• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제25권5호
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• pp.345-351
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• 2015

Sounds of electrically powered vehicle components such as window lift system, roller blind, etc., are required to be more comfortable and not to irritate the people emotionally. In this paper, a study was conducted to identify the significant sound quality metric and compose the luxuriousness sound quality index of electrically powered vehicle roller blind which is part of vehicle sunroof system. Before conducting subjective evaluation, sound characteristics of roller blind was analyzed and set the target operating sound for subjective evaluation. Thus, transfer sound of roller blind which has the characteristics of sound modulation was used for subjective evaluation. Multiple linear regression analysis was carried out by chosen Zwicker's metrics which are pointed by comments of jurors. Loudness and sharpness related metrics are prime metrics in luxuriousness sound quality index we composed. Also, effect of roller blind assay when it is attached to real vehicle was identified to evaluate the validity of index.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제15권7호
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• pp.821-828
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• 2005

In our life, we have used many digital appliances. They help us to improve the quality of life but sometimes give us unsatisfactory result. Because they produce specific noise. Especially vacuum cleaner produce much noise that is very annoying. So we need to study what sound metrics affect human sensibility. In this paper, we develop sound quality index for vacuum cleaner using the sound quality metrics defined in psychoacoustics. First, we carry out the subjective evaluation of vacuum cleaner sound to verify what vacuum sound feels good to human. And then artificial neural network estimated the complexity and the nonlinear characteristics of the relations between subjective evaluation and sound metrics. Finally the ANN is trained repeatedly to have a good performance for sound qualify index of the vacuum cleaner. As a result, the sound quality index of vacuum cleaner has a correlation of $93.5\%$ between the subjective evaluation and ANN. So, there exist three factors that Is loudness, sharpness, roughness which affect the sound quality of vacuum cleaner.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.614-619
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is that developing the index which evaluate sound quality of door latch and improving its sound quality through that results. For that, various operating sound of door latch was used for jury test. Loudness and sharpness related metrics are dominant in sound quality index we developed. This research investigate the main transfer path of its operating sound through sound field visualization and get conclusion that could reduce the impact sound of door latch. Therefore, we could verify sound quality improvement of modified product by using sound quality index.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.77-89
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• 2017

This study investigates the phonetic meaning of clarity and turbidity(淸濁) that has been used in psychoacoustics, musicology, and linguistics in both the East and the West. With a view to clarifying the phonetic meaning of clarity and turbidity, this study conducts three perception tests. First, 34 subjects were asked to take one of Clear and Turbid by forced choice for 5 pure and complex tones, respectively, ranging from A2 to A6 differing by octave. Second, they were asked to select between the two choices for 25 pure and complex tones, respectively, ranging from A2 to A4 differing by semitone. Third, they were asked to opt for one of the two choices for 8 different vowels of different formant and fundamental frequencies. Results showed that there is a certain range of tone which is perceived as clear, that clarity level increases as fundamental frequency increases, and that pure tones have a higher level of clarity than complex ones, fundamental frequency being equal. Results also showed that vocal tract resonance enhances clarity level on the whole, and that lower vowels have a higher level of clarity than higher ones. This study is significant in that it demonstrates that clarity level is proportional to fundamental frequency and the first formant frequency, all else being equal.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2003년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.177-182
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• 2003

This study is directed toward determining the number and characteristics of psychologically meaningful perceptual dimensions required for assessing the sound Ouaiity with respect to vehicle interior and/or exterior noises. and toward identifying the acoustical or psychoacoustical bases underlying the perception. By nonmetric MDS and clustring analysis of sound quality data sets on our own, of critical importance are two perceptual dimensions for which subjective verdicts can be interpreted as loudness and sharpness. The perceptual dimensions based upon similarity judgments could be accounted for 48% and 24% of the variance. each of which might be a match for the acoustic parameter "A-weighted maximum pressure level"(r= .85) and for the psychoacoustic parameter "sharpness" (r= .65), respectively. On the other hand, the perceptual dimensions based upon preference ratings could explain 66% and 10% of the variance. where the acoustic parameter "A-weighted maximum pressure leve"(r= .92) might be taken to be a best predictor, but sharpness appeared to be less suitable for the description of Preference behavior. Linked to the results, the problems of quantitative modelling of subjective sound quality evaluation and also of implementing corresponding cognitive combination rule for technical and industrial applications, say having "winner-sound qualify" according to preference criteria will be shortly in discussion.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.457-469
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• 2006

