• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.24 no.2
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• pp.11-18
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• 2023

Recently, in the field of Speech Emotion Recognition (SER), many studies have been conducted to improve accuracy using voice features and modeling. In addition to modeling studies to improve the accuracy of existing voice emotion recognition, various studies using voice features are being conducted. This paper, voice files are separated by time interval in a time series method, focusing on the fact that voice emotions are related to time flow. After voice file separation, we propose a model for classifying emotions of speech data by extracting speech features Mel, Chroma, zero-crossing rate (ZCR), root mean square (RMS), and mel-frequency cepstrum coefficients (MFCC) and applying them to a recurrent neural network model used for sequential data processing. As proposed method, voice features were extracted from all files using 'librosa' library and applied to neural network models. The experimental method compared and analyzed the performance of models of recurrent neural network (RNN), long short-term memory (LSTM) and gated recurrent unit (GRU) using the Interactive emotional dyadic motion capture Interactive Emotional Dyadic Motion Capture (IEMOCAP) english dataset.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.179-186
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• 2005

We can extract spectrum of the voices and analyze those, after employing features of frequency that voices have. In the spectrum of the voices monophthongs are thought to be stable, but when a consonant(s) meet a vowel(s) in a syllable or a word, there is a lot of changes. This becomes the biggest obstacle to phoneme speech recognition. In this study, using Mel Cepstrum and Mel Band that count Frequency Band and auditory information, we analyze the spectrums that each and every consonant and vowel has and the changes in the voices reftects auditory features and make it a system. Finally we are going to present the basis that can segment the voices by an unit of phoneme.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.207-210
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• 2007

As the Internet is prevalent in our life, harmful contents have been increasing on the Internet, which has become a very serious problem. Among them, pornographic video is harmful as poison to our children. To prevent such an event, there are many filtering systems which are based on the keyword based methods or image based methods. The main purpose of this paper is to devise a system that classifies the pornographic videos based on the audio information. We use Mel-Cepstrum Modulation Energy (MCME) which is modulation energy calculated on the time trajectory of the Mel-Frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) and MFCC as the feature vector and Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) as the classifier. With the experiments, the proposed system classified the 97.5% of pornographic data and 99.5% of non-pornographic data. We expect the proposed method can be used as a component of the more accurate classification system which uses video information and audio information simultaneously.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.292-302
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• 2020

Machine learning algorithms have made immense contributions in various fields including sonar and radar applications. Recently developed Cycle-Consistency Generative Adversarial Network (CycleGAN), a variant of GAN has been successfully used for unpaired image-to-image translation. We present a modified CycleGAN for translation of underwater ship engine sounds with high perceptual quality. The proposed network is composed of an improved generator model trained to translate underwater audio from one vessel type to other, an improved discriminator to identify the data as real or fake and a modified cycle-consistency loss function. The quantitative and qualitative analysis of the proposed CycleGAN are performed on publicly available underwater dataset ShipsEar by evaluating and comparing Mel-cepstral distortion, pitch contour matching, nearest neighbor comparison and mean opinion score with existing algorithms. The analysis results of the proposed network demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed network.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.1413-1415
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• 2004

This paper proposes a SVM(Support Vector Machine) training algorithm to control a service robot with voice command. The service robot with a stereo vision system and dual manipulators of four degrees of freedom implements a User-Dependent Voice Control System. The training of SVM algorithm that is one of the statistical learning theories leads to a QP(quadratic programming) problem. In this paper, we present an efficient SVM speech recognition scheme especially based on less learning data comparing with conventional approaches. SVM discriminator decides rejection or acceptance of user's extracted voice features by the MFCC(Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient). Among several SVM kernels, the exponential RBF function gives the best classification and the accurate user recognition. The numerical simulation and the experiment verified the usefulness of the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.157-160
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• 2000

본 논문에서는 멀티미디어 정보에서 원하는 정보를 추출하는 멀티미디어 인덱싱 중 오디오 인덱싱의 전처리 부격인 음성/음악 분류실험을 하였다. 오디오 인덱싱에 있어서 음성/음악 분류기는 원 오디오 신호에서 정보를 가진 음성 부분을 분리하는 역할을 한다. 실험에서는 음성/음악 분류에서 널리 쓰이는 멜캡스트럼(Mel Cepstrum), 정규화 로그 에너지(normalized log energy), 영교차(Zero-Crossings)를 특징 파라미터로 사용하였다[l, 2, 3]. 특징공간은 GMM(Gaussian Mixture Model)에 의해 모델링 되었고, 오디오 신호의 분류는 각각 3가지 분류항목(음성, 음악, 음성+음악)과 2가지 분류항목(음성, 음악)을 적용하였다. 실험결과 3가지 분류항목 적용시와 2가지 분류항목 적용시 모두 멜캡스트럼을 사용하였을 때 가장 좋은 결과를 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.8 no.5
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• pp.86-94
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• 1989

