• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.871-888
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• 2020

With the development of display engineering and technology, the screen and sound quality of information devices such as TVs are improving. The screen used LEDs via LCD and PDP and a large flat panel in the early CRT to create super-high resolution. The sound is improved by directly vibrating a thin and simple panel, such as an OLED. In our previous study, the exciter speaker was attached to the rear of the OLED panel to be used as the diaphragm of the speaker, and the sound quality was as good as that of the TV using the existing dynamic speaker. This method supplied the viewer with the direct sound coming from the panel, delivering clear sound, and the sound and image came from the same location, thus giving the viewer high immersion and maximizing the effect of information transfer. OLED exciter speakers, however, have a special directivity, which tends to slightly attenuate the tone at the very center of the screen. This study improves the sound quality by improving the structure of the exciter speaker and the radiated sound of the flat panel display. A 2-in-1 Exciter is made into a single core to improve the speaker's radiation pattern.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.298-309
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• 2007

There are various sounds in the car as much as cars have many mechanical parts. These sounds make various psychological development. The international competition in car markets has continuously required the research about the sound quality of a car. The domestic car makers have also invested a lot of money for the research and development of sound quality. Car axle plays an important role in a vehicle and its NVH development is also important. By this time, NVH development of car axle is mainly based on the reduction of sound pressure level (dBA), which cannot gives, the satisfaction to the customers in view of the sound quality of a vehicle. Therefore, in this paper, a sound quality index evaluating the sound quality of axle noise based on human sensibility is developed.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.654-660
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• 2006

There are various sounds in the car as much as cats have many mechanical parts. These sounds make various sound qualities. The international competition in car markets has continuously required the research about the sound quality of a car. The domestic carmakers have also invested a lot of money for the research and development of sound quality. Car axle plays an important role in a vehicle and its NVH development is also important. By this time, NVH development of car axle is mainly based on the reduction of sound pressure level(dBA), which cannot gives, the satisfaction to the customers in view of the sound quality of a vehicle. Therefore, in this project, a sound quality index evaluating the sound quality of axle noise based on human sensibility is developed and applied to the development of the sound quality of axle noise

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.962-977
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• 2019

The human voice is a convenient method of information transfer between different objects such as between men, men and machine, between machines. The development of information and communication technology, the voice has been able to transfer farther than before. The way to communicate, it is to convert the voice to another form, transmit it, and then reconvert it back to sound. In such a communication process, a vocoder is a method of converting and re-converting a voice and sound. The CELP (Code-Excited Linear Prediction) type vocoder, one of the voice codecs, is adapted as a standard codec since it provides high quality sound even though its transmission speed is relatively low. The EVRC (Enhanced Variable Rate CODEC) and QCELP (Qualcomm Code-Excited Linear Prediction), variable bit rate vocoders, are used for mobile phones in 3G environment. For the real-time implementation of a vocoder, the reduction of sound quality is a typical problem. To improve the sound quality, that is important to know the size and shape of noise. In the existing sound quality improvement method, the voice activated is detected or used, or statistical methods are used by the large mount of data. However, there is a disadvantage in that no noise can be detected, when there is a continuous signal or when a change in noise is large.This paper focused on finding a better way to decrease the reduction of sound quality in lower bit transmission environments. Based on simulation results, this study proposed a preprocessor application that estimates the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) using the spectral SNR estimation method. The SNR estimation method adopted the IMBE (Improved Multi-Band Excitation) instead of using the SNR, which is a continuous speech signal. Finally, this application improves the quality of the vocoder by enhancing sound quality adaptively.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.218-226
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• 2019

In modern society, people live in an environment with artificial or natural noise. Especially, the sound that corresponds to the artificial noise makes the noise itself and affects each other because many people live and work in the city. Sounds are generated by the activities and causes of various people, such as construction sites, aircraft, production machinery, or road traffic. These sounds are essential elements in human life and are recognized and judged by human auditory organs. Noise is a sound that you do not want to hear by subjective evaluation, and it is a loud sound that gives hearing damage or a sound that causes physical and mental harm. In this study, we introduce the method of stimulating the human hearing by finger vibration and explain the advantages of the proposed method in various kinds of a noise environment. And how to improve the sound quality to improve efficiency. In this paper, we propose a method to prevent the loss of hearing loss and the transmission of sound information based on proper signal to noise ratio when using portable IT equipment in various noise environments.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.108-115
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• 1999

본 연구에서는 차 실내의 공간 음향특성으로 인한 음향왜곡과 주행소음으로 인한 오디오 음질 저하를 동시에 개선하기 위한 디지털 필터를 설계하여 음질을 개선하는 방법을 제안하였다. 라우드스피커의 입력에 적용할 디지털 필터는 차량 주행 소음 특성과 차 실내의 음향특성을 고려하여 설계하였다. 차량소음 분석은 주파수 옥타브 밴드 분석법을 이용한 객관적인 분석과 감성적 분석법인 NCB 곡선법을 사용했다. 그 결과를 이용하여 오디오 유니트의 11밴드 디지털 필터 보정치를 구하는데 사용하였다. 최적 음질 구현을 위해 7가지 형태의 디지털 필터를 설계하여 기준 음악원에 적용하여 음악원 샘플을 얻었고, 여기에 100km 차량 주행소음을 합성한 9가지의 음악원 샘플을 제작하였다. 64명의 평가자를 대상으로 Scheffe'가 제안한 7점 주관 평가법을 사용하여 9가지 음악원 샘플에서 최적음질을 나타내는 디지털 필터를 선택하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.459-466
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• 2020

