• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.97-105
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• 2015

This research mainly focuses on intonational characteristics of synchronous English speech. Intonation contours were extracted from 1,848 utterances produced in two different speaking modes (solo vs. synchronous) by 28 (12 women and 16 men) native speakers of English. Synchronous speech is found to be slower than solo speech. Women are found to speak slower than men. The effect size of speech rate caused by different speaking modes is greater than gender differences. However, there is no interaction between the two factors (speaking modes vs. gender differences) in terms of speech rate. Analysis of pitch point features has it that synchronous speech has smaller Pt (pitch point movement time), Pr (pitch point pitch range), Ps (pitch point slope) and Pd (pitch point distance) than solo speech. There is no interaction between the two factors (speaking modes vs. gender differences) in terms of pitch point features. Analysis of sentence level features reveals that synchronous speech has smaller Sr (sentence level pitch range), Ss (sentence slope), MaxNr (normalized maximum pitch) and MinNr (normalized minimum pitch) but greater Min (minimum pitch) and Sd (sentence duration) than solo speech. It is also shown that the higher the Mid (median pitch), the MaxNr and the MinNr in solo speaking mode, the more they are reduced in synchronous speaking mode. Max, Min and Mid show greater speaker discriminability than other features.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2005년도 추계 학술대회논문집(수송기계편)
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• pp.144-147
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• 2005

The tire is considered as one of the Important noise sources having an influence on vehicle's performance. The Pattern noise of a tire is the transmission sound of airborne noise. On smooth asphalt road, Pattern noise is amplified with the velocity. In recent, the study on the reduction of Pattern noise is energetically processed. Pattern noise is strongly related with pitch sequence. To reduce the pattern noise, tire's designer has to randomize the sequence of pitch. The FFT is a traditional method to evaluate the level of the randomization of the pitch sequence, but gives no information on time-varying, instantaneous frequency. In the study, we found that Time-Frequency transform is a useful method to non-stationary signal such as tire noise.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권1호
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• pp.213-219
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• 2004

본 논문에서는 국부 봉우리와 골에 의한 피치 파라미터와 퍼지를 포함한 화자 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 음성의 패턴 인식에서 인식 성능을 저하시키는 시간 변동과 주파수 변동에 대한 문제를 해결하여 피치를 검출한다. 비선형적인 발성 시간에 따른 시간 변동의 폭을 모두 포함하기 위하여 음성 신호의 애매성을 보완할 수 있는 퍼지의 소속 함수를 이용하여 표준 패턴을 작성하고 퍼지 패턴 매칭을 이용하여 인식을 수행한다.

• 한국세라믹학회지
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• 제33권12호
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• pp.1387-1393
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• 1996

A study on mesophase pitch as a matrix precursor of carbon fiber reinforced carbon (C/C) composite has been recently presented. This study is concerned with the production of mesophase pitch as matrix precursors for C/C composite from coal tar pitch. A commercial coal tar pitch was heat-treated at 25$0^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours to remove low molecular weight fraction from the pitch then increasing the temperature of the pitch to between 350~45$0^{\circ}C$ to produce mesophase pitch. The pitch was continuously stirred during this time and nitrogen gas was continuously bubbled through the pitch. Spherical and bulk mesophases were formed in the pitch after heat-treatment,. Parent and mesophae pitches were characterized by elemental analysis coke yield solubi-lity in tetrahydrofuran and hexane and an optical microscopy to measure the mesiophase content. It was neces-sary to produce C/C composite that a mesophase pitch with about 30-40 vol% mesophase spherulites can be infiltrated into a fiber preform without a filter effect as a matrix precursor conditions. This condition was satisfied with mesophase pitch heat treated at 40$0^{\circ}C$ for 2 hours. The other heat treatment conditions showed the nuclei of mesophase or bulk mesophae which were not satisfied with the matix precursor condition.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제6권4호
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• pp.79-90
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• 2014

An intonation curve stylization was used for an acoustical analysis of English speech. For the analysis, acoustical feature values were extracted from 1,848 utterances produced with normal and fast speech rate by 28 (12 women and 16 men) native speakers of English. Men are found to speak faster than women at normal speech rate but no difference is found between genders at fast speech rate. Analysis of pitch point features has it that fast speech has greater Pt (pitch point movement time), Pr (pitch point pitch range), and Pd (pitch point distance) but smaller Ps (pitch point slope) than normal speech. Men show greater Pt, Pr, and Pd than women. Analysis of sentence level features reveals that fast speech has smaller Sr (sentence level pitch range), Sd (sentence duration), and Max (maximum pitch) but greater Ss (sentence slope) than normal speech. Women show greater Sr, Ss, Sp (pitch difference between the first pitch point and the last), Sd, MaxNr (normalized Max), and MinNr (normalized Min) than men. As speech rate increases, women speak with greater Ss and Sr than men.

