EchoFree: Towards Ultra Lightweight and Efficient Neural Acoustic Echo Cancellation
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| author | Li, Xingchen Kang, Boyi Wang, Ziqian Zhang, Zihan Liu, Mingshuai Fu, Zhonghua Xie, Lei |
| author_facet | Li, Xingchen Kang, Boyi Wang, Ziqian Zhang, Zihan Liu, Mingshuai Fu, Zhonghua Xie, Lei |
| contents | 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 address this challenge, we propose EchoFree, an ultra lightweight neural AEC framework that combines linear filtering with a neural post filter. Specifically, we design a neural post-filter operating on Bark-scale spectral features. Furthermore, we introduce a two-stage optimization strategy utilizing self-supervised learning (SSL) models to improve model performance. We evaluate our method on the blind test set of the ICASSP 2023 AEC Challenge. The results demonstrate that our model, with only 278K parameters and 30 MMACs computational complexity, outperforms existing low-complexity AEC models and achieves performance comparable to that of state-of-the-art lightweight model DeepVQE-S. The audio examples are available. |
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| spellingShingle | EchoFree: Towards Ultra Lightweight and Efficient Neural Acoustic Echo Cancellation Li, Xingchen Kang, Boyi Wang, Ziqian Zhang, Zihan Liu, Mingshuai Fu, Zhonghua Xie, Lei Audio and Speech Processing 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 address this challenge, we propose EchoFree, an ultra lightweight neural AEC framework that combines linear filtering with a neural post filter. Specifically, we design a neural post-filter operating on Bark-scale spectral features. Furthermore, we introduce a two-stage optimization strategy utilizing self-supervised learning (SSL) models to improve model performance. We evaluate our method on the blind test set of the ICASSP 2023 AEC Challenge. The results demonstrate that our model, with only 278K parameters and 30 MMACs computational complexity, outperforms existing low-complexity AEC models and achieves performance comparable to that of state-of-the-art lightweight model DeepVQE-S. The audio examples are available. |
| title | EchoFree: Towards Ultra Lightweight and Efficient Neural Acoustic Echo Cancellation |
| topic | Audio and Speech Processing |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06271 |