• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.101-106
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• 2000

This study deals with the relationship between the magnitude of ultrasonic nonlinear parameter B/A, sound speed of amount of fat present in biological media for measuring B/A system using a wide band ultrasonic transducer. To represent this case, mixtures of egg white and egg yolk were studied. Even though the differences in density and sound speed of the two egg components were within 1% of each other, B/A were increases parabolically as a function of the fat density, which is not in agreement with the Yoshizumi et al's suggestion. In skim milk that does not contain fat, both the B/A and the sound speed increase with the solubility. It is proposed that protein could affect these values.

• Proceedings of the Optical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1988.06a
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• pp.112-116
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• 1988

Homodyne 방식으로 동작하는 광섬유 간섭계 센서는 주위 온도의 변화나 진동등에 의하여 시노의 크기가 불규칙하게 변화된다. 따라서 광섬유 간섭계가 직작조건에서 동작하도록 하여 감도를 최대로 유지시켜야 한다. 본연구에서는 원통형 압전자소자에 단일모드 광섬유룰 감아서 변환율 K=1.07$\pi$/V의 위상변조기를 만들고, 이를 이용하여 능동위상추적(active phase tracking)방식의 신호안정화 장치를 제작하고 광섬유 간섭계 센서의 공기중 읍압반응을 조사하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.134-142
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• 2016

In this paper, a method synthesizing speech signal using the 40 kHz ultrasonic signals reflected from the articulatory muscles was introduced and performance was evaluated. When the ultrasound signals are radiated to articulating face, the Doppler effects caused by movements of lips, jaw, and chin observed. The signals that have different frequencies from that of the transmitted signals are found in the received signals. These ADS (Acoustic-Doppler Signals) were used for estimating of the speech parameters in this study. Prior to synthesizing speech signal, a quantitative correlation analysis between ADS and speech signals was carried out on each frequency bin. According to the results, the feasibility of the ADS-based speech synthesis was validated. ADS-to-speech transformation was achieved by the joint Gaussian mixture model-based conversion rules. The experimental results from the 5 subjects showed that filter bank energy and LPC (Linear Predictive Coefficient) cepstrum coefficients are the optimal features for ADS, and speech, respectively. In the subjective evaluation where synthesized speech signals were obtained using the excitation sources extracted from original speech signals, it was confirmed that the ADS-to-speech conversion method yielded 72.2 % average recognition rates.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.302-305
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• 1998

음소의 확률적 분포를 이용하는 음소 HMM 모델을 결정하기 위한 여러 가지 거리 측정방법에 대한 연구이다. 음소 HMM 모델 결정을 위해서 LPC 계수를 이용하고, 거리 측정자를 LPC 계수, LPC 스첵트럼, LPC 켑스트럼 등의 파라미터를 이용하고, 또한 양자화 과정은 k-means 와 LBG 알고리즘을 혼합한 하이브리드 알고리듬을 사용하였다. LPC 코드북을 구성하기 위해 세 가지 파라미터를 유클리디안 거리로 거리측정에 이용하였다. 이렇게 양자화한 파라미터의 평균과 분산을 구하고, 양자화한 파라미터 코드북의 확률갑승ㄹ 비교해 한국어 음소 HMM 모델 결정을 위한 거리 측정 파라미터를 비교하였으며, 그 결과 LPC 계수를 주파수 영역으로 변환하여 유클리디안 거리를 이용한 코드북의 분산이 작으므로 상대적으로 높은 확률을 가짐을 보았다.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.131-139
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• 2005

On this study, I constructed the reflective acoustic signal detecting system using 15MHz acoustic transducer. The most difficult problems discriminating the characteristics of the metal substance are the discriminating the corrosion state and seeking hidden defects by using none destructive testing. For solving these problems, at first, theoretic analysis has been proceeded on the acoustic V(z) characteristics which is very important on discriminating the material characteristics. For application the V(z) theory to discriminating corrosion state, the 100 and 500 won metal coins which are issued on the different years are used as the test samples. The experimental results showed the distinct differences among the coin's acoustic signals accorded to its issued years. I catched the common regulation by analysing the acquisited acoustic signals and convinced this technique to be very useful on corrosion discrimination of the metal substances by none destructive testing and also can be used to inspect on the aeronautical materials for safety navigation.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.134-140
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• 2015

