• Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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• v.20 no.2 s.70
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• pp.73-78
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• 2005

A fire is occurring increasingly every you and the damage is bigger in proportion to the number. Therefore a fire is classified as a serious calamity. It is important to evacuate and fight a fire by early Perception. However, if the alarming sound is not perceived when a fire breaks out the damage could be expanded. From this point of view, this study aims to analyse the correlation between alarming sound sources and sound quality parameters through psycho-acoustic experiment using Korean vocabularies extracted by existing study. The sound sources more dangerous, tense and urgent were chosen. The results from this study are as follows: 1. airraid, klaxon2 and S.O.S got a point more than conventional alarming sound.2. correlation coefficient between Loudness(L) and Unbiased Annoyance(UA) was highest with 0.63 md Sharpness(S) and Roughness(R) was -0.40 and Fluctuation Strength(FL) and Tonality(T).

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1992.06a
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• pp.3-8
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• 1992

The theory of subjective preference with temporal and spatial factors which include sound signals arriving at both ears is described. Then, auditory evoked potentials which may relate to a primitive subjective response namely subjective preference are discussed. According to such fundamental phenomena, a workable model of human auditory-brain system is proposed. For eample, important subjective attributes, such as loudness, coloration, threshold of preception of a reflection and echo distrubance as well as subjective preference in relation to the initial time delay gap between the direct sound and the first reflection, and the subsequent reverberation time are well described by the autocorrelation function of source signals. Speech clarity, subjective diffuseness as well as subjective preference are related to the magnitude of inter-aural crosscorrelation function (IACC). Even the caktail party effects may be eplained by spatialization of human brain, i.e., independence of temporal and spatial factors.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.279-282
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 기존의 문헌에 자세히 기술되지 않은 주파수 분할 방법에 대한 고찰을 통해 과도음의 라우드니스 해석에 적합한 임계 대역 해석 방법을 제안하고, 이를 근거로 과도음의 라우드니스 모델을 구현하여 기존의 임상 실험 결과와의 비교함으로써 그 유효성을 확인하였다. 또한 순음의 라우드니스 해석에서 기존 라우드니스 모델이 안고 있는 신호해석 상의 문제점 등을 지적하고 이를 개선한 새로운 모델을 제시하였다. 개선 방법으로서 임계 대역폭의 1/2 간격으로 총 47개의 임계 대역 필터를 배치하여 필터의 경계에 순음이 존재할 때 발생할 수 있는 라우드니스 오차를 최소화 하였다. 또한 이 모델에서는 Zwicker가 제안했던 기존의 방법을 제안된 임계 대역 필터에 적합하도록 수정하는 작업이 포함되었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.215-218
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• 2004

제품 발생 소음의 음질 (sound qualify)에 대한 관심이 높아지면서, 음질 제어가 제품 경쟁력 향상에 중요한 고려 요소가 되었다. 이러한 음질에 대한 객관적인 분석을 위하여 다수의 상용 프로그램이 개발되고 있지만 라우드니스 (loudness)를 제외한 음질인자 (sound quality metrics)들은 아직 표준화 작업이 이루어지지 않았기 때문에 프로그램에 따라 차이가 발생하고 있다. 본 연구에서는 음질 분석을 위한 4 개의 상용 프로그램을 이용하여 일정 신호의 라우드니스, 샤프니스 (sharpness), 러프니스(roughness), 변동강도 (fluctuation strength)를 계산하고, 그 결과를 비교, 분석하였고, 이미 표준화 된 라우드니스를 포함한 음질인자들의 계산 결과는 프로그램에 따라 무시할 수 없는 차이가 나타남을 확인하였다. 이는 제품의 음질 평가 시 사용된 분석 프로그램 따라 그 결과가 다를 수 있음을 의미한다. 본 연구를 통해서 얻은 결과는 향후 음질 인자의 표준화 및 음질 지수 개발에 중요한 자료로 사용 될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.511-516
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• 2002

Pitch is a perception related to the subjective frequency that is one of the psychological aspects or attributes of tones. It is also an important factor to determine the sound quality together with loudness and timber. Although the study on pitch has been active in the field of speech communication, but its application to the product sound quality is not yet enough. In this study, the empirical data by Zwicker is made use in the modification of the currently available pitch extraction model based on the place theory. By applying this modified model to various sound samples composed of tonal or banded components, the applicability of the model is suggested. As a demonstration example, the algorithm is used for the sound quality analysis of a product noise having fundamental frequency and harmonics. The result shows that the pitch should be regarded as an important subjective cue in the sound quality analysis.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1142-1146
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• 2007

