Eigenfilters For Signal Cancellation

Abstract

Selectively canceling signals at specific locations within an acoustical environment with multiple listeners is of significant importance for home theater, automobile, teleconferencing, office, industrial and other applications. The traditional noise cancellation approach is impractical for such applications because it requires sensors that must be placed on the listeners. In this paper we investigate the theoretical properties of eigenfilters for signal cancellation proposed in [1]. We also investigate the sensitivity of the eigenfilter as a function of the room impulse response duration. Our results show that with the minimum phase model for the room impulse response, we obtain a better behaviour in the sensitivity of the filter to the duration of the room response.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
AD1170905

Entities

People

  • Chris Kyriakakis
  • Sunil Bharitkar

Organizations

  • University of Southern California

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Adaptive Filters
  • Cancellation
  • Data Transmission
  • Digital Signal Processing
  • Eigenvalues
  • Eigenvectors
  • Environment
  • Filters
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Information Theory
  • Linear Algebra
  • New York
  • Noise
  • Power Spectra
  • Sensitivity
  • Signal Processing
  • Sound Pressure
  • Theorems
  • Time Intervals
  • White Noise

Fields of Study

  • Engineering

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Auditory Neuroscience/Auditory Physiology.
  • Phased Array Antenna Design.