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The efficacy of active noise control technology in mitigating urban noise, particularly in relation to low-frequency components, has been well-established. In the realm of traditional academic research, adaptive algorithms, such as the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Guo Yu

In this paper we consider an in-ear headphone equipped with an external microphone and aim to minimize the sound pressure at the ear drum by means of a fixed feedforward ANC controller. Based on measured acoustic paths to predict the sound…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-17 Piero Rivera Benois , Reinhild Roden , Matthias Blau , Simon Doclo

In decentralized active noise control (ANC) systems, crosstalk between multichannel secondary sources and error microphones significantly degrades control accuracy. Moreover, prefiltering reference signals in filtered-x (Fx) type algorithms…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Yijing Chu , Qinxuan Xiang , Sipei Zhao , Ming Wu , Y. Zhao , Guangzheng Yu

Selective fixed-filter active noise control (SFANC) is a novel approach capable of mitigating noise with varying frequency characteristics. It offers faster response and greater computational efficiency compared to traditional adaptive…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Boxiang Wang , Zhengding Luo , Haowen Li , Dongyuan Shi , Junwei Ji , Ziyi Yang , Woon-Seng Gan

In this paper we consider an in-ear headphone equipped with an inner microphone and multiple loudspeakers and we propose an optimization procedure with a convex objective function to derive a fixed multi-loudspeaker ANC controller aiming at…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-08 Piero Rivera Benois , Reinhild Roden , Matthias Blau , Simon Doclo

Due to its rapid response time and a high degree of robustness, the selective fixed-filter active noise control (SFANC) method appears to be a viable candidate for widespread use in a variety of practical active noise control (ANC) systems.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-19 Zhengding Luo , Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan

The image source method (ISM) is often used to simulate room acoustics due to its ease of use and computational efficiency. The standard ISM is limited to simulations of room impulse responses between point sources and omnidirectional…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-08 Zeyu Xu , Adrian Herzog , Alexander Lodermeyer , Emanuël A. P. Habets , Albert G. Prinn

Analog Network Coding (ANC) is proposed in literature to improve the network throughput by exploiting channel diversity. In practical scenarios, due to the difference in channel characteristics, an extra residual component, termed as ANC…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-08-23 Sam Darshi , Samar Shailendra

This paper presents an active noise control experiment designed to validate a real-time control strategy for reduction of the noise scattered from a three-dimensional body. The control algorithm relies on estimating the scattered noise by…

Classical Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Emmanuel Friot , Régine Guillermin , Muriel Winninger

Conventional multiple-point active noise control (ANC) systems require placing error microphones within the region of interest (ROI), inconveniencing users. This paper designs a feasible monitoring microphone arrangement placed outside the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-27 Yile Angela Zhang , Fei Ma , Thushara Abhayapala , Prasanga Samarasinghe , Amy Bastine

This article offers an elaborate description of a Kalman filter code employed in the active control system. Conventional active noise management methods usually employ an adaptive filter, such as the filtered reference least mean square…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-13 Guo Yu

While our world is filled with its own natural sounds that we can't resist enjoying, it is also chock-full of other sounds that can be irritating, this is noise. Noise not only influences the working efficiency but also the human's health.…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-11-02 kai Wu , Yuanyuan Chen

A spatial active noise control (ANC) method based on kernel interpolation of a sound field with exterior radiation suppression is proposed. The aim of spatial ANC is to reduce incoming noise over a target region by using multiple secondary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-03 Kazuyuki Arikawa , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

A spatial active noise control (ANC) method based on the individual kernel interpolation of primary and secondary sound fields is proposed. Spatial ANC is aimed at cancelling unwanted primary noise within a continuous region by using…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-11 Kazuyuki Arikawa , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

The close relationship between the feedforward ANC system and the stereo acoustic echo cancellation system is revealed in this paper. Accordingly, the convergence behavior of the ANC system can be analyzed by investigating the joint…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-01-21 Meiling Hu , Jun Wang , Jinpei Xue , Jing Lu

Hearing aids use dynamic range compression (DRC), a form of automatic gain control, to make quiet sounds louder and loud sounds quieter. Compression can improve listening comfort, but it can also cause distortion in noisy environments. It…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-28 Ryan M. Corey , Andrew C. Singer

Active noise control (ANC) systems can efficiently attenuate low-frequency noises by introducing anti-noises to combine with the unwanted noises. In ANC systems, the filtered-x least mean square (FxLMS) and filtered-X normalized…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-18 Zhengding Luo , Dongyuan Shi , Junwei Ji , Woon-seng Gan

Recent advances in active noise control have enabled the development of hearables with spatial selectivity, which actively suppress undesired noise while preserving desired sound from specific directions. In this work, we propose an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-16 Tong Xiao , Simon Doclo

This article presents a method for improving a keyword spotter (KWS) algorithm in noisy environments. Although beamforming (BF) and adaptive noise cancellation (ANC) techniques are robust in some conditions, they may degrade the performance…

Snoring is a common disorder that affects people's social and marital lives. The annoyance caused by snoring can be partially solved with active noise control systems. In this context, the present work aims at introducing an enhanced system…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-01 Valeria Bruschi , Michela Cantarini , Luca Serafini , Stefano Nobili , Stefania Cecchi , Stefano Squartini