Using a planar array of microphones and loudspeakers, the authors show in this work a theoretical approach to actively suppressing the reflection of sound from boundaries, such as room walls. The filters that are proposed are applicable to real-time implementations and it is shown that the active absorption is similar to that of passive fibre panel absorption.
Ever wondered if you could cancel someones voice without the need for a physical wall or partition? In this work presented at ICASSP 2017 in New Orleans, USA, we investigate the possibilities of cancelling speech over a loudspeaker wall. The method is not limited to speech, in-fact, it works much better for periodic signals as the non-stationarity of speech degrades the performance.
