• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.7
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• pp.458-467
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• 2010

In this paper, a new audio reproduction system was developed in which the cross-talk signals would be reasonably cancelled at an arbitrary listener position. To adaptively remove the cross-talk signals according to the listener's position, a method of tracking the listener position was employed. This was achieved using the two microphones, where the listener direction was estimated using the time-delay between the two signals from the two microphones, respectively. Moreover, room reverberation effects were taken into consideration where linear prediction analysis was involved. To remove the cross-talk signals at the left-and right-ears, the paths between the sources and the ears were represented using the KEMAR head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) which were measured from the artificial dummy head. To evaluate the usefulness of the proposed listener tracking system, the performance of cross-talk cancellation was evaluated at the estimated listener positions. The performance was evaluated in terms of the channel separation ration (CSR), a -10 dB of CSR was experimentally achieved although the listener positions were more or less deviated. A real-time system was implemented using a floating-point digital signal processor (DSP). It was confirmed that the average errors of the listener direction was 5 degree and the subjects indicated that 80 % of the stimuli was perceived as the correct directions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.35 no.2C
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• pp.246-253
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• 2010

In this paper, a method of removing the space skew and cross-talk cancellation is proposed where the self-generated signals from the subject are used to obtain the subject's location. In the proposed method, the good spatial sound image is maintained even when the listener moves from the sweet spot. Two major parts of the proposed method are as follows: listener position tracking using the stimuli from the subject and removal of the space skew and cross-talk signals. Listener position tracking is achieved by estimation of the time difference of arrival (TDoA). The position of the listener is then computed using the Talyer-series estimation method. The head-related transfer functions (HRTF) are used to remove the space skew and cross-talk signals, where the direction of the HRTF is given by the one estimated from the listener position tracking. The performance evaluation is carried out on the signals from the 100 subjects that are composed of the 50 female and 50 male subjects. The positioning accuracy is achieved by 70%~90%, under the condition that the mean squared positioning error is less than $0.07m^2$. The subjective listening test is also conducted where the 27 out of the 30 subjects are participated. According to the results, 70% of the subjects indicates that the overall quality of the reproduced sound from the proposed method are improved, regardless of the subject's position.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2000

Recently, the technologies of adaptive noise cancellation(ANC) are developed fast and widely due to the highly sophisticated digital signal processing algorithms and the high-speed communication networks and devices. But, thousand numbers of the adaptive filter taps are required to obtain the satisfying results in the fields of the adaptive noise cancellation and echo cancellation. In the paper, performance comparisons based on the real-time processing between frequency domain adaptive filter(FDAF) and multi-delay frequency domain adaptive filter(MDF) are carried. Those algorithms provide us with the reductions of the computational burdens and the increase of the convergence rate for the lengthy Fill adaptive filters. The time delay due to the long taps of FDAF can be reduced by adopting the MDF algorithms. The conventional ANC and cross talks ANC using FDAF are implemented on the dSP ACE 1103 real-time signal processing board.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.46-49
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 4개의 스피커를 이용한 음향 재생 환경에서 청취자의 위치에 따라 최적의 sweet spot을 제공하도록 스피커를 구동하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 청취자 위치에 대하여 대칭 구조를 가지는 스피커 쌍(pair) 후보들을 선택한다. 다음, ringing 현상을 감소시키기 위하여 앞에서 선택한 스피커 쌍 후보 중에서 스피커 간 간격이 가장 먼 스피커 쌍과 이 스피커 쌍 사이에 있는 모든 스피커를 구동 스피커로 결정한다. 마지막으로, cross-talk cancellation 행렬의 크기를 제한하여 ringing 현상을 감소시킨다. 모의실험을 통해, 청취자 위치가 변할 때 제안하는 스피커 구동 방법을 사용하여 sweet spot 면적이 일정한 수준으로 유지되어 기존 방법에 비하여 성능이 향상된 것을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.149-152
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• 1999

This paper addresses major issues in localising sound sources in space using the experimental data set of head-related responses in the time or frequency domain. They come from the technical realisation steps for implementing the convolution of HRIR's with sound sources, the cross-talk cancellation for transaural filtering, the matched time delay compensation, etc. in real, those technical matters seem to be minor because they can be realised in off-line signal processing schemes. This paper puts much emphasis on what we misunderstood about the sets of HRTF's or HRIR's, More specifcaily, the sets of HRTF's or HRIR's of course supply relevant information to sound localisation but include much useless 'rubbish' that have made for us to fail to put spatial image into real souno signals such as voices and music's. This paper proposes possible reasons for such failure and, furthermore, introduces detained subjects that should be challenged so as to resolve them.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2015.11a
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• pp.84-86
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 2차원으로 배열된 4개의 스피커를 이용한 음향 재생환경에서 청취자의 위치에 따라 최적의 sweet spot을 제공하도록 스피커를 구동하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 청취자의 위치를 추적하여 청취자의 귀와 스피커 쌍 후보 사이의 경로의 비율을 구한다. 다음, 청취자의 위치를 고려하여 스피커 쌍 후보들의 스피커 간 거리 비율을 구한다. 마지막으로, 앞서 구한 두 개 거리 비율의 비율이 1에 가까운 스피커 쌍을 구동 스피커로 결정하고 cross-talk cancellation을 음원에 적용하여 청취자에게 제공한다. 모의실험을 통해, 청취자의 위치가 변할 때 제안하는 스피커 구동 방법을 사용하여 기존의 방법보다 청취자에게 넓은 sweet spot을 제공할 수 있음을 확인하였다.