Adaptive cancellation of acoustic echoes during double-talk based on an information theoretic criteria

  • Authors:
  • Jake Gunther;Todd Moon

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT;Dept. of Elec. & Comp. Eng., Utah State Univ., Logan, UT

  • Venue:
  • Asilomar'09 Proceedings of the 43rd Asilomar conference on Signals, systems and computers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper casts the problem of canceling acoustic echoes during a double-talk event as a blind signal separation problem. Principles of independent component analysis are applied to derive algorithms for updating the echo cancellation filter during double-talk, and the near-end signal is separated out from the microphone signal. This approach simplifies the the structure of acoustic echo cancelers by avoiding the need for double-talk detection. The same updating algorithm is applied under all conditions. The the proposed approach is compared with existing methods on live data recorded on a speaker phone.