• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.75-80
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• 2014

The quality of real-time Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network is affected by network impariments such as delays, jitters, and packet loss. This paper proposes a packet loss concealment algorithm based on voice classification for enhancing VoIP speech quality. In the proposed method, arriving packets are classified by an adaptive thresholding approach based on the analysis of multiple features of short signal segments. The excellent classification results are used in the packet loss concealment. Additionally, linear prediction-based packet loss concealment delivers high voice quality by alleviating the metallic artifacts due to concealing consecutive packet loss or recovering lost packet.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.139-142
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• 2002

본 연구에서는 VoIP와 같은 패킷망에서 G.729 CS-ACELP 음성부호화기에 패킷 손실 은닉 알고리즘을 적용하여, 패킷 손실로 인한 음질 저하의 완화에 관한 실험을 수행하였다. 패킷 손실 은닉은 수신된 패킷으로부터 복호된 파형을 저장해두었다가, 손실이 발생하면 피치 동기가 맞도록 선택한 파형을 손실된 패킷자리에 대체하는 방법과 연속적인 손실 이후에 음성부호화기의 메모리를 초기화하는 방법에 기반하고 있다. 실제 VoIP 통화 실험에서 측정한 패킷 손실 분포에 대해 패킷 손실로 인한 음질 저하를 완화할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.125-128
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• 2008

IPTV의 상용화에 맞추어 사용자와 TV간의 정보 교환에 의한 대화형 서비스들이 제공되고 있으며, 특히 음성인식 기술은 이러한 서비스를 실현하기 위한 중요한 기술 중의 하나로 대두되고 있다. TV에서의 음성인식 수행을 위해서는 가정환경과 같은 제한된 공간에서 효율적으로 사용자의 음성을 TV에 전송할 수 있는 근거리 무선통신 수단이 필요하게 된다. 특히, 리모트 컨트롤러와 같은 저전력 시스템 환경에서 구현이 가능해야 한다. 따라서 이러한 제한된 조건에서 최적의 성능을 갖는 음성 전송 시스템 개발이 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 블루투스 환경 하에서 음성인식을 위해 필요한 음성전송 시스템을 실시간 구현한다. 효율적인 음성전송을 위해 G.711을 기본 코덱으로 사용하며, 음성전송 시 발생하는 패킷손실에 따른 음성 품질 저하를 줄이기 위해 G.711 패킷손실 은닉 알고리즘을 음성전송 시스템에 적용한다. 특히 G.711 패킷 손실 은닉 알고리즘 수행을 위해 블루투스 프로토콜 스택application layer에 RTP 프로토콜을 적용하여 패킷 손실 여부를 확인하고, 패킷 손실 발생 시 패킷손실 은닉 알고리즘을 통해 음성의 품질 저하를 줄인다. 구현된 시스템의 성능을 평가한 결과, G.711 패킷 손실 알고리즘을 적용하여 2~10%의 패킷손실 환경에서 14.7%의 음질개선을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.9-14
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• 2017

A packet loss in wireless environments causes a severe degradation of video quality in video communications. In this paper, a novel video error concealment algorithm is presented by combining boundary errors and a block reliability measure. The block reliability measure decides the reliability of a block by checking residual errors of a block. In the proposed approach, a motion vector of a missing unreliable block in an inter coded frame is obtained initially based on the motion vector of the same block in the reference frame. Furthermore, if the block in the reference frame is unreliable according to the reliability measure, a new motion vector is decided based on block boundary errors around the initial motion vector. According to our simulations, the proposed approach shows promising results for error concealment in error-prone wireless environments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.94-101
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• 2007

Streaming video is expected to become a key service in the developing heterogeneous wireless network. However, sufficient quality of service is not offered to video applications because of bursty packet losses. An effective solution for packet loss in wireless network is to perform a proper concealment at the receiver. However, most concealment methods can not conceal effectively the consecutively damaged macro blocks, since the neighboring blocks are lost. In the previous work, bidirectional motion vector tracking (BMVT) method has been proposed which uses the moving trajectory feature of the damaged macro blocks. In this paper, a channel-adaptive redundancy coding method for the better BMVT error concealment is presented. The proposed method provides enhanced video quality at the cost of a little bit overhead in the wireless error-prone network.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.403-409
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose Packet Loss Concealment (PLC) method using adaptive signal scale estimation for performance improvement of G.711 PLC. The conventional method controls a gain using 20 % attenuation factor when continuous loss occurs. However, this method lead to deterioration because that don't consider the change of signal. So, we propose gain control by adaptive signal scale estimation through before and after frame information using Least Mean Square (LMS) predictor. Performance evaluation of proposed algorithm is presented through Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) evaulation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.12
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• pp.127-134
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• 2005

