• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.47-56
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• 2008

In the detection of an underwater target, there exists an optimal search depth for the sonar systems, at which the Probability of Detection is maximized. The optimal search depth is dependent on the depths of the target and sonar, the sound speed profile, and the bathymetry. In this paper, we address this question in range-dependent environments, particularly for the bathymetry with slope and with warm eddy. For range-dependent bathymetry, the typical sound profile in the East Sea of Korea was used. The detection range was greater when the sonar was located in deep water than in shallow water. As for the case of eddy, mesoscale warm eddy was used, and the detection range was greater when looking out of the warm eddy than when looking into the eddy.

• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.21 no.5
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• pp.657-673
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• 2019

A monitoring method based on acoustic emission (AE) sensor has been widely used to evaluate the damage of structures in underground rock. The acoustic emission signal generated from cracking in material is analyzed as various acoustic emission parameters in time and frequency domain. To investigate from initial crack generation to final failure of rock material, it is important to understand the characteristics of acoustic emission parameters according to the stress ratio and rock strength. In this study, uniaxial compression tests were performed using very strong and weak rock specimen in order to investigate the acoustic emission parameters when the failure of specimen occurred. In the results of experimental tests, the event, root-mean-square (RMS) voltage, amplitude, and absolute energy of very strong rock specimen were larger than those of the weak rock specimen with an increase of stress ratio. In addition, the acoustic emission parameters related in frequency were more affected by specification (e.g., operation and resonant frequency) of sensors than the stress ratio or rock strength. It is expected that this study may be meaningful for evaluating the damage of underground rock when the health monitoring based on the acoustic emission technique will be performed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.836-842
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• 2023

Under the Welfare of Disabled Persons Act, the national qualification test allows disabled and non-disabled people to appear for the same test, and the deaf do not fall under the reason for disqualification from obtaining a license for power-driven water leisure crafts; therefore, even the deaf can obtain a license. During a risk of collision at sea, ships and power-driven water leisure crafts notify the other party of dangerous signals such as maneuvering and warning signals through sound signals to prevent accidents that may occur because surrounding ships are not visible. However, a method is required to prevent marine accidents that may occur when the deaf cannot hear danger signals through sounds from nearby ships or power-driven water leisure crafts during leisure activities owing to hearing impairment. A sound reception system is a device installed on a ship where missionary work is completely deposed to display the amplification of external sounds and the direction of sound reception on the screen. Through visual display of sound signals such as dangerous signals that cannot be heard owing to hearing impairment, improvement measures were proposed to prevent marine accidents that can occur owing to the inability of the deaf to check sound signals during leisure activities.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.25-31
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• 2007

This paper describes an attempt to prevent the external acoustic noise from being misrecognized as the speech recognition target. For this, in the speech activity detection process for the speech recognition, it confirmed besides the acoustic energy to the lip movement image signal of a speaker. First of all, the successive images are obtained through the image camera for PC. The lip movement whether or not is discriminated. And the lip movement image signal data is stored in the shared memory and shares with the recognition process. In the meantime, in the speech activity detection Process which is the preprocess phase of the speech recognition. by conforming data stored in the shared memory the acoustic energy whether or not by the speech of a speaker is verified. The speech recognition processor and the image processor were connected and was experimented successfully. Then, it confirmed to be normal progression to the output of the speech recognition result if faced the image camera and spoke. On the other hand. it confirmed not to output of the speech recognition result if did not face the image camera and spoke. That is, if the lip movement image is not identified although the acoustic energy is inputted. it regards as the acoustic noise.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.414-421
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• 2024

In this paper, we design and verify a system that can detect piping leakage noise in an environment with significant reverberation and reflection using a multi-channel acoustic sensor module as a technology to prevent major plant accidents caused by leakage. Four-channel microphones arranged in a tetrahedron are designed as a single sensor module to measure three-dimensional sound intensity vectors. In an environment with large effects of reverberation and reflection, the measurement error of each sensor module increases on average, so after placing multiple sensor modules in the field, measurement results showing locations with large errors due to effects such as reflection are excluded. Using the intersection between three-dimensional vectors obtained from several pairs of sensor modules, the coordinates where the sound source is located are estimated, and outliers (e.g., positions estimated to be outside the site, positions estimated to be far from the average position) are detected and excluded among the points. For achieving aforementioned goal, an excluding algorithm by deciding the outliers among the estimated positions was proposed. By visualizing the estimated location coordinates of the leakage sound on the site drawing within 1 second, we construct and verify a system that can detect the location of the leakage sound in real time and enable immediate response. This study is expected to contribute to improving accident response capabilities and ensuring safety in large plants.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.377-384
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• 2015

