Meta-learning based Selective Fixed-filter Active Noise Control System with ResNet Classifier

Abstract: The selective fixed-filter strategy is popular in industrial applications involving active noise control (ANC) technology, which circumvents the time-consuming online learning process by selecting the best-matched pre-trained control filter. However, the existing selective fixed-filter ANC (SFANC) based algorithms classify noises in frequency band, which is not a reasonable approach. Moreover, they pre-train the control filter utilizing only a single noise segment, leading to inaccurate estimation and undesirable noise cancellation performance when dealing with dynamically time-varying noise. Inspired by the applicability of meta-learning to various models utilizing gradient descent technique, this paper proposes a novel meta-learning based SFANC system, wherein the fixed-filters that may not be optimal for specific types of noises but can rapidly adapt to previously unseen noise conditions are pre-trained. To address the mismatch issue between meta-learning update methods and ANC requirements while enhancing the receptive field and convergence speed of control filters, a multiple-input batch processing strategy is utilized in pre-training. Simulations based on the common ESC-50 noise dataset are performed and demonstrate the superiorities of the proposed method in terms of classification accuracy, convergence speed, and steady-state noise cancellation.