• MALSORI
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• no.67
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• pp.135-147
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a method for source localization in reverberant environments based on an adaptive eigenvalue decomposition (AED) algorithm which directly estimates channel impulse responses from a speaker to microphones. Unfortunately, the AED algorithm may suffer from whitening effects on channels estimated from temporally correlated natural sounds. The proposed method which applies sparse priors to the estimated channels can avoid the temporal whitening and improve the performance of source localization in reverberant environments. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.1E
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• pp.42-49
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• 1992

시간 영역에서 음성의 피치 정보를 추출하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 이 알고리즘은, 위상 이 일치하는 고조파 성분의 합은 위상이 일치하지 않는 고조파 성분의 합의 경우보다 주기 정보를 분명 히 나타낸다는 사실을 이용한 것이다. 즉, 음성 신호의 위상 성분을 0으로 되도록 하여 실질적으로 기본 파와 모든 고조파 성분의 위상을 일치시킨다. 이 알고리즘은 잡음이 없는 음성의 경우 0.18%의 조오류 를 보이며, 0dB 눅의 경우에도 3.63%의 조오류를 보임으로써 잡음에 강건한 성질이 있음을 알 수 있다. 또한 시간 영역에서의 결정 논리를 사용하므로 피치 해상도가 우수하다. 전반적인 실험결과는 제안된 알고리즘이 피치 검출에 상당히 효율적임을 나타낸다.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.55 no.4
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• pp.281-288
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• 2018

Acoustic radiation efficiency is a crucial factor to estimate Underwater Radiated Noise (URN) of ships accurately. This paper describes a numerical method to analyse acoustic radiation efficiency of one side-wetted rectangular Mindlin plate with simply supported boundaries excited by a harmonic point force. Transverse displacements of plate and acoustic radiation pressures are evaluated by the mode superposition method. The acoustic radiation efficiencies analyzed by both Mindlin and thin plate theories show little differences at monopole and corner modes of low frequency regions but relatively large differences at edge and critical modes of high frequency regions. Especially, the critical frequency with the highest acoustic radiation efficiency evaluated by the Mindlin plate theory is higher than that of thin plate theory. In addition, the acoustic loading effect of fluid also increases bending wave-number of plate and its critical frequency. Finally, the acoustic radiation characteristics of plates with different aspect ratios and thicknesses through numerical analyses are investigated and discussed.

• Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.878-883
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• 2001

The effects of external excitation with various frequencies and amplitudes on the flame behavior and pollution emission characteristics from a laminar jet flame are experimentally investigated. Measurements of $NO_{x}$ emission indices($EINO_{x}$), performed in unconformed and vertical lifted flame at resonance frequency by strong excitation, have been conducted experimentally. It was also conducted to investigate the effects of excited frequency on $NO_{x}$ emissions with a various frequency ranged 0Hz to 2kHz. From the vertical lifted flame like turbulent of the excited jet with resonance frequency was shown that the dependence of $NO_{x}$ emission could be categorized into three groups: Group 1 of intermediate flame length and relative narrow flame volume yielding low $NO_{x}$ emission, Group 2 of short flame length but large flame volume yielding high $NO_{x}$ emission and Group 3 of long flame length with low temperature contours yielding high $NO_{x}$ emission.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.16 no.11 s.116
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• pp.1124-1131
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• 2006

This paper presents a novel method to determine sound power level(PWL) emitted by a travelling vehicle for road traffic noise simulation. The PWL is evaluated by the equivalent sound pressure level (SPL) measured by close proximity method and the sound power correction factor derived from the maximum SPL measured by pass-by method and the propagation attenuation of vehicle noise during the pass-by measurement. Using the method, we derive the empirical formula for PWL estimation in 1/1-octave and overall frequency bands for 8 vehicles (automobile, SUV, small truck, large bus, trailer, 3 dump trucks) tested at two road surfaces (dense graded asphalt, 30mm transverse tinning concrete) of Korean highway test road. The suggested approach, if securing sufficient data to represent the acoustic characteristics of all vehicle types, has il strong merit to be able to evaluate sound power levels for any combination of vehicle categories and traffic volumes.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.1
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• pp.42-48
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• 2011

