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Acoustic Howling Detection and Suppression for IP-Based Teleconference Systems

Authors:
Stefan Kühl, Carlotta Anemüller, Christiane Antweiler, Peter Jax, Florian Heese and Patrick Vicinus
Book Title:
ITG-Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG SpKomm)
Venue:
Oldenburg
Event Date:
10.10-12.10.2018
Organization:
VDE
Date:
October 2018
Language:
English

Abstract

IP-based teleconferencing scenarios with multiple participating devices in the same room like in an open-plan office cause a new type of feedback problem. Due to the high system delay over the network, conventional feedback suppression techniques cannot be used. Therefore, in this paper a new method for detection and suppression of acoustic howling caused by feedback is proposed. For detection a combination of correlation- and power-based fea- tures is utilized, controlling adaptive notch filters for the actual suppression. It is shown how the detection performs on real world signals. The full system is applied in a simulation framework, showing the effectiveness for howling detection and suppression.