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On using MLPs for step size control in echo cancellation for hands-free telephone sets

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Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN'97 (ICANN 1997)

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Acoustic echo cancellation in hands-free telephones can be regarded as adaptive system identification with several hundreds of filter coefficients in very noisy environment and with unstationary non-white excitation. Its performance is highly dependent on the choice of the time variant adaptation step size. The step size can be controlled with the help of various methods which estimate statistical characteristics of the measurable signals, but which are not very reliable and should be combined to improve the resulting step size. In this paper, we present some results of such a combination by means of a multilayer perceptron, and show how different cost functions and training situations affect the performance of the echo canceller.

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Wulfram Gerstner Alain Germond Martin Hasler Jean-Daniel Nicoud

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Breining, C. (1997). On using MLPs for step size control in echo cancellation for hands-free telephone sets. In: Gerstner, W., Germond, A., Hasler, M., Nicoud, JD. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks — ICANN'97. ICANN 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1327. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0020260

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