• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.135-145
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• 2010

This study investigates the differences in mean F0, intensity, jitter, and shimmer across hearing aid, gender, and vowels. For this study, 18 hearing-impaired children, 18 cochlear implanted children, and 18 normal hearing children as a control group were asked to read seven Korean vowels (/$\alpha$, $\wedge$, o, u, w, i, $\varepsilon$/). Subjects' readings were recorded by NasalView and analyzed by Praat. Results showed that the means of F0 were significantly higher in the hearing impaired group than in the normal hearing group; in the female group than in the male group; and in high vowels than in low vowels. Second, intensity was significantly higher in the hearing impaired group than in the normal hearing group; in the female group than in the male group; and in low vowels than in high vowels. Third, jitter was significantly higher in the normal hearing group than in the hearing impaired group; in the female group than in the male group; and in back vowels than in front vowels. Finally, shimmer was significantly higher in the CI group than in the normal hearing group or the hearing aided group; in the male group than in the female group; and in low vowels than in high vowels.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.47-50
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• 2009

본 연구는 예술심리치료 및 심상유도의 접근을 통해 영상치료로서의 시각적, 청각적 표현 범위와 치료요소를 찾는데 목적을 두고 있다. 현재 인간의 사회 활동 중에 생기는 정신적 육체적 스트레스를 예방 및 해소하기 위해 이루어지는 치료 활동 중 영상을 이용한 심리치료의 노력이 다방면으로 행해지고 있다. 치료의 형태는 주로 예술심리치료에 속하는 이미지와 기능음악, 클래식 등을 결합한 영상과 음향의 복합적 활용 방식이 주를 이루고 있다. 그러나 이는 치료적 요소에 초점을 두고 체계적인 제작이 되지 앉아 심리치료의 한계를 드러내고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 먼저 기존의 병원, 테라피 공간 및 공공장소에서 일반인을 대상으로 행해지고 있는 영상심리치료의 현황을 파악하고, 행해지는 치료 형태 분류를 통해 색채.미술심리치료에서 사용되어지는 이미지 활용과 음악치료 기법 중 GIM(Guided Imagery and music: 음악과 심상유도) 활용을 중심으로 일반인을 대상으로 하여 실험연구를 진행하였다. 실험 대상물은 영상이미지와 음향의 두 가지 자극이 복합되어 혹은 단일의 자극으로 주어지는 경우를 구분하여 정서적 반응을 조사하고, 전반적인 치료영상에 대한 선호도 조사를 통해 긍정적 정서를 불러일으키는 이미지 및 음향 요소를 도출한다. 이는 향후 영상심리치료의 체계적인 가이드라인 제작과 평가 척도 개발을 위한 기초 자료로 활용할 수 있다.

• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.458-466
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• 2001

This paper is addressed to a design and implementation of Korean voice web browser using voice technologies for controling web browser and selecting contents in the web document, and converting them to voice after HTML analysis. Main feature of this web browser is universal design which considers both of normal person and visual disabled, allows multi-modal interface. As voice interface for visual disabled, it supports tree structure which allows to recognize web document structure easily by only voice guidance regardless of frame usage, can handle all elements described as tag in the web document, identify them as predefined different voice property according to element property. This method gets rid of additional guidance voice for element property without audio style sheet or additional programming effort.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.713-721
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• 2013

This paper describes an efficiency of chroma based tonal features for speech emotion recognition. As the tonality caused by major or minor keys affects to the perception of musical mood, so the speech tonality affects the perception of the emotional states of spoken utterances. In order to justify this assertion with respect to tonality and emotion, subjective hearing tests are carried out by using synthesized signals generated from chroma features, and consequently show that the tonality contributes especially to the perception of the negative emotion such as anger and sad. In automatic emotion recognition tests, the modified chroma-based tonal features are shown to produce noticeable improvement of accuracy when they are supplemented to the conventional log-frequency power coefficient (LFPC)-based spectral features.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.1097-1099
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• 2017

