• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.615-625
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• 2021

Prior to proposing appropriate standard for subway station platform, this study conducted field measurements to examine characteristics of room acoustics on platform of two subway stations. As a result of analyzing the longitudinal length of the platform, Sound Pressure Level (SPL) decreased (maximum difference : 14 dB), Reverberation Time (RT) tended to increase (maximum difference of 0.8 s ~ 1.5 s), and C50 and D50 were decreased (maximum difference: 5.9 dB ~ 9.1 dB and 31.8 % ~ 37.6 %, respectively) as measurement positions moved away from the sound source. The Interaural Cross-correlation Coefficient (IACC) did not show clear tendency, but it was lower than 0.3 in entire points. It is judged that the subway platform has non-uniform sound field characteristics due to various combinations of direct and reflective sound even though it is finished with a strong reflective material.This indicates that the room acoustic characteristics of the near and far sound field are clearly expressed depending on the source-receiver distances in the subway platform having a long flat shape with a low height compared to the length.Therefore, detailed architectural and electric acoustic design based on the characteristics of each location of speaker and sound receiver in the platform is required for an acoustic design with clear sound information at all positions of the platform.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

To overcome the mid frequency limitation of geometrical acoustic techniques, the phased geometrical method was suggested by introducing the phase information into the sound propagation from the source. By virtue of phase information, the phased tracing method has a definite benefit in taking the interference phenomenon at mid frequencies into account. Still, this analysis technique has suffered from difficulties in dealing with low frequency phenomena, so called, wave nature of sound. At low frequencies, diffraction at corners, edges, and obstacles can cause errors in simulating the transfer function and the impulse response. Due to the use of real valued absorption coefficient, simulated results have shown a discrepancy with measured data. Thus, incorrect phase of the reflection characteristic of a wall should be corrected. In this work, the uniform theory of diffraction was integrated into the phased beam tracing method (PBTM) and the result was compared to the ordinary PBTM. By changing the phase of the reflection coefficient, effects of phase information were investigated. Incorporating such error compensation methods, the acoustic prediction by PBTM can be further extended to low frequency range with improved accuracy in the room acoustic field.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.29-37
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• 1990

건축물이 갖게 될 음향학적 특성을 미리 예측함으로써 그 건축물의 음향학적 특성을 미리 예측 함으로써 그 건축물의 음향학적 요구에 맞는 설계를 수행할 수 있도록 하기 위해 computer simulation 방법을 개발하였다. 본 연구에서 사용된 simulation 방법은 영상음원법을 기초로 하였으며, simulation 에 의한 임펄스 응답이 유한한 시간 내로 제한되어 발생되어 오차를 줄이기 위한 방법이 제시되었다. 개발된 simulatio 방법으로 실내에서의 임펄스 응답, 잔향 곡선, early/rate energy ratio 등을 예측하고 실험 결과와 비교 하였으며, 실용적인 응용 가능성도 검토하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.36 no.2C
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• pp.119-125
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• 2011

Start This paper analyzes the propagation characteristics of acoustic signals in indoor environments, which is applicable to indoor positioning system. Indoor stereo sound system is generally valid within $25m^2$. So it is not possible to apply prevalent sound propagation characteristic to indoor positioning system because the prevalent acoustic signals propagation characteristic is defined under free space condition. Therefore, in this paper, we present the propagation characteristics of acoustic signals in indoor environments considering the free space propagation characteristic as well as room characteristic such as humidity, temperature, absorption of atmosphere and so on. To verify the designed propagation model of indoor acoustic signals, this paper presents the propagation characteristics of decreasing sinusoidal signals whose frequencies ate from 1kHz to 20kHz in anechoic room. In addition, this paper also presents the propagation characteristics of decreasing sinusoidal signals which have multiple frequencies.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.11-14
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• 1998

근접 4점법을 이용하여 음원으로부터 측정점까지 음파가 전달되어 오는 공간상의 반사음 패턴을 구할 수 있다. 그러나 차량과 같이 협소한 공간에서는 반사음간의 시간차가 매우 작게 되고 따라서 단지 몇 개의 초기 반사음을 제외하고는 측정이 어렵게 된다. 본 연구에서는 측정에 사용된 스피커의 특성을 역필터링하여 차실 내의 펄스 반사음 자체 특성만을 추출함으로써 좁은 공간에서도 반사음 패턴의 측정이 가능하도록 하였다. 실내 반사음 패턴은 음파의 경로를 보여 주는 것이므로 본 측정법은 차량의 실내 음향 특성 파악과 음질 개선에 중요한 도구로 활용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.443-446
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• 2000

