Wilf LeBlanc
Broadcom
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2012 IEEE International Conference on Emerging Signal Processing Applications | 2012
Wilf LeBlanc; Elias Nemer
This paper presents a new method for improving the performance of an acoustic echo canceller operating in a hands-free telephony context, where the terminal connects to an external amplifier whose volume can be changed arbitrarily. This change would normally results in the canceller loosing convergence, and temporarily causes an echo to be heard by the far side. The proposed method provides an effective way to quickly compensate, by continuously tracking key measures across the frequency bands, and adjusting the coefficients as well as the output of the cancellers filter, in order to minimize the level and duration of the residual echo. A subband architecture consisting of two sets of cancellers is considered. Changes in external volume (or tone) are translated into a complex gain (or set of gains) and applied to the output or the coefficients of the foreground canceller filter, according to the optimality criterion of minimizing the mean square error (MSE) at the canceller output. The algorithm uses various metrics to ensure the validity of the computed gains and the overall cancellers stability. Listening tests and perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) score done in a real-life setting show the method results in a noted improvement of the overall perceptual performance of the canceller.
Archive | 2000
Henry Li; David M. Enns; Jordan J. Nicol; Kenny C. Kwan; Ross Mitchell; Wilf LeBlanc; Ken Unger; John Payton; Shawn Stevenson; Bill Boora; Onur Tackin
Archive | 2004
Wilf LeBlanc; Phil Houghton; Kenneth Cheung
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Wilf LeBlanc; Shawn Stevenson
Archive | 2006
Onur Tackin; Scott Branden; Chad Griffiths; Wilf LeBlanc
Archive | 2012
Ike Ikizyan; Wilf LeBlanc
Archive | 2000
Wilf LeBlanc; Shawn Stevenson; Wing Yee Winnie Lee
Archive | 2000
Wilf LeBlanc; Shawn Stevenson; Bill Boora
Archive | 2000
Wilf LeBlanc; Shawn Stevenson
Archive | 2010
Wilf LeBlanc; Phil Houghton; Kenneth Cheung