• Title/Summary/Keyword: Sound Quality Analysis

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The Analysis and Implementation of Realistic Sound using Doppler Effect (도플러 효과를 이용한 실감 음향 분석 및 구현)

  • Yim, Yong-Min;Lim, Heung-Jun;Heo, Jun-Seok;Park, Jun-Young;Do, Yun-Hyung;Lee, Kangwhan
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • 2017.05a
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    • pp.523-526
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    • 2017
  • In modern recently technology, 3D-Audio is used to enhance immersion in Virtual Reality. This includes interest of people about VR and AR, which related to the field of computer graphics. In fact, a lot of research has been carried out in recent years into a 3D sound field. However, the existing 3D generator device used for virtual reality does not contain Doppler effect occurred by the sound comes to or leave from a listener, while an angle from the listener and the altitude of the source sound are applied. Therefore, this paper present 3D real sound utilizing Doppler effect with spatial-rotation-speaker. We map the source sound in 3D-space into a real space where a user stays and present 3D real sound by manipulating with rotation angle, phase difference, sound output volume of the sound in 3D-space, according to the location of a virtual source sound. Utilizing both natural Doppler effect of rotating sound that is occurring by spatial-rotation-speaker and artificial Doppler effect generated by frequency-modulation of sound quality could improving the virtual reality for sound condition for perspective listening.

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Effects of Oatrim on the Quality of Meat Products (일부재료(Oatrim)대체가 육류제품의 품질에 미치는 영향)

  • Jeon, Yoo-Shin;Sohn, Kyung-Hee
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.10 no.3
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    • pp.254-259
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    • 1994
  • Meat provides high quality proteins, lipids, minerals and vitamins. The meat protein is especially high in essential amino acids that are crucial for human health, growth & development and for the formation of enzymes, hormones and antibodies. Relatively cheap and nutritionally sound vegetable proteins that are similar to animal proteins are being developed to replace the animal proteins in texture, nutrition and food characteristics. In this study a nutritionally sound meat lipid replacing food Oatrim that has been produced by converting oat starch into maltodextrin by ${\alpha}$-amylase, have been partially substituted for beef and general component analysis, texture measurement and sensory tests have been conducted. The results are 1. Water content of the non-treated (0% treated) was 67.1% and the treated (10% treated) was 77%. The treated showed better water holding capacity. 2. Protein content of the non-treated was 21.2 g/100 g; the 4% treated, 18.4 g/100 g; the 6% treated, 18.2 g/100 g; the 8% treated, 17.2 g/100g; and the 10% treated, 16.0 g/100 g. The protein content tended significant. 3. Amino acid analysis results showed that glutamic acid content was the highest in Oatrim and as its amino acid make up is exellent, it is valuable as a fine low fat protein food. 4. Sensory tests show that the increased Oatrim content increased the appearance quality but food characteristics were high only in the 4% and 6% treated groups, indicating that the replacement ratio should not exceed 10%. 5. Texture measurement analysis results show that the higher the replacement content, lower the springness, cohesiveness, hardness, chewiness and gumminess, resulting in relatively soft overall texture. However, in order to better the food characteristics, more studies must be continuously done, and so by being able to increase vegetable substitution over meat, it may be able to contribute to the prevention of adult disease.

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Comparison of Vowel and Text-Based Cepstral Analysis in Dysphonia Evaluation (발성장애 평가 시 /a/ 모음연장발성 및 문장검사의 켑스트럼 분석 비교)

