Memory Proportionate APA with Individual Activation Factors for Acoustic Echo Cancellation

An individual-activation-factor memory proportionate affine projection algorithm (IAF-MPAPA) is proposed for sparse system identification in acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) scenarios. By utilizing an individual activation factor for each adaptive filter coefficient instead of a global activation factor, as in the standard proportionate affine projection algorithm (PAPA), the adaptation energy over the coefficients of the proposed IAF-MPAPA can achieve a better distribution, which leads to an improvement of the convergence performance. Moreover, benefiting from the memory characteristics of the proportionate coefficients, its computational complexity is less than the PAPA and improved PAPA (IPAPA). In the context of AEC and stereophonic AEC (SAEC) for highly sparse impulse responses, simulation results indicate that the proposed IAF-MPAPA outperforms the PAPA, IPAPA, and memory IPAPA (MIPAPA) in terms of the convergence rate and tracking capability when the unknown impulse response suddenly changes.