• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.248-254
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• 2014

Among acoustic signal analysis tasks, acoustic context awareness is one of the most formidable tasks in terms of complexity since it requires sophisticated understanding of individual acoustic events. In conventional context awareness methods, individual acoustic event detection or recognition is employed to generate a relevant decision on the impending context. However this approach may produce poorly performing decision results in practical situations due to the possibility of events occurring simultaneously or the acoustically similar events that are difficult to distinguish with each other. Particularly, the babble noise acoustic event occurring at a bus or subway environment may create confusion to context awareness task since babbling is similar in any environment. Therefore in this paper, a frequency-cepstral feature vector is proposed to mitigate the confusion problem during the situation awareness task of binary decisions: bus or metro. By employing the Support Vector Machine (SVM) as the classifier, the proposed feature vector scheme is shown to produce better performance than the conventional scheme.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.1
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• pp.42-48
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• 2016

Since a variety of sound occur in same place and similar sound occurs in other places, the performance of acoustic scene classification is not guaranteed in case of insufficient training data. A Bag of Words (BOW) based histogram feature is foreseen as a method to overcome the problem. However, since the histogram features is made by using a feature distribution, the ordering of sequence of features is ignored. A temporal information such as periodicity and stationarity are also important for acoustic scene classification. In this paper, temporal features about a periodicity and a stationarity are extracted by using a recurrent quantification analysis. In the experiment, performance of the proposed method is shown better than other baseline methods.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.109-114
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• 2011

In this paper, we apply a context awareness based on Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to a sound reinforcement for hearing impaired. In our approach, the harmful sound amplified through the sound reinforcement algorithm according to context awareness based on GMM which is constructed as Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) feature vector from sound data. According to the experimental results, the proposed approach is found to be effective in the various acoustic environments.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.06a
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• pp.452-454
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• 2012

현대 기술의 발전에 따라 다양한 항해 장비들이 개발되고 있으나, 인적 오류에 의한 해양사고는 지속적으로 발생하고 있다. 인적 오류에 의한 해양사고는 항해사의 상황 인지오류 또는 현상 착각 등 많은 상황에서 일어나고 있다. 선교에는 각종 항해 장비로부터 나오는 많은 물리적 음향 신호들이 존재하며, 위험을 전파하는 경보음은 항해사에게 위험상황을 정확하게 전달하지 못하고 있는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 경보음을 항해사가 직관적으로 인지할 수 있는 선교경보관리시스템의 경보음 개발을 위한 연구를 실시하였다. 연구를 위해 기존에 선교에서 사용하는 경보음에 대해 음향학적 분석을 수행하였으며, 음성 경보음과 청각아이콘을 활용한 경보음 개발에 대한 실험적 연구를 수행하였다. 그리고 현재 해양연구원에서 제작한 선교경보관리시스템(BAMS)을 간략히 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.58-63
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• 2017

Currently, the safety monitoring process in a complex plant environment is proceeded by human. Sometimes, human error that may occur in a filed causes an severe problem. This paper introduces new method of safety monitoring system using sound information and fuzzy theory that is one of intelligent theories, in order to recognize the status of plant environment. In this paper, the filling station of high pressure gas will be used as a test plant. The result system will be widely applied for more complex plant environments.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.135-144
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• 2019

This study examined the role of enjoyment in the relationship between perceived auditory feedback (PAF), which provides information about the situation during game play, and user experience factors. 100 undergraduates played a mobile game, 'Classy Royale' and took a survey about their user experience. As a result of analyzing the available data from 98 participants, PROCESS MACRO showed that PAF was positively associated with enjoyment, immersion, and intention to use; enjoyment mediated the effects of PAF on immersion and intention. These results can help game research and development regarding the functional value of audio factors.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.5-7
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• 2012

선교에는 항해사에게 정보를 전달하기 위하여 다양한 신호가 존재한다. 항해 및 통신 장비로부터 나오는 음향 신호 등 다양한 청각 신호들이 존재하지만 이러한 청각 신호, 청각 경고음에 대한 인간의 인지능력에 관한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 청각 경고음은 크게 음성(speech), 함축적 소리(abstract sound), 청각 아이콘(auditory icon)으로 구분 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 청각 경고음 중 청각아이콘을 활용하여 5가지의 경보상황(엔진, 화재, 조타, 전기, 충돌)에서 청각아이콘에 대한 감성평가를 통해 각 상황에 적합한 청각아이콘을 선별하였다. 본 연구 결과는 선교 내 청각표시장치와 통합선교알람관리시스템을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.108-113
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• 2022

Speech recognition in noise situation is an important skill for effective communication. Hearing In Noise Test (HINT) has been suggested as a clinical tool to evaluate these aspects. However, this tool has not been used widely in domestic clinics. In this study, psychophysical aspects of HINT and burdens in clinical application were analyzed to improve the applicability of the tool. The difficulty in understanding speech in the elderly population is due to hearing loss based on aging of peripheral and central auditory pathways. As typical clinical cases, HINT scores for young and elderly listeners (20s vs 70s) were compared. Four conditions of HINT test were Quiet (Q), Noise Front (NF), Noise Right (NR), and Noise Left (NL). Quantitative scores showed that the elderly listener required more Signal to Noris Ratio (SNR) values than the younger counterpart in noisy situations. Although both showed Binaural Masking Level Difference (BMLD) effect, the strength was smaller in the elder. However, the age-matched normalized data were not established in detail for clinical application. Confirmed usefulness of HINT and the related improvement in clinical measuring procedure were suggested.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.287-301
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• 2022

The present study aims to investigate the difference of soundscape evaluation results from on-site field test and laboratory test which are commonly used for soundscape surveys. In order to do this, both field and lab tests were carried out at four different areas in Cheongju city. On-site questionnaire surveys were undertaken to 65 people at 13 points. Laboratory listening tests were carried out to 48 adults using recorded sounds and video. Laboratory tests were undertaken to two different groups who had experience of field survey or not. Also, two different sound reproduction tools, headphones and speakers, were used in laboratory tests. As a result, it was found that there is a very close correlation between sound loudness and annoyance in both field and laboratory tests. However, it was concluded that there must be a difference in recognizing the figure sounds between field and laboratory tests since it is hard to apprehend on-site situation only using visual and aural information provided in laboratory tests. In laboratory tests, it was shown that there is a some difference in perceived most loud figure sounds in two groups using headphones and speakers. Also, it was analyzed that there is a tendency that field experienced people recognize the figure sounds using their experienced memory while non-experienced people can not perceive the figure sounds.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.401-407
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• 2013

In parallel with the development of ship equipment, bridge systems have been improved, but marine accidents due to human error have not been reduced. Recently, research in nautical bridge equipment has focused on suitable ergonomic designs in order to reduce these errors due to human factors. In a bridge of a ship, there are numerous auditory signals that deliver important information clearly to the sailors. However, only a few studies have been conducted related to the human recognition of these auditory signals. There are three types of auditory signals: voice alarms, abstract sounds, and auditory icons. This study was conducted in order to design more appropriate auditory icons using a sensibility evaluation method. The auditory icons were rated to have five warning situations (engine failure, fire, steering failure, low power, and collision) using the Semantic Differential Method. It is expected that the results of this study will be used as basic data for auditory displays inside bridges and for integrated bridge alarm systems.