• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.285-288
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• 1998

G.723.1은 저 전송률 환경에서 고음질을 제공하여 주고 있으나 CELP형 부호화기가 갖는 합성에 의한 분석(analysis by synthesis) 방식의 구조로 인해 많은 처리 시간과 계산량을 요구하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 G.723.1에 대해 skipping 기법을 이용하여 피치 검색과정이 계산량을 줄여 부호화기의 전체 처리 시간을 감소시키는 방법을 제안하였다. 예측 피치를 찾기 위한 개회로 피치 예측(open loop pitch estimation) 과정에서 계산량을 줄이기 위해 skipping 기법을 사용하였다. 피치 예측 과정시 상관관계를 파형은 양과 음의 파형이 교대로 나타나는 특징을 가지고 있기 때문에 계산시 음의 파형을 생략하는 방법을 사용하였다. 실제 음성시료에 대해 제안한 피치 검색법을 적용하였을 때 부호화시 평균 처리시간은 약 10%정도 감소하였으며 기존 G.723.1과 제안한 방법을 적용한 G.723.1의 음질 비교를 위하여 MOS 평가를 했을 때 기존의 방법이 평균 3.76인데 비해 제안한 방법의 평균 MOS는 3.73으로 주관적인 음질 저하는 거의 나타나지 않았다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.59-62
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• 2000

화상회의 및 인터넷폰을 목적으로 개발된 G.723.1은 CELP계열 보코더와 같이 화자의 개성정보를 위해 피치를 전송하고 있다. 하지만 안정구간과 비 안정구간의 차이를 두지 않고 처리를 하기 때문에 비 안정구간, 특히 전이구간에서 정확한 피치검출이 이루어지지 않는 이유로 음질의 열하가 발생하게 된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 한 프레임 구간에서 에너지의 기울기로 대략적인 피치이득을 구한 다음 안정구간일 때와 프레임 내의 에너지의 기울기가 문턱 값을 넘을 때에는 기존의 방법으로 피치를 구하고 그런지 않은 경우에는 에너지를 조정하여 피치를 다시 구하는 방법을 사용하였다. 실제 음성시료에 대해 기존의 방법과 제안한 방법을 비교하기 위해 SegSNR 과 MOS를 비교하였을 때 각각 1.302(dB)와 평균 0.045 MOS가 향상되었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.61-74
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• 2004

In this paper, a contort- and speaker-dependent cepstrum extraction method and a channel normalization method for minimizing the loss of speaker characteristics in the cepstrum were proposed for a robust speaker recognition system over the channel. The proposed extraction method creates a cepstrum based on the pitch synchronous analysis using the inherent pitch of the speaker. Therefore, the cepstrum called the 〃pitch synchronous cepstrum〃 (PSC) represents the impulse response of the vocal tract more accurately in voiced speech. And the PSC can compensate for channel distortion because the pitch is more robust in a channel environment than the spectrum of speech. And the proposed channel normalization method, the 〃formant-broadened pitch synchronous CMS〃 (FBPSCMS), applies the Formant-Broadened CMS to the PSC and improves the accuracy of the intraframe processing. We compared the text-independent closed-set speaker identification on 56 females and 112 males using TIMIT and NTIMIT database, respectively. The results show that pitch synchronous km improves the error reduction rate by up to 7.7% in comparison with conventional short-time cepstrum and the error rates of the FBPSCMS are more stable and lower than those of pole-filtered CMS.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.93-96
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• 1999

감정을 표현하는 음성 합성 시스템을 구현하기 위해서 이전 논문에서는 음운 및 운율 요소(피치, 에너지, 지속시간, 스펙트럼 인벨로프)가 각 감정 음성에 미치는 영향에 대한 분석을 수행하였다. 본 논문에서는 네 가지 감정 표현(평상, 화남, 기쁨, 슬픔)을 나타내는 음성 데이터에 대해 음절 세그먼트와 라벨링을 행한 감정 음성 데이터베이스를 토대로 감정 표현에 많은 영향을 미치는 요소인 피치가 어떻게 변화하는지를 분석하였다. 통계적인 방법을 이용하여 감정별 피치를 정규화 하였으며, 감정 음성 데이터베이스 내의 문장별 피치 패턴에 대해 분석하였다. 그 결과 감정별 피치의 평균 ZScore는 화남이 가장 작았으며, 기쁨, 평상, 슬픔의 순으로 높았다. 또한 감정별 피치의 범위 변화는 슬픔이 가장 작았으며, 평상, 화남, 기쁨의 순으로 높았다. 문장별 피치의 패턴은 감정 표현에 따라 전체적으로 대부분 유사하게 나타났으며, 문장의 처음 부분은 화남의 경우 다른 감정에 비해 대체로 높게 변화하였고, 화남과 기쁨의 경우 문장의 뒷부분에서 다른 감정에 비해 피치가 상승하는 것을 볼 수 있었다.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.20-28
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• 2017

