A double-talk resistant subband echo canceller

A recursive transfer Function estimation algorithm is presented and analyzed. Applications can be found in either line or acoustic echo cancellation. The proposed algorithm is robust against burst disturbances that are caused by detection misses of double-talk present at the output of the echo path. A frequency-domain technique is used and a robust score function is derived from a criterion that is valid in the application. Analysis of the robust algorithm shows that good performance is to be expected. The performance of the algorithm when operated on real-life speech data in a full duplex communication system is shown by examples. Double-talk detection misses are shown to be well handled by the robust algorithm: yet, convergence rare and variance efficiency are as high as that of a non-robust least-squares algorithm. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.