• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.899-900
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• 2010

최근 웹의 발달로 인해 과거 오프라인에서만 가능했던 서비스를 웹에서 다양하게 온라인으로 사용할 수 있게 되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 온라인 웹 서비스 중 음악 스트리밍 서비스를 통하여 노래방 프로그램 구현을 고려하고 있다. 노래방 서비스에서는 기존 음원에 사람의 목소리가 있는 경우 서비스에 활용하기 어렵다. 또한 기존 음악서비스에서 사용되는 대다수의 음원은 저작권을 통해 제공되는 서비스로, BGM 형태의 음악들을 제공받는 것은 힘들다. 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해 목소리 제거 기능을 하는 스트리밍 서비스를 구현한다. 웹 환경은 어디에서든 서비스를 이용할 수 있다는 장점이 있다. 또한 사용자의 창작물을 다른 사람이 감상할 수 있도록 구현한다. 사람의 목소리를 제거하기 위해 사람 목소리의 대역폭을 제거하는 방법을 사용한다. 그리고, 웹서비스를 통해 사용자간의 소통을 수월하게 한다. 이 방법을 통하여 음악을 듣는 것뿐만 아니라 어떤 음악이든 인터넷을 통하여 사람들과 함께 부르는 것이 가능하다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.5
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• pp.89-99
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• 2010

A unified method for separating musical sources, singing voice for example, from stereophonic mixtures is provided. We usually have two observed signals in stereophonic music contents, where more than two instruments are played together. If we regard each instrument as source, this problem becomes an underdetermined source separation problem and cannot be solved by conventional methods, which infers the spatial environment of the downmixing process happens. Instead, source-specific information has been exploited to recover a particular instrumental source. This paper provides a unifying structure consists of heterogenious ad-hoc separate algorithms, which are designed for separating vocal sources using stereophonic channel information and dominant pitch information of the sources, respectively. Experiments on real world music contents show that the proposed unification can neutralize the drawbacks of the two ad-hoc separation algorithms and finally enhance the separation results.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.429-438
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• 2015

The copyrights of music in Korea have been placed under the supervision of the associations which the government approved as a trusteeship. Since the industry of music in Korea has been changed from phonographic industry to on-line music service, it is required increasingly that the rights and interests of music should been protected. Korea government has been announced the amendment for levy of music royalties through on-line service according to the changes in the music industry and industries' demand. In this paper, the corporate structures in music industry has been investigated from the point of owner of copyright, recently at the heart of the debate, flat rate system and usage-based pricing in on-line music market has been compared. Consequently, the reasonable prices of music service through on-line market are not earmarked in reality for both consumers and copyright proprietors. Therefore, it is still necessary to improve the institutional.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Information Management Conference
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• 2014.08a
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• pp.7-10
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• 2014

이 연구에서는 음원 서비스의 이용자들이 공개앨범에서 추천한 음원 리스트에 특성가수와 동시출현한 곡들의 정보를 분석하여 특성가수의 이미지를 네트워크 기법으로 표현하였고 동시출현한 곡의 통계분석을 통하여 해당 가수를 선택한 이용자가 선호할 만한 연관 곡을 추천하고자 하였다. 분석결과 추천되는 음원리스트에 동시 출현되는 가수들의 장르적 특성으로 특정가수의 이미지가 표현되었고 시기별로 가수의 이미지가 변화되는 것이 추적되었다. 이 연구에서 제시된 방법은 이용자에게 변화하는 가수의 이미지에 따라 연관 정보를 유연하게 추천할 수 있는 방안으로 활용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2005.07d
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• pp.2753-2755
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• 2005

최근 들어 공장에서만 사용되는 로봇을 탈피하여, 사람과 함께 생활하면서 서비스를 제공할 수 있는 인간 친화적인 로봇이 전 세계적으로 개발되고 있다. 인간과 자연스런 상호작용을 위하여, 화자를 바라보고, 깨끗한 음성신호를 얻는 과정에서 음원의 위치 추적은 필연적이다. 본 연구는 마이크로폰에 도달되는 동일 신호의 도착시간지연(Time Delay of Arrival)정보를 이용하여, 음원 위치를 구하는 기존의 수학적인 방법론[1]을 소개하고 검토한다. 모의실험을 통하여, 방법론[1]이 허상음원을 생성하는 음원 위치 측정임을 보인다.