In this studies, subjective evaluation of heavy-weight floor impact sound through classification was conducted. Heavyweight impact sounds generated by an impact ball were recorded through dummy heads in apartment buildings. The recordings were classified according to the frequency characteristics of the floor impact sounds which are influenced by the floor structure with different boundary conditions and composite materials. The characteristics of the floor impact noise were investigated by paired comparison tests and semantic differential tests. Sound sources for auditory experiment were selected based on the actual noise levels with perceptual level differences. The results showed that roughness and fluctuation strength as well as loudness of the heavy-weight impact noise had a major effect on annoyance.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.129-138
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• 2017

The subjective experiments on professional musicians using the four channel real-time convolution system were conducted to investigate the effect of reverberant sound pressure level ($L_{rev}$) for stage acoustics. The strength of $L_{rev}$ was changed to 2 dB steps to investigate the optimal strength for ease of performance and the subjective questionnaire survey was conducted to investigate the effect of subjective factor by $L_{rev}$. From the experimental results, a specific strength of $L_{rev}$ is related to ease of music performance. Loudness and directivity are highly correlated.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 1999.03a
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• pp.39-44
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• 1999

The purpose of this study was to extract emotional dimensions from Korean adjectives relating to apartment noise. Noise-related 296 Korean adjectives were extracted from a dictionary and three evaluators selected 96 adjectives from those by removing very similar ones in meaning. Two types of 96 7-point scales were conducted to college students for evaluation, whether each adjective describes apartment noise appropriately. From this evaluation, 28 adjectives having above 4.5 points were selected. Again, 8 different types of 7-point scales on 378 adjective pairs(28 x 27/2) were administrated to separate college students to evaluate the degree of similarity between 28 adjectives. Based upon this evaluation, 14 adjectives were finally selected and scores on similarity sere analyzed through two different statistical analyses (Multi-dimensional scale and Cluster analysis). The results showed that three dimensions (displeasure, sensitivity and perceived loudness) exist in peoples' emotional response state to apartment noise. The previous studies have treated annoyance and sensitivity as separate measures to noise. However, this study showed that these two factors were on the same emotional dimension labeled as 'sensitivity' In addition, new dimension, labeled as 'displeasure', was found.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Emotion and Sensibility Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.1361-1365
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 슈트용 직물의 촉각 자극 시 나타나는 감성 특성을 파악하고, 이를 바탕으로 직물의 스치는 소리가 공감각적 감성변화에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 분석하기 위해 물리적 평가 및 주관적 평가를 실시하였다. 피험자 20명을 대상으로 직물의 촉감을 평가하게 한 후, 그 직물의 스치는 소리를 제시하여 감각과 감성을 평가하도록 하였다. 복합자극으로는 직물별 tm치는 소리와 촉감을 동시에 제시하여 때 감성을 평가하였다. 실험결과 촉감에 대한 감성차원으로는 '심미성'과 '개성'의 두 가지 요인이 나타났고, 소리에 대한 감성차원으로는 '심미성'과 '고급감', '개성'의 세 가지 요인이 도출되었다. 심미성을 유발하는 촉각성 요인으로는 'pliable'과 'cool', 개성을 유발하는 촉감성 요인으로 'smooth'와 'cool'로 나타났다. 청각자극에 의한 감성은 'loudness'가 가장 큰 영향을 미쳤다. 촉감자극에 의한 직물 별 소리 자극을 부가하였을 경우 직물 소리의 물리량에 따라 심미성 요인에서 감성의 상승 및 하강 효과를 발견할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.60-63
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• 2013

In this research, a mono-to-stereo upmixing algorithm based on music source separation is proposed. For the upmixing, a harmonic and percussive separation for jazz music is implemented. Then, the sources are re-panned by equalizing the loudness of left and right sides of listeners in the one proposed approach. In the other approach, the harmonic sources are spread by a decorrelator while the percussive sources are panned to the center. In the experiments, the re-panning algorithm showed advanced performance in terms of localization and timbral quality.