This preliminary study is about the application of the compound source to the active noise barrier system as control sources. A compound source is composed of two monopole sources but having opposite phase. However, both monopole sources in one compound source are not independently controlled. The source strength of monopole source close to the noise source is proportional to the other one. Therefore, the cost for the hardware system is cheaper than usual system but known to possibly having a similar performance in generating anti-noise acoustic field. In this study, using a simple active noise barrier system model having a non-reflective floor, the effectiveness of the system with compound sources is investigated through computer simulations and shows 30~40 % performance improvement of noise reduction.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.127-130
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• 1992

한국 근해에서 능동소나 (active sonar) 사용시 사용되는 environmental parameters 가운데 하나인 volume reverberation(REv)을 산출하기 위하여 플랑크톤에 의한 후방산란 강도(backscattering strength)에 대한 연구를 하였다. 이를 위하여 수산진흥원 자료(80-89년)중 부유생물조사표에서 후방산란 강도가 다른 종에 비하여 큰 copepoda의 개체수를 평균한 후, 수심별 개체수를 계산하여 수심별, 주파수별(10, 50kHz), 계절별(2월, 8월) 후방산란 강도와 multipath eigenray model을 이용하여 REv를 산출하였다. 예로 사용한 동남해역(zone:S3), 서해중부해역(zone:W3)에서 주파수별 REv는 일반적인 형태인 포기에는 고주파가 높고, 1.5초 이후에는 저주파가 높게 나타났다. 그러나 여름이 겨울보다 플랑크톤 개체수가 많아 후방산란 강도가 크지만(2-5dB), REv는 겨울이 더 크게 나타났다. 이러한 이유는 SVP profile에 의한 pressure 계산결과, 여름에는 ray가 down-ward이고 겨울에는 duct를 형성하여 ray가 거의 direct로 진행하므로 transmission loss가 여름이 크기 때문이다. 또한 ray tracing결과 여름철에는 ray crossing이 많아 겨울에 비하여 fluctuation이 심하게 나타나는 현상을 보이고 있다. 두 지역 이외에도 한국근해의 정확한 REv을 예측하기 위해서는 플랑크톤의 정확한 측정과, 이론적인 수치와 비교할 수 있는 실측치를 얻는 것이 필요하다고 볼 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.355-358
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• 2004

최근 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 저주파수 부대역 신호를 반복적으로 분해하고 삽입된 워터마크 비트에 따라 특정 부대역 신호에 두개의 다른 반향 중 하나를 삽입하는 반향 삽입 기법을 제안하였다. 이 기법은 오디오 신호의 주파수 특성을 고려했기 때문에 시간 영역에서의 기존의 반향 삽입 기법에 비해 비가청성(inaudibility), 워터마크의 강인성(robustness) 및 용적성(capacity)을 모두 증가시킬 수 있다. 기존의 부대역 신호 기반 반향 삽입 기법이 단일 반향 커널만을 이용하였으나, 본 논문에서는 부대역 신호에 다중 반향 커널을 이용한 반향 삽입 기법을 제안한다. 이 기법은 주관적 왜곡(perceptibility)과 SNR(signal to Noise Ratio)과 같은 객관적인 왜곡 면에서, 원본 오디오 신호의 왜곡을 줄일 수 있다. 실험 결과를 통하여 기존의 방법에 비해 제안된 방법이 SNR과 DR(Detection Rate) 모두 좋은 성능을 보여 제안된 방법의 유효성을 입증하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.99-103
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• 1996

Most waveform coding techniques attempt to reduce redundancy of speech signal while preserving the shape of the waveform. In speech synthesis, wavefrom coding methods are used to the synthesis by rule for high quality speech. However, it is difficult to apply the waveform coding to the synthesis by rule because the parameters of the wavefrom coding cannot be classified as either the excitation or the vocal tract parameters. The proposed method shows little spectrum distortion of 2.7% or less for 50% pitch changes. It also achieves smooth connection of wavefrom magnitudes among the frames by compensating the phase in time domain.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.8
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• pp.74-80
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• 2001

Because of ocean waves, swell, steering corrections, etc, the hydrophones of a towed array will not live along a straight line. However the degradation of bearing estimation performance occurs when beamforming is carried out on the hydrophone outputs of an acoustic towed array which is not straight. So it is required to estimate the shape of the array for the improved beamformer output. In this paper, an iterative array shape estimation technique is presented, which is based on the use of the least squares polynomial fitting to the data from heading sensors. The estimation error and the influence of deformations on the performance of the conventional beamformer output are investigated. Finally, the suggested method is applied to the real system in order to investigate the applicability.