Title
An enhanced post-filter for improving the performance of an acoustic echo canceller in mobile application
Abstract
In this paper, we consider an enhanced post-filter system to improve the performance of an acoustic echo canceller especially in mobile hands-free application. The proposed system includes noise reduction, linear prediction inverse filtering, pitch inverse filtering, and center clipping. The residual echo is first whitened via a linear prediction inverse filter followed by a pitch inverse filter during no near-end talker period. With the aid of these inverse filters, we can remove speech characteristics from the echo and obtain whitened residual echo in result. Then noise reduction technique based on spectral analysis is applied to reduce the power of the residual echo as well as ambient noise. Finally, the level of the residual echo is further attenuated by a center clipper placed in the send path of an echo canceller. For the hands-free application in a moving car, the proposed system attenuated interferences more than 18dB at a constant speed of 30 and 80km/h.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.08.008
Signal Processing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Echo cancellation,Residual echo,AR analysis,Pitch prediction,Post filtering
Noise reduction,Noise,Residual,Signal processing,Linear filter,Control theory,Filter (signal processing),Speech recognition,Linear prediction,Acoustics,Inverse filter,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
88
2
0165-1684
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sangki Kang113.06
Seo Weon Heo2218.04
SeongJoon Baek310812.18