• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.139-144
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• 2019

Various room acoustic parameters and their optimal values were proposed and verified as proper interpretations to the listeners' preference of concert hall sounds. However the listening environment has been changed since they were developed, and the listeners' preference may not be the same among countries of different cultural backgrounds. Actual listeners' preference should be applied to the design of a new concert hall. A survey on the listening preference was carried out for 22 music experts. A room acoustical design process was proposed which made the acoustical environment of a concert hall as close to the listeners' preferences.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.107-116
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a hybrid music recommendation system combining users' listening habits and tag information in a social music site. Most of commercial music recommendation systems recommend music items based on the number of plays and explicit ratings of a song. However, the approach has some difficulties in recommending new items with only a few ratings or recommending items to new users with little information. To resolve the problem, we use tag information which is generated by collaborative tagging. According to the meaning of tags, a weighted value is assigned as the score of a tag of an music item. By combining the score of tags and the number of plays, user profiles are created and collaborative filtering algorithm is executed. For performance evaluation, precision, recall, and F-measure are calculated using the listening habit-based recommendation, the tag score-based recommendation, and the hybrid recommendation, respectively. Our experiments show that the hybrid recommendation system outperforms the other two approaches.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.174-175
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 가정용 TV 환경에서 실감효과를 향상시키기 위한 정면 수직음상정위에 기반한 오디오 시스템을 제안하고 이를 구현한다. 제안된 시스템은 가정용 대형 TV 환경에서 TV 하단에 배치된 오디오 시스템으로 인해 음상이 TV 의 하단에 맺히게 되어 재생되는 영상과 위치적인 불일치 문제를 해결하기 위하여, 오디오 신호에 정면 수직음상정위 기법을 적용하여 고도감이 향상된 신호를 생성해 준다. 본 논문에서의 정면 수직음상정위 기법은 청취자의 신체적 특성을 반영하기 위한 머리전달함수 모델, 고도에 따라 달라지는 주파수 특성을 반영하기 위한 spectral notch 및 특정 주파수 대역 boosting 으로 구성된다. 제안된 오디오 시스템의 정면 수직음상정위 기법의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 원음과 이 원음에 정면 수직음상정위 기법을 적용하여 생성한 음원을 TV 오디오 시스템으로 재생한 후의 청취 선호도 조사를 수행하였으며, 그 결과 정면 수직음상정위 기법을 포함하는 제안된 오디오 시스템을 통해 청취한 음원에 대한 선호도가 높았다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.229-238
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• 2008

Audio tuning improves not only the sound quality of the car audio but also the quality of the completed car itself. However without the subjective assessment on the users' preferences, it is hard to tune the car audio satisfying them. Even though there are lots of factors to be considered to assess the preferences, only a restricted number of factors should be included in the experiment because the total number of experiments increases rapidly as the number of factors in the experiment increases. A large number of factors make it hard to explore the relationship between the sound quality and the sound characteristics and also makes the panels exhausted. In this paper, 8 sound characteristics, each with 2 levels, are considered for the experiment. An orthogonal design of experiment is suggested to reduce the number of experiments from 256 to 16. The analysis of variance is applied to show that Treble is the most significant characteristic of the reproduced sound of the given pop music. Also Deep Bass, SAD, and the interaction between Treble and SAD are found to be significant. For the given classic music, SAD is the only characteristic which turns out to be significant.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.273-280
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• 2011

The sounds of the Korean temple bells, that are located in the various places, were recorded and classified into two groups according to the size of bells. The sound preference was investigated with the subjective listening test on the bells of each group. And the acoustic characteristics of the bells such as the frequency, amplitude, beat period, and 20 dB decay rate of the partials was analyzed. The correlation between the acoustic parameters and timbre preference were analyzed and the acoustic characteristics of highly preferred bell sound were presented.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.191-196
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• 2006

