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A Spectral Compensation Method for Noise Robust Speech Recognition (잡음에 강인한 음성인식을 위한 스펙트럼 보상 방법)

  • Cho, Jung-Ho
    • 전자공학회논문지 IE
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    • v.49 no.2
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    • pp.9-17
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    • 2012
  • One of the problems on the application of the speech recognition system in the real world is the degradation of the performance by acoustical distortions. The most important source of acoustical distortion is the additive noise. This paper describes a spectral compensation technique based on a spectral peak enhancement scheme followed by an efficient noise subtraction scheme for noise robust speech recognition. The proposed methods emphasize the formant structure and compensate the spectral tilt of the speech spectrum while maintaining broad-bandwidth spectral components. The recognition experiments was conducted using noisy speech corrupted by white Gaussian noise, car noise, babble noise or subway noise. The new technique reduced the average error rate slightly under high SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) environment, and significantly reduced the average error rate by 1/2 under low SNR(10 dB) environment when compared with the case of without spectral compensations.

Analysis of Residents' Consciousness for the Environmental Noise in the Residential Area (주거지역 환경소음에 대한 거주민 의식 분석)

  • Park, Hyeon-Ku;Song, Guk-Gon;Kim, Won-Sik;Kim, Sun-Woo
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.130-138
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    • 2012
  • Environmental noise in the residential area is appeared with different types and features along with the growth of society. In particular when the economic level is raised up, the demand of residents for the environmental noise becomes more sensitive. The existing research on the environmental noise was initiated in the 1980's and resulted that the children's jumping sound was most annoying among the noises transmitted from the other unit. This result caused such activities that the researches were focused on the floor impact noise and that the laws in relation to environmental noise within residential area were revised strictly. This study aimed to survey the consciousness of residents for the environmental noise and to see how it is changed comparing with the previous one. Ultimately this result could be useful to establish the target for research or noise control to make the comfortable residential environment.

Health Effects of Apartment Noise (층간소음의 건강영향)

  • Park, Young Min;Kim, Kyoung Min
    • Journal of Environmental Policy
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.113-134
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    • 2015
  • In new housing demand, proportion of occupied multi-housing is 89.9% (statistics from 2013). In this way, with many generations living together, apartment noise disputes between the neighbors are continuously rising. The apartment noise problem in Korea is at a very serious level worldwide (about 88% of the population is experiencing stress due to apartment noise). On the other hand, the government has strengthened the regulations (such as the thickness of the floor and floor impact sound reduction performance, etc.) and promoted a resolution of its own for each multi-housing estates for mediating disputes on apartment noise. However, such physical regulations and passive management policies still presents a limit to the dispute mitigation of apartment noise. Also, in order to improve the quality of life in living spaces, policy on health effects of apartment noise should be provided. Therefore, we investigated a case study of the noise exposure-human body reaction to analyze the effect of noise on health. On the basis of this, the health effects according to the exposure period of apartment noise were considered.

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A Study on the Plan for Advanced Noise-Policy in the 21st Century (21세기 소음정책 선진화 방안 고찰)

  • Yang, Geun-Ho;Park, Young-Min;Lee, Nae-Hyun;Chang, Yoon-Young
    • Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.21-30
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    • 2009
  • The study show that things about the noise control are indicated at The Noise & Vibration Control Act and the other Act. Also, the details program and total government ministries' program for the noise control are indicated what are the advance noise control plan. The study consist of the four part which are "Draw up the environmental noise infrastructure plan; the install shall be done the noisemap & the automatic noise measurement devices", "Resetting of environmental noise standard at the application area and Introduce of indoor noise; the guide for region classification of the noise standard & indoor noise", "Setting of aircraft noise standard and Program of measurement point operation; the noise-assessment-standard shall change from WECPN to new index($L_{den}$, $L_{dn}$, $L_{Aeq\;24h}$) & the operation and control of aircraft noise measurement changes from local environmental office to central control center" and "The method of noise regulation at construction site and the plan on making of standard for vibration regulation; It shall be made that the guideline of construction noise should include a target-construction, noise standard etc & the ministries shall unify control about construction vibration of the blasting vibration". The advance noise-policy will improve efficiency to deal with civil appeal & damage on residents about noise.

