Kolloquiumsvortrag, Dipl.-Ing. Ingo Schalk-Schupp, Forschungslabor Nuance Communication / am 10.04.2017

10.04.2017 von 17:15 bis 18:45

Institute Ostufer, Geb. D, "Aquarium", Kaiserstr. 2, 24143 Kiel

Titel: Nonlinear Echo Suppression

Abstract: This presentation provides a short overview concerning acoustic echo cancellation and acoustic echo suppression methods followed by a more in-depth discussion of new methods dealing with Hammerstein-type nonlinear distortions.

The Hammerstein system is divided into a linear and a parallel nonlinear part by an alternative way to define of the linear one. The implications of this separation definition and its relation to linear acoustic echo cancellation are illuminated.

Based on this approach, and assuming a converged linear echo canceller, a suppression approach for nonlinearly distorted acoustic echo signal components is introduced, the essential component of which is the nonlinear echo power spectral density estimation, which depends on one unknown real scalar parameter.

Subsequently, an identification algorithm for said parameter is presented, which results in a usable nonlinear echo suppressor still under the assumption of a converged linear echo canceller. Moreover, a generic comprehensive evaluation method for suppressor-type algorithms is advertised.

Finally, the challenge of concurrently adaptive linear echo canceller and nonlinear echo suppressor is analyzed and a solution for a full system is presented. After listening to several audio examples, the audience is invited to discuss the presentation’s contents.

Short biography

Ingo Schalk-Schupp studied systems engineering and technical cybernetics at Otto von Guericke University in Magdeburg, Germany. He graduated as a diploma engineer (Diplomingenieur) in 2012 with a diploma thesis titled “Speech Signal Enhancement in Automotive Environments” composed at Nuance Communications in Ulm, Germany. The thesis comprised two patent applications and was granted the best thesis award by the “Magdeburger Kybernetiker e.V.” Since 2012, he has been a PhD student with Nuance in Ulm and is supervised by Professor Andreas Wendemuth, Chair of Cognitive Systems at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg. This presentation reflects the author’s findings from his PhD research.

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