본 논문은 대뇌 활성화 상태 변화와 혈액형간의 상관성 분석을 목적으로 한다. 혈액은 인체의 혈관을 통하여 몸 전체로 순환하는 액체 성 물질이다. 이 혈액을 구성하는 물질의 이질적 차이를 나타내는 차별적 유형을 혈액형이라 하며, 혈액형은 멘델의 법칙에 따라 부모에서 자식으로 유전된다. [1] 최근 들어 혈액형이 가지는 유전적 특징을 통한 질병 진단 및 치료, 예방을 위한 연구가 진행되고 있으나, 대부분의 연구는 육체적인 질병과 관련되어 있는 실정이다. 그러나, 혈액형의 경우 유전적 특성을 가지고 있으며, 신경 전달 망에 영향을 끼칠 것으로 추정 되는바 육체적 질병뿐만 아닌 정신적인 질환에도 혈액형에 따른 치료 및 예방방법을 차별화 하여, 보다 효율적인 치료 및 예방을 수행 할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다. 본 논문에서는 이를 위하여, 외부자극에 따른 대뇌 활성화 상태 변화를 분석하며, 특히 혈액형에 따른 상태변화의 상관성을 분석하고자 한다. 본 논문에서 활용하는 외부 자극은 청각 자극을 활용하며, 먼저 혈액형에 따른 피험자 군의 분류를 수행하여 동일 군 내 공통반응 및 상이한 군 간의 특이반응을 분석하여, 혈액형이 대뇌 활성화 상태 변화 및 정신질환에 따른 증상발현 등과 유관함을 검증하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.269-278
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• 2001

Most of education sites which are related to practical computer lecture are almost learning and testing based on character-contents. In this thesis, commercial high school needs the use of new application programs which appear quickly. So as teacher and students can contact with each other in classroom, we implemented self-teaming which has text, visual and auditory function with the use of animation technology. Not only quantity testing which has been used for the purpose of selection and arrangement, but also we designed and implemented quality testing which consider the level and individuality of student.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.229-238
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• 2010

This study investigates the differences in acoustic parameters in vowel space across hearing loss, gender and vowels. The parameters include F1, F2, Euclidean Distance between vowels, and vowel triangular area comprised of /i/, /a/ and /u/. For this study, 20 hearing-impaired and normal hearing adults as a control group were asked to read 7 Korean vowels (/a, $\wedge$, o, u, w, i, $\varepsilon$/). Subjects' readings were recorded by NasalView and analyzed by Praat. Results showed that F1 were significantly higher in the hearing impaired group than in the normal hearing group, higher in the female group than in male group, and higher in low vowels than in high vowels. And the means of F2 was significantly higher in the hearing impaired group than in normal hearing group, higher in high vowels than in low vowels, and there was no difference between male and female group. Secondly, Euclidean distance between vowels was significantly shorter in the hearing-impaired group than in the normal group. Finally, acoustic vowel space area was significantly smaller in the hearing-impaired group than in the normal hearing group. The hearing-impaired group showed that front vowels tended to be backed and back vowels to be fronted.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.66-76
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• 2001

Conventional echo watermarking techniques often exhibit inherent trade-offs between imperceptibility and robustness. In this paper, a new echo embedding technique is proposed. The proposed method enables one to embed high energy echoes while the host audio quality is not deteriorated, so that it is robust to common signal processing modifications and resistant to tampering. It is possible due to echo kernels that are designed based on psychoacoustic analyses. In addition, we propose some novel techniques to improve robustness against signal processing attacks. Subjective and objective evaluations confirmed that the proposed method could improve the robustness without perceptible distortion.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.75-86
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• 2019

The fast-growing pet industry is expanding its reach to digital content for dogs. In this regard, the study aims to present game elements applicable to pet content, taking into account the sensory characteristics of dogs: visual, auditory, and olfactory. To this end, attendance and rules were drawn as factors to induce continuous use of content by pet owners, and intimacy and compensation were derived as game elements so that dogs could get positive responses by feeling fun and interesting through content. Through this study, we expect to revitalize the newly evolving dog content industry.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.1315-1317
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• 2022

최근, 심층신경망 기반 오디오 부호화기가 활발히 연구되고 있다. 심층신경망 기반 오디오 부호화기는 기존의 전통적인 오디오 부호화기보다 구조적으로 간단하지만, 네트워크의 복잡도를 증가시키지 않고 인지적 성능향상을 기대하는 것은 어렵다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위하여 인간의 청각적 특성을 활용한 심리음향모델 기반 손실함수를 사용한 기법들이 소개되었다. 심리음향 모델 기반 손실함수를 사용한 오디오 부호화기는 양자화 잡음을 잘 제어하였지만, 여전히 지각적인 향상이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 심층신경망 기반 오디오 부호화기를 위한 Multi-time Scale 손실함수의 지역 손실함수 윈도우 크기의 최적화 제안한다. Multi-time Scale 손실함수의 지역 손실함수 계산을 위한 윈도우 크기를 조절하며, 이를 통하여 오디오 부호화에 적합한 윈도우 사이즈를 결정한다. 실험을 통해 얻은 최적의 Multi-time Scale 손실함수를 사용하여 네트워크를 훈련하였고, 주관적 평가를 통해 기존의 심리음향모델 기반 손실함수보다 좋은 음성 품질을 보여주는 것을 확인하였다.