• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2020.07a
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• pp.333-336
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• 2020

6 자유도 오디오 재현 기술은 사용자가 6 자유도를 가지는 콘텐츠 또는 응용에서 음향학적 주변 환경과 사용자의 위치에 맞는 오디오를 재현하는 기술로서, 가상 현실, 게임 등에 적용이 될 수 있다. 6 자유도 오디오는 기존의 고정된 위치에서 재생되는 채널 기반 오디오와는 다른 특징이 있어 오디오 재생 장치와 헤드폰 또는 스피커만으로 수행하던 기존의 오디오 청취 평가 방법으로 비교하고 평가하는 것이 불가능하다. 최근 MPEG 오디오 서브그룹에서는 6 자유도 오디오 재현 기술에 대한 표준화를 진행하고 있으며, 이를 평가할 수 있는 시스템도 함께 제시하고 있으며, 2019 년 12 월에는 제안한 시스템을 활용한 파일럿 테스트가 진행이 되었다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG 에서 진행한 파일럿 테스트 시스템과 평가 방법에 대하여 살펴보고, 본 기관에서 평가한 내용 및 결과에 대해 기술하며, MPEG 에서 제시한 평가 시스템이 6 자유도 오디오 재현 기술의 평가에 적절한지에 대한 의견을 제시한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.1B
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• pp.9-18
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• 2006

Advances in wireless network are enabling the development of ubiquitous multimedia services. These multimedia services need efficient platforms to comply with the requirements of mobile computing. We introduce an adaptive service platform based on mobile agent and grid systems while specifying the challenges of ubiquitous multimedia services and focusing on frequent disconnections and scarce resources. We applied our platform to framework RtoA (Ready-to-Attend) which supports mobile users to access compute-intensive multimedia service, specifically, mobile education and video conferencing. RtoA includes hand-off, speaker and listener service which enable people to attend a conference or a class with satisfying quality of multimedia service. ns-2 based simulation verifies that our scheme is an efficient way to reduce energy consumption of mobile devices and to improve the response time of mobile applications.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.495-500
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• 2002

전주월드컵 경기장은 Fully Digital sidelobe-free array 방식의 음향시스템을 도입한 유일한 경기장으로서 대규모 경기장에 Line Array type의 스피커를 사용한 최초의 예가 된다. 현장음향실험을 통하여 경기장의 주요 음향 파라미터인 음압레벨(SPL), 잔향시간(RT), 음성명료도(D50), 음성이해도(RASTI) 등을 측정함으로 전주월드컵 경기장의 음향시스템의 특성과 종합적인 음향성능을 알아보고자 한다. 주음원(Messenger)만 사용하여 실험한 결과 음압레벨(SPL)은 관중석의 객석간 위치별 음압레벨 표준편차가 약 2.78dB로 나타났다. 이 값은 당초의 음압레벨분포편차의 목표치인 ${\pm}3dB$의 범위 이내로 나타났다. 또한 최대음압레벨은 평균 100.1dB로 목표치인 96dB을 초과하는 것으로 나타났다. 잔향시간(RT)은 공석시 전체 관중석 평균 2.94초로 나타났으며, 1000Hz에서의 평균 잔향시간은 2.58초로 나타났다. 잔향시간은 실제 경기장의 사용 시 약 0.3-0.4초의 감소가 발생되리라 판단된다. 음성명료도(D50)는 전체 관중석 평균 $56.2\%$로 매우 양호한 상태로 나타났고 음성이해도(RASTI)는 전체 관중석 평균 0.63으로 목표치인 0.5를 상회하는 것으로 나타났다. 이상의 현장음향실험 결과를 분석한 결과 전주월드컵 경기장의 음향성공은 음향설계 요건을 만족하는 것으로 나타났고 야외 경기장 같은 대형공간에서의 음향시스템에 있어서 Fully Digital sidelobe-free array 방식의 음향시스템의 적용가능성을 보여주고 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.127-136
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• 2019

The public address system should be easily operated and managed by the users, and guaranteed to serve stable working in an emergency and a crisis. In this paper, In this paper, to provide power line communication based public address system users with convenience and efficiency, we implement a firmware to control communication between a PLC(: Power Line Communication) controller of the public address system and UI(: User Interface) and between a PLC controller of the public address system and PLC speakers, and develop a UI software.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.207-214
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• 2011