Human tend to rely their information about the size of a space on vision. However, it might be a common experience to perceive a certain difference in spaces without any visual difference, in such spaces as rooms for music performance, multimedia environments with multiple sound sources, and car cabins, where auditory experiences have a certain importance. In the present work, apparent auditory room size was measured at different positions in a room through a series of listening experiments. Also, measurement of room acoustic parameters was carried out and their relationships with perceived auditory room size were analyzed. The results suggest that apparent auditory room sizes were largely dependent on musical clarity, distance between a source and a receiver, and sound pressure level at the listening position. Also, the results from acoustic preference test suggest that smaller apparent room sizes were preferred for listening to orchestral, cello and flute music. The relationship between apparent auditory room size and vocal music was found to be statistically insignificant.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2010.06b
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• pp.197-200
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• 2010

멀티미디어 서비스는 신호 처리 기술의 발달 및 전송 환경의 개선으로 정보 전달의 기존 역할 뿐 아니라 사용자의 다양한 요구 및 재생 환경을 반영하는 맞춤형 서비스로 진화하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자의 다양한 청취 환경 변화, 선호도 및 감정을 네트워크상 입력 디바이스를 통해 전송하고, 이를 바탕으로 처리한 객체 기반 음원을 다채널 스피커를 통해 출력하는 능동형 재생 플랫폼을 제안한다. 다수의 청취자는 각각의 감성 및 환경 정보 등 음원 처리에 관련 데이터베이스를 실시간 저장하여 동일한 음원으로 단일 플랫폼에서 다양한 청취감으로 음원 재생이 가능하다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.96-106
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• 2009

In this paper, correlation between the headphone's acoustical characteristics and the subjective preferences is analyzed, and a possibility of predicting the subjective preferences using the acoustical characteristics is investigated, The headphone's acoustical characteristics include the total harmonic distortions, the variation of the frequency response which were measured by separate channel and the inter-aural correlation coefficients, Those characteristics were measured in a noise-free anechoic chamber, using a head and torso simulator, The subjective preferences were scored in terms of loudness, clearness, spaciousness, fullness and overall impression, In the subjective listening test, 12 subjects were participated who have plentiful listening experiences, The programs include 5 kinds of musics; korean popular song, pop song, light music, male-voice and classic, The 8 models of the headphones were employed, including 4 closed-type circumaural headphones, 2 open-type supraaural headphones and 2 intra-concha headphones, A significant test was carred on the results from the subjective test, using a two-way ANOVA test, The correlation coefficients between the acoustical parameters and the subjective preferences were computed, Experimental results showed that the variation of the magnitude of frequency response measured from a right channel revealed higher correlation with the subjective preferences. Whereas the inter-aural correlation coefficients have very low correlation coefficients.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.345-352
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• 2013

The demand and production for mobile music increases as the number of smart phone users increase. Thus, the standard of selection of a user's preferred music has gotten more diverse and complicated as the range of popular music has gotten wider. Research to find intelligent techniques to ingeniously recommend music on user preferences under mobile environment is actively being conducted. However, existing music recommendation systems do not consider and reflect users' preferences due to recommendations simply employing users' listening log. This paper suggests a personalized music-recommending system that well reflects users' preferences. Using AHP, it is possible to identify the musical preferences of every user. The user feedback based on the Bayesian network was applied to reflect continuous user's preference. The experiment was carried out among 12 participants (four groups with three persons for each group), resulting in a 87.5% satisfaction level.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.53-60
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• 2015

We conducted a long-term and short-term usability testing on the built-in speech synthesizer of a screen-reader for the people with visual impairments. A total of 20 persons with visual impairments participated in the short-term usability testing, and 10 of them participated in the long-term usability testing. Naturalness and clarity of the synthetic speech were evaluated by MOS scores, preference for various synthetic speeches was examined through a preference test, and the users' satisfaction level and other requirements for the synthetic speech were evaluated by open feedback. We also examined naturalness, clarity, preference, and user requirements for the synthetic speech through a long-term usability testing. Then, we compare and contrast the long-term and short-term usability testing results.