• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.56 no.5
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• pp.464-471
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• 2019

The acoustic power is a major acoustical characteristic of an underwater vehicle and could be measured in a reverberant water tank. In order to obtain accurate measurement results, the acoustic field formed by the sound source should be investigated quantitatively in the reverberant water tank. In this research, the acoustic field of a reverberant water tank containing an underwater sound source has been analyzed by using an acoustic radiosity method one of the numerical analysis methods suitable for the acoustic analysis of the highly diffused space. The source level of the underwater sound source and acoustical properties of the water tank input to the numerical analysis have been estimated by applying the reverberant tank plot method through a preliminary experiment result. The comparison of the numerical analysis result with that of the experiment has verified the accuracy of the acoustic radiosity method.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1991.06a
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• pp.163-168
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• 1991

In this paper, we propose a new systolic architecture for the order statistics(OS) constant false alarm rate(CFAR) processor. In the proposed architecture, each processing element(PE) can compare two reference data cells with one test cell simultaneously in each clock cycle. So the utilization of each PE in this architecture is 100% whereas the utilization of each PE in the systolic architecture previously reported by Ritcey and Hwang is 50% because of one clock delay between two adjacent PE's active in computation. This can speed up the data processing rate by a factor of two. With this architecture, we can obtain the reduced number of communication links between adjacent PE's and reduction of the latency by half in comparison with the one proposed by Ritcey and Hwang.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.28-34
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• 1998

미래 개인 휴대통신에서는 고속의 데이터 서비스를 위하여 높은 대역폭 효율을 요 구하게 된다. 무선통신 서비스를 향상시키기 위하여 코딩기법, 변조기법, 다중화기법 등의 다양한 방법이 연구되고 있다. 이중에서 특히 변조기법은 시스템의 성능을 결정하는 중요한 요소가 된다. 본 논문에서는 PSK. OQPSK, π/4 DQPSK, MSK, GMSK의 다섯가지 변조기 법에대한 BER성능을 시뮬레이션하였다. 시뮬레이션을 위한 다중경로 페이딩채널로서 3가지 서로 다른 채널을 적용하였다. 이때 시뮬레이션을 위하여 1.544Mbps의 전송속도와 1.9GHz 의 반성주파수 환경을 고려하였다. 또한 fractional 선형 등화기를 적용하여 변조방식에 따른 성능향상 정도를 비교하였다. 채널 Ⅰ, Ⅱ, Ⅲ에 대해 각각 30dB, 20dB, 10dB 정도에서 error floor현상이 발생했으며 π/4 DQPSKS가 가장 낮은 BER 특성을 보인 반면 QPSK는 가장 높은 BER을 나타냈다. 등화기를 적용했을 때는 GMSK의 성능향상이 가장 크게 나타 났다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.81-86
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• 1996

Some investigations have been made to evaluate the sound quality of a loudspeaker system, objectively and accurately. Also, an algorithm is proposed to predict the various subjective values regarding loudspeaker performance based on the frequency response measured in anechoic chamber. A PC-based software that processes the proposed algorithm has also been developed. To verify the validity of the developed software, three loudspeakers has been evaluated using it and the evaluation results have been compared with the results of the listening test. The comparison between the two showed a good similarity.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.650-655
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• 1994

The persence of distinct tones in environmental noises leads to an increasing anaoyance especially if the tones are of long duration. Before 1992 in Germany the tonal content of noises had to be subjectively estimated by the acoustic consultants and up to six dB could be added to the measured Leq depending on the tonality content of the noise under consideration. In order to give an objective basis for tonality estimated a DIN norm proposal for tonality evaluations was introduced in 1992. This proposal is compared with two different procedures : the prominece-ratio calculation which was proposed by Bienvenue and Nobile /4/ and the proposal of Ares /5/. The output of the three models is contrasted with subjective tonality judgements. It turns out that the prominence ratio model yields the best agreement with the subjective tonality assessments od the sound set chosen.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.2E
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• pp.100-106
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• 2010

Multiple-model speech recognizer has been shown to be quite successful in noisy speech recognition. However, its performance has usually been tested using the general speech front-ends which do not incorporate any noise adaptive algorithms. For the accurate evaluation of the effectiveness of the multiple-model frame in noisy speech recognition, we used the state-of-the-art front-ends and compared its performance with the well-known multi-style training method. In addition, we improved the multiple-model speech recognizer by employing N-best reference HMMs for interpolation and using multiple SNR levels for training each of the reference HMM.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.170-170
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• 2002

The goal of the present research is to improve a quality of life of the elderly with a dementia. In this paper, it is realized by developing the dialog system that is controlled by three kinds of modules such as speech recognition engine, graphical agent, or database classified by a nursing schedule. The system was evaluated in an actual environment of a nursing facility by introducing it to an older male patient with dementia. The comparison study between dialog system and professional caregivers was then carried out at nursing home for 5 days in each case. The evaluation results showed that the dialog system was more responsive in catering to needs of dementia patient than professional caregivers. Moreover, the proposed system led the patient to talk more than caregivers did.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.243-246
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• 2000

This paper addresses a new technique of measuring the mean flow velocity not only over the cross sectional area but also along the pipe by exploiting the acoustic plane waves in the pipe. When fluid flows in the pipe and two plane waves propagate oppositely through the medium in it, the flow velocity causes a change of the wave number of the plane waves. The wave number of the positive going plane wave decreases but oppositely that of negative going one increases in comparison to no flow of the medium in the pipe. Theoretical backgrounds of this method are in details discussed and measurement results of the mean flow velocity are illustrated to reveal the feasibility and effectiveness of the suggested technique.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.77-82
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• 1996

In this paper an identification method is presented to obtain the equivalent electric model of a sandwitch type piezoelectric transducer. Unknown parameters related to the equivalent circuit are identified by solving a nonlinear optimization problem which can minimize an error between the experimental and analytical admittances in air. The proposed method is applied to an example transducer. The validity of equivalent circuit model is demonstrated by the comparison between the experimental measurements and analytical calculations of transmitting voltage response(TVR) and receiving voltage response(RVS).

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.836-841
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• 1994

This paper describes the global vibro-acoustic troubleshooting approach, used to identify and separate different sources of noise and vibrations on a boilerfeed pump testrig. The pump serves for rotor dynamic research of a EC-funded BRITE-Euram profect. This approach resulted in the identification of local structural flexibilities in the connections between the machinery and the base plate. The relative importance of the modes during normal operation is revealed by comparison with operational deformation shapes. The use of sound intensity mapping allowed to calculate the total sound power and to rank the equipment according to its sound power contribution. High acoustic levels were found and related to the fluid drive and to the piping system. Modification of the piping section resulted in a reduction of noise and vibration levels along the test loop and smooth operation in a wide suction pressure range.