Studies of a wideband stereophonic acoustic echo canceler

Abstract

In this paper a wideband stereophonic acoustic echo canceler is presented. The fundamental difficulty of stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation (SAEC) is described and an echo canceler based on a fast recursive least squares algorithm in a subband structure is proposed. This structure have been used in a real-time implementation, on which experiments have been performed. In the paper, simulation results of this implementation on real life recordings, with 8 kHz bandwidth, are studied. The results clearly verify that the theoretic fundamental problem of SAEC also applies in real-life situations. They also show that more sophisticated adaptive algorithms are needed in the lower frequency regions than in the higher regions.