본 연구는 과학적이고 실험적인 접근을 통하여 공간의 비례와 실내음향과의 상관관계를 규명하기 위하여 체적과 마감재료가 같고 비슷한 기본축척의 모델을 중심으로 가로, 세로, 높이의 비율이 다른 4개의 모델에서 각각 SPL, EDT, C, RT, LEF, IACC 등을 측정하여 각 형태의 모델의 값을 비교 분석하였다. 실험결과 잔향은 동일한 체적인 경우 음원으로부터 평균거리가 멀리 위치한 장방형의 형태가 양쪽 측벽 사이의 거리가 넓은 장방형보다 잔향시간이 긴 것으로 나타났다. 음압은 실의 체적이 작고 음원으로부터의 평균거리가 짧은 순서로 큰 반면, 명료도는 잔향의 크기순서에 반대로 분석되었으며 특히 음원으로부터의 직선거리가 짧은 순서로 명료도가 좋게 나타났다. IACC는 양쪽 측벽의 거리가 가장 긴 모델에서 가장 작게 나타났다 그러나, 초기 음장에서는 그 변화가 작게 나타났는데 이것은 IACC가 실의 형태에 장시간 관여하는 지수라는 것을 의미한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.313-318
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• 1999

본 논문은 1997년 Haan과 Fricke이 발표한 논문1)에서 제시한 확산성의 중요성에 대한 조사에 기초하여 실제홀에서 표면확산성이 실내음향성능에 미치는 영향을 분석해 보았다. 실의 규모가 비슷하고 각기 확산성이 다근 3개의 홀을 선정하였으며, 두 개의 홀은 장방형 평면이며 한 개는 부채꼴평면을 가지고 있다. 각각의 홀에 대해서 한 개의 음원과 8개의 수음점을 설정하여 현장실험과 시뮬레이션을 수행하였고 RT와 SPL의 두 가지 음향평가요소를 사용하여 분석하였다. 분석결과 확산성이 좋을수록 잔향시간이 길어지고 음압레벨이 높아진다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.138-145
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• 2015

Although it is well-known that environmental noise can lead to hearing loss in individuals, the true extent of subway noise effects in the general population remains poorly understood. The purpose of the present study is to see changes of acoustic reflex thresholds and speech perception scores when passengers listen to music presented from their personal listening device in the subway. Forty subjects with normal hearing participated being divided into two groups, experimental and control groups. As a baseline, all subjects were measured by acoustic reflex thresholds in five test frequencies and Korean speech perception in noise (KSPIN) test at 0 and -5 dB SNR. In the experiment, the control group read newspaper or magazine in the subway noise, whereas the experimental group listened to music presented from their smartphone under the subway noise through speakers at 73.45 dBA for 60 min. After completing the experiment, two groups also conducted both acoustic reflex thresholds and KSPIN tests in the same condition as the baseline. The results showed that there was a significant difference of correct percent in speech-in-noise test between experimental and control groups and of that between two signal-to-noise ratios, which means the double noise exposure of 60 min might cause some degradation of speech perception when noise increases compared to only subway noise condition that was not statistically significant difference. We concluded that a risk of some degraded speech perception ability would be expected when passengers have a habit of listening to music in the subway noisy situation for a long duration.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.681-686
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• 1999

In a church, speech intelligibility is very important together with the reverberance for musical activities. In order to obtain the primary data of a acoustical design for churches records were refereed and churches were measured in Europe and Japan. And in the base of measurements, those were judged by subjective hearing test. As some results, it has been found that the room acoustics of churches were different in a country and the reverberation time was perferred two seconds for speech intelligibility. However, although personal deviations were admitted, more long echoes were preferred for the music.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.7
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• pp.573-578
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• 2003

Recently, speaker localizing estimation technique has been rising in teleconference systems. In this paper, it was described to be able to enhance the speech quality through microphone array, and received the only signal of speaker. Unfortunately, as it using estimated the signal in advance, it is not matched in a real acoustic environment so it has poor performance. In this paper is proposed for Adaptive Matched Filter Microphone Array that estimated acoustic room environment from the received the signal and study of the efficiency through simulations.