• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.243-250
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• 2010

This paper proposes a spectral modeling of Korean traditional instrument, Haegeum, using cepstral analysis to naturally describe Haegeum sounds varying with time. To get a precise result of cepstral analysis, we set the frame size to 3 periods of input signal and more cepstral coefficients are used to extract formants. The performance is enhanced by flexibly controlling the cutoff frequency of bandpass filter depending on the resonances in the synthesis process of sinusoidal components and the deleting peaks remained in the residual signal. To detect the change of pitch, we divide the input frames into silence, attack, and sustain region and determine which region the current frame is involved in. Then, the proposed method readjusts the frame size according to the fundamental frequency in the case of the current frame is in attack region and corrects the extraction errors of the fundamental frequency for the frames in sustain region. With these processes, the synthesized sounds are much more similar to the originals. The evaluation result through the listening test by a Haegeum player says that the synthesized sounds are almost similar to originals (96~100 % similar to the original sounds).

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.298-303
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• 2023

This study aimed to investigate the clinical utility of voiced sentence tasks for voice evaluation. To this end, we analyzed the correlation between perturbation-based acoustic measurements [jitter percent (jitter), shimmer percent (shimmer), Noise to Harmonic Ratio (NHR)] using sustained vowel phonation, and cepstrum-based acoustic measurements [Cepstral Peak Prominence (CPP), Low/High spectral ratio (L/H ratio)] using voiced sentences. As a result of analyzing data collected from 65 patients with voice disorders, there was a significant correlation between the CPP and jitter (r = -.624, p = .000), shimmer (r = -.530, p = .000), NHR (r = -.469, p = .000).This suggests that the cepstrum measurement of voiced sentences can be used as an alternative to the analysis limitations of the pathological voice such as not possible perturbation-based acoustic measurement, and result difference according to the analysis section.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.6
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• pp.526-533
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• 2009

This paper proposes a formant synthesis method of Haegeum sounds using cepstral envelope for spectral modeling. Spectral modeling synthesis (SMS) is a technique that models time-varying spectra as a combination of sinusoids (the "deterministic" part), and a time-varying filtered noise component (the "stochastic" part). SMS is appropriate for synthesizing sounds of string and wind instruments whose harmonics are evenly distributed over whole frequency band. Formants extracted from cepstral envelope are parameterized for synthesis of sinusoids. A resonator by Impulse Invariant Transform (IIT) is applied to synthesize sinusoids and the results are bandpass filtered to adjust magnitude. The noise is calculated by first generating the sinusoids with formant synthesis, subtracting them from the original sound, and then removing some harmonics remained. Linear interpolation is used to model noise. The synthesized sounds are made by summing sinusoids, which are shown to be similar to the original Haegeum sounds.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.12 no.2E
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• pp.63-72
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• 1993

본 논문에서는 무제한 음성 생성을 위한 단위음성으로서의 다이폰을 2음절 자연음성으로부터 자동 추출하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 입력음성을 개량 켑스트럼 파라미터로 분석하여 이로부터 다이폰 추출 파라미터들을 도출한다. 제안된 파라미터로는 에너지 레벨을 나타내는 0차 켑스트럼의 동적변화량, 스펙트럼의 시간 변화량 영교차율, 캡스트럼의 유클리디안 거리이다. 스펙트럼 포락의 변화가 완만한 모음 연쇄등의 음소 경계를 보다 효율적으로 검출하기 위해 스펙트럼의 시간 변화를 미세부분과 개형부분으로 나누어 각각을 파라미터로 사용한다. VV(모음연쇄), VCV(C: 반모음, 자음), VCCV형들로 이루어진 2음절 단어들에 대해 실험한 결과, 모음연쇄 등이 포함되어 있음에도 약 85% 정확도의 음소경계검출을 얻었다. 본 논문에 의한 다이폰을 이용한 합성음의 청취실험 결과 명료도가 높음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.23-35
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• 2013

This paper proposes an effective technique that is used to automatically extract feature vectors from vibration signals for fault classification systems. Conventional mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) are sensitive to noise of vibration signals, degrading classification accuracy. To solve this problem, this paper proposes spectral envelope cepstral coefficients (SECC) analysis, where a 4-step filter bank based on spectral envelopes of vibration signals is used: (1) a linear predictive coding (LPC) algorithm is used to specify spectral envelopes of all faulty vibration signals, (2) all envelopes are averaged to get general spectral shape, (3) a gradient descent method is used to find extremes of the average envelope and its frequencies, (4) a non-overlapped filter is used to have centers calculated from distances between valley frequencies of the envelope. This 4-step filter bank is then used in cepstral coefficients computation to extract feature vectors. Finally, a multi-layer support vector machine (MLSVM) with various sigma values uses these special parameters to identify faulty types of induction motors. Experimental results indicate that the proposed extraction method outperforms other feature extraction algorithms, yielding more than about 99.65% of classification accuracy.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.76-82
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• 2000

To reduce the radiated noise of ships, the noises which are generated from onboard machinery, propulsion system and transfer characteristics of structure must be identified. While the ship is operating, however, we can not directly measure each signal of inputs and characteristics of transfer passage, because measured signals are superimposed by multi source and multi transfer passage. In this paper, the signal processing method for separating noise sources and transfer functions from the measured response signal by the cepstrum technique is proposed. The proposed method is verified by application of simulated signal and impact test and shows usefulness by application of real ship test.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.447-453
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• 2009

Community noise has been great concerned in public. A traffic noise from a road or a railway has affected too mush damage on quiet living environment. In this paper, a measured noise signal on a street has been applied to extract a noise source and a path by using a complex cepstrum. An example shows that the waveform of the source and the path could be separated if a temporal windowing is properly applied.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.109-111
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• 2007

Community Noise has been great concerned in public. A road traffic noise has affected too much damage on quiet living environment. In this paper, the noise barrier effect on the street has been examned. As a tool of the path analyses, a cepstrum analyses of signal processing technique has been implemented.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2008.04a
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• pp.721-726
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• 2008

Community Noise has been great concerned in public. A road traffic noise has affected too much damage on quiet living environment. In this paper, About measured from the measure point noise and the noise signal processing techniques applied to the occurrence of the noise source with a path to reach this measure point to the measured data to determine signal processor for Complex Cepstrum Analysis of how to apply for research.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.707-710
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• 2002

본 논문은 오디오와 비디오 정보의 융합을 통한 멀티 모달 음성 인식 시스템을 제안한다. 음성 특징 정보와 영상 정보 특징의 융합을 통하여 잡음이 많은 환경에서 효율적으로 사람의 음성을 인식하는 시스템을 제안한다. 음성 특징 정보는 멜 필터 캡스트럼 계수(Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficients: MFCC)를 사용하며, 영상 특징 정보는 주성분 분석을 통해 얻어진 특징 벡터를 사용한다. 또한, 영상 정보 자체의 인식률 향상을 위해 피부 색깔 모델과 얼굴의 형태 정보를 이용하여 얼굴 영역을 찾은 후 강력한 입술 영역 추출 방법을 통해 입술 영역을 검출한다. 음성-영상 융합은 변형된 시간 지연 신경 회로망을 사용하여 초기 융합을 통해 이루어진다. 실험을 통해 음성과 영상의 정보 융합이 음성 정보만을 사용한 것 보다 대략 5%-20%의 성능 향상을 보여주고 있다.