• 한국기계연구소 소보
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• 통권15호
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• pp.37-46
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• 1985

Properties of Precursor pitch derived from petroleum residue were studied physical and chemical analysis method for investigation of production of pitch fiber. For preparing of those precursor pitches it was carried out a temperature and time variation experiment i reactor. It was demonstrated the precursor pitch prepared in this study to have a similar properties to Ashland precursor pitch capable of bulk mesophase formation from the results of the basic analysis, that is, molecular weight distribution, coking yield, carbon content, chemical composition, etc.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권12호
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• pp.2324-2328
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• 2010

In this paper we proposed a new algorithm that can reduce the open-loop pitch estimation time of G.723.1. The time domain cross-correlation method is simple but has long processing time by recursive multiplication. For reduction of processing time, we use the method that compute the cross-correlation by multiplying the Fourier value of speech by it's complex conjugate. Also, we can reduce the processing time by omitting the bit-reversing of FFT and IFFT for time-frequency domain transform. As a result, the processing time of improved hybrid domain cross-correlation algorithm is reduced by 67.37% of conventional time domain cross-correlation.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.330-333
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• 2000

In this paper, a new pitch estimation method is proposed using the Robinson cochlear model. This estimation method is useful in noisy environments and especially very efficient under cochannel in which two speaker voices exist at the same time. For the one speaker speech, the pitch can be extracted from just the neurogram of the Robinson cochlear model. In this case, as the estimation is performed in time domain, the exact pitch period can be detected though the pitch period is various. But in noisy and cochannel cases, the neurogram has many spurious peaks, so we use the autocorrelators in the neurogram to manifest the period. It the autocorrelators are used for the all delays, the large amount of calculations is necessary. Due to this defect, we propose that the autocorrelators are used for the part of the delays on which energy is concentrated. First of all, the proposed algorithm is applied to the one speaker speech, and later to the cochannel speech. And then the results are compared with the autocorrelation pitch detection method.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.73-79
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 피치 검출과 퍼지화 패턴 매칭을 포함하는 화자 인식 알고리즘을 제안한다. 음의 개성을 표현하는 피치를 이용한 피치 패턴을 사용하고 음성의 파라미터는 2진화 스펙트럼을 사용한다. 비선형적인 발성 시간에 따른 시간 변동의 폭을 모두 포함할 수 있도록 음성 신호의 애매성을 보완할 수 있는 퍼지의 소속 함수를 이용하여 표준 패턴을 작성하고 퍼지화 패턴 매칭을 이용하여 인식을 수행한다.

• 핵의학기술
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.67-71
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• 2013

PET/CT검사에서 CT촬영조건의 변화는 영상의 화질 및 환자가 받는 피폭선량에 영향을 미친다. 본 연구는 CT 매개 변수 중 Pitch와 X-선관 회전시간 변화에 따른 선량대비 CT 영상의 질과 이로 인해 PET상에서 SUV에 미치는 영향을 비교 평가하고자 하였다. Discovery STe PET/CT 장비를 이용하여 영상을 획득하였다. QA Phantom과 AAPM Phantom을 이용한 CT 영상 획득 시 Pitch는 0.562, 0.938, 1.375, 1.75:1로 4단계, X-선관 회전시간은 0.5에서 1.0까지 0.1초씩 증가시켜 6단계로 나누어 총 24개 조합을 적용한 영상을 각각 획득하였다. PET 영상은 $^{18}F-FDG$ 5.3 kBq/mL가 채워진 1994 NEMA PET Phantom을 이용하여 프레임당 2분 30초의 방출영상을 획득하였다. 각 조합의 CT 영상에 관심영역을 설정하고 CT number의 표준편차를 측정하였다. 동일한 영상에서 DLP변화에 따른 영상잡음의 예측값을 계산하여 예측값 대비 실측값의 비율을 구해 선량대비 영상잡음 효과를 비교하는 척도로 사용하였다. AAPM Phantom 영상에서 1.0 mm까지 식별이 가능한 지 확인하였다. NEMA PET Phantom의 방출영상에 관심영 역을 설정하고 SUV를 비교 평가하였다. Pitch가 0.562, 0.938, 1.375, 1.75:1로 변화할 때 영상잡음 효과는 QA Phantom에서 1.00, 1.03, 1.01, 0.96, AAPM Phantom에서 1.00, 1.04, 1.02, 0.97로 측정되었다. 회전시간의 증가에 따른 경우 QA Phantom에서 0.99, 1.02, 1.00, 1.00, 0.99, 0.99이었고, AAPM Phantom에서 1.01, 1.01, 0.99, 1.01, 1.01, 1.01로 SPSS Ver. 18을 이용하여 상관관계를 분석한 결과 피어슨 상관계수는 -0.059로 나타났다. 공간분해능에 대한 평가는 24개의 조합 모두에서 1.0 mm까지 육안으로 구별이 가능하였다. SUV의 경우 평균 SUV는 모든 조합에서 1.1로 모두 동일한 값을 나타내었다. Pitch 변화에 따른 CT 영상 평가에서 1.75:1을 적용 시 선량대비 가장 적은 영상잡음 효과를 보이며 공간분해능과 SUV에는 영향을 미치지 않는다. 그러나 회전시간 변화가 영상에 미치는 영향에는 유의한 차이가 없음을 알 수 있다. 결과에서와 같이 각 장비에 따른 선량대비 영상잡음이 적은 Pitch를 사용하고 환자의 체격에 따른 적절한 X-선관 회전시간을 이용한다면 환자의 피폭선량을 줄이면서 최적의 화질을 얻을 수 있는 프로토콜을 구성하는데 도움이 될 것이라 사료된다.