• Composites Research
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• v.32 no.6
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• pp.335-341
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• 2019

In this study, an acrylic acid (AAc) was grafted on a polypropylene (PP) nonwoven fabric using electron beam irradiation. Electron beam grafting was carried out under various conditions to produce AAc grafted PP (PP-g-AAc) nonwoven fabric having a grafting yield of about 50% at radiation dose of 100 kGy and a monomer concentration of 60%. The physical and chemical properties of PP-g-AAc nonwoven fabric were evaluated by SEM, ATR-FTIR, thermal analysis and tensile strength. The morphology of PP and PP-g-AAc nonwoven fabric confirmed by SEM showed no significant change, and it was judged that AAc was introduced into PP nonwoven fabric from ATR-FTIR. PP-g-AAc nonwoven fabric showed an increase in tensile strength and a decrease in tensile strain compared to PP nonwoven fabric. However, since change of value is not significant, it is considered that there is no significant influence on the physical characterization. Adsorption experiments of PP-g-AAc nonwoven fabric on various ions showed selective adsorption behavior for lead ion. In conclusion, the electron beam radiation-induced PP-g-AAc nonwoven fabric is expected to be applied as an effective adsorbent for the adsorption of lead ions.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.251-257
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to analyze the satisfaction and requirements of users' devices after development of tablet based AAC(Augmentative and Alternatice Communication) application for Android. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the satisfaction and the requirement of tablet - based AAC application, Were assessed using the Korea Assistive Technology Assessment Tool (KAAT). As a result of satisfaction evaluation of tablet-based smart AAC device, all the items including device, service, and everyday life showed positive response satisfying from 5 point scale to more than 4 point scale. However, it was relatively low in the items of effectiveness, manipulation and convenience. Some of the improvements in the application include the enlargement of the symbol sound and the simplicity of symbol editing. The results of the study suggest that continual updates of m Smart AAC applications, the simplicity of symbolic editing, application usage and training should be improved. The satisfaction evaluation results of this study and the feedback of potential users will be the guidelines for improving and complementing the functions of existing smart AAC devices.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.34 no.8C
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• pp.822-829
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• 2009

This paper proposes a new method of improving the quality of High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC). HE-AAC encodes input source by allocating bits for each scalefactor bands appropriately according to human ear's psychoacoustic property. As a result, insufficient bits are assigned to the bands which have relatively low energy. This imbalance between different energy bands can cause decreasing of sound quality like musical noise. In the proposed system, a Linear Prediction (LP) module is combined with HE-AAC as a pre-processor to improve sound quality by even bits distribution. To apply accurate human being's psychoacoustic property, the psychoacoustic model uses Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) spectrum of original input signal to make masking threshold. In its implementation, masking threshold of psychoacoustic model is normalized using the LP spectral envelope in prior to quantization of the LP residual. Experimental result shows that, the proposed algorithm allocates bits appropriately for insufficient bits condition and improves the performance of HE-AAC.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.66-74
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose new techniques that can improve the quality of AAC and SBR encoders comprised in low bitrate HE-AAC. To reduce the pre-echo artifacts often occurring for transient blocks in AAC, we propose an extended Temporal Noise Shaping (sTNS) in which the frequency range is selectively extended down to the low-frequency region. Also, for he high-frequency region being coded by SBR encoder, tones are identified through a sinusoidal modeling and their frequencies are adjusted within the QMF band in order to reduce the noise floor due to aliasing. Spectrograms of the decoded signals were compared and listening tests were conducted to evaluate the proposed algorithm. Results confirmed the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.06d
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• pp.178-181
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• 2000

