• Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.511-520
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• 2003

In room acoustics, reverberation time is an important acoustic parameter. However it is often difficult to measure short reverberation times at low frequencies with a traditional band pass filter bank if the product of filter bandwidth (B) and reverberation time (T) is small. It it well known that the minimum permissible product of bandwidth and reverberation time of the traditional band pass filter is at least 16. This strict requirement makes it difficult to measure short reverberation times of an acoustic room at low frequencies exactly. In order to reduce this strict requirement, in the previous paper, the wavelet filter bank was developed and the minimum permissible product of bandwidth and reverberation time was replaced with 4. In the present paper it is demonstrated how the short reverberation times of an practical room at low frequencies are successfully measured by using the wavelet filter bank and the results are compared with the traditional method using a band past filer bank.

• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.76-82
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• 2019

Background and Objectives: Noise levels and room acoustic parameters at a tertiary referral hospital, Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) in Korea, are investigated. Materials and Methods: Through a questionnaire, acoustically problematic rooms are identified. Noise levels in emergency rooms (ERs) and intensive care units (ICUs) are measured over about three days. Acoustically critical and problematic rooms in the otolaryngology department are measured including examination rooms, operating rooms, nurse stations, receptions, and patient rooms. Results: The A-weighted equivalent noise level, L_Aeq, ranges from 54 to 56 dBA, which is at least 10 dB lower than the noise levels of 65 to 73 dBA measured in American ERs. In an ICU, the noise level for the first night was 66 dBA, which came down to 56 dBA for the next day. The noise levels during three different ear surgeries vary from 57 to 62 dBA, depending on the use of surgical drills and suctions. The noise levels in a patient room is found to be 47 dBA, while the nurse stations and the receptions have high noise levels up to 64 dBA. The reverberation times in an operation room, examination room, and single patient room are found to be below 0.6 s. Conclusions: At SNUH, the nurse stations and receptions were found to be quite noisy. The ERs were quieter than in the previous studies. The measured reverberation times seemed low enough but some other nurse stations and examination rooms were not satisfactory according to the questionnaire.

• 대한청각학회지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.76-82
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• 2019

Background and Objectives: Noise levels and room acoustic parameters at a tertiary referral hospital, Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) in Korea, are investigated. Materials and Methods: Through a questionnaire, acoustically problematic rooms are identified. Noise levels in emergency rooms (ERs) and intensive care units (ICUs) are measured over about three days. Acoustically critical and problematic rooms in the otolaryngology department are measured including examination rooms, operating rooms, nurse stations, receptions, and patient rooms. Results: The A-weighted equivalent noise level, L_Aeq, ranges from 54 to 56 dBA, which is at least 10 dB lower than the noise levels of 65 to 73 dBA measured in American ERs. In an ICU, the noise level for the first night was 66 dBA, which came down to 56 dBA for the next day. The noise levels during three different ear surgeries vary from 57 to 62 dBA, depending on the use of surgical drills and suctions. The noise levels in a patient room is found to be 47 dBA, while the nurse stations and the receptions have high noise levels up to 64 dBA. The reverberation times in an operation room, examination room, and single patient room are found to be below 0.6 s. Conclusions: At SNUH, the nurse stations and receptions were found to be quite noisy. The ERs were quieter than in the previous studies. The measured reverberation times seemed low enough but some other nurse stations and examination rooms were not satisfactory according to the questionnaire.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제18권6호
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• pp.17-30
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• 1999

본 논문은 원격회의 시스템상에서 전송실의 갑작스런 환경변화에 의해 발생하는 신호 품질의 손상을 감소시키고 스테레오 환경에서 발생하는 음향 반향 신호를 효율적으로 제거하기 위한 새로운 스테레오 음향 제거기를 제안한다. 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기에서 발생하는 주요한 문제점들은 실제 반향 경로의 긴 임펄스 응답으로 인한 반향 경로 추정상의 높은 계산량 및 스테레오 신호들간의 높은 상관관계로 인한 반향 제거기의 성능 저하 등을 들 수 있다. 이와 더불어 송신 룸내의 원단화자 주변의 환경변화에 의한 반향 제거기의 최적해의 변화가 심각한 성능 저하의 원인으로 고려될 수 있다. 본 논문은 이러한 문제점들을 해결하기 위해서 전송실의 환경 변화에 강인하고 효율적인 계산량을 지니는 Hyper-plane투영 알고리듬을 이용한 의사 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기를 제안한다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2008

