1. Key Laboratory of Maritime Communication and Intelligent Electronic Systems of Fujian Province, College of Information Engineering, Jimei University, Xiamen 361021, China;
2. Center for Speech and Language Technologies, Research Institute of Information Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;
3. Xiamen LA and Associates Medical Equipment Co. LTD., Xiamen 361009, China
Abstract：Acoustic feedback cancellation needs robust and efficient adaptive filters. A Gauss-Seidel pseudo affine projection (GSPAP) sub-band adaptive filter based algorithm was developed using the auto-correlation matrix of the reference signal in the sub-band domain, instead of the power, to normalize the adaptation step size. A self-adjusting coefficient calculated from the maximum power of the input and output sub-band signals, was used to improve the robustness of the auto-correlation matrix. A two-order GSPAP algorithm was used to find the inverse of the auto-correlation matrix to balance the performance and complexity. Results from the added stable gain (ASG) experiment indicate that this algorithm gives 11 to 22 dB improved feedback cancellation for different types of hearing aids, which is 22% to 55% better than given by the time-domain normalized least mean square (NLMS) algorithm.
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