EBERHARD HÄNSLER, Dr.-Ing., is Professor of Electrical Engineering at the Darmstadt University of Technology, Darmstadt, Germany.
GERHARD SCHMIDT, Dr.-Ing., is a Research Engineer at Temic Speech Dialog Systems in Ulm, Germany.

Authors are well known and highly recognized by the "acoustic echo and noise community."
Presents a detailed description of practical methods to control echo and noise
Develops a statistical theory for optimal control parameters and presents practical estimation and approximation methods

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Abbreviations and Acronyms.
PART I: BASICS.
1. Introduction.
2. Acoustic Echo and Noise Control Systems.
3. Fundamentals.
PART II: ALGORITHMS.
4. Error Criteria and Cost Functions.
5. Wiener Filter.
6. Linear Prediction.
7. Algorithms for Adaptive Filters.
PART III: ACOUSTIC ECHO AND NOISE CONTROL.
8. Traditional Methods for Stabilization of Electro-Acoustic Loops.
9. Echo Cancellation.
10. Residual Echo and Noise Suppression.
11. Beamforming.
PART IV: CONTROL AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES.
12. System Control - Basic Aspects.
13. Control of Echo Cancellation Systems.
14. Control of Noise and Echo Suppression Systems.
15. Control for Beamforming.
16. Implementation Issues.
PART V: OUTLOOK AND APPENDICES.
17. Outlook.
Appendix A: Subband Impulse Responses.
Appendix B: Filterbank Design.
References.
Index.