EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing 
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 75621, 12 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/75621
Research Article

Subband Affine Projection Algorithm for Acoustic Echo Cancellation System

Hun Choi and Hyeon-Deok Bae

Department of Electronic Engineering, Chungbuk National University, 12 Gaeshin-Dong, Heungduk-Gu, Cheongju 361-763, South Korea

Received 30 December 2005; Revised 14 April 2006; Accepted 18 May 2006

Recommended by Yuan-Pei Lin

Abstract

We present a new subband affine projection (SAP) algorithm for the adaptive acoustic echo cancellation with long echo path delay. Generally, the acoustic echo canceller suffers from the long echo path and large computational complexity. To solve this problem, the proposed algorithm combines merits of the affine projection (AP) algorithm and the subband filtering. Convergence speed of the proposed algorithm is improved by the signal-decorrelating property of the orthogonal subband filtering and the weight updating with the prewhitened input signal of the AP algorithm. Moreover, in the proposed algorithms, as applying the polyphase decomposition, the noble identity, and the critical decimation to subband the adaptive filter, the sufficiently decomposed SAP updates the weights of adaptive subfilters without a matrix inversion. Therefore, computational complexity of the proposed method is considerably reduced. In the SAP, the derived weight updating formula for the subband adaptive filter has a simple form as ever compared with the normalized least-mean-square (NLMS) algorithm. The efficiency of the proposed algorithm for the colored signal and speech signal was evaluated experimentally.