Lost packet robustness is an most important quality measure for voice over IP networks(VoIP). Recovery of the lost packet from the received information is crucial to realize this robustness. So, this paper proposes the lost packet recovery method from the received information for real-time communication for CELP coder. The proposed BS-PLC (Both Side Packet Loss Concealment) based WSOLA(Waveform Shift OverLab Add) allow the lost packet to be recovered from both the 'previous' and 'next' good packet as the LP parameter and the excitation signal are respectively recovered. The burst of packet loss is modeled by Gilbert model. The proposed scheme is applied to G.729 most used in VoIP and is evaluated through the SNR(signal to noise) and the MOS(Mean Opinion Score) test. As a simulation result, The proposed scheme provide 0.3 higher in Mean Opinion Score and 2 dB higher in terms of SNR than an error concealment procedure in the decoder of G.729 at $20\%$ average packet loss rate.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.157-166
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• 2013

This paper proposes a non-intrusive speech quality estimation method considering the effects of packet loss to perceptual quality. Packet loss is a major reason of quality degradation in a packet based speech communications network, whose effects are different according to the input speech characteristics or the performance of the embedded packet loss concealment (PLC) algorithm. For the quality estimation system that involves packet loss effects, we first observe the packet loss of G.729 codec which is one of narrowband codec in VoIP system. In order to quantify the lost packet affects, we design a classification algorithm only using speech parameters of G.729 decoder. Then, the degradation values of each class are iteratively selected that maximizes the correlation with the degradation PESQ-LQ scores, and total quality degradation is modeled by the weighted sum. From analyzing the correlation measures, we obtained correlation values of 0.8950 for the intrusive model and 0.8911 for the non-intrusive method.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.218-223
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• 2008

In this paper, we implement several methods to improve an audio collaboration system over IP networks, and then evaluate the performance of the implemented methods. In general, speech and audio quality degrades depending on the characteristics of IP networks such as jitter and packet loss. In order to reduce this quality degradation, we propose a lower bit rate audio delivery scheme using the MPEG-2 AAC (Advanced Audio Coding) audio codec in a viewpoint that a packet loss rate could be reduced by a smaller packet size. In addition, iLBC (Internet Low-Bitrate Codec) and the G.711 packet loss concealment algorithm defined by IEFT and ITU-T, respectively, are applied to a audio collaboration system. RAT (Robust-Audio Tool)[7] is used as a baseline platform for the implementation of the proposed methods. It is shown from the implementation that the implemented MPEG-2 AAC audio codec with a bitrate of 256 kbit/s performs as similar as the uncompressed audio quality with a bitrate of 512 kbit/s, and that iLBC and the G.711 packet loss concealment algorithm can improve speech quality when a packet loss rate is 2~10%.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.12A
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• pp.2027-2035
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• 2001

In this paper, we present an audio stream delivery using the AMR (Adaptive Multi-Rate) coder that was adopted by ETSI and 3GPP as a standard vocoder for next generation IMT-2000 service in which includes combined sender (FEC) and receiver reconstruction technique in the Internet. By use of the media-specific FEC scheme, the possibility to recover lost packets can be much increased due to the addition of repair data to a main data stream, by which the contents of lost packets can be recovered. The AMR codec is based on the code-excited linear predictive (CELP) coding model. So we use a frame erasure concealment for CELP-based coders. The proposed scheme is evaluated with ITU-T G.729 (CS-ACELP) coder and AMR - 12.2 kbit/s through the SNR (Signal to Noise Ratio) and the MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test. The proposed scheme provides 1.1 higher in Mean Opinion Score value and 5.61 dB higher than AMR - 12.2 kbit/s in terms of SNR in 10% packet loss, and maintains the communicab1e quality speech at frame erasure rates lop to 20%.