Human auditory acuity decreases naturally due to aging. But recently cases of impaired hearing at a young age are increasing greatly. The biggest reason for such an increase of population with impaired hearing is popularization of various kinds of portable multimedia appliances. Many studies on impaired hearing due to noises caused by the earphone and headphone are being made, but there are few studies on noise-impaired hearing caused directly by mobile phone communication. Based on a precedent inquiry, this study proposes a technique for preventing noise-impaired hearing applying to an active noise reduction technique onto bone conduction speaker. This technique is a method for reducing noises by antiphase oscillation through bone conduction speaker with ambient noises. If the proposed system is applied, the noise level that is actually introduced to audition decreases by more than 12 dB, and such a decreased amount of sound volume fundamentally prevents the factors of noise-caused hearing difficulty due to mobile phone communication. Sensibility test results showed that adequate communication was possible even in such a situation where communication volume was decreased like this.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.8
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• pp.92-101
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• 2018

As the interactive AI speaker becomes popular, voice recognition is regarded as an important vehicle-driver interaction method in case of autonomous driving situation. The purpose of this study is to confirm whether multimodal interaction in which feedback is transmitted by auditory and visual mode of AI characters on screen is more effective in user experience optimization than auditory mode only. We performed the interaction tasks for the music selection and adjustment through the AI speaker while driving to the experiment participant and measured the information and system quality, presence, the perceived usefulness and ease of use, and the continuance intention. As a result of analysis, the multimodal effect of visual characters was not shown in most user experience factors, and the effect was not shown in the intention of continuous use. Rather, it was found that auditory single mode was more effective than multimodal in information quality factor. In the semi-autonomous driving stage, which requires driver 's cognitive effort, multimodal interaction is not effective in optimizing user experience as compared to single mode interaction.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.150-156
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• 2010

Audio watermarking is the process of embedding inaudible information in an audio signal and has been widely used for copyright protection. In this research, we use the audio watermarking not for copyright protection but for the transmission of side information for user convenience, presenting an algorithm suitable for this purpose. Our new algorithm includes watermark embedding/extraction methods during acoustic transmission through the air that employ energy modulation of the audio signal and an efficient two-step synchronization method. The proposed algorithm is evaluated in experiments of conveying information from audio speakers to a mobile phone. The results show that reliable transmission is possible within a 5m range, which is an improvement achieved by our algorithm as compared to the existing one.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.83-94
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• 2016

Providing a voice alarm to drivers approaching a work zone could be an effective alternative to mitigate the potential safety problems of the work zone. This study conceived a voice alarm with a direction sound speaker and a field test was conducted that evaluated the feasibility of the voice alarm at a highway work zone. During the field study, we carried out on-site driver surveys to obtain drivers' perception and preference, collected approaching speeds, and measured sound level during the off-peak 2-hour for two days, respectively. The results showed that while the voice alarm has the potential to be an effective tool in improving safety, the alternative appeared to have the negative effect of noise. Further refinement to a voice alarm with a directional speaker is required to improve feasibility, and the results are expected to be utilized as basic data useful for the refinement.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.359-366
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• 2012

Today, people are exposed to the various noisy environments, such as in the buses, subway and supermarkets where there are a lot of people. The noise issue is getting more serious as people want to use portable sound equipment and mobile phones even under this noisy condition. People want to use the portable equipment to exchange the information freely and they set the volume as 15dB higher than the noise around them, which almost reach at 110 dB. That amount of sound can cause noise induced deafness to the users and another issue to the others as additional noise source. A Bone-conduction system can be a solution to reduce noise and enhance voice signal of mobile phone. In this paper, we propose the way of cancelling noise and enhancing speech signal of mobile phones, by installing bone-conduction feedback system with ordinary mobile phones. With this system, we can reduce the environment noise and enhance the voice quality of mobile phones. Using this method, we can enhance the signal by around 17 dB.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.327-336
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose user authentication methods using a microphone and a speaker in smart phones. The proposed methods guarantee that the user is located close to the target device by transmitting the challenge via an audio channel. We propose two authentication methods; user authentication for a PC or a website using a smart phone as a hardware token, and user authentication to log on to a smart phone using a PC as a token. Because our methods use typical peripheral devices such as a microphone and a speaker, they do not require any special-purpose hardware equipment. In addition, the elderly and the handicapped can easily use our methods because the methods are activated by simple operations.