• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.197-206
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• 1995

Microphone array is designed to measure the equivalent source height of vehicle noise. The equivalent source position is defined for an arbirary distribution of acoustic sources above a perfectly reflecting plane and a microphone array for its measurement is developed. The normalized errors of the measured equivalent source heights are defined including the effects of background noise, the geometric near field, and source size. Normalized errors of the measured source heights obtained by a nemerical simulation for each parameter lead to optimization of the microphone spacing and to the design of an array which gives the equivalent source height as a function of frequency. The performance of the designed array is verified using the stationary loudspeaker experiments.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.501-504
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 최근 건축공간에 있어서 음환경에 대한 관심이 놓아지면서 학교 건축물에 있어서 강의실내의 음환경을 측정하고, 학교건축물에 대한 음환경 기준을 확립하는 데에 기초자료와 필요한 제안을 하는 것이 목적이다. 현재 음환경 기준은 단순히 소음fp밸이나 잔향 시간과 같은 단순한 물리특성만을 기준으로 하고 있다. 여기서는 강의실 내의 잔향시간, D, STI 등외 물리지표와 설문조사 등 주관적 평가를 통해 새로운 음환경 기준을 제시하려고 한다. 여기서 사용되는 물리지표로는 TSP(Time-Streched-Pulse)신호를 사용하여 잔향시간과 D(Deutlichkeit), STI(Speech Transmission index)를 산출하였다. 강의실의 화자의 위치에서 1.5m 높이에 스피커를 놓고 청취자의 위치인 여섯 점에서 무지향성 마이크로폰을 1.2m 높이에 놓고 마이크로폰으로 들어온 임펄스 응답을 측정하고, 강의실 내의 잔향시간과 D, STI를 산출하였다. 다음에 설문조사를 실시하여, 앞에서 측정한 물리지표와 설문조사를 통해 얻은 주관적 평가와의 상관관계를 파악하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.47-53
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• 1997

This paper concerns an efficient approach to forming a beam pattern of a microphone array to deal with broadband signals such as speech in a teleconference. A numerical method is proposed to find updated location of sidelobes for equalizaing the sidelobes via perturbation of array parameters such as array weight or microphone spacing. Thus the microphone array is optimized in a Dolph-Chebyshev sense such that directional or background noises incident in an array visual range are eliminated efficiently. It is shown that perturbation of microphone spacing yields an optimum pattern more appropriate for dealing with broadband signals than that of array weight. Also, a novel method is proposed to find a beam pattern which is robust with respect to sidelobe in a scanning situation. Computer simulation results are presented.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.07a
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• pp.1795-1796
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• 2008

과학기술의 발전과 함께 인간형 서비스 로봇에 대한 관심이 고조되고 있다. 서비스 로봇의 핵심 중의 하나는 인간과의 상호작용이라 할 수 있다. 자연스러운 상호작용을 위하여, 화자를 바라보고, 깨끗한 음성신호를 얻는 과정에서 음원의 위치 측정은 필연적이다. 본 논문은 마이크로폰에 도달되는 동일 신호의 도착시간지연(Time Delay of Arrival: TDOA) 특성 행렬을 정의하고, 이를 이용하여 공간상의 화자 위치 측정 방법론을 제안하였다. 휴머노이드 로봇의 머리에 마이크로폰 배열을 구성하였고, 실제 시스템을 통한 실험을 통하여 방향 검지 및 높이 구분을 실행하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.124-132
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• 2023

When the building becomes high, the number of households increases and they are adjacent to the elevator. So, frequency of use of elevators will increase. Elevator noise is bound to increase in the future. However, there are currently no legal standards for elevator noise or measurement and evaluation methods that can clearly measure elevator noise in Korea. Although some methods for measuring elevator noise are presented in KS F ISO 16032, this standard is not a standard established for elevator noise. It is a standard that integrates the overall measurement method of building equipment and equipment, and the position of the microphone is selected by the experimenter during measurement. Elevator noise is characterized by a low sound pressure level as the noise in the mid-low frequency band is important. However, even today, complaints from residents about elevator noise are increasing. In this study, the position of the microphone that can most sensitively pick up the elevator noise when measuring the elevator noise was studied. According to the distance from the wall and the height from the floor, a total of 9 microphone positions were measured and analyzed. As a result of the experiment, it was confirmed that the elevator noise has a very high influence in the 63 Hz band. The measured value at the center point was identified as a factor that lowered the overall elevator noise level value.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.294-300
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• 2017

