Crossband filtering for stereophonic acoustic echo suppression

In this paper, we propose a novel stereophonic acoustic echo suppression (SAES) technique based on crossband filtering in the short-time Fourier transform (STFT) domain. The proposed algorithm considers spectral correlations among components in adjacent frequency bins, and estimates the extended power spectral density (PSD) matrices and cross PSD vectors from the signal statistics for more precise echo estimation. In the STFT domain, the echo spectra are estimated by performing the technique without any distinguishable double-talk detector. According to the experimental results, the proposed algorithm has been found to show better performances compared with the conventional SAES method.