Traditional moxibustion therapy can cause severe pain and leave scarring burns at the moxibustion site as it relies on the practitioner's subjective and qualitative treatment. Recently, ultrasound therapy has received attention as an alternative to moxibustion therapy owing to its objectiveness and quantitative nature. However, in order to convert ultrasound energy into heat energy, there is a need to precisely understand the ultrasound-focusing characteristics of the acoustic lens. Therefore, in this study, an FEM simulation was performed for acoustic lenses with different geometries a concave lens and zone lens as the geometry critically influences ultrasound focusing. The acoustic pressure field, amplitude, and focal point were also calculated. Furthermore, the performance of the fabricated acoustic lens was verified by a sound pressure measurement experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.585-596
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• 2012

PVDF(poly vinylidene fluoride) and P(VDF-TrFE)(poly vinylidene fluoride-tetrafluoroethylene) are the typical piezoelectric polymers with unique properties. Even they are inferior to conventional piezoelectric ceramics PZT in electromechanical conversion efficiency and interior loss, though they are superior in receiving sensitivity and frequency bandwidth. Their acoustic impedances are relatively close to water or biological tissue and it is easier to make thin film than other piezoelectric materials. Futhermore, the film is so flexible that it is easy to attach on a complex surface. Those properties are suitable for the ultrasound transducers which are useful for medical and biological application, so that various types of polymer transducers have been developed. In this paper, several important considerations for design and fabrication of piezoelectric polymer transducers were described and their effect on the transducer performance were demonstrated through the KLM model analysis. Then, it was briefly reviewed about the structures of the polymer transducers developed for obtaining images as well as the characteristics of the images in several important medical and biological application fields.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.12 no.7
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• pp.303-314
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• 2023

Voice conversion, a technology that allows an individual's speech data to be regenerated with the acoustic properties(tone, cadence, gender) of another, has countless applications in education, communication, and entertainment. This paper proposes an approach based on the StarGAN-VC model that generates realistic-sounding speech without requiring parallel utterances. To overcome the constraints of the existing StarGAN-VC model that utilizes one-hot vectors of original and target speaker information, this paper extracts feature vectors of target speakers using a pre-trained version of Rawnet3. This results in a latent space where voice conversion can be performed without direct speaker-to-speaker mappings, enabling an any-to-any structure. In addition to the loss terms used in the original StarGAN-VC model, Wasserstein distance is used as a loss term to ensure that generated voice segments match the acoustic properties of the target voice. Two Time-Scale Update Rule (TTUR) is also used to facilitate stable training. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms previous methods, including the StarGAN-VC network on which it was based.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.291-304
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• 1999

In this work, a mathematical modeling of SAW coupled mode in SAW resonator filter, which is very useful in analyzing the characteristics of periodic electrode structure such as SAW reflective array and inter-digital transducers. was considered by mathematical analytic approach. The design and simulation method for resonator filter was also proposed by equivalent transduction matrix using this mathematical modeling. In order for a designer to simulate, and to design the coupled mode SAW resonator filters effectively that could be applied to mobile communication system, a design simulator for coupled mode filter was implemented by graphic user interface, and it was investigated by designing and analyzing practical SAW coupled mode resonator filter from a view point of application of this simulator.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.94-98
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• 1997

The most commonly used method to generate sonar transmitting beam is extracting digital samples out of memory, which are to excite transducers of the phased array respectively. As several types of signals have been used in sonar to enhance the performance of sonar in various environments, a large amount of memory is required to store them. In this paper, we adopt recursive algorithm to synthesize every different time-delayed signal for transmitting beams with small amount of memory and simple arithmetic operations. The error due to recursive calculation is also analyzed.