• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.678-682
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• 2021

Reverberation Time (RT) with noise levels can affect speech recognition ability in a listening environment. The degree of influence may depend on reverberation times and modes of binaural hearing. In this study, Korean monosyllabic Word Recognition Scores (WRS) were investigated in 10 young normal hearing subjects under binaural conditions. The RT of 3.4 s and signal to noise ratio of 0 dB were used at 55 dB HL for diotic (noise with the same phase) and dichotic (noise with the fixed phase difference, π) conditions. The improvement in WRS was noted in dichotic hearing (p < 0.05) while the similar trend was not observed in diotic hearing. This data may be useful in analyzing psychoacoustic effects of RTs under noisy conditions.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.113-120
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• 2006

This paper is concerned with a equalization technique for Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems based on a block type pilot arrangement over slow fading channels. The bit rates obtained in underwater channels are relatively modest compared to some other communication channels such as cellular phones or indoor wireless systems. Consequently. the Doppler effect is the important parameter in tracking a channel. In case of a coherent demodulation scheme, the residual mean phase errors due to Doppler frequency may be fatal for the performance of the system. The equalizer could not solely handle mean Doppler shift. To account for the common Doppler effect a phase error tracking loop is used with the frequency equalizer. so that the rotation errors are avoided. Furthermore. simulations show that we can reduce the computational load of the tracking loop with negligible effect on performance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.8
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• pp.202-208
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• 2016

The scope of activities of the visually impaired is increasing. But they are not easy to visit the destination safely because the building was complicated and larger than ever. There is a guide system for visually impaired such as GPS and Audio alerts, Braille guide block, Acoustic signaller, etc. But they are not suitable for indoor because most of them are the outdoor guide system. Therefore, in this paper, I propose a system that provides guidance information to the visually impaired using Voice Technology, TTS (Text to Speech) and Haptic Technology, Beacon based on the wireless sensor networks. It informed the visually impaired of guidance information about destination such as distance, height, and obstacle to the destination using the generalized smart phone. The user could be received guide info about searches for the optimal route to the destination using the TTS technology and Haptic technology in test result of the proposed system.

• KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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• v.11 no.7
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• pp.217-224
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• 2022

Today, with the development of technology and industry, fire accidents in special buildings are increasing as special buildings increase. However, despite the rapid development of information and communication technology, human casualties are steadily occurring due to the underdeveloped and ineffective indoor fire alarm system. In this study, we confirmed that the existing indoor fire alarm system using acoustic alarm could not deliver a sufficiently large alarm to the in-room personnel. To improve this, we designed and implemented a fire alarm system using edge computing and beacons. The proposed improved fire alarm system consists of terminal sensor nodes, edge nodes, a user application, and a server. The terminal sensor nodes collect indoor environment data and send it to the edge node, and the edge node monitors whether a fire occurs through the transmitted sensor value. In addition, the edge node continuously generate beacon signals to collect information of smart devices with user applications installed within the signal range, store them in a server database, and send application push-type fire alarms to all in-room personnel based on the collected user information. As a result of conducting a signal valid range measurement experiment in a university building with dense lecture rooms, it was confirmed that device information was normally collected within the beacon signal range of the edge node and a fire alarm was quickly sent to specific users. Through this, it was confirmed that the "blind spot problem of the alarm" was solved by flexibly collecting information of visitors that changes time to time and sending the alarm to a smart device very adjacent to the people. In addition, through the analysis of the experimental results, a plan to effectively apply the proposed fire alarm system according to the characteristics of the indoor space was proposed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2009.10a
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• pp.282-287
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 사각판이 고정단을 경계조건으로 가진 상태에서 충격력을 받았을 때의 굽힘파 전파와 이에 의한 음향 방사가 특정 공간에서 이루는 음장을 유한 차분 시간 영역법을 이용하여 예측하였다. 이와 같은 시도는 향후 구조물에서의 진동과 음장 사이의 관계를 해석하는데 도움이 될 수 있을 것이다. 대상 시뮬레이션 모델은 한 쪽 끝이 철판으로 이루어진 직육면체의 공간이며 예측 결과를 실험값과 비교하였다. 예측 결과는 대체로 파형과 그 특성이 실험값과 잘 일치하였으나, 감쇠 알고리즘을 주파수 대역에 따라 달리 적용하지 못하였고, 사각 평판에서 충격력의 적용 범위가 모호하여, 파형의 크기에 차이가 있었다.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.254-260
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• 2000

