• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.693-704
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• 2011

As mobile devices become multi-functional, and converge into a single platform, there is a strong need for a codec that is able to provide consistent quality for speech and music contents. MPEG-D USAC standardization activities started at the 82nd MPEG meeting with a CfP and approved Study on DIS at the 96th MPEG meeting. MPEG-D USAC is converged technology of AMR-WB+ and HE-AAC V2. Specifically, USAC utilizes three core codecs (AAC, ACELP, and TCX) for low frequency regions, SBR for high frequency regions, the MPEG Surround for stereo information, and window transition technology for smoothing transition between various core coder. USAC can provide consistent sound quality for both speech and music contents and can be applied to various applications such as multi-media download to mobile devices, digital radio, mobile TV and audio books.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.7
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• pp.589-598
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• 2009

As mobile devices become multi-functional, and converge into a single platform, there is a strong need for a codec that is able to provide consistent quality for speech and music content MPEG-D USAC standardization activities started at the 82nd MPEG meeting with a CfP and approved WD3 at the 88th MPEG meeting. MPEG-D USAC is converged technology of AMR-WB+ and HE-AAC V2. Specifically, USAC utilizes three core codecs (AAC ACELP and TCX) for low frequency regions, SBR for high frequency regions and the MPEG Surround tool for stereo information. USAC can provide consistent sound quality for both speech and music content and can be applied to various applications such as multi-media download to mobile device Digital radio Mobile TV and audio books.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.304-305
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• 2008

DVD/BD 및 HDTV의 보급으로 인해 다수의 오디오 컨텐츠들이 멀티채널(5.1채널 이상) 형식으로 제작되고 있다. 오디오 정보를 담고 있는 물리적인 채널의 수가 증가하면, 이에 따라 정보량도 선형적으로 증가하게 된다. 선형적으로 증가된 정보를 기존의 오디오 코덱을 이용해 큰 압축할 경우, 압축에 필요한 비트레이트의 선형적인 증가를 피할 수 없다. 최근 채널 수 증가로 야기되는 비트레이트의 증가를 최소화하고 효율적으로 멀티채널 오디오 신호를 압축할 수 있는 방법으로 MPEG surround와 같은 파라메트릭 멀티채널 오디오 코딩 방식이 제안되었다. 파라메트릭 멀티채널 오디오 코딩 방식의 경우, 멀티채널 오디오 신호를 채널 수가 감소된 다운믹스 신호와 다운믹스 신호로부터 다시 멀티채널 오디오 업믹스 하는데 필요한 파라미터로 표현하는 방식이다. 따라서 다운믹스 방식 및 업믹스에 필요한 파라미터에 따라 업믹스된 멀티채널 오디오 신호의 품질이 달라진다. 본 논문에서는 MPEG surround에서 사용하고 있는 기존의 ITU-R 다운믹스 방식의 문제점을 실제 멀티채널 오디오 신호의 사례를 통해 제시하고 이 문제점을 해결하기 위한 새로운 다운믹스 방식과 파라미터를 제안하고자 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.99-102
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• 2007

The channel level difference (CLD) is a main parameter in the reference model 0 (RM0) for MPEG Surround. Nevertheless, the CLD quantization method in the RM0 has problems such as the lack of theoretical background and inappropriate quantization levels. In this letter, a new CLD quantization method is proposed based on the virtual source location information which has strength in the quantization process. From experimental results, it is confirmed that the proposed scheme greatly reduces the quantization distortions measured in dB and degrees without any additional complexity.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.23 no.7
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• pp.73-84
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• 2006

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.33 no.9 s.268
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• pp.48-59
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• 2006

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.369-379
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• 2016

This paper deals with an efficient method for skipping inter-channel phase differences (IPD) in the MPEG surround of the unified speech and audio coding (USAC). Based on the psycho-acoustic sensitivity on the IPD, we estimate a threshold on IPD, below which we can not notice degradation in spatial cue. We propose an IPD skip method, in which any IPDs within the threshold are set to zero and are not transmitted. The proposed IPD skip method gives about 38% savings in terms of bit amount for IPD. Nevertheless, in the MUSHRA test, the proposed method does not show any noticeable degradation in the decoded audio quality.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.150-157
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a person tracking based multi-channel audio panning system for multi-view broadcasting services. Multi-view broadcasting is to render the video sequences that are captured from a set of cameras based on different viewpoints, and multi-channel audio panning techniques are necessary for audio rendering in these services. In order to apply such a realistic audio technique to this multi-view broadcasting service, person tracking techniques which are to estimate the position of users are also necessary. For these reasons, proposed methods are composed of two parts. The first part is a person tracking method by using ultrasonic satellites and receiver. We could obtain user's coordinates of high resolution and short duration about 10 mm and 150 ms. The second part is MPEG Surround parameter-based multi-channel audio panning method. It is a method to obtain panned multi-channel audio by controlling the MPEG Surround spatial parameters. A MUSHRA test is conducted to objectively evaluate the perceptual quality and measure localization performance using a dummy head. From the experiments, it is shown that the proposed method provides better perceptual quality and localization performance than the conventional parameter-based audio panning method. In addition, we implement the prototype of person tracking based multi-view broadcasting system by integrating proposed methods with multi-view display system.

• Information and Communications Magazine
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.56-61
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• 2008

본고에서는 동일 주파수 대역폭에서 T-DMB(Terrestrial-Digital Multimedia Broadcasting)의 가용 채널용량을 확장하기 위해 개발중인 Advanced T-DMB(AT-DMB)의 기술에 대해 소개한다. AT-DMB는 계층변조, MPEG-4 SVD(scalable video coding) 및 MPEG surround 오디오 기술을 이용하여, 기존 T-DMB와의 역호환성을 보장하면서 다채널 혹은 고품질의 서비스를 제공하는 것을 목표로 하고 있다. 향후 AT-DMB 기술 개발이 완료되어 상용서비스가 실시될 경우, 증대된 서비스 채널을 통해 다양한 비즈니스 모델의 모바일(mobile) 방송 서비스 제공이 가능할 것이며, 나아가 T-DMB 해외 시장 확산에도 기여할 것이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.6
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• pp.410-418
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• 2012

Parametric stereo(PS) and MPEG surround(MPS) are major spatial audio coding(SAC) tools. In this paper, the problem of the inter-channel correlation(ICC) synthesis in the conventional SAC is analyzed. Conventional methods assume that ambient components mixed to two output channels are anti-phased, while the primary components are assumed to be in-phased. This assumption can cause excessive ambient mixing for a negative-valued ICC. As a remedy to this problem, we propose a new ICC synthesis method based on an assumption that the primary components are anti-phased each other for a negative ICC. The proposed method is also applied to the approximation which works in practice. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by computer simulations and the subjective listening tests verified that the proposed method is effective in not only headphones but also loudspeakers playback.