  • Kim, Tae Hwan;Choi, Jeong Im;Lee, Sang Hyuk;Jin, Sung Min
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Laryngology, Phoniatrics and Logopedics
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.117-121
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    • 2015
  • Background : Cepstral analysis which is obtained from Fourier transformation of spectrum has been known to be effective indicator to analyze the voice disorder. To evaluate the voice disorder, phonation of sustained vowel /a/ sound or continuous speech have been used but the former was limited to capture hoarseness properly. This study is aimed to compare the effectiveness in analysis of cepstrum between the sustained vowel /a/ sound and continuous speech. Methods : From March 2012 to December 2014, total 72 patients was enrolled in this study, including 24 unilateral vocal cord palsy, vocal nodule and vocal polyp patients, respectively. The entire patient evaluated their voice quality by VHI (Voice Handicap Index) before and after treatment. Phonation of sustained vowel /a/ sample and continuous speech using the first sentence of autumn paragraph was subjected by cepstral analysis and compare the pre-treatment group and post-treatment group. Results : The measured values of pre and post treatment in CPP-a (cepstral peak prominence in /a/ vowel sound) was 13.80, 13.91 in vocal cord palsy, 16.62, 17.99 in vocal cord nodule, 14.19, 18.50 in vocal cord polyp respectively. Values of CPP-s (cepstral peak prominence in text-based speech) in pre and post treatment was 11.11, 12.09 in vocal cord palsy, 12.11, 14.09 in vocal cord nodule, 12.63, 14.17 in vocal cord polyp. All 72 patients showed subjective improvement in VHI after treatment. CPP-a showed statistical improvement only in vocal polyp group, but CPP-s showed statistical improvement in all three groups (p<0.05). Conclusion : In analysis of cepstrum, text-based analysis is more representative in voice disorder than vowel sound speech. So when the acoustic analysis of voice by cepstrum, both phonation of sustained vowel /a/ sound and text based speech should be performed to obtain more accurate result.

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An Analysis on the Structure of Meaning for Amenities of Sound Environment II -Psychological Evaluation Factors and Attributes of Noise- (음환경의 쾌적성에 관한 의미구조의 분석 II -소음의 심리적 평가요인과 속성-)

  • 한명호;김선우
    • Journal of KSNVE
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    • v.8 no.4
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    • pp.706-714
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    • 1998
  • The purpose of this study is to analyse the main factors and attributes of psychological evaluation to noise. For this purpose, a psycho-acustic experiment was conducted by using the method of rating scale. 52 subjects were participated in the experiment, 20 stimuli were presented to subjects in random order with 23 adjectives. As a result of factor analysis, it was found that the primary factors for evaluating the quality of noise subjectively are four factors of unpleasantness, intensity, irregularity, and sharpness. And, as a result of MDPREF(multi-dimensional analysis of preference data), it was found that the noise sources including the factors of unpleasantness, intensity, and irregularity are related to the sounds of hammering in construction field, car horn, road traffic, idling of car, and printing by computer printer, and the factor of sharpness are the sounds of car siren, claps of thunder, car horn, and snowstorm etc.

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Practical Vibration Analysis for the Floor of Dwelling Building (공동주택 바닥판에 대한 실용적인 진동해석)

  • Park, Kang-Geun;Kim, Yong-Tae;Choi, Young-Wha
    • Journal of Korean Association for Spatial Structures
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    • v.6 no.1 s.19
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    • pp.65-73
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    • 2006
  • In these days the floor vibration is beginning to make its appearance of the environmental dispute in dwelling building. Standard floor system are suggested for the settlement of this issue by government. The sound of floor impact sound is needed to secure comfortable quality in housing. Also, it is required an accurate analysis and a proper evaluation for floor vibration. Refine model is necessary for the floor system of housing to analyze accurately the floor vibration. But this refine model is not efficient because it is required so much running time for vibration analysis and it is difficult of modeling of standard floor slab. In this paper, new modeling methods of standard floor slab are proposed for the accurate rigidity evaluation. By using the new modeling method, the accurate vibration response can be obtained and can accurately evaluate the rigidity of standard floor system with resilient materials. Therefore the proposed modeling method is of practical use for vibration analysis of floor system of housing.

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Micro Analysis of Gender Effect on Service Quality Determinants and Customer Satisfaction in Banking Sector: A Study of Banks in Saudi Arabia

  • Aljasser, Ibrahim Abdullah;Sasidhar, Bokkasam
    • Asia Pacific Journal of Business Review
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.35-44
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    • 2019
  • Service quality is a competitive weapon in the banking industry. Better understanding of customer's perception of service quality in the banking industry and the drivers of such perceptions will be a sound basis for continuous improvement in the quality of service offered to customers, customer satisfaction and customer retention in the industry. An earlier study by the same authors (Ibrahim and Bokkasam, 2016) revealed that the six SERVQUAL determinants are significantly related to and explain about 84% of overall customer satisfaction. It was also observed that the female customers perceived higher level of positive perception towards SERVQUAL determinants. The present study carries out a micro-analysis of the influence of gender on the constituents of the service quality and customer satisfaction for all the six dimensions of the SERVQUAL: Access, Communication, Competence, Tangibility, Empathy and Reliability, in Saudi banking sector. The study also analyses gender-wise levels of satisfactions with regard to individual components constituting various factors of the constituents of SERVQUAL. It was observed that the male customers have significantly low levels of satisfactions with regard to promptness in solving conflicting issues and comfort during waiting time in the bank.

