• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1994.06a
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• pp.752-757
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• 1994

Very often, one would like to have visual image of mechanical or acoustical events such as musical sound and transient vibrations. Conventional methods to visualize the signal, such as power spectrum, do not normally allow to cultivate the signal of interests due to their inherent limitation on transient signals. Other than the conventional method, one could use an instantaneous frequency which can reveal the variation of frequency in terms of time. Nevertheless it is quite sensitive to noise and can not resolve the frequency components of signals; normally produces additional components other than those of the signals. In this paper, we introduce the Wigner-Ville spectrum to see the transient characteristics of signal, especially musical sound and transient mechanical vibration signatures. For musical sound, several popular western classic music have been selected for the analysis. For the transient mechanical signature, the signals obtained from the car door experiment and the beam experiment are interpreted in terms of Wigner-Ville spectrum. Results demonstrate the visual expressions of transient signals; musical sound and vibrations.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.31-34
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• 1998

배경 잡음에 의해 저하된 음성을 복원하는 기술은 이미 오래 전부터 여러 가지 기법들이 연구되어왔다. 이들 기법 중, Spectral Subtraction 기법은 단일 채널에 의한 Speech Enhancement의 대표적인 방법이다. 그러나, 기존의 단일 채널 Speech Enhancement 기법의 중요한 단점은 Musical Noise라 불리는 잔존 Noise의 발생 및 목적신호가 왜곡된다는 것이다. 이 잔존 Noise에 의해 지금까지 연구 보고된 단일 채널 Speech Enhancement기법들은 거의 대부분 SNR은 향상되었지만 명료도의 향상이 곤란하였다고 보고되어왔다. 그러므로, 본 연구에서는 인간의 청각기구의 지각과정을 충실히 모방한 ROEX(Rounded Exponential) 청각 Filter를 이용하여 잔존 Noise인 Musical Noise를 억제시키는 기법을 제안하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.85-96
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• 1989

The purpose of study was to survey the indoor noise of apartment houses, residents, attitudes and their adaptation behavior in order to offer the information helpful to apartment designers and residents, in their housing policy. Documentary research and questionnaire survey methods were used in this research. The sample was taken from 187 housewives living in apartments in Seoul. Data were analyzed with the SPSS program. The results were as follow : 1. It was found that apartment residents pointed out washing machine noise inside the home, piano and other musical instruments noise outside the home. 2. Piano and other musical instrument noise were heard at 3 to 6 pp.m. when residents heard the noise, and water supply and drainage noise in bathrooms were found most noisy. 3. Apartment residents were discontent with noise outside the home, and they displayed positive adaptation behavior at a reduced noise level. 4. Attitudes arising from indoor noise in apartment houses and human noise, water supply and drainage noise, doorway opening and closing noise were found to be significant in sampled apartment groups. 5. The youngest child's age was a significant variable on the residents' attitudes and adaptation behavior of indoor noise in apartment houses. 6. Between the resident' attitudes and adaptation behavior involving indoor noise in apartment houses. 6. Between the resident' attitueds and adaptation behavior involving indoor noise apartment houses, the more they became discontented, the more quickly they adapted in a postive manner.

• Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.525-531
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• 2015

Driving sound is an effective element to promote the product identity of a vehicle by providing customers with attractive sound which reflects the concept of a vehicle. Recently, major automakers are focusing on the target sound setting so that the sound can represent the brand image as well as the unique concept of a vehicle. In this study, a new method of target setting for the driving sound will be introduced based on using formant filter and musical harmonics characteristics. In addition, a target sound suggested from this method will be realized and verified by using active noise control in vehicle.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.10a
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• pp.358-363
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• 2012

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.31-46
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• 2005

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effects of in-vehicle noise types and levels of intensity on drivers' driving speed estimation. Noise generated from the vehicle engine and musical sound sampled from the Korean pop were employed as the types of in-vehicle noise and their levels of intensity were systematically manipulated. In experiment 1 where the effect of the engine noise levels on speed estimation was observed, drivers showed the tendencies of driving faster than the targets speeds under lower noise intensity condition whereas driving slower under higher noise intensity condition. In experiment 2 where both musical sample and the engine noise were provided, drivers' subjective speed estimation was affected by the engine noise as revealed experiment 1, but not by musical sample. When the data from the both experiments were combined and analyzed, an interacting effect of engine noise levels and music sample levels was found: if the intensity of music sample was enough to overwhelm the engine noise, the drivers drove faster than lower engine noise level condition in the experiment 1. This result indicates that although the music sample is not the direct auditory cue of speed estimation as observed in the experiment 2, intense level of music sample can affect drivers' speed estimation when it is coupled with the lower engine noise level.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.14-27
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• 1995

This paper presents the digital music sound DSP by using ADPCM and Perceptual Transform Corder in MPEG to compress sound data and minimize the quantization noise for musical instrument. these method are utilized to develop algorithm of equal power density envelope. And these results are applied to examine the specific characteristics of musical instrument and determine the compression method. The design of new RISC DSP which generates 32 voices of musical instrument simultaneously and the coding of 200 musical instrument sound data in 1MByte memory shows that these algorithm is very useful to regenerate musical sound by using the minimum size of memory.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.7
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• pp.134-135
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• 1999

This paper presents a speech enhancement method with spectral subtraction using wavelet, wavelet packet and cosine packet transforms which are known as multiresolutional signal analysis method. The performance of each method is compared with the conventional spectral subtraction method. Performance assessments based on average SNR, cepstral distance and informal subjective listening test are carried out. Experimental result demonstrate that cosine packet shows the best result in objective performance measure as well as subjective shows less musical noise than the conventional spectral subtraction method after removing the noise components.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1251-1254
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 최근들어 널리 연구되고 있는 다해상도 신호해석 방법인 웨이브렛 변환, 웨이브렛 패킷, 그리고 코사인 패킷 알고리듬을 음성개선에 이용하여 각각의 성능을 비교하였으며, 또한 이를 기존의 스펙트럼차감법의 성능과 비교 분석 하였다. 성능비교의 척도로는 SNR과 ㅋ스트랄 거리를 이용하였다. 실험결과 SNR면에서는 코사인 패킷이 가장 좋은 결과를 보였다. 그리고 ㅋ스트랄 거리의 경우 코사인 패킷과 웨이브렛 패켓이 훨씬 나은 결과를 보였으며 주관적인 청취결과 역시 코사인 패킷이 가장 좋은 결과를 보였고, 기존의 스펙트럼 차감법은 musical noise의 영향으로 인해 상대적으로 다른 방식에 비해 합성음의 음질이 많이 떨어짐을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.681-686
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• 1999

In a church, speech intelligibility is very important together with the reverberance for musical activities. In order to obtain the primary data of a acoustical design for churches records were refereed and churches were measured in Europe and Japan. And in the base of measurements, those were judged by subjective hearing test. As some results, it has been found that the room acoustics of churches were different in a country and the reverberation time was perferred two seconds for speech intelligibility. However, although personal deviations were admitted, more long echoes were preferred for the music.