Title
Robust extended multidelay filter and double-talk detector for acoustic echo cancellation
Abstract
We propose an integrated acoustic echo cancellation solution based on a novel class of efficient and robust adaptive algorithms in the frequency domain, the extended multidelay filter (EMDF). The approach is tailored to very long adaptive filters and highly auto-correlated input signals as they arise in wideband full-duplex audio applications. The EMDF algorithm allows an attractive tradeoff between the well-known multidelay filter and the recursive least-squares algorithm. It exhibits fast convergence, superior tracking capabilities of the signal statistics, and very low delay. The low computational complexity of the conventional frequency-domain adaptive algorithms can be maintained thanks to efficient fast realizations. We also show how this approach can be combined efficiently with a suitable double-talk detector (DTD). We consider a corresponding extension of a recently proposed DTD based on a normalized cross-correlation vector whose performance was shown to be superior compared to other DTDs based on the cross-correlation coefficient. Since the resulting DTD also has an EMDF structure it is easy to implement, and the fast realization also carries over to the DTD scheme. Moreover, as the robustness issue during double talk is particularly crucial for fast-converging algorithms, we apply the concept of robust statistics into our extended frequency-domain approach. Due to the robust generalization of the cost function leading to a so-called M-estimator, the algorithms become inherently less sensitive to outliers, i.e., short bursts that may be caused by inevitable detection failures of a DTD. The proposed structure is also well suited for an efficient generalization to the multichannel case
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1109/TSA.2005.858559
IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech & Language Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
robust statistics.,echo cancellation,frequency domain,conventional frequency-domain adaptive algorithm,fast realization,emdf structure,dtd scheme,efficient fast realization,extended frequency-domain approach,robust adaptive algorithm,doubletalk,efficient generalization,index terms—adaptive filtering,emdf algorithm,long adaptive filter,robust extended multidelay filter,acoustic echo cancellation,double-talk detector,cost function,cross correlation,signal detection,adaptive filtering,adaptive filters,statistical analysis,statistics,indexing terms,m estimator,normalized cross correlation,computational complexity,adaptive filter,robust statistics,audio signal processing,frequency domain analysis
Frequency domain,Signal processing,Computer science,Infinite impulse response,Robustness (computer science),Robust statistics,Speech recognition,Adaptive filter,Adaptive algorithm,Computational complexity theory
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
14
5
1558-7916
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.19
9
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Herbert Buchner143540.57
Jacob Benesty21941146.01
T. Gansler3201.19
W. Kellermann468671.03