 기반한 효과적인 새로운 통합 제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법에서는 반향 제거기와 배경잡음 제거기가 직렬로 연결되어 각각의 제거필터에 의해 처리되는 기존의 방법 대신에 원단 (far-end) 신호에 기반한 기중치 파라미터를 이용하여 반향 및 배경잡음 전력을 선별적으로 결합하고 결합된 신호를 하나에 제거 필터에 적용하여 두 신호를 모두 제거한다. 따라서 제안된 기법에서는 기존의 반향 및 잡음 제거기의 연결 순서에 의해 발생되는 단점을 보완하고 잔여반향신호를 효과적으로 제거할수 있도록 한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 기존의 방법과 객관적인 실험을 통해 비교 평가한 결과 다양한 테스트 환경에서 기존의 방법에 비해 전반적으로 우수한 성능을 보였다.

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