An active noise control (ANC) algorithm for noise canceling headphone is proposed. In this study, the feedback ANC operated with the filtered-x least mean square algorithm (FxLMS) algorithm is used to attenuate the undesired noise. Also an adaptive residual music canceller (RMC) is proposed for enhancing the accuracy of the reference signal of the feedback ANC. Simulation results show that a high quality of music sound can be consistently achieved in a time-varying secondary path situation.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.23-30
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• 1989

Propagation phenomena of nonlinear pressure waves in a bubbly mixture are studied. The governing equations for a bubbly mixture are derived heuristically and energy equation is incorporated with other governing equations to take thermal effects into consideration inside the bubble. This non-isothermal condition of the bubble inside is especially important when high amplitude pressure waves are treated. Keller's equation is adapted for the bubble dynamics as practical problem. Some numerical simulations are carried out for the shock tube problem using a computer program based on the above model. A comparison with experimental results of Noordzij and van Wijngaarden shows that the structure of the wave in the shock tube experiment seems to be much more significantly affected 요 the complex heat transfer phenomena inside the bubbles than by the relative translational motion between bubbles and surrounding liquid.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.52-57
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• 1999

It is very important to design of QAM modulator of high spectral efficiency for high speed data transmission. In this paper, typical 16-QAM modulator is designed by modification design of DDFS(direct digital frequency synthesizer). DDFS generates sinusoidal waveform digitally to the frequency setting word. Phase modulation is accuratly made by control of a generated phase increment value and amplitude modulation is accomplished in the D/A converter output by control of amplitude level. For the suppression of harmonics and glitch, dual-structured DDFS is studied to improve the spurious characteristics. P-Spice is used for design and simulation in mixed mode. Also we can get the satisfactory results of designed 16-QAM modulator from the constellation output.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.214-217
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• 1999

본 논문은 비균일, 비선형 분포를 가지는 비정형 하이드로폰 어레이를 견인하여 목표물로부터 발생된 협대역 신호에 대한 DOAs(Direction-Of-Arrivals) 및 도플러 주파수 정보를 동시에 추정하는 기법을 제안한다. 균일분포 선형 어레이를 견인하는 전통적인 처리기법은 DOA 추정에 국한되어 활용될 수 있다는 한계점을 가지고 있을 뿐 아니라 목표물의 특징을 파악할 수 있는 중요한 정보 중의 하나인 발생신호의 주파수 성분을 추정하기 위해서는 주파수 스펙트럼을 별도로 구성하여야하는 등의 난점을 지니고 있어 조기 경보 능력의 치명적인 제한점을 가질 수 있으며, 하이드로폰 어레이의 구조가 외부적인 환경요인에 의하여 선형을 유지하지 못함으로써 추정능력을 저하시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 한계성을 극복하기 위하여 불규칙한 곡면을 가지고 있는 모함의 측면에 하이드로폰 어레이를 설치하여 목표물의 DOA 뿐만 아니라 모함의 이동에 의해 목표물과 사이에서 발생하는 도플러 주파수까지 동시에 추정하는 기법을 제안한다 특별히, 도플러 주파수 추정은 취득신호에 대한 퓨리에 변환과정을 거치지 않고 추정함으로써 계산량을 감소시킬 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.137-140
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 디지털 보청기의 자동보정법을 제안하고 이를 이용하여 구현한 보정시스템에 대하여 기술한다. 일반적으로 난청환자의 청각 손실은 전 주파수를 걸쳐 일정하게 발생하는 것이 아니라, 고음 또는 저음 등 일부 특정 주파수 대역의 청각특성의 이득이 다른 주파수에 비해 상대적으로 낮아져서 생기는 현상이다. 그러나 현재까지의 보청기는 이와 같은 청각 손실을 가지고 있는 환자들에 대하여 전 주파수 대역의 음압을 동일 비율로 높여주는 문제가 있다. 이와 같은 보청기로 보정하게 되면, 주파수 대역별 균형이 맞지 않기 때문에 소리가 변형되어 들리게 되고, 명료도 또한 떨어지게 된다. 또한, 기존의 아날로그보청기는 생산공정 중에 잡음 피크 제거, 리미터 조정, 이득 조정(GC) 등의 작업을 수동으로 수행하게 되는데, 이는 작업공정이 복잡하고 개개인에 청각특성에 맞는 정확한 보정이 불가능한 문제점을 안고있다. 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 제안한 자동보정 시스템은 각 주파수 대역별 최적화된 파라미터를 자동적으로 찾아서 입력하므로 보다 정확하고 신속한 보정이 가능하게 된다. 이 시스템은 외부 IC 콘트를 장치인 Hl-PRO를 이용하여 PC 환경 하에서Visual Basic으로 구현하였으며 시스템의 출력값을 측정하여 검토한 결과 구현한 자동보정법이 유효함을 확인할 수 있었다.