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Double-Talk Detection Based on Soft Decision for Acoustic Echo Suppression

음향학적 반향 제거를 위한 Soft Decision 기반의 동시통화 검출

  • Published : 2009.04.30
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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a novel double-talk detection (DTD) technique based on soft decision in the frequency domain. In the proposed method, global near-end speech presence probability (GNSPP) considering the statistical model assumption and voice activity detection (VAD) decision of the near-end and far-end signal are applied to the DTD algorithm in the frequency domain instead of the traditional hard decision scheme using cross-correlation coefficients. The performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by the objective test under various environments, and yields better results compared with the conventional scheme.

본 논문에서는 음향학적 반향 제거(AES, acoustic echo suppression)를 위해 주파수영역에서 soft decision 기법에 근거한 새로운 동시통화 검출 (DTD, double-talk detection) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제시된 방법은 효과적인 DTD를 위해 상관계수 (cross-correlation coefficient)에 기반하여 hard decision을 사용하는 기존의 알고리즘 대신 주파수 영역에서 입력 및 원단신호의 VAD (voice activity detection) 결과와 음성 통계모델에 기반한 soft decision 방법을 도입하여 전역 근단화자존 재확률 (GNSPP, global near-end speech presence probability)을 DTD에 적용한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 기존의 방법과 객관적인 실험을 통해 비교 평가한 결과 다양한 배경잡음 환경에서 우수한 성능을 보였다.

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