Performance Improvement of Acoustic Echo Cancellers Using Delayless Subband Adaptive Filters And Fast Affine Projection Algorithm

Since the introduction of hands-free phone set and teleconferencing system, acoustic echo cancellation has been a challenge for engineers. Recently many researches have shown that the best solution for the acoustic echo compensation problem is represented by an adaptive filter which iteratively tries to identify the unknown impulse response of the system from loudspeaker to microphone. In this paper, we apply the delayless subband adaptive filters and fast affine projection algorithm for the identification of room impulse response. Simulation results show 3∼8 dB more enhanced performance than conventional fullband adaptive filters or subband adaptive filters. In addition, fast affine projection algorithm shows better convergence speed at the expense of the low computational complexity than conventional LMS algorithm.