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Spatially selective active noise control (SSANC) hearables aim to attenuate noise from certain directions at the eardrum while preserving desired speech arriving from selected directions. Existing SSANC systems typically assume an accurate…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Tong Xiao , Reinhild Roden , Matthias Blau , Simon Doclo

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 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

Recent advances in spatially selective active noise control (SSANC) using multiple microphones have enabled hearables to suppress undesired noise while preserving desired speech from a specific direction. Aiming to achieve minimal speech…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-18 Tong Xiao , Reinhild Roden , Matthias Blau , Simon Doclo

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

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 multichannel active noise control (ANC) method with exterior radiation suppression is proposed. When applying ANC in a three-dimensional space by using multiple microphones and loudspeakers, the loudspeaker output can amplify noise…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-16 Takaaki Kojima , Kazuyuki Arikawa , Shoichi Koyama , Hiroshi Saruwatari

Active noise control (ANC) is an effective way for reducing the noise level in electroacoustic or electromechanical systems. Since its first introduction in 1936, this approach has been greatly developed. This paper focuses on discussing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-04 Lu Lu , Kai-Li Yin , Rodrigo C. de Lamare , Zongsheng Zheng , Yi Yu , Xiaomin Yang , Badong Chen

Traditional Active Noise Control (ANC) systems are mostly based on FxLMS algorithms, but such algorithms rely on linear assumptions and are often limited in handling broadband non-stationary noise or nonlinear acoustic paths. Not only that,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-14 Shuning Dai

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

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

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

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

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

Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) algorithms aim to suppress unwanted acoustic disturbances by generating anti-noise signals that destructively interfere with the original noise in real time. Although recent deep learning-based ANC algorithms…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-26 François Derrida , Shahar Lutati , Eliya Nachmani

This paper presents some recent algorithms developed by the authors for real-time adaptive active noise (AANC) control systems. These algorithms address some of the common challenges faced by AANC systems, such as speaker saturation, system…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-21 Woon-Seng Gan , Dongyuan Shi , Xiaoyi Shen

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

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
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