• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.7
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• pp.3-12
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• 2001

It is known that the roughness is one of the most important metrics in assessing the sound quality. In this study, a new roughness model is suggested by combing the previous auditory filter model and several signal processing methods for the enhancement of calculation efficiency and accuracy. For testing the usefulness of the present model, the predicted responses are compared with the experimental data and it is observed that they are in good agreements. Also, it is found that the previous models have limitations to search frequency components mainly contributed to overall roughness. By modifying the correlation criteria of the present model, the revised model for the proper estimation of roughness-contributed components is embedded.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.362-369
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• 2004

The High-frequency (30 ∼ 120 ㎑) bottom reflection loss at rough water-sediment interface is affected by the gram size distribution of the sediments. The roughness of the bottom surface is represented by "acoustical roughness. g/sub R/" The grain size of sandy sediments is g/sub R/∼O(1) and the dependence as a function of frequency. We suggest the modified bottom reflection loss model (HYBRL model , HanYang university Bottom Reflection Loss model) that include in the deviation of the reflection loss as a function of the grain size distribution and frequency dependence. And bottom reflection loss model of frequency dependence and deviation of bottom properties is verified by water tank and field experiments.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1985.10a
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• pp.79-86
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• 1985

Residual-ecited linear prediction vocoding is known to be one of the best approaches to speech coding in the range of 4.8 to 9.6 kbits/s. One problem associated with the RELP vocoder is that it often produces some roughness and tonal noise as the transmission rate becomes lower. In this paper, we investigate three methods to improve its quality. These include the multiband spectral folding method, the method of using both the spectrally folded signal and the pulsed ecitation signal, and the method of using both the multiband spectrally folded signal and the pulsed ecitation signal. It has been found that, among the three methods, the last one yields the best performance. It produces no roughness and little tonal noise.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.283-286
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• 1998

monaural 신호는 귀의 특성과 인간의 청취 특성을 정확하게 반영하지 못하는 문제점이 있다. 귀 자체의 특성이 binaural인 것을 생각하면 monaural 신호를 이용한 방법은 정확한 결과가 나오기 어렵다. 따라서 이 논문에서는 monaural 신호를 이용한 음질 평가 시스템의 단점을 보완하고 귀의 binaural 특성을 살린 binaural 음질 평가 시스템을 구현하였다. 소리에 대한 심리음향학 인자로는 monaural 평가에서 사용했던 loudness, sharpness, roughness, fluctuation strength, annoyance, pleasantness를 binaural에 맞도록 수정하였으며, monaural 평가에서는 사용하지 않았던 tonality를 추가하여 pleasantness의 annoyance의 계산식을 수정하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.85-88
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• 1998

심리음향학적으로 소리의 감성 요소를 평가하려는 시도가 계속되고 있으나 뚜렷한 결과가 나온 것은 많지 않다. 또한 감성 인자 평가에 대한 국제적인 표준도 정확히 나와있지 않다. 일반적으로 심리음향학 인자로 loudness, sharpness, roughness, fluctuation strength, pleasantness, annoyance를 사용하며, 이러한 인자들을 이용하여 바이노럴 음질 평가 시스템을 구현하였다. 구현된 바이노럴 음질 평가 시스템의 객관성을 평가하기 위해 인성 실험을 실시하였고 인성 실험 결과와 음질 평가 시스템을 이용한 평가 결과를 비교 분석하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.491-499
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• 2023

Scattering by Sea surface roughness occurs due to sea level roughness, communication performance deteriorates by causing frequency spread in communication signals and time variation in communication channels. In order to compare the difference in time variation of underwater acoustic communication channel according to the surface roughness, an experiment was performed in a tank owned by Hanyang University Ocean Acoustics Lab. Artificial surface roughness was created in the tank and communication signals with three bandwidths were used (8 kHz, 16 kHz, 32 kHz). The measured surface roughness was converted into a Rayleigh parameter and used as a roughness parameter, and statistical analysis was performed on the time-varying channel characteristics of the surface path using Doppler spread and correlation time. For the Doppler spread of the surface path, the Weighted Root Mean Square Doppler spread (w_fσ_ν) that corrected the effect of the carrier frequency and bandwidth of the communication signal was used. Using the correlation time of the surface path and the energy ratio of the direct path and the surface path, the correlation of total channels was simulated and compared with the measured correlation time of total channels. In this study, we propose a method for efficient communication signal design in an arbitrary marine environment by using the time-varying characteristics of the sea surface path according to the sea surface roughness.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.78-87
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• 2017

The goal of the present paper is to objectify the intrinsic subjectivity of sound as a media of music by applying psycho-acoustical methodology to the analysis of a musical work. First, 18 sound samples are extracted from "Symponie Fantastique" written by Hector Berlioz, which is a piece of program music, and then the objective Zwicher's sound quality parameters such as: Loudness, Sharpness, Roughness and Fluctuation Strength are evaluated for each of these sound samples. For subjective sound quality evaluation, 9 representative sound quality adjectives are extracted on a basis of program feature of Symponie Fantastique and the first jury test is carried out by using the numeric rating method and the paired comparison method. Three sound quality adjectives, "bright", "noisy", and "realistic" are extracted from the factor analysis of the first jury test result. On a basis of the computed sound metrics and the second jury test result for the three sound quality adjectives, three sound quality indexes are developed to represent the sound qualities of "Symponie Fantastique".

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.8
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• pp.671-678
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• 2002

High-frequency monostatic reverberation model (HYREV: HanYang Univ. REVerberation model) suitable for shallow-water environment is presented. It is difficult to predict reverberation signals in shallow water due to scattering from sea surface and seafloor. The arrival times and transmission losses from the source to scatterers are obtained from the eigenrays. The composite roughness theory is used to predict the boundary scattering. The signals generated by the HYREV and the GSM were compared with the observed signals and it is showed that the HYREV model provided a closer fit to the observed signals than those obtained using the GSM.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.421-429
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• 2002

Sea surface backscattering signal measurements were conducted in the shallow waters off the east coast of Korea to study the acoustic wave scattering from the sea surface. The grazing angles of wave range from 20° to 40° with a frequency of 60 kHz. The wind speed and surface roughness of the experiment area were 3 m/os and below 1 m, respectively. The measured acoustic backscattering strengths greatly exceed the composite roughness predictions at low grazing angles. To account for this discrepancy, the scattering strengths due to a near-surface bubble layer were considered. The prediction with bubble contribution was found to be in good agreement with the experimental measurement.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1E
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• pp.38-44
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• 2010

This paper is based on our comments and proposed amendments to the documents, Annex A, Phantom for determining Maximum Depth of Penetration, and Annex B, Local Dynamic Range Using Acoustical Test Objects 87/400/CDV. IEC 61391-2 Ed. 1.0 200X, prepared by IEC technical Committee 87; Ultrasonics. The documents are concerned with the influence of microstructure of reference target material on the ultrasonic backscattering. Previous works on the attenuation due to backreflection and backscattering of reference target materials are reviewed. The drawback to the use of ungraded stainless steel and metallic materials without microstructural data such as, crystal structure, basic acoustic data of sound velocity and attenuation, grain size, roughness and elastic constants has been discussed. The analysis suggested that the insightful conclusion can be made by differentiating the influence arising from target size and microstructure on the backscattering measurements. The microstructural parameters are associated with physical, geometrical, acoustical and mechanical origins of variation with frequency. Further clarification of such a diverse source mechanisms for ultrasonic backscattering would make the target material and its application for medical diagnosis and therapy simpler and more reliable.