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Compared to the conventional centralized multichannel active noise control (MCANC) algorithm, which requires substantial computational resources, decentralized approaches exhibit higher computational efficiency but typically result in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Junwei Ji , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Boxiang Wang , Woon-Seng Gan

Active noise control (ANC) systems are commonly designed to achieve maximal sound reduction regardless of the incident direction of the sound. When desired sound is present, the state-of-the-art methods add a separate system to reconstruct…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-15 Tong Xiao , Buye Xu , Chuming Zhao

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

Active Noise Control (ANC) is a widely adopted technology for reducing environmental noise across various scenarios. This paper focuses on enhancing noise reduction performance, particularly through the refinement of signal quality fed into…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Xiaoyi Shen , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Junwei Ji , Woon-Seng Gan

A spatial active noise control (ANC) method based on the interpolation of a sound field from reference microphone signals is proposed. In most current spatial ANC methods, a sufficient number of error microphones are required to reduce…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-29 Kazuyuki Arikawa , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

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

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

Active noise control (ANC) over a sizeable space requires a large number of reference and error microphones to satisfy the spatial Nyquist sampling criterion, which limits the feasibility of practical realization of such systems. This paper…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Yu Maeno , Yuki Mitsufuji , Thushara D. Abhayapala

Distributed multichannel active noise control (DMCANC) offers effective noise reduction across large spatial areas by distributing the computational load of centralized control to multiple low-cost nodes. Conventional DMCANC methods,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-23 Junwei Ji , Dongyuan Shi , Boxiang Wang , Ziyi Yang , Haowen Li , Woon-Seng Gan

Smart glasses are becoming an increasingly prevalent wearable platform, with audio as a key interaction modality. However, hearing in noisy environments remains challenging because smart glasses are equipped with open-ear speakers that do…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-08 Kuang Yuan , Freddy Yifei Liu , Tong Xiao , Yiwen Song , Chengyi Shen , Saksham Bhutani , Justin Chan , Swarun Kumar

The performance of laser-based active sensing has been severely limited by two types of noise: electrical noise, stemming from elements; optical noise, laser jamming from an eavesdropper and background from environment. Conventional methods…

This paper proposes an online secondary path modelling (SPM) technique to improve the performance of the modified filtered reference Least Mean Square (FXLMS) algorithm. It can effectively respond to a time-varying secondary path, which…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Junwei Ji , Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan , Xiaoyi Shen , Zhengding Luo

One enduring challenge for controlling high frequency sound in local active noise control (ANC) systems is to obtain the acoustic signal at the specific location to be controlled. In some applications such as in ANC headrest systems, it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-01 Tong Xiao , Xiaojun Qiu , Benjamin Halkon

Active noise control (ANC) must adapt quickly when the acoustic environment changes, yet early performance is largely dictated by initialization. We address this with a Model-Agnostic Meta-Learning (MAML) co-initialization that jointly sets…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-21 Ziyi Yang , Li Rao , Zhengding Luo , Dongyuan Shi , Qirui Huang , Woon-Seng Gan

The multichannel virtual sensing active noise control (MVANC) methodology is an advanced approach that may provide a wide area of silence at specific virtual positions that are distant from the physical error microphones. Currently, there…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-20 Boxiang Wang

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 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

Due to the slow convergence and poor tracking ability, conventional LMS-based adaptive algorithms are less capable of handling dynamic noises. Selective fixed-filter active noise control (SFANC) can significantly reduce response time by…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-21 Zhengding Luo , Dongyuan Shi , Xiaoyi Shen , Junwei Ji , Woon-Seng Gan

This paper gives a broader insight on the application of adaptive filter in noise cancellation during various processes where signal is transmitted. Adaptive filtering techniques like RLS, LMS and normalized LMS are used to filter the input…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Pratibha Balaji , Shruthi Narayan , Durga Sraddha , Bharath K P , Karthik R , Rajesh Kumar Muthu

This paper presents SONIC, an embedded real-time noise suppression system implemented on the ARM Cortex-M7-based STM32H753ZI microcontroller. Using adaptive filtering (LMS), the system improves speech intelligibility in noisy environments.…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Pranav M N , Gandham Sai Santhosh , Tejas Joshi , S Sriniketh Desikan , Eswar Gupta