An embodiment of the present invention includes an adaptive predictor, a
system white noise generator, and a background noise estimator. The
adaptive predictor estimates adaptive weights of autoregressive (AR)
model of background noise as background samples in an echo canceler. The
adaptive predictor generates adaptive error. The system white noise
generator generates a white noise using the adaptive error. The noise
background estimator estimates the background noise using the white noise
and the estimated adaptive weights.