Fifty Years of Acoustic Feedback Control: State of the Art and Future Challenges

The acoustic feedback problem has intrigued researchers over the past five decades, and a multitude of solutions has been proposed. In this survey paper, we aim to provide an overview of the state of the art in acoustic feedback control, to report results of a comparative evaluation with a selection of existing methods, and to cast a glance at the challenges for future research.

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