기하음향학 방법들을 이용한 중주파수 해석의 어려움을 해결하기 위하여 소리의 전파에서 위상 정보를 고려한 위상 기하음향학 방법이 제안되었다. 위상 기하음향학 방법은 위상정보를 고려하여 중주파수 대역의 간섭 현상을 설명할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 그러나 이러한 방법들을 이용하여 소리의 파동성으로 대표되는 저주파수 현상들을 모두 설명할 수 없다. 특히 저주파수 대역에서는 모서리나 장애물에 의한 회절현상을 고려하지 못하여 전달함수나 충격응답의 예측시 오차가 발생한다. 또한 실수인 흡음 계수를 사용한 해석 결과는 측정치와 차이를 보이므로 반사 계수의 잘못된 위상 정보는 교정되어야 한다. 본 연구에서는 균일 회절 이론을 병합한 위상 빔 추적법의 결과를 기존의 위상 빔 추적법의 결과와 비교하였다. 또한 벽면 반사계수의 위상을 변화시키며 위상 정보의 영향을 조사하였다. 제안된 오차 보정 방법들을 이용하면, 좀더 낮은 주파수 대역까지 정확성을 향상시켜 위상 빔 추적법을 실내음향 예측에 적용할 수 있다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1999년도 학술발표대회 논문집 제18권 2호
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• pp.119-122
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• 1999

In stereo acoustic echo canceller scheme, adaptive filters coefficients converge very slowly or misconverge to real acoustic echo path in receiving room. This is due to cross-correlation between channel signals. In this paper, new preprocessor using absolute difference factor between stereo signals is proposed to reduce cross-correlation between signals. Computer simulations demonstrate that this preprocessor perform well to the half wave rectifier which has simple and good performance of the several preprocessors in recent papers. When the paths in transmitting room change, performance does not degrade in proposed preprocessor.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.42-46
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 새로운 전처리 방법의 반향 제거기를 제안한다. 제안한 반향 제거기는 MINT (Multiple input/output INverse Theorem) 필터링에 의해 실내 전달함수의 잔향이 저감되어진 입력을 사용함으로써 필터계수의 추정오차를 감소시켜 성능을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 실제의 스테레오 음성과 실제 음장의 전달함수를 사용한 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안한 방법이 NLMS (Normalized Least Mean Square)와 Projection 등의 적응 알고리즘 종류에 관계없이 ERLE가 3∼5 dB 향상됨을 확인하였다.

• 한국주거학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국주거학회 2004년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.343-348
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• 2004

Since its foundation of Won-Buddhism in 1916 there established around 500 Temple-Halls in both domestic and overseas areas, and it is a native religion that currently on its development of edification activities. As for Won-Buddhism which being under rapid development likely as such going, together with its expansion of the religious influence, there required more broader spaced grand sanctum at where the large-scaled religious events are able to perform. According to this, Balcony-styled plane form is on increasing trend from the internal plane form of Won Buddhism Sanctum. On such viewpoint, this study hereby intends to grasp the character of room acoustics through on-the-spot survey about the objects of 3 Won Buddhism Sanctums which equipped with mutually different characters of the balconies already built, and willing to furnish the fundamental material which enables to improve acoustic capability when design Won Buddhism Sanctum equipped with balcony in the future.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.650-656
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• 2011

The noise inside a naval vessel is very important in considering the need for hearing protection, improving the working environment and maintaining good communications for crews living on board a naval vessel. The indoor noise of a ship usually is specified by the A-weighted sound pressure level, but other evaluating parameters are required to reflect human senses more effectively. This paper uses additional noise indices related to room acoustics, such as NR(noise rating), NC(noise criterion), RC(room criterion), PSIL(preferred speech interference level) and loudness level to evaluate the noise inside cabins on a naval vessel. Using these psychological noise indices, allowable limit of noise level in cabins is suggested through psycho-acoustic evaluation for the noise in cabins.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2001년도 추계학술대회논문집 II
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• pp.1104-1108
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• 2001

It is a difficult and important task to measure the reverberation time of an acoustic room with a short reverberation time. This paper presents a new technique to measure the reverberation time of an acoustic room with low value of BT60. The digital signal processing technique used to do this is the wavelet filter which is very flexible to design the 1/n octave band filter and has no delay problem compared with the conventional IIR digital filter. This method is successfully applied to the measurement of the reverberation time at low frequency band of famous concert halls in Korea.