• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.369-376
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• 2004

The tinnitus retraining therapy(TRT) is an effective method for treating tinnitus patients. This therapy use the white noise to stimulate auditory cells for a wide frequency range. In this paper, the small white noise generator using the thermal noise is proposed. And frequency response controller which can compensate the frequency response changed by the human outer and middle ear system is proposed. We can know that proposed system is more proper type on a purpose of the tinnitus retraining therapy comparing with conventional white noise generator.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.295-298
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 잡음에 오염된 신호의 지각관계를 해석하여 지각 필터 응답 제어를 통한 음성 신호 개선 알고리즘을 제안한다. 음성 신호 개선 기법은 단일 채널환경에서 사람의 청각시스템에서의 주파수 변별력을 나타내는 각각의 임계대역에 대한 전체 에너지를 나타내는 임계대역 에너지의 지각적인 확산의 영향 즉, 마스킹 확산의 영향을 나타내는 자극에너지를 이용하여 신호와 잡음 에너지에 의해 변화하는 잡음에 의한 신호의 마스킹 구간을 검출하여 묵음 구간 추출 잡음 필터응답과 추정 잡음 오차를 보상시킨 필터응답을 통한 지각 필터 응답을 보상하여 신호를 개선하는 방법이다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법을 통해 SNR에 개선과 음질 개선 효과를 얻을 수 있음을 테스트를 통해 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.333-342
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• 2012

This paper presents a vowel onset point (VOP) detection method based on the human auditory system. This method maps the "perceptual" frequency scale, i.e. Mel scale onto a linear acoustic frequency, and then establishes a series of Triangular Mel-weighted Filter Bank simulate the function of band pass filtering in human ear. This nonlinear critical-band filter bank helps greatly reduce the data dimensionality, and eliminate the effect of harmonic waves to make the formants more prominent in the nonlinear spaced Mel spectrum. The sum of mel spectrum peaks energy is extracted as feature for each frame, and the instinct at which the energy amplitude starts rising sharply is detected as VOP, by convolving with Gabor window. For the single-word database which contains 12 vowels articulated with different kinds of consonants, the experimental results showed a good average detection rate of 72.73%, higher than other vowel detection methods based on short-time energy and zero-crossing rate.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.227-233
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• 2002

The IME(implantable middle ear) system is Promising due to its ability to free from sound feedback and Produce a good sound quality and intelligibility with low distortion even if it is operated with high gain for severe hearing impaired. The differential electromagnetic vibration transducer. which was developed for using in IME system and has two small magnets attached the same Pole facing in the coil. is not influenced by environmental external magnetic field. Besides, it has high vibration efficiency and good frequency response characteristics. In this Paper, using acoustic model of the transducer and ear model of normal Person. the signal transfer characteristics of the IME system are analyzed and investigated From the differences of the characteristics between normal ear and the IME system, it is Possible that design of the IME system that have the signal transfer characteristics similar to normal person's ear.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.114-119
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• 2002

Cochlea is well known to have the ability to analyze a wide frequency and this ability seems to be caused to the Basilar Membrane(BM) configuration. However, the relationship between the Cochlea frequency-position map is not clear. In this paper, the three-dimensional BM Model was made using the Finite Element Method. Then an attempt was made to examine the influence of the BM configuration on the Cochlea frequency-position map. Theoretical consideration reveals that the wide frequency-position of Cochlea is achieved by not only the BM configuration change along the length of the Coohlea but also the change of the Young's module of the BM along the length of the Cochlea.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.57-64
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• 2017

Recent automobile manufacturing technology has improved not only the function and performance of cars, but also the audio systems in cars so as to increase their marketability. Automobile manufacturers always have the option of simply installing an expensive acoustic system to help customers enjoy a high-level sound quality car audio system. However, this also tends to increase the MSRP (Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price) of the car. Therefore, it is desirable, where possible, to enhance the sound quality of plainer, less expensive audio devices to help customers feel as if they have a high-quality and expensive audio device in their car. In order to make this happen, the manufacturer must develop an optimal interior environment and audio system at a relatively lower cost. To this end, features of the car audio system can be enhanced by analyzing audio frequency response and using performance metrics to figure out the characteristics of the human auditory system. This study analyzed the sound field of Korean Recreation Vehicles (RVs) using the Internet of Things (IoT) sensor for the measurement of car audio system. As a result, high energy of sensitive bandwidth, one of the human auditory characteristics often makes annoying sound. This study also found that increasing the frequency response flatness is required by taking human auditory field into account when designing the car audio system for the future.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.66-76
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• 2001

Conventional echo watermarking techniques often exhibit inherent trade-offs between imperceptibility and robustness. In this paper, a new echo embedding technique is proposed. The proposed method enables one to embed high energy echoes while the host audio quality is not deteriorated, so that it is robust to common signal processing modifications and resistant to tampering. It is possible due to echo kernels that are designed based on psychoacoustic analyses. In addition, we propose some novel techniques to improve robustness against signal processing attacks. Subjective and objective evaluations confirmed that the proposed method could improve the robustness without perceptible distortion.