멀티로터 UAV(Unmanned Aerial Vehicle)를 이용해서 수집한 음향 데이터는 모터나 프로펠러에서 발생하는 자체 소음이나 비행 중 발생하는 바람 소리 등으로 인해 음향 품질이 크게 손상되는 문제가 발생한다. 멀티로터 UAV 환경에서는 목표 음향의 크기뿐만 아니라 위상도 크게 손상되기 때문에 크기와 위상을 모두 고려해서 음향을 향상시킬 필요가 있다. 하지만 위상은 크기와 달리 구조적인 특징이 잘 나타나지 않으므로 향상시키는 것이 쉽지 않다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 크기와 위상을 모두 표현할 수 있는 복소 스펙트로그램을 기초로 잡음을 제거해서 목표 음향의 품질을 향상시키는 CNN 기반 복소 스펙트로그램 향상 방법을 제안한다.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-24
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• 2024

The Korean three-way stop contrast (lenis, aspirated, fortis) is currently undergoing a sound change, such that the primary cue distinguishing lenis and aspirated stops is shifting from voice onset time (VOT) to F0. Despite recent discussions of this shift, research on voice quality, traditionally considered an additional cue signaling the contrast, remains sparse. This study investigated the extent to which the associated voice quality [as reflected in the acoustic measurements of H1^*-H2^*, H1^*- A1^*, and cepstral peak prominence (CPP)] contributes to the three-way stop contrast, and how the realization is conditioned by prominence- vs. boundary-induced prosodic strengthening amid the ongoing sound change. Results for 12 native Korean speakers indicate that there was a substantial distinction in voice quality among the three stop categories with the breathiness of the vowel being the greatest after the lenis, intermediate after the aspirated, and least after the fortis stops, indicating the role of voice quality in the maintenance of the three-way stop contrast. Furthermore, prosodic strengthening has different effects on the contrast and contributes to the enhancement of the phonological contrast contingent on whether it is induced by prominence or boundary.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1442-1445
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• 2007

Just noticeable differences (jnds) of autocorrelation function (ACF) parameters - Phi (0), Tau 1 and Phi 1 - of household refrigerator noise were investigated by psychoacoustical analyses. Phi (0) of five refrigerators' noise was changed with equal (${\pm}$) interval level of 0.5-1.0 dB up to five intervals by manipulating sound pressure level of the noise. Tau 1 and Phi 1 were varied with equal (${\pm}$) interval of around 0.10 ms and 0.02, respectively. Pitch shifting and strengthen methods were applied for the Tau 1 and Phi 1 variations. As results of subjective evaluations, about 2.0 dB was shown as jnd of Phi (0). The values of 0.30 ms and 0.06 were found as jnds of Tau 1 and Phi 1, respectively. The jnd results of each ACF parameter can be applied to explain substantial amount of sound quality (SQ) enhancement in the SQ prediction indices which were proposed in the authors' previous study [Sato et al. (2007) J. Acoust. Soc. Am.].

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.557-565
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• 2009

인간의 청각기관은 소리의 방향과 거리인지에 있어서 여러 가지의 정보들을 복합적으로 이용한다. 이러한 양 귀에 들어오는 소리세기의 차이, 위상의 차이, 그리고 주파수 스펙트럼의 차이 등의 정보들을 종합적으로 포함하고 있는 것이 머리전달함수 (HRIF: Head Related Transfer Function)이다. 2채널 음향재생 시스템에서 이 머리전달함수를 이용하여 다채널 입체음향을 재생하는 방법이 많이 쓰이고 있다. 그러나 머리전달함수의 비개인화적인 특성 때문에 양쪽 귀까지의 거리가 같아지는 혼돈원추 상에서는 앞/뒤 방향 지각에 대한 혼돈을 주게 됨으로써 입체감을 저하시키게 된다. 본 논문에서는 입체음향을 생성하기 위해 머리전달함수를 사용하는 과정예서 발생하는 혼돈원추 문제점을 해결하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 각 머리전달함수의 주파수 차 및 인간의 청각 특성을 이용하여 각 방향에 해당하는 머리전달함수의 주파수 스펙트럼 특성을 조절하였다. 본 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 음상정위 테스트 및 청감 테스트를 실시하였으며 실험 결과 헤드폰을 기반으로 한 2채널 입체음향 시스템에서 향상된 입체음향을 재생하였다. 더불어 구현된 입체음향의 음질의 열화도 적음을 확인할 수 있었다.