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Spatially selective active noise control (ANC) hearables are designed to reduce unwanted noise from certain directions while preserving desired sounds from other directions. In previous studies, the target signal has been defined either as…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-17 Tong Xiao , Simon Doclo

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

Traditional volumetric noise control typically relies on multipoint error minimization to suppress sound energy across a region, but offers limited flexibility in shaping spatial responses. This paper introduces a time domain formulation…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Manan Mittal , Ryan M. Corey , Andrew C. Singer

Multichannel active noise control (MCANC) is widely utilized to achieve significant noise cancellation area in the complicated acoustic field. Meanwhile, the filter-x least mean square (FxLMS) algorithm gradually becomes the benchmark…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-08 Dongyuan Shi , Woon-Seng Gan , Bhan Lam , Shulin Wen , Xiaoyi Shen

Directional Selective Fixed-Filter Active Noise Control (D-SFANC) can effectively attenuate noise from different directions by selecting the suitable pre-trained control filter based on the Direction-of-Arrival (DoA) of the current noise.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-28 Boxiang Wang , Zhengding Luo , Dongyuan Shi , Junwei Ji , Xiruo Su , Woon-Seng Gan

A method for estimating the incident sound field inside a region containing scattering objects is proposed. The sound field estimation method has various applications, such as spatial audio capturing and spatial active noise control;…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Shoichi Koyama , Masaki Nakada , Juliano G. C. Ribeiro , Hiroshi Saruwatari

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

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

An interpolation method for region-to-region acoustic transfer functions (ATFs) based on kernel ridge regression with an adaptive kernel is proposed. Most current ATF interpolation methods do not incorporate the acoustic properties for…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-08 Juliano G. C. Ribeiro , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

A method of interpolating the acoustic transfer function (ATF) between regions that takes into account both the physical properties of the ATF and the directionality of region configurations is proposed. Most spatial ATF interpolation…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-06 Juliano G. C. Ribeiro , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Spherical radial-basis-based kernel interpolation abounds in image sciences including geophysical image reconstruction, climate trends description and image rendering due to its excellent spatial localization property and perfect…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Xiaotong Liu , Jinxin Wang , Di Wang , Shao-Bo Lin

Active noise control (ANC) has been widely utilized to reduce unwanted environmental noise. The primary objective of ANC is to generate an anti-noise with the same amplitude but the opposite phase of the primary noise using the secondary…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Xiaoyi Shen , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Junwei Ji , Woon-Seng Gan

Virtual sensing (VS) technology enables active noise control (ANC) systems to attenuate noise at virtual locations distant from the physical error microphones. Appropriate auxiliary filters (AF) can significantly enhance the effectiveness…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-10 Boxiang Wang , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Xiaoyi Shen , Junwei Ji , Woon-Seng Gan

Most of the literature focuses on the development of the linear active noise control (ANC) techniques. However, ANC systems might have to deal with some nonlinear components and the performance of linear ANC techniques may degrade in this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Lu Lu , Kai-Li Yin , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Zongsheng Zheng , Yi Yu , Xiaomin Yang , Badong Chen

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

By assigning the massive computing tasks of the traditional multichannel active noise control (MCANC) system to several distributed control nodes, distributed multichannel active noise control (DMCANC) techniques have become effective…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-16 Junwei Ji , Dongyuan Shi , Zhengding Luo , Xiaoyi Shen , Woon-Seng Gan

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

A sound field reproduction method called weighted pressure matching is proposed. Sound field reproduction is aimed at synthesizing the desired sound field using multiple loudspeakers inside a target region. Optimization-based methods are…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Shoichi Koyama , Kazuyuki Arikawa

Research in traditional Active Noise Control(ANC) often abstracts acoustic channels with band-limited filter coefficients. This is a limitation in exploring structural and positional aspects of ANC. As a solution to this, we propose the use…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-02-28 C. K. Sajil , C. L. Biji , S. Nair Achuthsankar

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