An echo detection algorithm for underwater continuous wave active detection

The model of linear frequency modulation continuous wave （LFMCW） applied in underwater detection and the method for the detection of echo signal and the estimation of target parameters were studied. By analyzing the heterodyne signal, an algorithm with the structure of heterodyne-Practional Fourier Transform （FRFT） was proposed. To reduce the computation of searching targets in a two-dimensional FRFT result, the heterodyne signal would be processed by FRFT at a specific order, after Radon-Ambiguity Transform （RAT） was applied to estimate the sweep rate of the signal. Simulations proved that the algorithm can eliminate the coupling phenomenon of distance and velocity of LFMCW, and estimate targets＇ parameters accurately. The lake trial results showed that the processing gain of LFMCW processed by the algorithm in this paper was 13 dB better than that of the LFM processed by matched filter. The research results indicated that the algorithm applied in LFMCW underwater detection was feasible and effective, and it could estimate targets＇ parameters accurately and obtain a good detection performance.

Novel DTD and VAD assisted voice detection algorithm for VoIP systems

Echo cancellation plays an important role in current Internet protocol（IP） based voice interactive systems. Voice state detection is an essential part in echo cancellation. It mainly comprises two parts： double talk detection（DTD） and voice activity detection（VAD）. DTD is used to detect doubletalk and prevent filter divergence in the presence of near-end speech, and VAD is used to determine the near-end voice activity and output silence indicator when near-end is silent. However, DTD straightforwardly proceeded may mistakenly declare double talk under double silent condition, coefficients update under the far-end silence condition may lead to filter divergence, and current VAD algorithms may misjudge the residual echo from the near end to be far-end voice. Therefore, a voice detection algorithm combining DTD and far-end VAD is proposed. DTD is implemented when VAD declares far-end speech, filtering and coefficients update will be halted when VAD declares far-end silence, and the far-end VAD adopted is multi-feature VAD based on short-time energy and correlation. The new algorithm can improve the accuracy of DTD, prevent filter divergence, and exclude the circumstance that far-end signal only contains residual echo from near end. Actual test results show that the voice state decision of the new algorithm is accurate, and the performance of echo cancellation is improved.