Acoustic echo-canceler using the FBAF algorithm

An acoustic echo-canceler for teleconferencing systems is realized based on the frequency bin adaptive filtering (FBAF) algorithm. In the FBAF algorithm, each frequency bin does an independent adaptive filtering, so that parallel processing can be used to increase the throughput of the system. Hardware size can be reduced to about 25% of the FIR time domain adaptive filter (TDAF) requirement. The realized echo canceler allows a comfortable conversation with only 8 ms of delay. The hardware prototype contains 12 VSP chips and one DSP chip, An ERLE (echo return loss enhancement) of 30 dB was achieved using this prototype hardware for an echo reverberation path with 260 ms delay. An efficient method for normalizing the convergence factor of the FBAF algorithm with a correlated input signal is given that speeds up the convergence rate. The performance is shown by computer simulation