• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.109-116
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a method for extracting predominant melody of polyphonic music based on harmonic structure. Since polyphonic music contains multiple sound sources, the process of melody detection consists of extraction of multiple fundamental frequencies and determination of predominant melody using those fundamental frequencies. Harmonic structure is an important feature parameter of monophonic signal that has spectral peaks at the integer multiples of its fundamental frequency. We extract all fundamental frequency candidates contained in the polyphonic signal by verifying the required condition of harmonic structure. Then, we combine those harmonic peaks corresponding to each extracted fundamental frequency and assign a rank to each after calculating its harmonic average energy. We finally run pitch tracking based on the rank of extracted fundamental frequency and continuity of fundamental frequency, and determine the predominant melody. We measure the performance of proposed method using ADC 2004 DB and 100 Korean pop songs in terms of MIREX 2005 evaluation metrics, and pitch accuracy of 90.42% is obtained.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.259-262
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 먼저 피아노 음을 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)를 이용하여 주파수 영역으로 변환을 한 후, 크기(magnitude)와 위상(phase)에 대한 특성들을 분석한다 이 분석한 결과를 가지고 모델링을 함으로써 피아노 원음에 근접한 음을 만들 수 있다. 크기에서의 특성은 기본주파수와 고조파 부분에서 다른 부분에 비해 크기의 차이가 크다. 그래서 기본주파수와 고조파부분은 오차를 줄이기 위해 적은 데이터를 가지고 곡선의 적합성(Curve Fitting) 방법을 이용하고, 노이즈 부분은 기본주파수 전·후의 노이즈가 피아노 음색 특성에 중요한 역할을 하므로, 이 부분을 최고점과 최저점른을찾아 선형으로 모델링 하였고, 나머지 노이즈 부분은 적은 값을 가지므로 많은 데이터를 가지고 곡선의 적합성을 이용하였다. 위상은 크기에서 모델링한 결과를 바탕으로 모델링을 하였다 모델링을 한 결과를 가지고 역변환 FFT를 하면 피아노 원음에 매우 근접한 음을 생성할 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.473-478
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• 2021

Vibrato corresponds to a modulation of frequency and is one of the most frequently used techniques to enrich vocal and musical instrument sounds. Whereas the fundamental frequency trajectories of vibrato tones are generally modeled as a sinusoid, they are sometimes observed to be non-sinusoidal. In this paper, we propose a method to analyze the characteristics of non-sinusoidal fundamental frequency trajectories of vibrato sounds. The proposed method performs Fast Fourier Transform (FFT)-based harmonic analysis on the frequency trajectory, analyzes vibrato parameters, and calculates a sinusoid purity factor. We applied the proposed method to flute, viola, and saxophone vibrato tones, whose results showed the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.1059-1066
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• 2000

In this paper. a new indirect feedback active noise control (ANC) scheme barred on the fundamental frequency estimation is proposed for systems with a harmonic noise. When reference signals necessary for feedforward ANC configuration are difficult to obtain, the conventional ANC algorithms for multi-tonal noise do not measure the reference signals but generate them with the estimated frequencies.$^{(4)}$ However, the beating phenomena, in which certain frequency components of the noise vanish intermittently, may make the adaptive frequency estimation difficult. The confusion in the estimated frequencies due to the beating phenomena makes the generated reference signals worthless. The proposed algorithm consists of two parts. The first part is a reference generator using the fundamental frequency estimation and the second one is the conventional feedforward control. We propose the fundamental frequency estimation algorithm using decision rules. which is insensitive to the beating phenomena. In addition, the proposed fundamental frequency estimation algorithm has good tracking capability and lower variance of frequency estimation error than that of the conventional cascade ANF method.$^{(4)}$ We are also able to control all interested modes of the noise, even which cannot be estimated by the conventional frequency estimation method because of the poor S/N ratio. We verify the performance of the proposed ANC method through simulations for the measured cabin noise of a passenger ship and the measured time-varying engine booming noise of a passenger vehicle.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.5-12
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• 1986

