• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2004년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.109-114
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• 2004

Measurement of noise is not only to know the information of acoustic pressure but to assess human response for noise. Provided that want to find human response for transportation noise, we will have to reproduce the measured noise. The method of reproduction is largely divided into monaural and binaural reproduction techniques. Human fundamentally hears sound through both ears, which is binaural hearing. And binaural technique includes the more information of physical phenomena like acoustical reflection and deflection. So, binaural reproduction is more suitable for assessment of the psychoacoustical and physiological response for transportation noise exposures.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1279-1286
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• 2004

This paper continues companion paper, part I : measurement and analysis. As shown in companion Paper, information and energy in monaural signal is quite different from that of binaural signal. In this paper, difference between monaural and binaural signal of transportation noise are investigated in subjective response test. We executed hearing screening test before giving a subject response test and excluded subjects who had physical hearing loss. An annoyance response test was conducted using headphone to avoid cross-talk effect in binaural testing. Percentage of highly annoyed under binaural signal reproduction is higher than percentage of highly annoyed under monaural signal reproduction. Result implies binaural reproduction technique is proper for a study of human response to short-term noise exposure in a headphone simulated-environment.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.11-19
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• 2000

If the right and left signals of a binaural sound recording are reproduced through loudspeakers instead of a headphone, they are inevitably mixed during their transmission to the ears of the listener. This degrades the desired realism in the sound reproduction system, which is commonly called 'cross-talk.' A 'cross-talk canceler' that filters binaural signals before they are sent to the sound sources is needed to prevent cross-talk. A cross-talk canceler equalizes the resulting sound around the listener's ears as if the original binaural signal sound is reproduced next to the ears of listener. A cross-talk canceler is also a solution to the problem-how binaural sound is distributed to more than 2 channels that drive sound sources. This paper presents an effective way of building a cross-talk canceler in which geometric information, including locations of the listener and multiple loudspeakers, is divided into angular information and distance information. The presented method makes a database in an off-line way using an adaptive filtering technique and Head Related Transfer Functions. Though the database is mainly concerned about the situation where loudspeakers are located on a standard radius from the listener, it can be used for general radius cases after a distance compensation process, which requires a small amount of computation. Issues related to inverting a system to build a cross-talk canceler are discussed and numerical results explaining the preferred configuration of a sound reproduction system for stereo loudspeakers are presented.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.199-207
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• 2008

A hybrid technique that combines the advantages of binaural reproduction and sound field reproduction technique is proposed. The concept of HRTF-field, which is defined as the set of HRTFs corresponding to the various head dislocations, enables us to realize virtual source imaging over a wide area. Conventional binaural($2{\times}2$) reproduction system is redefined as a MIMO system composed of multiple control sources and multiple head locations, and HRTF variations corresponding to various head movement are quantified. Through the direct control of HRTF-field, reproduction error induced by head dislocation can be minimized in least-square-error sense, and consequential disturbances on the virtual source image can be reduced within a selected area. Simple lateralization examples are investigated, and the reproduction error of the proposed technique is compared to that of higher-order Ambisonics.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제14권12호
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• pp.1268-1278
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• 2004

Measurement of noise is not only to know the information of acoustic pressure but to assess human response to noise. To find human response to transportation noise through the laboratory study we have to measure and reproduce noise. The method of noise reproduction is largely divided into monaural and binaural techniques. But human fundamentally hears sound through both ears, referred as binaural hearing. Binaural signal is different from monaural signal because it includes more information of physical phenomena like acoustical reflection, diffraction and refraction. Especially head and pinna play an important role in perceiving change of signal origin. So, the amplitude of binaural signal is higher than that of monaural signal and spectrum of both signals is discriminated. Most of assessment and regulation of transportation noise are, however, based on monaural measurement techniques. The quantitative difference between monaural and binaural measurement is investigated in this study. Comparison on several transportation noisesshows defect of information in monaural measurements.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.637-650
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• 2019