• Design Convergence Study
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.151-168
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• 2015

As the market of music download stores moved into the mobile epoch the market was growing explosively. Recently, the digital music market tends to move from the mp3 download market to streaming service and the users can use the service on their mobile devices without reference to any inconvenient download and limited storage capacity. It was found that they mainly use the recommendation music playlist, instant player, main player and sharing of the functions of the streaming service from the user behavior research. This is noticeable features that set apart from the mp3 download service. However, the interface design of the streaming app followed the previous service and it needs the optimization of its UI design. In this study, the usability of high ranked three mobile streaming apps was evaluated. The result of the test was that Naver music and Bugs had high scores overall in four sections of the streaming service features. On the other hand, the Melon had primarily high score in color application on the service. The aim of this study is to suggest the direction of the UI design of music streaming service through the understanding of essence of streaming service and evaluation the usability test.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.71-78
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• 2009

Sound source localization systems in service robot applications estimate the direction of a human voice. Time delay information obtained from a few separate microphones is widely used for the estimation of the sound direction. Correlation is computed in order to calculate the time delay between two signals. In addition, PHAT weighting function can be applied to significantly improve the accuracy of the estimation. However, FFT and IFFT operations in the PHAT weighting function occupy more than half of the area of the sound source localization system. Thus efficient FFT and IFFT designs are essential for the IP implementation of sound source localization system. In this paper, we propose an efficient FFT/IFFT design method based on the characteristics of human voice.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.49-68
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• 2014

These days, consumers have increasingly preferred to digital real-time streamlining and downloading to listen to music because this is convenient and affordable for the consumers. Accordingly, sales of music in compact disk formats have steadily declined. In this regards, online digital music has become a new communication channel to listen musics, where digital files can be delivered over various online networks to people's computing devices. The majority of online digital music distributors has Music Recommender Systems for sales of digital music on their websites. Music Recommender Systems are parts of information filtering systems that provide the ratings or preferences that users give to music. Korean online digital music distributors have Music Recommender Systems. But those online music distributors didn't provide any rules or clear procedures that recommend music. Therefore, we raise important questions as follows: "Is Music Recommender Systems Fair?", "What is the impact of Music Recommender Systems on online music rankings and sales?" While previous studies have focused on usefulness of Music Recommender Systems, this study investigates not only fairness of Current Music Recommender Systems but also Relationship between Music Recommender Systems and online Music Charts. This study examines these issues based on Bandwagon effect, ranking effect, Slot effect theories. For our empirical analysis, we selected the most famous five online digital music distributors in terms of market shares. We found that all recommended music is exposed to the top of 'daily music charts' in online digital music distributors' websites. We collected music ranking data and recommended music data from 'daily music chart' during a one month. The result shows that online music recommender systems are not fair, since they mainly recommend particular music that supported by a specific music production company. In addition, the recommended music are always exposed to the top of music ranking charts. We also find that recommended music usually appear at the top 20 ranking charts within one or two days. Also, the most music in the top 50 or 100 ranks are the recommended music. Moreover, recommended music usually remain the ranking charts more than one month while non-recommended music often disappear at the ranking charts within two week. Our study provides an important implication to online music industry. Because music recommender systems and music ranking charts are closely related, music distributors may improperly use their recommender systems to boost the sales of music that related to their own companies. Therefore, online digital music distributor must clearly announce the rules and procedures about music recommender systems for the better music industry.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.811-820
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• 2017

For content-based audio retrieval which is one of main functions in audio service, the techniques for extracting fingerprints from the audio source, storing and indexing them in a database are widely used. However, if the fingerprints of new audio sources are continually inserted into the database, there is a problem that space efficiency as well as audio retrieval performance are gradually deteriorated. Therefore, there is a need for techniques to support efficient expansion of audio database without periodic reorganization of the database that would increase the system operation cost. In this paper, we design a content-based audio retrieval system that solves this problem by using MapReduce and NoSQL database in a cluster computing environment based on the Shazam's fingerprinting algorithm, and evaluate its performance through a detailed set of experiments using real world audio data.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.114-119
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• 2009

Sound source localization systems in service robot applications estimate the direction of a human voice. Time delay information obtained from a few separate microphones is widely used for the estimation of the sound direction. Correlation is computed in order to calculate the time delay between two signals. Inverse cosine is used when the position of the maximum correlation value is converted to an angle. Because of nonlinear characteristic of inverse cosine, the accuracy of the computed angle is varied depending on the position of the specific sound source. In this paper, we propose an efficient sound source localization system using angle division. By the proposed approach, the region from $0^{\circ}$ to $180^{\circ}$ is divided into three regions and we consider only one of the three regions. Thus considerable amount of computation time is saved. Also, the accuracy of the computed angle is improved since the selected region corresponds to the linear part of the inverse cosine function. By simulations, it is shown that the error of the proposed algorithm is only 31% of that of the conventional a roach.