On the performance of the robust acoustic echo cancellation system with decorrelation by sub-band resampling

This paper examines the effect of inter-channel decorrelation by sub-band resampling (SBR) on the performance of the robust acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) system based on the residual echo enhancement technique. Due to the flexibility of SBR, the decorrelation performance as measured by the coherence can be matched with other conventional decorrelation procedures. Given the same degree of decorrelation, we have shown previously that SBR achieves superior audio quality compared to other procedures. We show in this paper that SBR also provides higher stereophonic AEC performance in a very noisy condition, where the performance is evaluated by decomposing the true echo return loss enhancement and the misalignment per sub-band to better demonstrate the superiority of our decorrelation procedure over other methods.