A Two-Path Frequency Domain Algorithm for Stereophonic Acoustic Echo Cancellation

Stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation is widely used in the high quality audio/video teleconference systems to reduce the echoes coupling between microphones and loudspeakers. In the specific application scenarios, adaptive filters require a very high filter length to deal with the same long echo path. When time domain algorithm is used to estimate the echo path, the cost of complexity is very high, which can be optimized by frequency domain adaptive filters. In this paper, an efficient two-channel frequency domain algorithm is used to achieve this goal. Meanwhile, double-talk often occurs in the teleconference system, so the robustness of the algorithm is equally important. We also propose a robust two-path updating control transfer logic for stereophonic echo cancellation to solve the double-talk problems.

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