학술논문

Full-duplex communication systems using loudspeaker arrays and microphone arrays
Document Type
Conference
Source
Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Multimedia and expo Multimedia and Expo, 2002. ICME '02. Proceedings. 2002 IEEE International Conference on. 1:509-512 vol.1 2002
Subject
Computing and Processing
Microphone arrays
Loudspeakers
Multimedia communication
Multimedia systems
Teleconferencing
Music
Signal synthesis
Echo cancellers
Real time systems
MIMO
Language
Abstract
For high-quality multimedia communication systems, such as teleconferencing, or tele-teaching (especially of music), multichannel sound reproduction is highly desirable. While current approaches still rely on a restrained listening area, the sweet spot, a volume solution for a large listening space is offered by the wave field synthesis (WFS) method, where arrays of loudspeakers generate a prespecified sound field. On the recording side of the two-way systems, the use of microphone arrays is an effective approach to cope with undesired signal components in the receiving room. However, before full-duplex communication can be deployed, efficient approaches to the acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) problem in this challenging scenario have to be found. We investigate different options for system integration, after a brief discussion of the current state of the art. We then present a first real-time solution on a regular PC platform, based on an efficient AEC for MIMO (multi-input and multi-output) systems in the frequency-domain.