• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.148-154
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• 2009

In audio coding, SBR technology synthesizes the high-bands using patched time-frequency information from low-bands and the correction parameters, Since SBR transmits only correction parameters for high-bands, it provides a low-rate coding of high-bands, and is used as a core module of MPEG-4 HE-AAC, SBR was originally designed for audio signal and its performance for speech signal tends to decrease, and the major reason is an excessive noise floor in high-bands which is caused by incorrect tonality computation, In this paper, a new method to determine noise floor level in an adaptive fashion according to the speech characteristics is proposed in order to solve the problem of SBR for speech signal, The proposed method maintains the compatibility with the standard SBR, and the subjective performance evaluation shows that the proposed method improves the SBR performance especially for male speech signal compared with the standard SBR.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.176-187
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• 2002

The digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) system adopts Coded OFDM(COFDM) for channel coding. The COFDM is a combined technique of multicarrier transmission(OFDM) and punctured convolutional coding with viterbi error correction. Because the channel coding is an important topic for OFDM systems, this paper proposes a new turbo coded OFDM system that replaces the existing RCPC codec by a turbo codec without modifying the puncturing procedure and puncturing vectors defined in the standard DAB system for compatibility. The performance of a new system is compared to that of the conventional system under the frequency selective Rician fading channel and the frequency selective Rayleigh fading channel in conjunction with DAB transmission mode I suitable for the terrestrial single frequency network(SFN) broadcasting. The standard system's performance was improved with the aid of turbo codec.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.387-394
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• 2019

In this study, a new method of audio high-band coding based on autoencoder with side information is proposed. The proposed method operates in the MDCT domain, and improves the performance by using additional side information consisting of the previous and current low bands, which is different from the conventional autoencoder that only inputs information to be encoded. Moreover, the side information in a time-frequency domain enables the high-band coder to utilize temporal characteristics of the signal. In the proposed method, the encoder transmits a 4-dimensional latent vector computed by the autoencoder and a gain variable using 12 bits for each frame. The decoder reconstructs the high band by applying the decoded low bands in the previous and current frames and the transmitted information to the autoencoder. Subjective evaluation confirms that the proposed method provides equivalent performance to the SBR at approximately half the bit rate of the SBR.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.357-368
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• 2016

In DAB+, HE-AAC v2 codec is applied for the fixed rate transmission of audio stream. In case that xHE-AAC codec including USAC, a more efficiency is expected when the variable frame is used in a given same bandwidth compared to the fixed frame transmission. For this to be realized, audio streams need to be multiplexed in a sub-channel before transmission, then a method is required to identify the border of each audio frames. In this paper, the toggled sync byte and additional identification field being sequentially placed between AU borders are proposed in order to deal with the AU border identification. In addition, the Reed-Solomon based error correction code which is compliant to DAB+ is proposed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2
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• pp.55-60
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• 1996

This paper describes the subjective assessment of the multi-channel audio quality according to the bitrate changing and evaluates the predistortion effect to avoid the unmasked noise after matrixing/dematrxing process in transmission and regeneration of the multi-channel audio. The simulation is processed by the perceptual coding that is MPEG-2 Audio layer II algorithm. We evaluate the quality improvement about predistortion using or not by 384, 320, 256, 128kbps. As the result of the double blind subjective assessment, 5 Grade-Impairment Scale is scored under minus one to 320kbps and so audio quality is evaluated to be perceptible, but not annoying in 3/2 channel. The effect of the predistortion is improved one level in 128kbps and especially speech test material I better improved than music test materials.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.556-562
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• 2013

This paper is aimed to improve performance of Band-Selection speech/audio Coder reconstucted band spectrum that is not sent by the comfort noise. To improve the performance, we use the Spectral Band Replication(SBR) technique instead of substitution of Comfort noise. To synthesize SBR signal, the SBR algorithm is referenced in selected signals and the spectrum synthesized by SBR is injected to non-selected band. Each sub-band spectrum has been energy-weighted by real audio signal. We propose the enhanced the Band-Selection Coder that utilizes synthesized SBR signal from selected signal instead of comfort noise.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.57-62
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 입력신호의 시변특성에 따라 분석 필터의 대역을 가변 시키는 필터 뱅크의 구조를 제안한다. 제안된 필터뱅크는 일반적으로 32개의 균일한 대역으로 나누어 임 계대역의 표현을 적절히 표현하지 못하는 Polyphase 필터의 단점을 극복하면서 시스템 설 계에 높은 계산량을 요구하는 QMF-tree 필터의 단점을 보완한다. 본 연구에서는 분할 대역 은 4개에서 26개의 대역으로 가변하고, 웨이블릿 필터중 Daubechies필터를 사용하였다. 제 안된 구조의 부호화기는 128kbps에서 MPEG-a오디오와 비슷한 수준의 CD 음질을 유지하 며, 연산량 비교결과는 PolyPhase filter를 이용한 MPEG보다 부호화, 복호화 과정을 합쳐 다양한 전송률과 음원에서 평균 19%의 감소를 얻었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1999.11b
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• pp.197-200
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• 1999

MPEG-4 오디오 부호기의 일부인 HVXC(Harmonic and Vector excitation Coding) 부호기는 음성의 무성음 구간에서는 CELP 코덱, 유성음 구간에서는 MBE 코덱을 이용하여 부호화하는 구조로서, 많은 연산량을 필요로 하여 범용DSP를 이용한 실시간 구현의 장애요소로 작용한다. 본 논문에서는 TMS320C6701 DSP를 이용하여 많은 연산 시간을 요하는 함수들에 대한 C언어 및 어셈블리 레벨의 최적화를 수행하여 HVXC 함수들의 실행시간을 단축하고 이를 라이브러리화 하여 실시간 구현에 이용가능 하도록 하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.299-302
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 내용 기반 음악 정보 검색에 음악의 temporal 특징을 이용한 검색 방법을 제안한다. 방송환경에 적용하기 위해 검색 범위를 드라마나 영화의 배경 음악으로 사용되는 OST 앨범으로 제한하였다. 오디오의 특징 벡터로써 UFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstral Coefficient)를 사용하였으며 이 특징 벡터를 이용하여 VQ(Vector Quantization)로 부호화한 codeword로 오디오 신호의 시변 특성을 표현한다. 본 논문에서는 제안한 음악의 temporal 특성을 반영한 codeword-sequence를 이용하는 방법을 pitch-histogram을 기반으로 하는 방법 및 MFCC codeword-histogram을 기반으로 하는 방법과 비교하고 성능 개선을 보여주었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.11 no.2 s.31
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• pp.181-190
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• 2006

Technology for compressing low-bitrate multichannel audio coding should be developed owing to the increasing need of consumer for multichannel audio contents and services. To meet this requirement, MPEG has standardized MPEG Surround. In this paper, we introduce status on MPEG Surround standardization and analyze techniques adopted in the current MPEG Surround.