이 논문은 가상현실 오디오에서 널리 사용되는 Ambisonics에 기반하여 헤드폰을 통해 재생하는 binaural sound의 한계를 분석한 것이다. 가상현실 오디오는 청자의 머리 움직임을 보상하는 binaural sound를 통해 제공된다. Ambisonics는 가상현실 오디오에서 청자를 둘러싼 배경음장을 레코딩하고 재생하는데에 널리 사용되는데, 1차 Ambisonics가 간단하다는 장점 때문에 여전히 가상현실 오디오에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나, 물리적인 관점에서 1차의 상한 주파수는 너무 낮아서 귀 위치의 신호를 완벽히 재현하지 못한다. 따라서 이렇게 재생된 binaural sound는 스펙트럼과 음원 위치 형성에서 근본적인 한계를 갖는다. 이 논문은 이러한 한계를 기준 음장과 재생 음장에서의 귀 위치의 신호 비교를 통해 알아 본다. 하나의 입사파를 기준 음장으로 정의하고, 이 것을 가상 스피커를 이용해서 Ambisonics를 통해 재생한다. 주파수 응답, 양이 레벨차, 양이 위상차가 비교된다. 비교 결과, 상한 주파수 이상에서 재생음장의 음압 레벨은 감소하고 수평면 상에서의 음원 위치는 청자의 정면 방향 근처에서만 잘 형성됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1998년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제17권 1호
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• pp.269-272
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 스테레오 스피커를 통해 입체 음향을 재생할 때 발생하는 크로스 토크(corss talk)를 제거하기 위한 트랜스오럴 필터를 실시간으로 구현하였다. 실시간 처리를 위하여 일반적인 트랜스오럴 필터를 재구성하였으며, 범용 DSP(Digital Signal Processor) 칩인 TMS320C40을 사용하였다. 메인 프로그램은 C-언어를 이용하여 작성하였으며, 빠른 연산을 필요로 하는 컨벌루션 함수는 어셈블러 언어를 이용하여 최적화 하였다. 구현된 트랜스오럴 필터의 평가를 위해서 더미 헤드를 이용하여 녹음된 binaural 신호와 DSP를 이용하여 실시간으로 합성된 binaural 신호를 스테레오 스피커를 통해 재생하여 청취 실험하였다. 청취 실험한 결과 머리 밖에서 음상 정위가 이루어지고 공간감과 거리감은 헤드폰으로 청취할 때 보다 우수하게 나타났다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.997-1004
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• 2007

A hybrid technique that combines the advantages of binaural reproduction and sound field reproduction technique is proposed. The concept of HRTF-field, which is defined as the set of HRTFs corresponding to the various head dislocations, enables us to realize virtual source imaging over a wide area. Conventional $2{\times}2$ definition is redefined as a MIMO system composed of multiple control sources and multiple head locations, and HRTF variations corresponding to various head movement are quantified. Through the direct control of HRTF-field, reproduction error induced by head dislocation can be minimized in least-square-error sense, and consequential disturbances on the virtual source image can be reduced within a selected area. Simple lateralization examples are investigated, and the reproduction error of the proposed technique is compared to that of Higher-order Ambisonics.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제8권11호
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• pp.1421-1431
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• 2005

입체음향을 구현하는 방법은 두 가지가 있으며, 5.1 채널과 같은 서라운드 시스템(surround system)을 이용하는 방법과 2 채널의 바이노럴 시스템(binaural system)을 이용하는 방법이 있다. 바이노럴 시스템은 사람이 두 귀를 이용하여 음상을 정위하는 원리를 이용하는 방법이다. 일반적으로 라우더 스피커 시스템에서 각 채널사이에 발생하는 크로스토크(crosstalk)는 본래의 입체음향을 재생하기 위해서는 제거되어야만 한다. 이 문제를 해결하기 위해서는 머리의 움직임을 추정할 필요가 있다. 본 논문에서는 청취자의 머리 움직임을 제대로 추정하는 새로운 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 얼굴과 눈의 영역 검출을 기본으로 한다. 얼굴 검출은 이미지의 밝기 값을 이용하고 눈 검출은 수학적 형태학(mathematical morphology)을 이용한다. 청취자의 머리가 움직일 때 얼굴 영역과 눈 사이의 경계선의 길이가 변한다. 이 정보를 이용하여 머리 움직임을 추정한다. 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 알고리즘이 +10오차 범위 내에서 머리의 움직임을 효율적으로 추정하는 것을 확인하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.559-564
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• 2002

Cross-talk cancellation, inverse filter design or deconvolution in a generic term, is a vital process for a virtual sound realization in the stereo sound reproduction system. Most, if not all, of the design algorithms available for the inverse filter are based on a linearized model of the real physical plant. The result of such a plant-based design method, which may be referred to here as the indirect method, is biased due to both modelling and inversion errors. This paper presents a novel direct cross-talk cancellation method that may be free from the inversion error. The direct method can directly models the inverse filter by a suitable rearrangement of the input and output ports of the original plant so that no inversion is required here. Advantages are discussed with various experiments in an anechoic chamber using a PC soundcard. Binaural reproduction tests conducted showed that the conventional indirect method yields about 8 % reproduction performance error on both ear positions, whereas the direct method offers about 3 %.