Acoustic Noise Cancellation Using Adaptive Filters: A Survey

This paper provides a comprehensive coverage of available literature on various adaptive filtering techniques used for Acoustic Noise Cancellation (ANC). ANC has applications in wide variety of problems in industrial operations, manufacturing and consumer products. The paper reviews developments in noise cancellation which includes the principle, adaptive filter algorithms and various filter structures proposed to improve the performance of algorithms in terms of convergence time, computational complexity. Advantages and limitations of various algorithms are also discussed.