the reduction of the interior nosie level has been the main interest of NVH engineers in the development of vehicles. However, the consumer's perception on the car noise is affected largely by the psychoacoustic characteristics of the noise, as well as the sound pressure level. In this study, the quality of the vehicle interior nosie is analyzed by employing the subjective evaluations and by representing them in temrs of the objective quantities. The subjective evaluatins were performed for the seven vehicles in the range of subcompact to luxury cars. The methods of paired comparisons and semantic differential were used to study the preference, the quality of interior noise and their correlation. The linear regression models were obtained for the subjective evaluation and the sound quality metrics.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.687-692
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• 1999

Digital holographic reconstruction method [W. A. Veronesi, et al, 1989, JASA, Vol. 85, pp. 588∼598] reconstructs a whole sound field by using measured sound pressure. This paper reports numerical errors of the method that occur at specific frequencies. The errors occur due to the truncation errors included in the calculation of transfer matrixes. The frequencies of the errors depend on the size of boundary element surfaces. Moreover, a modified calculation technique is proposed in the paper. The technique prevents the truncation errors by employing an indirect calculation procedure.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.785-794
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• 1999

The panel contribution analysis to reduce interior booming noise of a passenger car is carried out using both experimental method and numerical one. The accelerations of panels are measured on the outer surface of car body during operation. The acoustic characteristic of cavity is represented by two different ways. One is the acoustic transfer function obtained by experiment with reciprocal manner. The other is the boundary element model and numerical results of the model are calculated using SYSNOISE. The results from numerical method show more good agreement with measured sound pressure levels than the experimental one. Contributions of panels for interior noise are ranked and structure of the car is reinforced according to the results, which shows that the panel contribution analysis is a powerful tool to lessen structure-borne noise of passenger vehicle.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.1-7
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• 1983

승용차의 차실 내부소음 특성 및 저감에 과한 일련의 고찰로 다음의 결론을 얻었다. (1) 차실 내부소음의 주된 근원은 회전속도의 제이고주파에 해당되는 주파수 성분이 지배적이다. (2) 차실 공진(명) 음은 engine으로부터의 진동 입력에 대한 차체의 ring mode 공진 및 차실 공명현상으로 발생되며 실험 결과는 종래의 연구 결과들과 잘 일치되었다. (3) 차실 내부소음이 차체의 구조, 진동 및 실내 음향공영에 크게 의존하기 때문에, 이 두가지 요소로써 문제의 발견이 가능하며 이들을 이용한 저감대책 수립은 효과적이다. (4) 차실 내부소음의 저감을 위하여 구조적damping이나 흡음재의 적절한 사용 등이 다소의 효 과를 주나 공진(명) 음의 근본적인 대책이 되지 못하며, 차실 공명 특성을 변화시키는 것은 사 실상 불가능하다. (5) 차체의 구조적 진동 특성을 고려하여 보강된 차량의 경우 문제 영역에서의 현저한 소음감 소효과가 얻어졌다. 그러나 이와 같은 방안의 적용은 개발의 초기 단계에서 실시됨이 바람직하다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.4
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• pp.93-100
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• 1999

확성회의 시스템에서 응용되는 반향신호 제거기는 긴 잔향시간을 갖는 실내 공간의 환경변화에 따라 필터 계수의 갱신에 많은 시간이 요구되어 실시간 처리에 문제점으로 지적되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 연산량 저감을 통한 실시간 처리를 위하여 중첩가산방식의 SSB(Single Side Band) 필터뱅크를 사용한 서브밴드 적응 신호처리법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 입력과 출력의 스펙트럼을 몇 개의 주파수 밴드로 분할하여, 각 밴드를 ES-NLMS(Exponential Step-Normalized Least Mean Square) 알고리즘을 이용하여 적응 처리하는 것이다. 시뮬레이션 결과 중첩가산방식의 SSB 필터뱅크가 풀밴드 보다 ERLE(Echo Return Loss Enhancement)가 1∼2㏈ 정도 작을 때 연산량이 풀밴드 보다 약95%, QMF(Quadrature Mirror Filter)필터뱅크보다 약50% 정도 감소하여 우수한 것으로 나타났다.