A Study on the Concentrations of Indoor Radon for Houses in Chungcheongbuk-do Province, Korea (충청북도 일부지역 내 주택 실내 라돈 농도)

  • Ji, Hyun-A;Yoo, Ju-Hee;Kim, Ga-Hyun;Won, Soo Ran;Kim, Seonhong;Lee, Jeongsub
    • Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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    • v.45 no.6
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    • pp.668-674
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: Modern people spend most of their day indoors. As the health impact of radon becomes an issue, public interest also has been growing. The primary route of potential human exposure to radon is inhalation. Long-term exposure to high levels of radon increases the risk of developing lung cancer. Radon exposure is known to be the second-leading cause of lung cancer, following tobacco smoke. This study measures the indoor radon concentrations in detached houses in area A of Chungcheongbuk-do Province considering the construction year, cracks in the houses, the location of installed detectors, and seasonal effects. Methods: The survey was conducted from September 2017 to April 2018 on 1,872 private households located in selected areas in northern Chungcheongbuk-do Province to figure out the year of building construction and the location of detector installed and identify the factors which affect radon concentrations in the air within the building. Radon was measured using a manual alpha track detector (Raduet, Hungary) with a sampling period of longer than 90 days. Results: Indoor radon concentrations in winter within area A was surveyed to be 168.3±193.3 Bq/㎥. There was more than a 2.3 times difference between buildings built before 1979 and those built after 2010. The concentration reached 195.4±221.9 Bq/㎥ for buildings with fractures and 167.2±192.4 Bq/㎥ for buildings without fractures. It was found that detectors installed in household areas with windows exhibited a lower concentration than those installed in concealed spaces. Conclusion: High concentrations of indoor radon were shown when there was a crack in the house. Also, ventilation seems to significantly affect radon concentrations because when the location of the detector in the installed site was near windows compared to an enclosed area, radon concentration variation increased. Therefore, it is considered that radon concentration is lower in summer because natural ventilation occurs more often than in winter.

A Study on Noise Marking Obligation System for Construction Equipments in Europe (유럽의 건설기계 소음표시의무 제도)

  • Park, Sang-Kyu;Park, In-Sun
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2005.05a
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    • pp.104-108
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    • 2005
  • With the improvement of living quality, people's desire for quiet living environment keeps increasing. In particular, complaints about the noise emission by constrcution equipments around residential areas take most part of the noise related complaints. In this study, based on the European Directive/20n/14/EC, noise marking obligation system for the high noise construction equipment of Europe has been reviewed to implement the similar system in Korea.

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Vehicle Noise Status and Characteristics (자동차소음 현황과 특성)

  • 강대준;정일록;김종민;서웅열;박준철;최용호
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.05a
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    • pp.616-622
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    • 2001
  • The road traffic noise becomes aggravated due to the rapid increase of motor vehicles. It has a great effect on the dwelling environment. Therefore we investigate the characteristics and sources of the motor vehicle noise through grasping the status of the motor vehicle noise. Traffic noise results from the collective contribution of the noise produced by individual motor vehicles. The motor vehicle noise varies enormously depending upon its type and mode of operation.

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Tyre/road Noise Status and Characteristics (타이어소음 현황 특성)

  • 강대준;정일록;장성기;서충열;박준철
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2001.11b
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    • pp.711-718
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    • 2001
  • The tyre/road noise becomes aggravated due to the rapid increase of motor vehicles. It has a great effect on the dwelling environment. Therefore we investigate the characteristics and sources of the tyre/road noise through grasping the status of the tyre/road noise. Traffic noise results from the collective contribution of the noise produced by individual motor vehicles. The tyre/road noise varies enormously depending upon its type and mode of operation.

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A Study on Voice Recognition Pattern matching level for Vehicle ECU control (자동차 ECU제어를 위한 음성인식 패턴매칭레벨에 관한 연구)

  • Ahn, Jong-Young;Kim, Young-Sub;Kim, Su-Hoon;Hur, Kang-In
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.75-80
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    • 2010
  • Noise handing is very important in voice recognition of vehicle environment. that has been studying about to hardware and software approach. hardware method that is noise filter circuit design, basically using Low-pass filter. it was shown a good result. and the side of software that has been developing about to algorithm for Noise canceler, NN(neural network), etc. in this paper we have analysis about to classified parameter pattern matting level for voice recognition on car noise environment that use of DTW(Dynamic Time Warping) which is applicable time series pattern recognition algorithm.

The Study on the Design and Implementation of SHF band Low Noise Amplifier of Digital Satellite Communication (디지털 위성 중계기용 SHF 대역 저잡음 증폭장치 설계 및 구현에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Ki-Jung
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.11 no.12
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    • pp.1159-1164
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    • 2016
  • This study describes the design and implementation of SHF band Low Noise Amplifier of Digital Satellite Communication. We have applied to HEMT part to minimize Noise Figure of system. and minimized the potential for the occurrence of such erroneous operation of equipment through the simulations of the space environment. We designed a reliable Low Noise Amplifier through simulation for a TID according to the vibration generated during the launch and space radiation environment, and compared pre-simulation of main performance results to test results about main performances of Low Noise Amplifier after production.