• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2009.02a
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• pp.319-323
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• 2009

White noise 가 혼합된 음향은 듣는 사람에게 감성 조절 효과에 대한 보고가 있다. 그러나 White noise 의 어떤 요소가 감성을 조절하는지는 명확하지 않다. 본 연구는 White noise 와 음향을 혼합할 때 마스킹(Masking) 정도에 따른 이완 감성 변화를 밝혀보고자 하였다. White noise 의 마스킹 효과를 다르게 한 2 곡의 음악을 제작하고, 20 대 남녀 40 명을 대상으로 음악을 들려주는 실험을 실시하였다. 음악 효과에 대한 반응인 자율신경계(PPG, GSR, SKT)와 중추신경계(8ch EEG)의 생리신호를 측정하고 음악을 듣기 전후의 주관적 응답을 수집하였다. 음악을 듣지 않았을 때, 원본 음향 들었을 때 그리고 White noise 혼합한 음향을 들었을 때의 반응에 대해 ANOVA(Analysis of Variance)를 실시하였다. 생리신호는 개인간 편차를 고려해 평준화(Normalization) 한 뒤 생리신호 변화 패턴에 따라 분석하였다. 결과적으로, 주관적 응답과 생리신호 모두 White noise 의 마스킹 효과를 작게한 음향에서 이완의 정도가 더 큰 것을 확인하였다. 따라서 White noise 와 원본 음향간에 마스킹 효과가 작은 음향일수록 White noise 의 혼합으로 인한 이완효과가 큰 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.231-237
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• 2008

With the advent of sound field simulator, many sound fields have been reproduced by obtaining the impulse responses of specific acoustic spaces like famous concert hall, opera house. This sound field reproduction has been done by the linear convolution operation between the sound input signal and the impulse response of certain acoustic space. However, the conventional finite impulse response based linear convolution operation always makes real-time implementation of sound field generator impossible due to the large amount of computational burden. This paper introduces the fast convolution method using perceptual redundancy in the processed signals, input audio signal and room impulse response. Temporal and spectral real-time masking blocks are implemented in the proposed convolution structure. It reduces the computational burden of convolution methods for real-time implementation of a sound field generator. The conventional convolutions are compared with the proposed one in views of computational burden and sound quality. In the proposed method, a considerable reduction in the computational burden was realized with acceptable changes in sound quality.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.98-105
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• 2011

Recent advances in computer technologies support real-time image processing and special effects on personal computers. This paper presents and analyzes a real-time interactive video system. The motivation of this work is to realize an artistic concept that aims at transforming the timeline visual variations in a video of sea water waves into sound in order to provide an audience with an experience of overlapping themselves onto the nature. In practice, the video of sea water waves taken on a beach is processed using an optical flow algorithm in order to extract the information of visual variations between the video frames. This is then masked by the silhouette of an audience and the result is projected on a gallery space. The intensity information is extracted from the resulting video and translated into piano sounds accordingly. This work generates an interactive space realizing the intended concept.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.47-54
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• 2019

We examined previous studies of the correlation analysis of heart rate variability as a method to reduce the stress caused by outside noise during driving, and we investigated whether there are electrocardiographic changes when drivers play music, which provides a stable sound source amid the noise. Because the number of cars increases every year, drivers and passengers show an increase in stress caused by outside noise. The stress from outside noise while a person is driving can cause several disorders, such as anxiety, immunosuppression, depression, and heart disease. Subjects in this study operated a vehicle simulator to reduce the stress from outside noise and were given different auditory stimuli, and we studied the drivers' responses to the stimuli. Repeated-measures analysis of variance revealed a significant differences between subjects exposed to different auditory stimuli (ρ < 0.05). Through post hoc analyses, we examined these differences. We found significant differences between factor 1 (stability) and factor 2 (simulation driving), between factor 1 (stability) and factor 3 (driving + police siren), and between factor 1 (stability) and factor 4 (driving + police siren + music). In addition, the factor that produced the highest level of sympathetic nervous system activity was factor 4 (driving + police siren + music), followed by factor 3 (driving + police siren), factor 2 (driving), and factor 1 (stability). In conclusion, even when a police siren was heard during driving, there were no significant differences on electrocardiograms (ECGs). In addition, even when the siren was heard over the music, there was no difference on the ECGs (ρ < 0.01). In future studies, investigators should determine which types of music help stabilize the heart rate during driving.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.7
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• pp.7-13
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• 2017

Robot performances in public places are conducted for the purpose of promoting robot technology and inducing interest in events, exhibitions, and streets instead of dedicated stages. This paper extracts robot images in real time from a robot operation in front of a green chroma key cloth, and synthesizes them on various stage images. A simple and robust method for extracting a foreground robot from a chroma key background without a user's preset is proposed. After increasing the color difference between the background and the foreground, this method automatically removes the background based on the histogram of the difference information, thereby eliminating the need for a user's preset. The simulation shows 98.8% of foreground extraction rate and experimental results demonstrate that the robots can effectively be extracted from the background.