The direct tensile strength of the mortar specimen containing pitch-based carbon fiber was ranged between 1/27~1/22 as compared to the average compressive strength of mortar. It was found that the direct tensile strength of the mortar containing the same amount of PAN-based carbon fiber was around 1/15. While the case of the control specimen without the carbon fiber was around 1/29. One the other hands, the flexural tensile strength of the mortar containing pitch-based carbon fibers was about 1/12 as compared to the average compressive strength. In case of the mortar specimen with PAN-based carbon fiber and control mortar were 1/10 and 1/13.5, respectively. The tensile performance of the mortar with pitch-based carbon fiber was found to be intermediate between control mortar and the reinforced mortar incorporated with the PAN-based carbon fiber.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.34 no.5
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• pp.515-522
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• 2010

The objective of this study is to investigate the air-side heat transfer characteristics of a spirally-coiled circular fin-tube heat exchanger for various geometric parameters under non-frosting conditions. The heat transfer characteristics of the heat exchanger were analyzed with respect to heat exchanger geometries, and then, the characteristics were compared with those of rectangular-plate fin-tube heat exchangers with discrete fins. The heat transfer coefficient increased with a decrease in the number of tube rows and an increase in the fin pitch. The optimum length of the L-foot was 2.7 mm. In addition, the heat transfer rate increased with a decrease in the tube pitch and the tube thickness. The heat transfer coefficient of the spirally-coiled circular fin-tube heat exchanger was 24.3% higher than that of the rectangular-plate fin-tube heat exchanger.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.60 no.6
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• pp.416-423
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• 2023

Recently, the design point of the propeller is gradually changing due to the demand for energy saving and environmental protection. Until recently, self-propulsion model tests were conducted using stock propellers and geometry information was provided to propeller designers, but the range of existing stock propellers did not keep up with the changing design points, and the range of series propellers required in the initial design was also insufficient. Future propeller performance requires high performance and eco-friendliness, and the need for expansion of series propellers has increased. In order to respond to future needs and provide a wide range of advantages in propeller design, KRISO manufactures about 100 series propellers and builds series data through a model tests. In this paper, the approach method for deriving the representative optimal shape to be applied to the 4-blade series propeller in the initial stage of series propeller development was summarized.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.137-143
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• 2013

This study presents comparison results between axial and spiral scanning in the head and chest region with 64 MDCT to evaluate organ doses in infants and toddlers, who are more radiosensitive to radiation than adults and rise in the number of CT examinations, during CT scanning. Organ doses were significantly lower in spiral scanning than axial scanning regardless of scanned regions. The average organ dose for the chest scan using pitch of 1.355 was found to be significantly higher(average -12.03%) than for the other two pitch settings(0.525 and 0.988) in the spiral scanning mode compared with the axial one. Organ doses in the spiral scanning mode were lower by average 20.54% than the axial scanning mode. The results of the study that evaluated organ doses with an anthropomorphic phantom will help to demonstrate the result values of Monte Carlo simulations and make a contribution to more accurate evaluations of organ doses in toddlers undergoing a CT examination.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.28-33
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• 2004

The objective of the study was to investigate the characteristics of heat transfer and flow in 2-dimensional impinging air jet system, in which trapezoid rods have been set up in front of impinging plate in order to increase heat transfer. Experiments were carried out first using without the rods to establish the baseline heat transfer performance. And this result compared with the experimentation with rods. When rods are installed in front of the impinging plate, the acceleration of the flow and the eddies due to the rods seem to contribute to the heat transfer enhancement. Heat transfer performance was best under the condition of C=1 n and as the pitch is 30 mm. In this case, maximum rate of heat transfer augmentation is about 1.62 times greater compared to that without trapezoid rods.

• Journal of Energy Engineering
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• v.15 no.1 s.45
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• pp.28-34
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• 2006

The convective heat transfer on the outer surface of tube arrays perpendicular to the flow direction was experimentally investigated. The test sections which include the aligned and staggered arrangements were made and the local heat transfer coefficients on the outer surface of the tube were measured after the Hour has been fully developed. The results showed that the local heat transfer coefficients of the staggered arrangement, which has transverse pitch of 0.075 m and longitudinal pitch of 0.08 m, were about 15% greater than that of the aligned arrangement. Also, the overall mom Nusselt number of the former was greater thu that of the latter.