• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권5호
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• pp.68-76
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• 2006

The ability to recognize human emotion is one of the hallmarks of human-robot interaction. Hence this paper describes the realization of emotion recognition. For emotion recognition from voice, we propose a new feature called frequency range of meaningful signal. With this feature, we reached average recognition rate of 76% in speaker-dependent. From the experimental results, we confirm the usefulness of the proposed feature. We also define the noise environment and conduct the noise-environment test. In contrast to other features, the proposed feature is robust in a noise-environment.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.719-725
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• 2007

In this paper, we present an audio-visual speech recognition system for noise-robust human-computer interaction. Unlike usual speech recognition systems, our system utilizes the visual signal containing speakers' lip movements along with the acoustic signal to obtain robust speech recognition performance against environmental noise. The procedures of acoustic speech processing, visual speech processing, and audio-visual integration are described in detail. Experimental results demonstrate the constructed system significantly enhances the recognition performance in noisy circumstances compared to acoustic-only recognition by using the complementary nature of the two signals.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.216-218
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• 2005

This paper present a new approach to a noise robust recognizer for WPS interface. In noisy environments, performance of speech recognition is decreased rapidly. To solve this problem, We propose the recognition system using vocal-cord signal instead of speech. Vocal-cord signal has low quality but it is more robust to environment noise than speech signal. As a result, we obtained 75.21% accuracy using MFCC with CMS and 83.72% accuracy using ZCPA with RASTA.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권10호
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• pp.277-282
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• 2012

음성 인식 시스템은 다양하게 변화하는 환경 잡음에 빠르게 적응할 수 없어서 인식 성능을 저하시키는 요인이 된다. 본 논문에서는 평균 예측 LMS 알고리즘을 이용하여 반향 잡음에 강인하게 하는 방법으로 HMM 학습 모델을 구성하는 방법을 제안하였으며, 변화하는 반향 잡음에 적응하도록 HMM 학습 모델을 구성하여 인식 성능을 평가하였다. 실험 결과 변화하는 환경 잡음을 제거하여 얻은 음성의 SNR은 평균 3.1dB이 향상되었고 인식률은 3.9% 향상되었다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.22-34
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• 2024

Exposure to varied noisy environments impairs the recognition performance of artificial intelligence-based speech recognition technologies. Degraded-performance services can be utilized as limited systems that assure good performance in certain environments, but impair the general quality of speech recognition services. This study introduces an audiovisual speech recognition (AVSR) model robust to various noise settings, mimicking human dialogue recognition elements. The model converts word embeddings and log-Mel spectrograms into feature vectors for audio recognition. A dense spatial-temporal convolutional neural network model extracts features from log-Mel spectrograms, transformed for visual-based recognition. This approach exhibits improved aural and visual recognition capabilities. We assess the signal-to-noise ratio in nine synthesized noise environments, with the proposed model exhibiting lower average error rates. The error rate for the AVSR model using a three-feature multi-fusion method is 1.711%, compared to the general 3.939% rate. This model is applicable in noise-affected environments owing to its enhanced stability and recognition rate.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.7-20
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a two-step noise compensation algorithm in feature extraction for achieving robust speech recognition. The proposed method frees us from requiring a priori information on noisy environments and is simple to implement. First, in frequency domain, the Harmonics-based Spectral Subtraction (HSS) is applied so that it reduces the additive background noise and makes the shape of harmonics in speech spectrum more pronounced. We then apply a judiciously weighted variance Feature Vector Normalization (FVN) to compensate for both the channel distortion and additive noise. The weighted variance FVN compensates for the variance mismatch in both the speech and the non-speech regions respectively. Representative performance evaluation using Aurora 2 database shows that the proposed method yields 27.18% relative improvement in accuracy under a multi-noise training task and 57.94% relative improvement under a clean training task.

• 전자공학회논문지 IE
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2012

음성 인식 시스템의 용용에서 실제 문제점의 하나는 음성신호의 왜곡에 의한 인식성능의 저하이다. 음성신호의 왜곡에 가장 중요한 원인은 부가적인 잡음이다. 이 논문은 잡음에 강인한 음성인식을 위하여, 스펙트럼 피크 향상 기법과 효과적인 잡음 차감 기법에 기초한 스펙트럼 보상 방법을 기술한다. 제안한 방법은 음성 스펙트럼의 포먼트 구조를 향상시키고 스펙트럼 기울기를 보상하면서도 광 대역폭 스펙트럼 요소는 그대로 유지한다. 백색 가우스 잡음, 자동차 잡음, 음성 잡음 또는 지하철 잡음에 의해 왜곡된 음성을 이용한 인식실험을 수행한 결과, 새로운 방법은 스펙트럼 보상을 하지 않은 경우에 비해, 높은 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) 환경에서는 평균 오인식율을 약간 줄였으며, 낮은 SNR(10 dB) 환경에서는 평균 오인식율을 1/2로 크게 줄였다.

• 대한음성학회지:말소리
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• 제45호
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• pp.107-115
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• 2003

An efficient method that compensates the HMM parameters for the noisy speech recognition is proposed. Instead of assuming some analytical approximations as in the PMC, the proposed method directly re-estimates the HMM parameters by the segmental k-means algorithm. The proposed method has shown improved results compared with the conventional PMC method at reduced computational cost.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• 제3권5호
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• pp.259-266
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a novel technique for noise robust automatic speech recognition (ASR). The development of ASR techniques has made it possible to recognize isolated words with a near perfect word recognition rate. However, in a highly noisy environment, a distinct mismatch between the trained speech and the test data results in a significantly degraded word recognition rate (WRA). Unlike conventional ASR systems employing Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) and a hidden Markov model (HMM), this study employ histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) features and a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to ASR tasks to overcome this problem. Our proposed ASR system is less vulnerable to external interference noise, and achieves a higher WRA compared to a conventional ASR system equipped with MFCCs and an HMM. The performance of our proposed ASR system was evaluated using a phonetically balanced word (PBW) set mixed with artificially added noise.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.115-122
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 웨이블렛 서브밴드 필터링기법을 이용하여 다중의사 결정기법에 기반을 둔 외부 잡음에 강인한 고립단어 음성인식 알고리즘을 제안하고자 한다. 음성인식에 있어서 외부잡음은 음성인식 알고리듬의 인식률을 저하시키는 주요 원인으로 지적되므로 음성인식기의 성능을 향상시키기 위해서 무엇보다도 잡음에 강인한 음성인식 알고리즘의 개발이 절실히 요구되고 있다. 제안된 알고리즘의 타당성을 검증하기 위하여 다양한 자동차 소음하에서 한국어 단독 숫자음 10단어의 인식률 변동을 알아 보았다. 그 결과 현재 음성인식 기법으로 널리 쓰이고 있는 벡터양자화 알고리즘만을 적용한 경우에 비해 9~25%의 향상된 인식률을 보였다.