• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.857-866
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• 2009

In this paper, a noise cancellation-method using microphone array for digital hearing aids is proposed. The microphone array is located around the ear of a dummy. Speech sound is generated from the forward speaker positioned in the front of the dummy and noise sound is generated from the backward speaker. The speech and noise are mixed in the air space and entered into the microphones. VAD(voice activity detector) and ANC(adaptive noise cancellation) methods were used to eliminate noise in the sound of the microphones. 10 two-syllable words and 4 sentences were used for speech signals. Babble and car interior noise were used for noise signals. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated by SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) and PESQ-MOS(perceptual evaluation of speech quality-mean opinion score). In babble noise condition, SNR was improved as much as $7.963{\pm}1.3620dB\;and\;3.968{\pm}0.6659dB$ for words and sentences respectively. In the case of car interior noise, SNR was improved as $10.512{\pm}2.0665dB\;and\;6.000{\pm}1.7642dB$ for words and sentences respectively. PESQ-MOS of the babble noise was improved as much as $0.1722{\pm}0.0861$ score for words and $0.083{\pm}0.0417$ score for sentences. And PESQ-MOS of the car interior noise was improved as $0.2661{\pm}0.0335$ score and $0.040{\pm}0.0201$ score for words and sentences respectively. It is verified that the proposed algorithm has a good performance in noise cancellation of microphone array for digital hearing aids.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1003-1008
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• 2001

In beamforming method, source positions are predicted by MUSIC (Multiple Signal Classification) power method and composite sound fields can then be decomposed into each partial field by beamforming, detenninistically without restriction of the distance between reference microphones and sources. However, reference microphone array shape is important in both MUSIC and beamforming method. Thus the present paper describes the effect of the reference microphone array shape.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.624-633
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• 2018

멀티미디어 강의시스템은 첨단 기술로 스마트해지고 있지만 마이크는 손에 들거나 신체에 부착하는 고전 방식에 여전히 의존하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 천정 부착형 배열 마이크를 제안하여 넓은 범위를 지원하면서 화자가 아무 장비를 착용하지 않고 자유롭게 이동이 가능함을 보였다. 제안된 시스템은 복잡한 빔 포밍 방식 대신에 이동통신의 셀(Cell)과 핸드 오버(Handover)를 적용하여 셀 간에 연속되는 마이크를 저가로 구현하였다. 음성에서 무성음 구간이 의사잡음(Pseudo Noise)과 유사한 특징을 이용하여 3개의 마이크에 지연-합의 다중경로 수신기를 연결하여 소프트 핸드오버를 제공하였다. 제안된 마이크 시스템은 강단 범위인 $6.3{\times}1.5m$ 영역에서 동작을 검증하였다. 실시간 처리를 위하여 상관기(Correlator)의 연산 범위를 82% 이상 줄였으며 출력 지연은 지연 적응 필터로 개선하였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.92-96
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• 2007

Microphone array beamforming method has been recognized as an important aeroacoustic research field and become a standard technique in localizing sound sources. This method also used in flight acoustic measurement, and especially, it is very useful when measure sounds inside the wind tunnel. In measuring sound which is inside the wind tunnel by traditional beamforming method, there are some errors caused by airstream. The speed and the propagation path of the sound changes as it travel through the airstream. This makes the error which the position of sound is changed a little bit to the down stream direction. In this paper, validation test has made about the correction equation for this wind effects of previous researches. And beamforming including shear layer correction was performed about a sound source in the anechoic open-jet windtunnel.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.484-488
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• 2007

In this paper, the measurement system using the microphone array developed for analyzing cabin noise of the vehicle and its applications are discussed. The sensor is a three dimensional microphone array, the microphones and cameras are equipped on the rigid sphere. The cameras are used for acoustic visualization. As applications, the experiments in both reverberation chamber and anechoic chamber are discussed. These results show that this system is very useful to evaluate or improve the vehicle sound insulation performance.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권7호
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• pp.573-578
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• 2003

최근 원격 회의 시스템에서 마이크로폰 어레이를 이용한 음원 위치 추정 및 음질 향상 기술이 연구되고 있다. 이러한 기술 가운데 대표적인 정합 필터 마이크로폰 어레이는 다수의 마이크로폰을 이용하여 음원의 위치를 추적하고 음원의 방향으로부터 입사되는 신호만을 수신할 수 있도록 한다. 그러나 이는 음향 공간의 기하학적인 형태 및 재질 등을 이용한 모델로부터 미리 계산된 음향 채널을 사용하기 때문에 실제 실내 환경과의 불일치로 인하여 성능이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 수신된 음향 신호로부터 실내 음향 채널을 추정하고 이를 정합 필터 마이크로폰 어레이에 적용하였다 연구된 방법은 실험을 통해 그 성능을 고찰하였다.

• 소음진동
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.835-842
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• 1996

To identify the locations and strengths of acoustic sources, one may use a microphone line array. Apparent advantage of the source identification method utilizing a line array is that it requires less measurement points than intensity method and holography. This method is based on the information of magnitude and phase difference between pressure signals at each microphone. Since those differences are dependent on the source model, we have to assume them such as plane, monopole, etc. In this paper the conventional source identification methods such as beamforming method and MUSIC method are briefly reviewed by modeling a source as plane and spherical wave, then a modified method is introduced. This can be applied to sound field which may by either coherent or incoherent. Typical simulations and experiment are performed to confirm this identification method.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.612-618
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• 2008

Microphone array beamforming method has been recognized as an important aeroacoustic research field and become a standard technique in localizing sound sources. This method also used in flight acoustic measurement, and especially, it is very useful when measure sounds inside the wind tunnel. In measuring sound which is inside the wind tunnel by traditional beamforming method, there are some errors caused by airstream. The speed and the propagation path of the sound changes as it travel through the airstream. This makes the error which the position of sound is changed a little bit to the down stream direction. In this paper, validation test has made about the correction equation for this wind effects of previous researches. And beamforming including shear layer correction was performed about a sound source in the anechoic open-jet wind tunnel.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.701-708
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• 2003

This paper presents an acoustic source localization technique on 2D cavity model in flow using a phased microphone way. Investigation was performed on cavity flows of open and closed types. The source distributions on 2D cavity flow were investigated in anechoic open-jet wind tunnel. The array of microphones was placed outside the flow to measure the far field acoustic signals. The optimum sensor placement was decided by varying the relative location of the microphones to improve the spatial resolution. Pressure transducers were flush-mounted on the cavity surface to measure the near-filed pressures. It is shown that the propagated far field acoustic pressures are closely correlated to the near-field pressures. It is also shown that their spectral contents are affected by the cavity parameter L/D.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제29권1E호
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• pp.45-53
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• 2010

In this paper, we present the use of the Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance (FWMD) in improving the performance of Likelihood Maximizing Beamforming (Limabeam) algorithm in speech recognition for microphone array. The proposed approach is based on the replacement of the traditional distance measure in a Gaussian classifier with adding weight for different features in the Mahalanobis distance according to their distances after the variance normalization. By using Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance for Limabeam algorithm (FWMD-Limabeam), we obtained correct word recognition rate of 90.26% for calibrate Limabeam and 87.23% for unsupervised Limabeam, resulting in a higher rate of 3% and 6% respectively than those produced by the original Limabearn. By implementing a HM-Net speech recognition strategy alternatively, we could save memory and reduce computation complexity.