This paper proposes a method for 3-D sound source localization (SSL) using region selection and TDOA. 3-D SSL involves the estimation of an azimuth angle and an elevation angle. With the aim of reducing the computation time, we compare signal energies to select one out of three regions. In the selected region, we compute only one TDOA value for the azimuth angle estimation. Also, to estimate the vertical angle, we choose the higher energy signal from the selected region and pair it up with the elevated microphone's signal for TDOA computation and elevation angle estimation. Our experimental results show that the proposed method achieves average error values of $0.778^{\circ}$ in azimuth and $1.296^{\circ}$ in elevation, which is similar to other methods. The method uses one energy comparison and two TDOA computations therefore, the total processing time is reduced.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.92-99
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• 2011

In Japan, bang machine has been considered to have problems about not only the impact force and frequency response which are different from the real impact sources such as children's jumping and running, but also damage in the wooden structure housing. Therefore, a new impactor for lower impact force to prevent demage in wooden structure housing was developed. The impact ball was adopted as the second standard impact source in JIS A 1418-2 and ISO 140-11. In the present study, floor impact sounds generated by impact ball with drop heights in four floors of mock-up building of Building Research Institute (BRI) similar to typical Japanese wooden structure housing were investigated and also compared to jumping sound. The results show that Impact ball sound dropped at 10 cm to 30 cm was most similar to jumping sound. And The impact sound levels at 250 and 500 Hz were more sensitive to drop height than other lower frequencies. The error that may occur from the difference of height of 10 cm up and down based on the standard drop height caused by the impact ball operated by human hands was approx. 1 dB or less only in its value of characteristic, but it must be carefully taken into Impact ball in the Korea Standard.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.255-260
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• 2003

The regulation for floor impact sound level is expected to be amended to 50㏈(L$\_$i, Fmax, AW/) and below in heavy-weight impact sound and 58㏈(L'$\_$n, AW/) and below in light-weight impact sound in Korea. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the influence factors of floor impact sound levels in apartments. The influence factors were air pressure of bang machine, height of microphones, data acquisition rate, etc. The air pressure range of bang machine were from 2.2 Pa to 2.6 Fa. Five microphones were installed at a height of 0.5m, 0.7m, 0.9m, 1.2m, 1.5m or 1.7m from floor level. The floor impact sound level was varied about 1-3㏈(L$\_$i, Fmax, AW/) in heavy-weight impact sound according to the influence factors.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2007

최근들어 유비쿼터스 환경에서 인간 친화적 인터페이스를 갖는 서비스 로봇에 대한 연구가 매우 활발하다. 인간과 자연스러운 상호작용을 위하여, 화자를 바라보고, 깨끗한 음성신호를 얻는 과정에서 음원의 위치 측정은 필연적이다. 본 논문은 마이크로폰에 도달되는 동일 신호의 도착시간지연(Time Delay of Arrival: TDOA) 특성 행렬을 정의하고, 이를 이용하여, 음원의 위치 측정 시스템을 구현한다. 휴머노이드 로봇에 구현된 실제 시스템을 통하여 방향 검지 및 높이 구분이 잘 이루어짐을 확인한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.5-14
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• 1994

In this study, the ground impedance is measured using the standing wave method in a free field on the grass, the soil, and the ground covered with asphalt and cement. And the excess attenuation of sound is investigated. Results are obtained in the frequency range between 300Hz and 1000Hz. There are very good agreements between the results of the measured ground impedance and the prediction of Delanyand Bazley. The ground impedance is increased in order the grass, the soil, the asphalt and the cement road, decreased with frequency for each the ground. The excess attenuation of sound is mainly determined by the ground impedance. The experimental results of the excess attenuation over the different types and the microphone heights are compared with the theoretical values.