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Channel Decorrelation For Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation In High-Quality Audio Communication

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Abstract

In this paper, we address an important problem in high-quality audio communication systems. Acoustic echo cancellation with stereo signals is generally an under-determined problem because of the generally important correlation that exists between the left and right channels. In this paper, we present a novel method of significantly reducing that correlation without affecting the audio quality. This method is perceptually motivated and combines a shaped comb-allpass (SCAL) filter with the injection of psychoacoustically masked noise. We show that the proposed method performs significantly better than other known methods for channel decorrelation.

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@article{arxiv.1603.03364,
  title  = {Channel Decorrelation For Stereo Acoustic Echo Cancellation In High-Quality Audio Communication},
  author = {Jean-Marc Valin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.03364},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

6 pages in Proceedings of Workshop on the Internet, Telecommunications and Signal Processing (WITSP), 2006. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1602.08633