• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.314-319
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• 2021

The measurement of the Underwater Radiated Noise (URN) for the underwater vehicle should consider both the acoustic interference due to the surface reflection and the calculation of the Closet Point of Approach (CPA). In this paper, I tried to analyze the underwater vehicle's URN using the Lloyd's mirror effect. First, the theoretical Lloyd's mirror pattern was compared with the sea trial result, and the sea trial results corresponded well with the theoretical predicted pattern. And then the CPA distance could be estimated by the Lloyd's mirror pattern. As a results, acoustic source level shows the spectral fluctuation due to the acoustic interference of the Lloyd's mirror effect.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.392-399
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• 2014

The underwater acoustic communication is characterized by doubly spread channels, which are the delay spread due to multiple paths and the doppler spread due to environmental fluctuations or a moving platform. An equalizer is used to remove the inter-symbol interferences that the delay spread causes, but an equalizer doesn't use an acoustic environment such as a multipath. However, a passive time-reversal mirror is simpler than an equalizer because a matched filter is implemented numerically at the receiver structure along with one-way propagation. In this paper, a passive time-reversal mirror is applied to remove interferences due to a multipath in sea-going experimental data in East Sea in Oct. 2010 and improved communication performance is confirmed. The performance is verified by comparing the signal-to-interference plus noise ratio before/after passive time-reversal mirror. It is also performed independently of the passive time-reversal mirror and adaptive equalizer and the bit error rate is compared to verify the performance of underwater acoustic communication.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.393-396
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• 2001

차량 주행시 발생되는 소위 mimic 소음은 접이식 outside mirror의 접합부에서 발생하는 이음(異音)으로서 예민한 승객에게 지적된다. Mimic 소음은 2kHz이 상의 고주파 영역에서 특정 대역에 간헐적으로 발생하는 소음이며, 시간에 대해 앙상블 에버리지를 하는 일반적인 분석 방법으로는 나타나지 않는다. 그러나 주의 깊은 청취에 의해 그 존재를 분명히 느낄 수 있으므로 다꾸찌 시험 계획법에 의거 실험 샘플을 제작하여 녹음한 뒤, 청음 평가를 통하여 개선하는 과정을 거쳤다. 분석 결과 mimic 소음은 folding gap의 폭보다는 균일도를 유지하는 것이 중요하며, gap내의 공동(공동, cavity)을 메워 주는 것이 효과적이라는 결론을 얻었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.1E
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• pp.29-34
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• 2009

MPEG4 High Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding (HE-AAC) and MPEG Surround are one of the most efficient combinations for low bit rate multi-channel audio coding. Based on the fact that these two codecs have identical quadrature mirror filter (QMF) analysis and synthesis structures, we propose a dual-domain connection scheme for the codecs. Specifically two time-domain connection methods are analyzed and compared to the QMF subband-domain connection method. Experimental results show that both the time-domain connection methods cause no subjective sound quality degradation compared to the QMF subband-domain connection method, which verifies that one can select either of them depending on application scenarios.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.389-394
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• 2016

MIMO (Multiple-Input-Multiple-Output) in underwater acoustic communication has distortion of received signal because of ISI (Inter-Symbol Interference) and crosstalk among transmitters. Time-reversal mirror was used for compensating of signal distortion, but it has a limit in eliminating crosstalk effectively. This paper proposes a time-reversal mirror based on GSC (Generalized Sidelobe Canceller) for removing crosstalk. The FAF05 (The Focused Acoustic Forecasting 05) experimental data has been used to verify the suggested method by comparison with the conventional time-reversal for communication performance, and it is demonstrated that the suggested method produces better communication performance results than conventional time-reversal.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.295-302
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• 2010

This paper proposes a multiple access method based on Time Reversal Mirror (TRM) technique when the multiple sensor nodes exist. Proposed method increases system sum capacity using energy focusing effects of the TRM. Simulation results show that proposed algorithm obtains higher system sum capacity than Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA), e.g., 27 bps/Hz higher than the OFDMA method when the number of sensor node is 30, the number of transducer is 8, and is SINR 16 dB.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.3
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• pp.213-221
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• 2009

The time reversal mirror (TRM) method for underwater communications has been developed to improve transmission performance with low complexity. However, digital communication parameters for TRM have not been researched deeply. This paper demonstrates that the TRM scheme obtains spatial diversity gain similar to multiple antennas, and proposes design methodologies of symbol interval, frame duration and transmission protocol for time reversal mirror transmission. Simulation results show that spatial diversity gain is achieved and the effect of ISI decreases as the number of transducer increases.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.375-382
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• 2016

This paper presents the results for the performance improvement of underwater communication in a passive time reversal mirror (PTRM) using ray-based blind deconvolution (RBD). In conventional PTRM, the signal to be recovered is found from matched-filtering the received probe signal. However, the communication performance is degraded because the time-varying impulse response for each data frame is not reflected in the received probe signal. In this study, the time-variant transfer function is estimated from each received data frame using RBD, and the estimated time-variant transfer function is then used to recover the data signal using PTRM. The results from the experimental data show that the suggested method improves the communication performance when comparing with the conventional PTRM.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.2E
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• pp.73-86
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• 1995

The transducer section of the forward-looking ultrasound imaging catheter (FLUIC) consists of a circular piezoelectric element as a vibrator and a conical acoustic mirror as a perfect reflector. A small diameter piezoelectric transducer element is mounted on the side of a catheter's rotating shaft. The unique design of FLUIC provides the capability to form a two-dimensional image of a cross-section of vessel in front of the catheter, which is lacking in the present generation of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) transducers, as well as a conventional side view image. The mirror configuration for the transducer section of the FLUIC is designed using an approximated ray tracing techniques. The diffraction transfer function approach [1] developed for the field prediction from primary sources is generalized and extended to predict the secondary diffraction characterstics from an acoustic mirror. The extended model is verified by simulation and experiment through a simple plane reflector and employed to analyzed the field characteristics of a FLUIC.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1993.06a
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• pp.125-127
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• 1993

오디오 혹은 비디오화의, 방송 고품질전화 등의 음성신호의 전송을 위해 마련된 CCITT Recommendation G.722에 의거 Codec을 구성하고 이를 통과한 연속음성을 CMU의 불특정 화자 연속음성인식 시스템인 SPHINX에 입력하여 인식률을 조사 한 후 CODING전의 인식결과와 비교하였다. 이때 CODEC은 크게 네 부분(Trans Quarature Mirror Filter, Encoder, Decoder, Receive QMF)으로 구성하고 입력음성 데이터는 150화자에 의한 1018문장을 훈련용으로, 140문장을 테스트용으로 하였을 때의 단어 인식률을 인식률로 하였다. 또 이때 특징벡터로는 12차 Melcepstrum 계수를 사용하였다. 인식결과 코딩전(close talk Mic를 이용하여 직접입력)의 단어 인식률이 86.7%인데 비해 코딩후의 인식률은 85.6%로 나타나 약 1%의 인식률 저하를 가져와 코딩으로 인한 Error에 비해 비교적 양호한 결과를 얻을 수 있었다. 인식률 저하의 원인으로서는 코딩시의 BER(Bit Error Rate)에 의한 것으로 생각된다.