Impulsive Noise-Resilient Subband Adaptive Filter

We present a new subband adaptive filter (R-SAF)
which is robust against impulsive noise in system identification. To
address the vulnerability of adaptive filters based on the L2-norm
optimization criterion against impulsive noise, the R-SAF comes from
the L1-norm optimization criterion with a constraint on the energy
of the weight update. Minimizing L1-norm of the a posteriori error
in each subband with a constraint on minimum disturbance gives
rise to the robustness against the impulsive noise and the capable
convergence performance. Experimental results clearly demonstrate
that the proposed R-SAF outperforms the classical adaptive filtering
algorithms when impulsive noise as well as background noise exist.

Authors:

• Young-Seok Choi

Keywords:

• Subband adaptive filter
• L1-norm
• system identification
• robustness
• impulsive interference.

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