• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.416-418
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• 2006

In this paper, a new acoustic echo cancellation approach based on the DUET algorithm and scaling factor estimation is proposed to solve the scaling ambiguity in case of blind separation based acoustic echo cancellation in a noisy environment. In hands-free full-duplex communication system. acoustic noises picked up by the microphone are mixed with echo signal. For this reason, the echo cancellation system may provide poor performance. For that purpose, a degenerate unmixing estimation technique, adjusted in the time-frequency domain, is employed to separate undesired echo signals and noises. Also, since scaling and permutation ambiguities have not been solved in the blind source separation algorithm, kurtosis for the desired signal selection and a scaling factor estimation algorithm are utilized in this rarer for the separation of an echo signal. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields better echo cancellation and noise reduction performances, compared with conventional methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제16권2E호
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• pp.14-20
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• 1997

The future teleconferencing systems will need an appropriate system which controls properly the acoustic echo for the convenient communication. The conventional acoustic echo cancellation algorithms involve large adaptive filters identifying the impulse response of the echo path. The use of adaptive IIR filters appears to be a reasonable way to reduce computational complexity. Effective cancellation of acoustic echo presented in teleconferencing system requires that adaptive filters have a rapid convergence speed. One of the main problems of acoustic echo cancellation techniques is that the convergence properties degrade for an highly correlated signal input such as speech signals. By the way, the introduction of linear prediction filers onto the structure of the acoustic echo cancellation represents one approach to decorrelate the speech signal. And variable step-size LMS algorithm improves the convergence speed through a little increasing of computational complexity. In this paper, we applied these two methods to the acoustic echo canceller(AEC) and showed that these methods have better performances than the conventional AEC.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.351-359
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 독립성분분석을 이용한 음향 반향제거 방법을 제안하였다. 음향반향제거기의 마이크로폰에 반향 이외의 잡음이 부가될 경우 반향제거기의 성능은 저하된다. 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위해 본 연구에서는 두 개의 마이크로폰을 이용하여 반향과 선형으로 섞인 잡음을 받은 후 독립성분 분석 기법을 통해 반향과 잡음을 분리하였다. 그리고 분리된 반향 신호를 반향제거기에 사용되는 적응 알고리듬의 기준 신호로 이용함으로서 반향제거기의 성능을 향상시켰다. 컴퓨터 모의실험을 통해 제안한 방법의 타당성을 확인하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제56권3호
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• pp.629-631
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• 2007

In hands-free full-duplex communication systems, acoustic signals picked up by the microphones can be mixed with echo signals as well as noises, which may result in poor performance of the corresponding communication system. Also, the system performance may decrease further if the reverberation occurs since it is harder to estimate the impulse response of the demixing system. For blind source separation (BSS) in such cases, a time-frequency masking approach can be employed to separate undesired echo signals and noises, but, permutation ambiguities also should be solved for the echo cancellation. In this paper, we propose a new acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) approach utilizing the time-frequency masking and higher-order statistics, whereby a desired signal selection, based on coherence and third-order statistics (i.e., kurtosis), is introduced along with output signal normalization. Simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach yields better echo and noise cancellation performances than the conventional AEC approaches.

• 한국멀티미디어학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국멀티미디어학회 2002년도 춘계학술발표논문집(상)
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• pp.149-153
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• 2002

In this brief, Acoustic echo cancellation scheme is proposed to enhance the presence of multiple participants of hands-free voice and video conference. Synthetic stereo using head related transfer function and the stereo echo cancellation scheme are proposed. It is shown that the proposed synthetic stereo echo cancellation scheme is well performed by computer simulation.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 제13회 신호처리 합동 학술대회 논문집
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• pp.7-10
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• 2000

This paper focuses on the development of speech enhancement techniques for hands-free audio terminals, including two major problems : noise cancellation and acoustic echo cancellation. The objective is to find a joint structure to get a near-end speech signal with minimum distortion and low levels of echo and noise. To solve the two problems, a new promising technique is studied and tested in computer simulation conditions.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제18권2E호
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• pp.45-52
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• 1999

This paper presents the integrated speech enhancement system for hands-free mobile communication. The proposed integrated system incorporates both acoustic echo cancellation and engine noise reduction device to provide signal enhancement of desired speech signal from the echoed plus noisy environments. To implement the system, a delayless subband adaptive structure is used for acoustic echo cancellation operation. The NLMS based adaptive noise canceller then applied to the residual echo removed noisy signal to achieve the selective engine noise attenuation in dominant frequency component. Two sets of computer simulations are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of the system; one for the fixed acoustical environment condition, the other for the robustness of the system in which, more realistic situation, the acoustic transmission environment change. Simulation results confirm the system performance of 20-25dB ERLE in acoustic echo cancellation and 9-19 dB engine noise attenuation in dominant frequency component for both cases.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제27권1E호
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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.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.623-626
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• 1998

NLMS algorithm is degraded by the ambient noises and the near-end speech signals. In this paper, a robust acoustic echo cancellation algorithm is proposed. To enhance the echo cancellation performance, the step size of the proposed algorithm is normalized by the sum o fthe power of the reference signals and the primary signals. as results of comparing the excess mean square errors, it is shown that the proosed algorithm can enhance the performance of cancelling the echo signals. Some experiments, which is used multimedia personal computer, are carried out. As results of experiments, the proposed algorithm shows better performance than conventional ones.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국해양정보통신학회 2010년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.839-842
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 핸즈프리 전화통신를 위한 반향 및 잡음제거구조를 제안하다. 제안하는 구조는 주변 잡음이 많을 때 반향 경로 추정 성능이 우수한 개선된 AP 알고리즘을 적응 알고리즘으로 사용하고 비동시 통화구간에서 잔여반향신호를 선형예측하여 백색화시킨다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 방법이 AIC(acoustic interference cancellation) 측면에서 우수함을 보인다.