• 음성과학
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.143-157
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• 2001

This paper focused on glottal parameters contributing to the perception of loud voices because energy of a voice is not the only effective factor. We used a formant synthesizer to synthesize loud voices. We divided F0 tilt (the tilt of F0 contour), SQ (Speed Quotient), OQ (Open Quotient) and TL (spectral Tilt Level) into three levels to get different combinations with default values for the other synthesizer parameters. Analysis of listening tests indicated that F0 tilt, SQ, OQ and TL in descending order had significant influence on the perception of loud voices. F0 tilt had a far more significant effect than the others. The influence of SQ increased greatly with the exclusion of F0 tilt as a factor. The interaction between parameters was not significant.

• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.1201-1206
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• 2009

음상의 거리정위에 있어서 중요한 물리적 요인으로는 알려진 음압레벨, 반사음, 양 귀간 차, 음원의 종류, 머리전달함수(HRTF) 등의 여러 요인들이 중요한 판단 자료로 이용되어진다고 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서는 거리판단에 사용되어지는 물리적 요인 중 음압레벨의 크기가 거리정위에 미치는 영향을 알아보기 위해 반사음이 존재하지 않은 무향실에서 음원의 출력 음압레벨을 일정한 경우와 귀 입력 음압레벨을 일정하게 한 경우에 대하여 청취실험을 통해 거리판단에 있어서 음압레벨의 영향에 대하여 고찰했다. 그 결과. 음원출력 음압레벨을 일정하게 한 경우와 귀 입력 음압레벨을 일정하게 한 청취실험에 있어서 제시한 음원거리보다 지각한 음상거리를 가깝게 정위하는 경향이 있다는 것이 관찰되었다. 또, 귀 입력 음압레벨이 일정한 경우에는 약 2m 정도까지의 거리에서는 실제 제시한 음원거리의 증가에 따라 지각한 음상의 거리가 음원거리에 대응하여 증가하지만, 그 이상의 거리에서는 음원거리의 증가에 따라 지각한 음상거리가 증가가 거의 없음을 알 수 있었다. 반면 음원출력 음압레벨이 일정한 경우에는 지각한 음상거리가 귀 입력 음압레벨이 일정한 경우보다 보다 더 먼 3m 정도의 거리까지 증가하고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이와 같은 청취실험 결과로부터 반사음이 존재하지 않은 조건에서의 음상의 거리정위에는 음압레벨이 거리판단의 중요한 요소로 작용하고 있음이 확인되었다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문초록집
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• pp.354.1-354
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• 2002

Pitch is a perception related to frequency, one of the psychological aspects or attributes of tones, and an important factor to determine sound quality of sound together with loudness and timber. while a study on pitch has been actively achieved In the part of speech recognition and speech separation, that for analysis and improvement of product sound quality is not yet enough. (omitted)

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.846-860
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• 2011

인간의 청각기관은 소리의 방향과 거리인지에 있어서 양 귀에 들어오는 소리세기의 차이, 위상의 차이, 그리고 주파수 스펙트럼의 차이 등의 정보들을 복합적으로 이용한다. 이런 정보를 종합적으로 포함하고 있는 것을 머리전달함수라 하며, 이를 이용하여 실질적으로 존재하지 않는 음원을 근사적으로 생성할 수 있는 입체음향 시스템을 구현할 수 있다. 그러나 비개인화 된 머리전달함수는 음상정위 성능을 떨어뜨리는 주된 원인이 된다. 이에 본 논문에서는 이 머리전달함수를 이용한 3차원 음상정위를 위해 사람의 청각 특성을 이용한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 청자가 정확한 방향을 인지하기 위해 1차로 측정된 머리전달함수의 청각 자극 에너지를, 2차로 전역 마스킹 임계치와 라우드니스를 이용하여 방향감을 강조하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능 평가를 위해 청감 테스트를 수행하였으며 실험결과 기존의 알고리즘에 비해 입체음향의 전체적인 인지도가 50% 이상 증가하였음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 감성과학
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.187-194
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• 2013

본 연구는 컬러영상에서 특정소리를 연상시킬 수 있는 공감각 인지현상에 기반하여 컬러이미지에서 음악요소로 변환하는 시스템의 구현을 최종 목표로 한다. 이는 빛과 소리의 물리적 주파수정보사이의 유사도를 기반으로 이루어진다. 입력 컬러영상은 우선 컬러모델변환이론에 기초하여 색상(Hue), 채도(Saturation) 및 명도(Intensity)영역으로 변환된다. 음계, 옥타브, 크기 및 시간길이 등의 음악적 성분들이 HSI 컬러모델의 각 영역으로부터 추출된다. 기본주파수(F0, Fundamental Frequency)는 색상 및 명도 히스토그램에서 추출되고, 크기 및 시간길이성분은 명도와 채도 히스토그램에서 추출된다. 실험에서, 제안된 시스템은 표준 C 및 VC++ 기반에서 실현되었고, 최종적으로 WAV 포맷의 사운드파일이 생성되었다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해서 입력 컬러영상에서 추출된 음악적 요소들이 출력 사운드신호에 반영됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.177-184
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• 2005

