• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.324-324
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• 2004

Sound localization can be controlled by simulating the transfer functions from sound source to listener's ears. Even by using this method. a good performance cannot be expected when a listener slightly moves from the position where the transfer functions were measured. We have already been proposed the multi-point control method to overcome the problem of the listener's small movement. In this method, the transfer functions are simulated at multiple points around the listner's ears so that the points forms an area which covers the small movement of the listener. In this paper. we investigated the effect of applying multi-point control method for the control of sound localization. Results show that multi-point control is effective to keep the perceptual error of the localized direction small when the listener moves up to 6 cm from the original position.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.05a
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• pp.353-358
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• 2002

Human's vision is mostly confined to the area in the front and we, humans heavily depend on the sense of hearing to gather information in areas out of our sight. Thus, the virtual reality system consisting of the 3D sound effect gives the user a much better sense of reality than the system without the sound effect. Virtual 3D sound technology has mainly been researched with binaural system. The conventional binaural sound systems reproduce the desired sound at two arbitrary points using two channels in 3-D space. Head movement of listener might be change the nominal acoustic transfer function and deteriorate the performance of 3D sound system based on loudspeakers that needs a crosstalk canceller. In this paper, low kinds of sensitivity functions of sphere HRTF are derived to investigate the effect of head movement on HRTF in 3D sound system. Changes of HRTF caused by rotational and translational motion of head are obtained as we calculate the derivatives of HRTF with respect to angle and distance.

• Proceedings of the KAIS Fall Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.199-202
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 3D사운드 생성 기술 중 대표적인 방법인 원음에 HRTF(머리전달함수)를 콘볼루션(convolution)하는 방식으로 음상정위 모듈을 구현하였으며 음장감을 부여하기 위하여 잔향(reverberation) 효과를 추가하고 크로스토크 현상을 제거하기 위하여 트랜스오럴 필터를 추가하였다. 본 논문에서는 sampling rate conversion을 사용하여 decimation과 interpolation을 수행하여 44.1KHz의 sampling rate로 된 coefficient를 downsample하거나 upsample한 HRTR(머리전달함수)를 사용하여 콘볼루션(convolution)을 수행했다. 본 논문에서는 3D사운드 생성과정에서 필요한 연산과정을 최소화하여 일반 PC의 computing power로도 sampling rate conversion된 데이터를 처리하여 줄 수 있는 알고리즘을 제시하고 구현하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.323-332
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• 2004

Sound localization can be controlled by simulating the transfer functions from sound source to listener's ears. Even by using this method. a good performance cannot be expected when a listener slightly moves from the position where the transfer functions were measured. We have already been proposed the multi-point control method to overcome the problem of the listener's small movement. In this method, the transfer functions are simulated at multiple points around the listner's ears so that the points forms an area which covers the small movement of the listener. In this paper. we investigated the effect of applying multi-point control method for the control of sound localization. Results show that multi-point control is effective to keep the perceptual error of the localized direction small when the listener moves up to 6 cm from the original position.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.934-938
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• 2008

To customize individual characteristics of HRTF, a spherical model has been used for structural modeling technique. A pseudo-code of prolate spheroidal HRTF caused by incident acoustic point source is already developed, and it can be used a head shadow filter for structural modeling of HRTF. In this research, to see the necessity and efficiency of spheroidal head modeling, ITD optimization is performed on CIPIC HRTF database. From given cost function, ITD-optimized spheroidal head model, whose ITD information is the most matched version of measured ITD information, is found by varying head parameters subject by subject. By comparing results of ITD-optimized spheroids and ITD-optimized spheres, we concluded that a spherical head model is more efficient way of generating head shadow effect than a spheroidal head model does.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.35-38
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• 1998

입체음향 시스템의 방향감 제어에서 필수적인 머리전달함수(Head-Related Transfer Function)는 일반적으로 FIR 또는 IIR 필터로 구현되며, IIR 필터의 경우 FIR 보다 비교적 저차 모델링이 가능한 장점을 갖는다. 본 논문에서는 Balanced Model Reduction(BMR) 방법을 이용하여 비교적 높은 차수를 가지는 FIR 형태의 HRTF 필터를 IIR 필터로 설계하고, 입체음향 시스템의 실시간 구현시 필수적인 계산의 효율을 높이는 방법을 제시한다. 또한 IIR 필터로 근사화된 HRTF 필터의 주파수 패턴을 분석하여, 음상정위에 큰 영향을 미치는 주파수 대역을 좀 더 나은 해상도를 갖도록 설계하여 저차 모델 설계시 발생하는 오차가 음상정위에 미치는 영향을 최소화 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.71-74
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• 2002

이 연구에서는, 가상현실(virtual reality)분야에서 현실감 있는 가상공간을 구성하는데 중요한 요소인 3차원 입체영상과 입체음향을 하나의 메커니즘으로 구성하기 위한 알고리즘에 대해서 기술하였다 동기화 이중(Sync Doubling) 방식과 머리전달함수(Head Related Transfer Function: HRTF)를 이용하여 간단한 입체 게임을 구성한 후, 4명의 학생을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 3차원 입체영상은 모니터의 전후 방향으로 돌출되거나 함몰되는 현상을 나타냈으며, 영상에 따른 입체음향의 재생도 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06d
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• pp.56-59
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• 1998

머리전달함수(Head-Related Transfer Function, HRTF)를 이용한 영상 음원법(Image Model Method, IMM)을 적용하여 3차원 음장을 제어하기 위한 요소결정 방법을 제안한다. 제어 요소들은 직방체 내부에서의 음 에너지에 관한 이론을 토대로 결정하였다. 각 제어요소를 3차원 음장 모델에 적용하고, 헤드폰을 사용하여 청취자에 의한 심리음향 실험한 결과, 제어된 음장에서는 음상의 두외 정위, 거리감, 공간감이 실내에서와 같이 자연스럽게 형성됨을 나타냈다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.577-578
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• 2019

지향성 스피커는 초음파를 이용하여 소리에 직진성을 부여하여 특정 방향으로만 소리를 전달할 수 있다. 이러한 지향성 스피커는 초음파의 직진성 때문에 소리를 청취함에 있어 일반 스피커와 달리 전달감이 풍부하지 못하다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 청취자에게 음원이 전달되는 과정을 모델링한 머리전달함수를 사용한다. 지향성 스피커를 통하여 방사되는 음원에 머리전달함수를 전처리하여 전달감을 개선한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.997-1004
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• 2007

A hybrid technique that combines the advantages of binaural reproduction and sound field reproduction technique is proposed. The concept of HRTF-field, which is defined as the set of HRTFs corresponding to the various head dislocations, enables us to realize virtual source imaging over a wide area. Conventional $2{\times}2$ definition is redefined as a MIMO system composed of multiple control sources and multiple head locations, and HRTF variations corresponding to various head movement are quantified. Through the direct control of HRTF-field, reproduction error induced by head dislocation can be minimized in least-square-error sense, and consequential disturbances on the virtual source image can be reduced within a selected area. Simple lateralization examples are investigated, and the reproduction error of the proposed technique is compared to that of Higher-order Ambisonics.