• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.77-82
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• 1999

A sinusoidal model has been widely used in the analysis and synthesis of speech and audio signals, and becomes one of the efficient candidates for high quality low bit rate audio coders. One of the crucial steps in the analysis and synthesis using a sinusoidal model is the detection of tonal components. This paper proposes an efficient method for the analysis and synthesis of audio signals using a sinusoidal model, which uses psychoacoustic criteria such as masking effect, masking index, and JNDf(Just Noticeable Difference in Frequency). Simulation results show that the proposed method reduces the number of sinusoids significantly without degrading the quality of the synthesized audio signals.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1998.10a
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• pp.1203-1206
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• 1998

Considerable research in the last three decades has examined the problem of enhancement of speech degraded by additive background noise. We compare traditional methods such as spectral subtraction and Wiener filter, recently proposed psychoacoustic model based methods such as perceptual filter and noise suppression in EVRC in terms of performance and complexity.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.96-103
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• 2003

This paper describes a method for sinusoidal modeling of audio signals using perceptually weighted matching pursuit. Matching pursuits extracts iteratively the greatest energy signals from the input signals until the residual between the original and the reconstructed signal is zero. In this paper, perceptual matching pursuits using psychoacoustic model to matching pursuit extracts greatest perceived energy iteratively. To evaluate the performance of the perceptual matching pursuits it is compared with the sinusoidal matching pursuits which is not included perceptual weighting. For various audio signals the result of simulation shows that the perceptual matching pursuit is superior to the sinusoidal matching pursuits, especially for a high change rate in time domain it can synthesized original signal.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.53-61
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• 2002

In this paper, the authors proposed the digital audio watermarking algorithm for a high quality audio. Today, the digital watermark is used to confirm to the digital copyright protection, not only the digital image but the digital audio study is an activeness in the digital watermarking area. Especially, the watermark insertion in the digital audio area affects deeply not only a robustness but the audio quality of the watermarked audio data. Generally, the audio watermark is inserted in the frequence domain after FFT, the quality of audio data is affected by the watermark insertion. Thus, a high quality audio to be maintained at the same time, the study related a inserting of the robustness watermark happened to a hot issue. In this paper, the authors proposed the digital audio watermarking algorithm using psychoacoustic model and MDCT/IMDCT (Modified Discrete Cosine Transform/Inverse Modified Discrete Cosine Transform). In the proposed scheme, the authors experimented the stereo audio file with 44.1KHz, and 128kbps for the audio watermarking algorithm proposed. When the audio data is processed by MDCT, the watermark is able to insert into the frequence domain with 256, 1024 and 2048 interval. In case of 50㎳ RMS window, it was confirmed that the difference between the original audio data and the watermarked audio data of RMS power is 0.8㏈.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06d
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• pp.257-260
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose a robust audio watermarking method. The proposed watermarking algorithm is composed of a psychoacoustic model to achieve perceptual transparency and spread spectrum technique to embed watermark. The watermark is embedded in each audio frame by adding a perceptually-shaped pseudo-random sequence. We demonstrate the robustness of the watermarking algorithm.

• The Journal of Engineering Research
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.43-46
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• 1998

Considerable research in the last three decades has examined the problem of enhancement of speech degraded by additive background noise. We compare traditional methods such as spectral subtraction and Wiener filter, recently proposed psychoacoustic model based methods such as perceptual filter and noise suppression in EVRC in terms of performance and complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.04a
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• pp.859-861
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• 2001

본 논문은 오디오의 masking특성을 적용한 심리음향 모델을 이용하여 오디오의 고음질을 보장하면서 잡음과 압축 등의 공격에 강한 오디오 워터마킹 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 워터마킹 방법은 심리음향 모델에 의해 생산되는 masking thresholds와 원신호의 power spectral density의 각 주파수별 차이 에너지를 이용하여 시간도메인에서 워터마크를 삽입하는 방법으로 오디오의 품질을 유지할 수 있다. 워터마크로는 자기상관성이 강한 PN-시퀀스를 이용하여 강인한 워터마킹을 구현한다. 그리고 PN-시퀀스와 같은 이진 시퀀스 워터마크의 검출을 위한 유사도 측정식을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.6C
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• pp.770-776
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• 2004

The goal of perceptual audio coder is to reduce redundancy and irrelevancy of audio signal based on the concept of masking. Several studies on masking effect reveal that the masking threshold varies as a function of the noise-like or tone-like nature of audio signals. Therefore, tonality of audio signal influences significantly the quality and efficiency of perceptual audio coder In this paper, we propose a new effective algorithm for tonality measure using spectrum energy. Since the proposed algorithm consists of a few transcendental functions and simple operations, it has lower complexity than MPEG psychoacoustic model-II. The proposed algorithm was tested with some audio signals, and DSP implementation showed that the proposed algorithm could be implemented with 3 MIPS. These results illustrate the efficiency of proposed algorithm in both performance and complexity.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.77-85
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• 2001

This paper proposes a method of time-scale modification of polyphonic audio signals based on a sinusoidal model. The signals are modeled with sinusoidal component and noise component. A multiresolution filter bank is designed which splits the input signal into six octave-spaced subbands without aliasing and sinusoidal modeling is applied to each subband signal. To alleviate smearing of transients in time-scale modification a dynamic segmentation method is applied to subbands which determines the analysis-synthesis frame size adaptively to fit time-frequency characteristics of the subband signal. For extracting sinusoidal components and calculating their parameters matching pursuit algorithm is applied to each analysis frame of subband signal. In accordance with spectrum analysis a psychoacoustic model implementing the effect of frequency masking is incorporated with matching pursuit to provide a resonable stop condition of iteration and reduce the number of sinusoids. The noise component obtained by subtracting the synthesized signal with sinusoidal components from the original signal is modeled by line-segment model of short time spectrum envelope. For various polyphonic audio signals the result of simulation shows suggested sinusoidal modeling can synthesize original signal without loss of perceptual quality and do more robust and high quality time-scale modification for large scale factor because of representing transients without any perceptual loss.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.608-616
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• 2005

Watermarking has become a technology of choice for a broad range of multimedia copyright protection applications. This paper proposes an audio watermarking scheme that uses the modified tonal masker as an embedding carrier for imperceptible and robust audio watermarking. The method of embedding is to select one of the tonal maskers using a secret key, and to then modify the frequency signals that consist of the tonal masker without changing the sound pressure level. The modified tonal masker can be found using the same secret key without the original sound, and the embedded information can be extracted. The results show that the frequency signals are stable enough to keep embedded watermarks against various common signal processing types, while at the same time the proposed scheme has a robust performance.