ULTRASONIC ECHO CANCELER-BASED TECHNIQUE TO DETECT PARTICIPANT PRESENCE AT A VIDEO CONFERENCE ENDPOINT

A loudspeaker transmits an ultrasonic signal into a spatial region. A microphone transduces ultrasonic sound, including an echo of the transmitted ultrasonic signal, received from the spatial region into a received ultrasonic signal. A controller transforms the ultrasonic signal and the received ult...

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Hauptverfasser: BURENIUS, Lennart, BIRKENES, Oystein, TANGELAND, Kristian
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Sprache:eng ; fre ; ger
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Zusammenfassung:A loudspeaker transmits an ultrasonic signal into a spatial region. A microphone transduces ultrasonic sound, including an echo of the transmitted ultrasonic signal, received from the spatial region into a received ultrasonic signal. A controller transforms the ultrasonic signal and the received ultrasonic signal into respective time-frequency domains that cover respective ultrasound frequency ranges. The controller computes an error signal, representative of an estimate of an echo-free received ultrasonic signal, based on the transformed ultrasonic signal and the transformed received ultrasonic signal. The controller computes power estimates of the error signal over time, and detects a change in people presence in the spatial region based on a change in the power estimates of the error signal over time.