Multi-Channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation Based on Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

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Autores principales: Zhao, Fei, Zhang, Xueliang, Wang, Zhong-Qiu
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author Zhao, Fei
Zhang, Xueliang
Wang, Zhong-Qiu
author_facet Zhao, Fei
Zhang, Xueliang
Wang, Zhong-Qiu
contents Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is an important speech signal processing technology that can remove echoes from microphone signals to enable natural-sounding full-duplex speech communication. While single-channel AEC is widely adopted, multi-channel AEC can leverage spatial cues afforded by multiple microphones to achieve better performance. Existing multi-channel AEC approaches typically combine beamforming with deep neural networks (DNN). This work proposes a two-stage algorithm that enhances multi-channel AEC by incorporating sound source directional cues. Specifically, a lightweight DNN is first trained to predict the sound source directions, and then the predicted directional information, multi-channel microphone signals, and single-channel far-end signal are jointly fed into an AEC network to estimate the near-end signal. Evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms baseline approaches and exhibits robust generalization across diverse acoustic environments.
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spellingShingle Multi-Channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation Based on Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
Zhao, Fei
Zhang, Xueliang
Wang, Zhong-Qiu
Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
Acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) is an important speech signal processing technology that can remove echoes from microphone signals to enable natural-sounding full-duplex speech communication. While single-channel AEC is widely adopted, multi-channel AEC can leverage spatial cues afforded by multiple microphones to achieve better performance. Existing multi-channel AEC approaches typically combine beamforming with deep neural networks (DNN). This work proposes a two-stage algorithm that enhances multi-channel AEC by incorporating sound source directional cues. Specifically, a lightweight DNN is first trained to predict the sound source directions, and then the predicted directional information, multi-channel microphone signals, and single-channel far-end signal are jointly fed into an AEC network to estimate the near-end signal. Evaluation results show that the proposed algorithm outperforms baseline approaches and exhibits robust generalization across diverse acoustic environments.
title Multi-Channel Acoustic Echo Cancellation Based on Direction-of-Arrival Estimation
topic Sound
Audio and Speech Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.19493