• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1998.04a
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• pp.201-205
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• 1998

시스템공학연구소 감성공학연구부에서는 수행중인 "멀티미디어 컨텐트용 입체음향처리 S/W개발"과제의 일환으로 머리전달함수(Head-Related Transfer Function, HRTF)의 측정을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는 무향실에서의 HRTF 데이터 측정 과정 및 얻어진 HRTF들에 대한 음상정위청취 평가 결과에 대해 설명한다. 청취 평가에서는 피험자들이 측정된 HRTF와 MIT Media Lab의 KEMAR 더미헤드 HRTF를 사용하여 각 방향에 대해 필터링된 음원을 듣고 음상정위 주관평가를 시행하였는에, 측정된 HRTF를 사용하여 양호한 음상정위 결과를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.40-43
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• 2015

In this paper, the effects of the leading and the following sounds with single frequency on sound localization are investigated. The sounds with different levels and ISIs(Inter Stimuli Intervals) were used. The width of test sound is 2ms, and those of the leading and the following sounds are 10ms. 1 kHz of the test sound is utilized. The arrival time difference in the subject's ears is set to be 0.5ms. The four kinds of level differences used for one ISI are 0, -10, -15, and -20dB interval. The leading sound is found to have more effect on sound localization than the following sound is. The effect of the leading sound is also found to be dependent on the value of ISI. When the value of the ISI is small, different effects affecting the sound localization are observed.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.98-103
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• 2001

The binaural auditory system of human has the capability of differentiating the direction and distance of sound sources. This feature is well characterised in terms of the inter-aural intensity difference (IID), the inter-aural time difference (ITD) and/or the spectral shape difference (SSD) arising from the acoustic transfer of a sound source to the outer ears. This paper proposes an effective way of extracting the three sound perception factors (IID, ITD, SSD) from the head-related transfer functions (HRTF's) that depends on the direction and distance of the acoustic source from the listener. It includes the estimation method of the equivalent ITD and 1/3-octave band-based IID factors and their usage to locate a sound source in space. Subjective and objective tests were carried out to examine the effectiveness of the proposed methodology and its applicability to real sound systems. Those experimental results are illustrated in this paper.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.185-188
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• 2000

본 논문은 인간이 양귀로 3차원 공간상의 음의 위치를 파악하는 원리를 이용하여 만들어진 입체음향을 청취자의 안귀에 가장 효과적으로 재생시킴으로써 완벽한 입체음향을 재현하는 장치로 3차원 게임, 가상현실 시뮬레이터, 놀이공원에서 사용될 수 있는 A/V용 입체음향 재생기 구현 기법이다. 본 개발 품은 전방 30도에 스피커를 배치하는 기존 제품에 비해 안정된 정면 음상 정위와 후면 음상 정위가 가능하고, 청취자의 머리 움직임에 따른 입체음향 효과의 저하를 막을 수 있으며, 인지적 특성을 고려한 역 필터링으로 과도한 신호처리로 인한 음질 저하를 개선할 수 있고, 다중 사용자에게 동일한 음질을 골고루 전달할 수 있어 카 오디오나 영화관에서도 사용되어질 수 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2011

In this study, we investigated the effect of the simplification for high frequency region in Head-Related Transfer Function(HRTF) on the sound localization. For this purpose, HRTF was measured and analyzed. The result in the HRTF frequency characteristic of the back sound source showed that the decrease revel of high frequency was smaller than that of low frequency region, which means the possibility of simplification in the high frequency region. Simplification was performed by flattening of the high frequency amplitude characteristics with the insertion of the low-pass filter, whose cutoff frequency is given by boundary frequency. Auditory experiments were performed to evaluate the simplified HRTF. The result showed that direction perception was not influenced by the simplification of the frequency characteristics of HRTF for the error of sound localization. The rate of confusion for the front and back was not affected by the simplification of the frequency characteristics over 8kHz of HRTF. Finally, we made it clear that the sound localization was not affected by the simplification of frequency characteristics of HRTF over 8kHz.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.671-676
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• 2006

A convolution with HRTF DB and the original sound is generally used to make the method of sound image localization for virtual speaker realization. But it can decline localization by the confusion between up and down or front and back directions due to the non-individual HRTF depending on each listener. In this paper, we study a virtual speaker using a new HRTF, which is grouping the HRTF around the virtual speaker to improve localization between up and down or front and back directions. To effective HRTF grouping, we decide the location and number of HRTF using informal listening test. A performance test result of virtual speaker using the grouped HRTF shows that the proposed method improves the front-back and up-down sound localization characteristics much better than the conventional methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.8
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• pp.714-722
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• 2009

This paper presents a new sound source externalization algorithm for increasing spaciousness and presence on earphone or headphone environments. To do this, we used modified head related transfer functions (M-HRTFs) and room impulse responses acquired by an acoustic simulation method. M-HRTFs developed by ETRI have less tone color distortion of original sound sources than traditional HRTFs. The acoustic simulation method is used to obtain more natural reflected sound. To verify the proposed externalization algorithm, we performed a listening test. From the test, the proposed algorithm is effective in externalizing the sound sources especially when they are on the left and right sides.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.16-25
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• 1997

A new method to model the HRTF's(Head-Related Transfer Function), which could give improvement of the sound localization accuracy using the spatial effects by the reflected sound wave transfer characteristics, is proposed. When using the HRTF model having reflected sound wave transfer characteristics, the accuracy of sound localization was quite improved up to about 23%, compared with using the direct wave transfer characteristics only. Furthermore, it is verified that the spatial impression could be a factor to enhance the ability of sound localization.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2013.10a
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• pp.836-837
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• 2013

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.8C
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• pp.1142-1148
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• 2004

A binaural filtering method using HRTF DB is generally used to make the headphone-based 3D sound. But it can make some confusion between front and back directions or between up and down directions due to the non-individual HRTF depending on each listener. To reduce the confusion of sound image localization, we propose a new method to boost the spectral cue by modifying HRTF spectra with spectrum difference between front and back directions. Informal listening tests show that the proposed method improves the front-back sound localization characteristics much better than the conventional methods