In automotive engineering, the brand sound is one of the important advantage strategies in a car company. For the design of brand sound, the selection of descriptive word for a car sound is one of major works in automotive sound quality research. In this paper, booming and rumbling sound, which are professional words used by sound and vibration engineers are used for the design of brand sound. We employed sound quality metrics, which are used in the psychoacoustics. By most research results, the relationship between subjective evaluations and sound quality metrics has nonlinear characteristics. In order to correlate these subjective evaluations with sound quality metrics, the artificial neural network technology has been applied to two-dimensional sound quality index for a passenger car. These indexes are used for 46 passenger cars, which are samples of the famous cars around the world. Also a preference evaluation for car sound was carried out by sound and vibration engineers. We coupled this preference with booming and rumbling sounds by using artificial neural network. In future, the two dimensional sound and preference index will be very useful to develop brand sound in passenger cars.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1437-1442
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• 2006

The international competition in car markets has continuously required the research about the sound quality of a car. The domestic carmakers have also invested a lot of money for the research and development of interior sound quality of passenger cars. Therefore, the aim of this research is to predict the customer's evaluation of a new vehicle. There are two major research works to achieve this goal in this research. The first one is to search questionnaires about the sound quality, which customers prefer, to identify the relationship between these questionnaires and sound metrics that is a psychoacoustics parameters, and to development sound indexes for the questionnaires. All tests for this work is proceed on the road test during acceleration. The second one is to balance the sound component (engine noise, booming noise, road noise and wind noise) of a passenger. This wok will be tested on the constant speed. All of research results will be contributed to the development of brand sound quality of a new passenger car.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제2권4호
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• pp.53-58
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• 2001

이동전화망을 위한 신뢰성 높은 객관적 통화품질평가 척도개발을 위하여 Bark Spectral Distortion Perceptual Speech Quality Measure의 성능을 분석하여 이 척도들을 실제 환경에서 수집된 음성 데이터에 대해서 실험한 결과, 성능의 저하가 나타났다. 본 논문에서는 인간의 심리음향학적 특성인 마스킹을 적용하는 방안을 제안하여 그 유효성을 실험으로 확인하였다. 이때, masking threshold 계산에 tone 신호를 사용하기 때문에 음성신호에 대하여 계산할 경우 문제점이 있을 수 있으므로 scaling 을 적용하는 새로이 제안하였다. 디지털 이동통신망에서 수집된 음성 데이터에 대한 성능평가 결과, 기존의 척도들 보다 더 높은 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제46권5호
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• pp.80-90
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 냉장고로부터 방사되는 소음에 대한 사용자의 불쾌도를 객관적으로 평가하기 위한 방법을 제안하였다. 이를 위해 8개의 상용 냉장고로부터 방사되는 소음이 무향실과 아파트로부터 녹음되었다. 사용자가 냉장고 소음으로부터 느끼는 주관적 청감을 알아보기 위하여 100명의 평가자로부터 청감 실험을 통하여 각 냉장고 소음의 주관적 평가 데이터가 얻어졌다. 그리고 이로부터 심리 음향 속성을 나타내는 파라미터인 5개의 Sound Quality Metric (SQM) 도출하였다. 마지막으로 주관적 소음 평가 데이터와 5개의 객관적 SQM 값 사이에 높은 상관도를 부여하는 냉장고 소음에 대한 객관적 평가 모델이 제시된다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.66-76
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• 2001

반향을 이용한 워터마킹에서는 오디오 신호에 청각적으로 지각되지 않는 작은 크기의 반향을 첨가함으로써 워터마크 정보를 은닉한다. 그러나 기존의 방법으로 반향을 삽입하게 되면 음질의 왜곡은 초래하지 않으면서 동시에 외부 공격에 대한 강인성을 보장하기에는 어려운 한계를 가지고 있다. 본 논문은 반향 (Echo) 신호에 대한 심리음향학적 분석을 통해 비지각성을 유지하면서 강인성을 높일 수 있는 새로운 반향 커널 설계 방법을 제안하고 이를 이용한 오디오 워터마킹 시스템의 성능을 평가한다. 제안한 반향 커널은 인간의 반향 지각 특성을 반영한 주파수 응답의 왜곡을 최소화하는 방향으로 설계되었기 때문에 기존의 방법에 비해 월등히 큰 에너지의 반향을 삽입할 수 있으며 따라서 공격에 강인하고 신뢰성 높은 복호화가 가능하다. 또한 몇 가지 신호처리 공격에 대한 분석을 통해 강인성을 보다 향상시키기 위한 기술들을 제안하고 적용하였으며 주관적 음질 평가 및 복호화 성능 평가를 통해 제안된 시스템의 성능을 검증하였다.