In this paper, we present the implementation of filterbank for MPEG-2 Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) decoder with VHDL. The filterbank of AAC employs a technique called time-domain aliasing cancellation (TDAC). In order to make the algorithm more efficiently, we decompose and reorganize the filterbank algorithm lot the high speed decoding process and lower computational cost. And we make this filterbank algorithm to be used with other modules of AAC decoder in parallel processing.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.73-76
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 MPEG-2 BC와 AAC의 복호화 과정 중 함성 필터링 과정의 알고리듬을 분석하여 공동된 구조로 연산을 수행한 수 있는 광용 합성 필터 구조에 대하여 논하였다. 제안된 공용 합성 필터 구조는 Regressive 구조를 이용하여 MPEG-2 BC와 AAC의 복호화를 효과적으로 공용 수행하도록 하였다. 제안한 구조는 FFT를 사용할 경우에 필요한 전처리 및 후처리 과정을 고려해주지 않아도 되고 복소수 연산이 아닌 실수연산이 되어 하드웨어 구조가 단순하게 된다. 또한 MPEG-2 AAC의 다양한 윈도우 변환에도 안정적으로 연산되는 구조임을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.538-541
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• 1999

MPEG-2 AAC(Advanced Audio Coding) is the most advanced coding scheme available for high quality audio coding. This MPEG-2 AAC audio Standard allows for ITU-R ‘indistinguishable’ quality according to at data rates of 320 kb/s for five full-bandwidth channel audio signals. The compression ratio is around a factor of 1.4 better compared to MPEG Layer 3, you get the same quality at 70% of the bitrate. This paper suggest optimization method for MDCT/IMDCT (Modified Discrete Cosine Transform/Inverse Modified Discrete Cosine Transform) in Encoder and Decoder for AAC.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2000.08a
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• pp.173-176
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• 2000

본 논문은 VHDL을 이용하여 1997년 국제 표준안으로 제정된 MPEG-2 AAC 복호화기의 각 모듈을 구현하였다. AAC 복호화기는 허프만 복호화, 역양자화, 고해상도 필터뱅크 등의 도구들이 필수적으로 사용된다. AAC 복호화기의 실시간 구현을 위해 각 도구들의 알고리즘을 분석하고, 하드웨어 개발에 알맞게 최적화하여 고속화와 적은 메모리를 사용하여 효율적으로 구현하였다.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.35-42
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usability of the tablet PC-based Korean high-tech AAC(Augmentative Alternative Communication System) software. In order to develop an AAC software which is appropriate to Korean cultural/linguistic contexts and communication needs of the users, we examined the necessity and ease of use for the communication functions that are required in native Korean communication, such as polite expressions, tense expressions, negative expressions, subject-verb auto-matching, and automatic sentence generation functions, using a scenario-based user testing. We also investigated the users' needs, preferences, and satisfaction for the tablet PC-based Korean high tech AAC using a semi-structured and open questionnaires. The participants of this study were 9 special education teachers, 6 speech therapists, and 6 parents whose children had communication disabilities. The results of the usability testing of the tablet PC-based Korean high-tech AAC software presented positive responses in general, by indicating overall scores of above 4 out of 5 except in tense and negative expressions. The necessity and ease of use in the tense and negative expressions were evaluated relatively low, and it might be related to the inconsistent interface with the polite expressions. In terms of the user interface(UI), there were users' needs for clear visual feedback in the symbol selection and display, consistent interface for all functions, more natural subject-verb auto-matching, and spacing in the text within symbols. The results of the usability testing and users' feedback might serve as a guideline to compensate and improve the function and UI of the existing AAC software.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6C
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• pp.874-882
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• 2004

MPEG Audio compression algorithm is the international standard for the digital compression of high quality audio using mechanism of the perceptual coding based on psychoacoustic masking. It is necessary to discuss the constraints on designing of common filter banks for MPEG-2 BC and MPEG-2 AAC decoder system, which is not Down yet, mapping audio signals from the time domain into the frequency domain. In this paper, we present an architecture of common synthesis filter whcih can be used for MPEG-2 BC and MPEG-2 AAC decoder using recursive structure. The proposed algorithm is based on recursive architecture that effectively performs common compulsion.