Delayless individual-weighting-factors sign subband adaptive filter with band-dependent variable step-sizes

Abstract

Sign subband adaptive filter algorithms with individual weighting factors (IWF-SSAF) were recently proposed to achieve improved convergence performance in impulsive noise environments by fully utilizing the decorrelating property of subband adaptive filters. However, such sign subband adaptive filter (SSAF) algorithms may have an inherent signal path delay problem for real-time applications, and thus, can be restrictively applied. In this paper, a delayless IWF-SSAF with band-dependent variable step-sizes (BD-VSS), robust in impulsive noise environments, is proposed for real-time applications, whereby two delayless filter structures developed for the l(2) -norm-based SAF are employed along with the IWF-SSAF. In particular, a BD-VSS algorithm is also introduced for better convergence by applying the recent l(1) norm minimization technique to respective subband. Finally, the performance of the proposed delayless IWF-SSAF with BD-VSS is verified in various impulsive interference environments such as system identification with impulsive noise, acoustic echo cancellation in a double-talk scenario, and active impulsive noise control.