• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.63-65
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 입력된 음성이 남성화자인지 여성화자인지를 구분하는 FFT 스펙트럼 및 LPC 켑스트럼 입력에 의한 성별인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서는 특히 남성화자와 여성화자의 특징벡터를 비교 분석하여, 이러한 남녀의 음향학적인 특징벡터의 차이점을 이용하여 신경회로망에 의한 성별 인식에 대한 실험을 수행한다. 특히 12차의 LPC 켑스트럼 및 8차의 저역 FFT 스펙트럼의 특징벡터를 사용한 경우에, 남성화자 및 여성화자에 대해서 양호한 남녀 성별인식률이 구해졌다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.6
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• pp.568-574
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• 2010

In an effort to improve the speech recognition rate, we investigated performance comparison between speaker-independent and gender-specific speech recognitions. For this purpose, 20 male and 20 female speakers each pronounced 300 isolated Korean words and the speeches were divided into 4 groups: female, male, and two mixed genders. To examine the validity for the gender-specific speech recognition, Fourier spectrum and MFCC feature vectors averaged over male and female speakers separately were examined. The result showed distinction between the two genders, which supports the motivation for the gender-specific speech recognition. In experiments of speech recognition rate, the error rate for the gender-specific case was shown to be less than50% compared to that of the speaker-independent case. From the obtained results, it might be suggested that hierarchical recognition of gender and speech recognition might yield better performance over the current method of speech recognition.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2013.05a
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• pp.515-517
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경 하에서 남녀 성별인식이 가능한 신경회로망에 의한 화자종속 음성인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 음성인식 알고리즘은 남성화자 및 여성화자를 인식하기 위하여 LPC 켑스트럼 계수를 사용하여 신경회로망에 의하여 학습된다. 본 실험에서는 백색잡음 및 자동차잡음에 대하여 신경회로망의 네크워크에 대한 인식결과를 나타낸다. 인식실험의 결과로부터 백색잡음에 대해서는 최대 96% 이상의 인식률, 자동차잡음에 대해서는 최대 88% 이상의 인식률을 구하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.37-44
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• 2017

While IoT (Internet of Things) industry has been spreading, it becomes very important for object to recognize user's information by itself without any control. Above all, gender (male, female) is dominant factor to analyze user's information on account of social and biological difference between male and female. However since each gender consists of diverse face feature, face-based gender classification research is still in challengeable research field. Also to apply gender classification system to IoT, size of device should be reduced and device should be operated with low power. Consequently, To port the function that can classify gender in real-world, this paper contributes two things. The first one is new gender classification algorithm based on deep learning and the second one is to implement real-time gender classification system in embedded board operated by low power. In our experiment, we measured frame per second for gender classification processing and power consumption in PC circumstance and mobile GPU circumstance. Therefore we verified that gender classification system based on deep learning works well with low power in mobile GPU circumstance comparing to in PC circumstance.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.75-79
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• 2007

We propose an effective voice-based gender identification method using a support vector machine(SVM). The SVM is a binary classification algorithm that classifies two groups by finding the voluntary nonlinear boundary in a feature space and is known to yield high classification performance. In the present work, we compare the identification performance of the SVM with that of a Gaussian mixture model(GMM) using the mel frequency cepstral coefficients(MFCC). A novel means of incorporating a features fusion scheme based on a combination of the MFCC and pitch is proposed with the aim of improving the performance of gender identification using the SVM. Experiment results indicate that the gender identification performance using the SVM is significantly better than that of the GMM. Moreover, the performance is substantially improved when the proposed features fusion technique is applied.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.536-544
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• 2012

Digital signage provides flight and airport information to the airport visitors and passengers. However, the digital signage has efficiency problem by displaying one type of advertisement to every customers regardless of their personality. We may solvel the inefficiency problem by using a smart digital signage which can recognize the characteristics of the customer We presents a smart digital signage with sex recognition function. The smart digital signage can recognize the sex of the customer to display the custom-made advertisement in realtime so that we can increase the satisfaction level of the airport passengers and visitors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2017.10a
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• pp.619-620
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• 2017

본 논문에서는 음성인식 알고리즘에 매우 중요한 정보를 제공하는 화자의 성별인식을 위하여 신경회로망을 사용하여 잡음 환경 하에서 남성음성 및 여성음성의 화자를 식별하는 성별인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 신경회로망은 MFCC의 계수를 사용하여 음성의 각 구간에서 남성음성 및 여성음성의 화자를 인식할 수 있는 알고리즘이다. 실험결과로부터 백색잡음이 중첩된 잡음환경 하에서 음성신호의 MFCC의 특징벡터를 사용함으로써 남성음성 및 여성음성의 화자에 대해서 양호한 성별인식 결과가 구해졌다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.243-249
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• 2007

We propose an effective voice-based gender identification using group delay(GD) Generally, features for speech recognition are composed of magnitude information rather than phase information. In our approach, we address a difference between male and female for GD which is a derivative of the Fourier transform phase. Also, we propose a novel way to incorporate the features fusion scheme based on a combination of GD and magnitude information such as mel-frequency cepstral coefficients(MFCC), linear predictive coding (LPC) coefficients, reflection coefficients and formant. The experimental results indicate that GD is effective in discriminating gender and the performance is significantly improved when the proposed feature fusion technique is applied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.04a
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• pp.745-748
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• 2016

사물 인터넷(loT)의 확산에 따라 기계가 사용자의 정보를 인식하는 일이 매우 중요해졌다. 그 중에서도 성별은 사용자의 특징을 판단하는 결정적인 요소 중 하나이다. 하지만 아직 성별 인식에 관련된 연구는 여전히 도전적이며 향상시킬 부분이 많이 남아있다. 본 논문에서는 deep-convolutional neural network (DCNN)를 이용하여 높은 성능을 갖는 성별 인식 네트워크를 제안하며, 이를 모바일 GPU 보드에 임베디드 포팅(porting)하여 실시간 성별인식 시스템을 구성한 뒤, PC 환경과 모바일 GPU 환경에서 제안하는 시스템의 성능을 비교, 분석한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.252-255
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• 2008

In this paper, we apply a discriminative weight training to a support vector machine (SVM) based gender identification. In our approach, the gender decision rule is expressed as the SVM of optimally weighted mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) based on a minimum classification error (MCE) method which is different from the previous works in that different weights are assigned to each MFCC filter bank which is considered more realistic. According to the experimental results, the proposed approach is found to be effective for gender identification using SVM.