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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

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

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

One of the most challenging scenarios for smart speakers is multi-talker, when target speech from the desired speaker is mixed with interfering speech from one or more speakers. A smart assistant needs to determine which voice to recognize…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-19 Joe Caroselli , Arun Narayanan , Yiteng Huang

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

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

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

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

A broad and growing array of applications rely on the faithful transmission of ultrastable optical signals over noisy paths, requiring cancellation of environmentally induced noise. A generally accepted limit constrains how well the path…

This paper addresses the issue of active speaker detection (ASD) in noisy environments and formulates a robust active speaker detection (rASD) problem. Existing ASD approaches leverage both audio and visual modalities, but non-speech sounds…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Siva Sai Nagender Vasireddy , Chenxu Zhang , Xiaohu Guo , Yapeng Tian

In recent years, neural networks (NNs) have been widely applied in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). However, existing approaches struggle to meet real-world low-latency and computational requirements while maintaining performance. To…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-11 Xingchen Li , Boyi Kang , Ziqian Wang , Zihan Zhang , Mingshuai Liu , Zhonghua Fu , Lei Xie

Respiratory rate (RR) is a key vital sign for clinical assessment and mental well-being, yet it is rarely monitored in everyday life due to the lack of unobtrusive sensing technologies. In-ear audio sensing is promising due to its high…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Michael Küttner , Valeria Zitz , Supraja Ramesh , Michael Beigl , Tobias Röddiger

A photoacoustic (PA) sensor based on higher order acoustic modes is demonstrated. The PA sensor is designed to enhance the gas-detection performance and simultaneously suppress ambient noise sources (e.g. flow noise, electrical noise and…

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

Carrier noise in coherent tones limits sensitivity and causes heating in many experimental systems, such as force sensors, time-keeping, and studies of macroscopic quantum phenomena. Much progress has been made to reduce carrier noise using…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Joe Depellette , Ewa Rej , Matthew Herbst , Richa Cutting , Yulong Liu , Mika A. Sillanpää

We present a system for active noise control (ANC) of environmental magnetic fields based on a Filtered-x Least Mean Squares (FxLMS) algorithm. The system consists of a sensor that detects the ambient field noise and an error sensor that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-05 Tadas Pyragius , Kasper Jensen

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

Active noise control (ANC) has become popular for reducing noise and thus enhancing user comfort in headphones. While feedback control offers an effective way to implement ANC, it is restricted by uncertainty of the controlled system that…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-22 Florian Hilgemann , Egke Chatzimoustafa , Peter Jax

Modern smart glasses leverage advanced audio sensing and machine learning technologies to offer real-time transcribing and captioning services, considerably enriching human experiences in daily communications. However, such systems…