• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2022

Sound quality evaluation is one of the psychoacoustic methods to measure subjective judgements for sound color. The purpose of this study is to investigate sound quality benefits of bimodal users by comparing sound quality scores between bimodal hearing condition and unilateral cochlear implant(CI) condition as a preliminary study. Thirteen bimodal users and seven unilateral CI users were participated in this study. Audiologists performed pure tone and speech audiometry and measured functional gain and real-ear insertion gain. Subjective assessment of sound quality was followed with four sounds including violin sound, male and female voices, and refrigerator noise. Participants judged the sound quality with six sound quality index. Bimodal users showed mean 0.8 points more sound quality improvements in bimodal condition than unilateral CI condition. Group comparison between bimodal and unilateral CI users showed no differences. A follow-up study of sound quality tools and methods should be considered to evaluate subjective bimodal benefits of cochlear implant users.

• Archives of design research
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.15-22
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• 2003

This is a study on the roles in the association of sound as subtext for animation. On this study, it will be helpful to develop sound concepts and to create animations with creativity. For animation without sound can be produced as an artistic purpose, however, most animations are created with sound. It is not means that sound is less important than visual in animations. Sound is also one of significant element to create animations. Sound have many important rolls for subtext such as parts of action, leitmotif, characteristic, time, ethnic, localization in the animations. It will be analyzed two animations such as Shrek (DreamWorks Pictures production/ Director: Andrew Adams) and Monsters Inc. (Walt Disney Pictures/ Director: Peter Doctor).

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.31-34
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• 1998

배경 잡음에 의해 저하된 음성을 복원하는 기술은 이미 오래 전부터 여러 가지 기법들이 연구되어왔다. 이들 기법 중, Spectral Subtraction 기법은 단일 채널에 의한 Speech Enhancement의 대표적인 방법이다. 그러나, 기존의 단일 채널 Speech Enhancement 기법의 중요한 단점은 Musical Noise라 불리는 잔존 Noise의 발생 및 목적신호가 왜곡된다는 것이다. 이 잔존 Noise에 의해 지금까지 연구 보고된 단일 채널 Speech Enhancement기법들은 거의 대부분 SNR은 향상되었지만 명료도의 향상이 곤란하였다고 보고되어왔다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 인간의 청각기구의 지각과정을 충실히 모방한 ROEX(Rounded Exponential) 청각 Filter를 이용하여 잔존 Noise인 Musical Noise를 억제시키는 기법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.11a
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• pp.5-16
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• 1992

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.5
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• pp.109-114
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• 2011

In this paper, we apply a context awareness based on Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to a sound reinforcement for hearing impaired. In our approach, the harmful sound amplified through the sound reinforcement algorithm according to context awareness based on GMM which is constructed as Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) feature vector from sound data. According to the experimental results, the proposed approach is found to be effective in the various acoustic environments.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.200-208
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• 2007

The noise induced hearing loss, which is one type of the hearing losses, is well known occupational diseases. The prevention of the noise induced hearing loss is very important, because it is unrecoverable. There are some kinds of devices for hearing protection, and those are effective in preventing the noise induced hearing loss. However, people often resist the use of hearing protection devices because they have some difficulties during conversation in wearing the devices. To solve the problem, a small acoustic filter can be used for a hearing protection device. In this paper, we designed several kinds of small acoustic filters and analyzed the characteristics of designed small acoustic filters using Finite Element Analysis (FEA). From FEA results, we proved the characteristics of designed small acoustic filters which vary according to length and diameter. And we found out that the general tendencies of modeled filters using FEA are same as acoustic experiment results of designed filters.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.73-79
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• 2019

This study simulated external ear canal modeling with different external ear canal lengths, vertical flexion angles, and inner/outer diameter ratios using digital imaging and communications in medicine(DICOM) of the head temporal region and measured the acoustic sensitivity. The experiment was performed by increasing the audible frequency for humans by 200 Hz and expressing the frequency constantly transmitted at 1 Pa as the eardrum acoustic volume and presented the measurements by linear and quadratic curve regression analysis. The results showed that the longer the external ear canal length and the higher the ratio of the outer/inner diameter, the faster the acoustic response at lower frequencies. The acoustic sensitivity correlation of the meta-model using regression analysis showed a 77% influence by the external ear canal length and 5% by the external/internal diameter ratio, while the vertical flexion angle did not show a significant relationship. This showed that auditory acoustic sensitivity of humans is a factor that reacts faster at a low frequency when the external ear canal length is longer and when the difference between the outer and inner diameter is higher.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.207-212
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 공간에 위치한 음원으로부터 양 귀에 들리는 음향을 좌우 대칭형 스피커를 이용하여 재현하는 기술에 대한 문제점, 즉 좌우 스피커와 양 귀의 음압전달 특성에 수반되는 Cross-talk 제거와 음향학적 모델 선정에 대한 문제점들을 우선 소개한다. 이러한 문제점을 해결할 수 있는 Transaural 필터의 모델 제시와 본 모델의 음향학적 특성을 고찰한다. 본 연구에서는 인간 청각 기관의 공간 인지량적 인자인 ILB(interaural Level Difference)와 ITD(Tnteraural Time Difference)의 개념을 이용한 새로운 Cross-talk 제거 방법과 그리고 청각기관의 "Masking" 특성을 이용한 Transaural 필터의 진폭 보상 방법을 새로이 제안한다. 끝으로 제안된 기법은 음색 왜곡과 음질 저하를 최소화할 수 있는 장점 뿐 아니라 현장 음향 기사들이 직접 음향제작에 적용할 수 있는 장점 또한 제공한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.7
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• pp.28-33
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• 2000

For efficient quantization of speech representation, it is common to incorporate Perceptual characteristics of human hearing. However, the focus has been confined only to the magnitude information of speech, and little attention has been paid to phase information. This paper presents a novel approach, termed perceptually irrelevant phase elimination (PIPE), to find out irrelevant phase information of acoustic signals in terms of perception. The proposed method, which is based on the observation that the relative phase relationship within a critical band is perceptually important, is derived not only for stationary Fourier signal but also for harmonic signal. The proposed method is incorporated into the analysis/synthesis system based on harmonic representation of speech, and subjective test results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.5-7
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• 2012

선교에는 항해사에게 정보를 전달하기 위하여 다양한 신호가 존재한다. 항해 및 통신 장비로부터 나오는 음향 신호 등 다양한 청각 신호들이 존재하지만 이러한 청각 신호, 청각 경고음에 대한 인간의 인지능력에 관한 연구는 미흡한 실정이다. 청각 경고음은 크게 음성(speech), 함축적 소리(abstract sound), 청각 아이콘(auditory icon)으로 구분 할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 청각 경고음 중 청각아이콘을 활용하여 5가지의 경보상황(엔진, 화재, 조타, 전기, 충돌)에서 청각아이콘에 대한 감성평가를 통해 각 상황에 적합한 청각아이콘을 선별하였다. 본 연구 결과는 선교 내 청각표시장치와 통합선교알람관리시스템을 위한 기초자료로 활용될 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.