음성 신호 처리분야에서 고속이며 정확히 기본 주파수를 추출하는 방법은 중요하며, 이를 위한 많은 연구가 제안되어 왔다. 이러한 방법들은 보통 성도의 방해를 제거한 후에 기본 주파수를 검출하기 때문에 지금까지는 처리과정이 복잡하다. 우리는 그러한 과정을 간단히 처리할 수 ldt는 inverse rate type filtering 법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 유한 길이의 정수 계산이고 덧셈과 뺄셈으로 처리될 수 있기 때문에 범용 마이크로 컴퓨터에 의해서도 실시간 처리를 할 수 있게 된다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.12-18
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• 1991

Detecting the fundamental frequency(Fo) of the speech signal is a problem in many speech applications. A problem of the pitch detection method in the frequency domain is occurred by the first formant and the background noise. Thus, in this paper, we proposed a pitch detection algorithm in the frequency domain that reduces the effects of the first formant and the background noise by the spectral AMDF function. Several computer simulation results showed that the proposed algorithm was very effective for fundamental frequency detection.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.100-108
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• 2010

An autocorrelation method is used in pitch estimation. Autocorrelation values in time and frequency domains, which have different characteristics, correspond to the pitch period and fundamental frequency, respectively. We utilize an integrated autocorrelation method in time and frequency domains. It can remove the errors of pitch doubling and having. In the time and frequency domains, pitch period and fundamental frequency have reciprocal relation to each other. Especially, fundamental frequency estimation ends up as an error because of the resolution of FFT. To reduce these artifacts, interpolation methods are applied in the integrated autocorrelation domain, which decreases pitch errors. Moreover, only for the pitch candidates found in a time domain, the corresponding frequency-domain autocorrelation values are calculated with reduced computational complexity. Using linear interpolation, we can decrease the required number of FFT coefficients by 8 times. Thus, compared to the conventional methods, computational complexity can be reduced by 9.5 times.

• Journal of Sasang Constitutional Medicine
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.191-202
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• 1996

Sasang constitution classification is very important subject, so many medical men studied the Sasang constitution classification but there is no certain method to classify objectively. And the purpose of this study is to help classifying Sasang constitution through correlation with sound spectrogram. This study was done it under the suppose that Sasang costitution hag correlation with sound spectrogram. The following results were obtained about correlation between sound spectrogram and Sasang constitution by comparison and analysis the pitch and reading speed of Sasang constitutions; 1. There was a similar tendency in the composition reading speed between taeeumin, soeumin and soyangin. 2. Taeeumin's center was lower measured more than soeumin's and soyangin's in the pitch graph and graph by normal curve fit and there was a similar tendency between soeumin and soyangin. 3. There was a similar tendency in the pitch graph's width between all constitutions. 4. There was a significant difference between taeeumin and soeum in the mean of three constitution's pitch, this means that taeeumin uses lower voice more than soeumin. According to the results, it is considered that there is a correlation between pitch of sound spectrogram and Sasang constitution. And method of Sasang constitution classification through sound spectrogram analysis can be one method as assistant for the objectification of Sasang constitution classification.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.472-476
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• 2023

Fundamental frequency/pitch period are major characteristics of speech signals. They are used in many speech applications like speech coding, speech recognition, speaker identification, and so on. In this paper, some of inflection points are used to estimate the pitch which is the inverse of the fundamental frequency. The inflection points are defined as points where local maxima, local minima or the slope changes occur. The speech signal is preprocessed to remove unnecessary inflection points due to the high frequency components using a low pass filter. Only the inflection points from local maxima are used to get the pitch period. While the existing pitch estimation methods process speech signals in blockwise, the proposed method detects the inflection points in sample and produces the pitch period/fundamental frequency estimates along the time. Computer simulation shows the usefulness of the proposed method as a fundamental frequency estimator.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.251-254
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• 1998

초음파 수신 신호의 공진주파수 변화를 이용한 온도 측정법에서 협대역 변환기를 사용한 초음파 온도측정이 가능함을 보여준다. 그리고 이를 위하여 공진주파수 변화와 온도변화간의 비례상수를 변화시켰다. 기존의 측정법은 온도변화와 기본주파수 변화와의 관계를 비례상수로 정의하였기 때문에, 최소한 3개 이상의 하모닉을 포함하는 광대역 변환기가 필요하였다. 하지만 협대역 변환기를 이용한 온도측정법에서는 비례상수를 주파수 변화비와 온도변화간의 관계로 나타내기 때문에 한 성분의 하모닉만을 측정하여도 온도측정이 가능하게 된다.