A hybrid subband adaptive system for speech enhancement in diffuse noise fields

Performance of adaptive noise cancelation (ANC) degrades severely when uncorrelated noise components are present at the two inputs. Thus, practical background diffuse noises pose a serious problem for ANC systems. In this letter, we propose a new hybrid system that integrates subband adaptive filters (SAFs) and a Wiener filter. The hybrid system is implemented on an oversampled DFT filterbank that efficiently integrates the SAF and the Wiener filter components in the frequency-domain. Performance evaluation of the hybrid system in presence of diffuse noise interference shows that the proposed system is superior to both the Wiener filter and the SAF subsystems.