In this paper, we proposed a new hearing aid algorithm to improve SNR(signal to noise ratio) of noisy speech signal and speech perception. The proposed hearing aid algorithm is a multi-band loudness compensation based independent component analysis (ICA). The proposed algorithm was compared with a conventional spectral subtraction algorithm on behind-the-ear type hearing aid. The proposed algorithm successfully separated a target speech signal from background noise and from a mixture of the speech signals. The algorithms were compared each other by means of SNR. The average improvement of SNR by ICA based algorithm was 16.64dB, whereas spectral subtraction algorithm was 8.67dB. From the clinical tests, we concluded that our proposed algorithm would help hearing aid user to hear clearly a target speech in noisy conditions.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제35권5호
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• pp.859-868
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• 2013

The active noise control (ANC) technique attenuates acoustic noise in a flexible and effective way. Traditional ANC design aims to minimize the residual noise energy, which is indiscriminative in the frequency domain. However, human hearing perception exhibits selective sensitivity for different frequency ranges. In this paper, we aim to improve the noise attenuation performance in perceptual perspective by incorporating noise weighting into ANC design. We also introduce psychoacoustic analysis to evaluate the sound quality of the residual noise by using a predictive pleasantness model, which combines four psychoacoustic parameters: loudness, sharpness, roughness, and tonality. Simulations on synthetic random noise and realistic noise show that our method improves the sound quality and that ITU-R 468 noise weighting even performs better than A-weighting.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.19-26
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• 2011

Previous laboratory studies have shown that prosodic structures are encoded in the modulations of phonetic patterns of speech including suprasegmental as well as segmental features. Drawing on a prosodically annotated large-scale speech data from the Buckeye corpus of conversational speech of American English, the current study first evaluated the reliability of prosody annotation by a large number of ordinary listeners and later examined whether and how prosodic prominence influences the phonetic realization of multiple acoustic parameters in everyday conversational speech. The results showed that all the measures of acoustic parameters including pitch, loudness, duration, and spectral balance are increased when heard as prominent. These findings suggest that prosodic prominence enhances the phonetic characteristics of the acoustic parameters. The results also showed that the degree of phonetic enhancement vary depending on the types of the acoustic parameters. With respect to the formant structure, the findings from the present study more consistently support Sonority Expansion Hypothesis than Hyperarticulation Hypothesis, showing that the lexically stressed vowels are hyperarticulated only when hyperarticulation does not interfere with sonority expansion. Taken all into account, the present study showed that prosodic prominence modulates the phonetic realization of the acoustic parameters to the direction of the phonetic strengthening in everyday conversational speech and ordinary listeners are attentive to such phonetic variation associated with prosody in speech perception. However, the present study also showed that in everyday conversational speech there is no single dominant acoustic measure signaling prosodic prominence and listeners must attend to such small acoustic variation or integrate acoustic information from multiple acoustic parameters in prosody perception.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2012년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.348-353
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• 2012

This paper presents the HRTF based experimental approach to figure out why the human auditory perception on the interior noise source including the directional tonal components does not well match with the dominant features extracted from recorded acoustic signals in terms of psycho-acoustics. Since the general objective evaluation models for tonalness among various sound attributes are a function of width, frequency, excessive level of tonal components respectively, the directional tonal components cannot be properly evaluated without considering the effects of head-related transfer function on the binaural auditory perception. Thus, the directivity of source is additionally considered to prevent the erroneous conclusions from the same sound source in the process of source identification. The signal synthesis technique is used to solve a little difficulty in measuring all of desired acoustic signals for jury evaluation. The sound attributes of synthetic acoustics signals are analyzed to roughly predict the results of jury evaluation in advance by using sound quality factors such as loudness, sharpness, roughness, fluctuation strength and tonality. The jury evaluation is carefully conducted based on the recommended guideline suggested by N. Ottoet al. Each sound is respectively evaluated by selecting a value between -2 and 2 in intervals of 0.2 point. Through above procedure, based on the results of jury evaluation, it is confirmed that serious problems can be caused in the process of analyzing the dominant sound attributes in terms of psycho-acoustics according to the type of a microphone and a playback system.

• 한국안전학회지
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• 제20권2호
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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).