The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for enhancing active noise cancellation (ANC) in vehicles, particularly for addressing the challenges associated with broadband noise control. The disclosure introduces a novel approach to subband adaptive filtering (SAF) that significantly reduces computational load and improves noise cancellation across a wide frequency spectrum. The noise cancellation system comprises a reference sensor, adaptive weight filter, speakers, error microphones, signal processing unit, subband processing module, gradient determination module, adaptive step size determination module, subband adaptive weight update module, and weight transformation module. The disclosed approaches enable implementation of ANC in environments with limited processing power without sacrificing performance, by reducing complexity and improving convergence speed and stability of the adaptive filter weights.