In this paper the method using a sign pattern( +,- ) of Mel-cepstrum coefficients as a new speech representation is proposed. Relatively stable patterns can be obtained for speech signals which has strong stationarity like vowels and nasals, and the phonemic difference according to the individuality of speakers can be absorbed without affecting characteristics of the phoneme. In this paper we show that the reduction of recognition procedure of phonemes and training procedure of phoneme models can be achieved through the representation of Korean phonemes using such a sign pattern.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.215-218
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• 2003

The method of vocal tract normalization has been known as a successful method for improving the accuracy of speech recognition. A frequency warping procedure based low complexity and maximum likelihood has been generally applied for vocal tract normalization. In this paper, we propose a new power spectrum warping procedure that can be improve on vocal tract normalization performance than a frequency warping procedure. A mechanism for implementing this method can be simply achieved by modifying the power spectrum of filter bank in Mel-frequency cepstrum feature(MFCC) analysis. Experimental study compared our Proposal method with the well-known frequency warping method. The results have shown that the power spectrum warping is better 50% about the recognition performance than the frequency warping.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.335-338
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 음성인식 알고리즘인 HMM을 사용하여 Windows 환경에서 온라인으로 사용할 수 있는 음성인식 게임“Voice Illust Magic”개발에 관하여 소개한다. 사용자와 컴퓨터가 상호작용(Interaction)할 수 있는 매체를 마우스와 키보드뿐만 아니라 게임에 필요한 명령어를 음성인식으로 실행함으로써 정보전달이 매우 효과적으로 이루어져 사용자가 접근하기 쉽고 편리하게 되었으며 의사전달 효율을 높일 수 있었다. 음성인식 과정을 온라인으로 마이크를 통해 들어온 음성을 자동으로 끝점을 검출한 후, Mel-Cepstrum을 추출하여 Word 단위의 reference HMM과 비교하여 최적의 model이 선택되면, 윈도우즈에게 메시지를 보내어 마우스나 키보드가 동작하는 것과 마찬가지로 실행되도록 하였다. 또한, 입력 음성을 모든 reference pattern과 비교하는 것이 아니라 그 상황에 적용될 수 있는 표준 패턴을 한정함으로써 탐색시간을 줄일 수 있었으며 높은 인식률을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.369-372
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• 1998

본 논문은 어휘독립(Vocabulary-Independent) 환경에서 별도의 훈련과정 없이 인식대상 어휘를 추가 및 변경할 수 있는 가변어휘(Variable Vocabulary) 음성인식에 관한 연구를 다룬다. 가변어휘 인식은 처음에 대용량 음성 데이터베이스(DB)로 음소모델을 훈련하고 인식대상 어휘가 결정되면 발음사전에 의거하여 음소모델을 연결함으로써 별도의 훈련과정 없이 인식대상 어휘를 변경 및 추가할 수 있다. 문맥 종속형(Context-Dependent) 음소 모델인 triphone을 사용하여 인식실험을 하였고, 인식성능의 비교를 위해 어휘종속 모델을 별도로 구성하여 인식실험을 하였다. Unseen triphone 문제와 훈련 DB의 부족으로 인한 모델 파라메터의 신뢰성 저하를 방지하기 위해 state-tying 방법 중 음성학적 지식에 기반을 둔 tree-based clustering(TBC) 기법[1]을 도입하였다. Mel Frequency Cepstrum Coefficient(MFCC)와 대수에너지에 기반을 둔 3 가지 음성특징 벡터를 사용하여 인식 실험을 병행하였고, 연속 확률분포를 가지는 Hidden Markov Model(HMM) 기반의 고립단어 인식시스템을 구현하였다. 인식 실험에는 22 개 부서명 DB[3]를 사용하였다. 실험결과 어휘독립 환경에서 최고 98.4%의 인식률이 얻어졌으며, 어휘종속 환경에서의 인식률 99.7%에 근접한 성능을 보였다.