Selective-tap adaptive algorithms in the solution of the nonuniqueness problem for stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation

We investigate stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation in which solutions for the system can be nonunique and propose the use of selective-tap adaptive filters to address this problem. The main concept is to employ tap selection to optimize jointly for minimum interchannel coherence and maximum L/sub 2/-norm of the subselected tap-input vectors. The exclusive maximum (XM) tap-selection approach is proposed and applied to normalized least-mean squares (NLMS) and recursive least-squares (RLS) algorithm. We propose an approach for solving the nonuniqueness problem employing XM tap selection in combination with a nonlinear preprocessor. Simulation results show a significant improvement in convergence rate compared with existing techniques.

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