Department of Systems and Computer Engineering


Dr. Rafik Goubran: Publication Abstract

Publication: A.N. Birkett and R.A. Goubran, "Nonlinear Loudspeaker Compensation for Hands Free Acoustic Echo Cancellation", IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 12, p. 1063, June 1996.
Abstract: Loudspeaker nonlinearity at high volumes limits the achievable echo cancellation performance in linear acoustic echo cancellers. A new non linear adaptive filter for improving the echo cancellation performance at high volumes for hands free telephones is proposed. Experimental measurements show that an echo cancellation improvement of > 8dB can be obtained at high volumes as compared to a linear adaptive filter.