Title
New insights into the stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation problem and an adaptive nonlinearity solution
Abstract
We expand the knowledge regarding the problems of two-channel (or stereophonic) echo cancellation. The major difference between two-channel and the single-channel echo cancellation is the problem of nonunique solutions in the two-channel case. In previous work, this nonuniqueness problem has been linked to the coherence between the two incoming audio channels. One proven solution to this problem is to distort the signals with a nonlinear device. In this work, we present new theory that gives insight to the existing links between: (i) coherence and level of distortion, and (ii) coherence and achievable misalignment of the stereophonic echo canceler. Furthermore, we present an adaptive nonlinear device that incorporates this new knowledge in such a way that a pre-specified maximum misalignment is maintained while improving the perceived quality by minimizing the introduced distortion. Moreover, all the ideas presented can be generalized to the multichannel (>2) case.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1109/TSA.2002.800554
Speech and Audio Processing, IEEE Transactions  
Keywords
Field
DocType
Hi-Fi equipment,acoustic signal processing,adaptive filters,adaptive signal processing,audio signal processing,echo suppression,filtering theory,teleconferencing,adaptive filter,adaptive nonlinear device,adaptive nonlinearity solution,audio channels coherence,audio streams,nonunique solutions,nonuniqueness problem,single-channel echo cancellation,stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation,stereophonic echo canceler misalignment,two-channel echo cancellation,two-channel teleconference
Teleconference,Nonlinear system,Computer science,Stereophonic sound,Communication channel,Electronic engineering,Speech recognition,Coherence (physics),Adaptive filter,Acoustics,Audio signal processing,Distortion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
10
5
1063-6676
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
20
1.00
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomas Gänsler11019.60
Jacob Benesty21941146.01