A New Adaptive Controller Compensating Nonlinear Distortions of a Speaker (스피커의 비선형 왜곡을 보정하는 새로운 적응 제어기)

  • Kwon, Oh-Sang
    • The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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    • v.9 no.10
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    • pp.1087-1094
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    • 2014
  • In general, a speaker generates nonlinear distortions owing to a design principle, manufacturing process, and so on, which decreases and changes a sound quality. So, if the speaker is linearized by compensating these nonlinear distortions, the sound quality and satisfaction can be increased. In this paper, a new adaptive controller was proposed to be applied for compensating nonlinear distortions of a speaker. Through computer simulations as well as the analytical analysis, it could be shown that it is possible for both conventional adaptive controller and proposed adaptive controller, to be applied for linearizing the speaker with nonlinear distortions. Also, the simulations results demonstrated that the proposed adaptive controller may have faster convergence speed and better capability of compensating the nonlinear distortion than the conventional adaptive controller with nearly equal computation complexity.

Sound Quality Evaluation of the Level D Noise for the vehicle using Mahalanobis Distance (Mahalanobis Distance 를 이용한 차량 D 단 소음의 음질 평가)

  • Park, Sang-Gil;Park, Won-Sik;Sim, Hyoun-Jin;Lee, Jung-Youn;Oh, Jae-Eung
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.311-317
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    • 2007
  • The reduction of the Vehicle interior noise has been the main interest of NVH engineers. The driver's perception on the vehicle noise is affected largely by psychoacoustic characteristic of the noise as well as the SPL. The previous methods to evaluation of the SQ about vehicle interior noise are linear regression analysis of subjective SQ metrics by statistics and the estimation of the subjective SQ values by neural network. But these are so depended on jury test very much that they result in many difficulties. So, to reduce jury test weight, we suggested a new method using Mahalanobis distance for SQ evaluation. And, optimal characteristic values influenced on the result of the SQ evaluation were derived by signal to noise ratio(SN ratio) of the Taguchi method. Finally, the new method to evaluate SQ is constructed using Mahalanobis-Taguchi system(MTS). Furthermore, the MTS method for SQ evaluation was compared by the result of SQ grade table at the previous study and their virtues and faults introduced.

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Sound Quality Evaluation and Grade Construction of the Level D Noise for the Vehicle Using MTS (MTS기법을 이용한 차량 D단 소음의 음질 평가 및 음질 등급화 구축)

  • Park, Sang-Gil;Park, Won-Sik;Sim, Hyoun-Jin;Lee, Jung-Youn;Oh, Jae-Eung
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.393-399
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    • 2008
  • The reduction of the Vehicle interior noise has been the main interest of NVH engineers. The driver's perception on the vehicle noise is affected largely by psychoacoustic characteristic of the noise as well as the SPL. The previous methods to evaluation of the SQ about vehicle interior noise are linear regression analysis of subjective SQ metrics by statistics and the estimation of the subjective SQ values by neural network. But these are so depended on jury test very much that they result in many difficulties. So, to reduce jury test weight, we suggested a new method using Mahalanobis distance for SQ evaluation. And, optimal characteristic values influenced on the result of the SQ evaluation were derived by signal to noise ratio(SN ratio) of the Taguchi method. Finally, the new method to evaluate SQ is constructed using Mahalanobis-Taguchi system(MTS). Furthermore, the MTS method for SQ evaluation was compared by the result of SQ grade table at the previous study and their virtues and faults introduced.

Calculation Model of Roughness for Searching Roughness-contributed Components (러프니스 계산 알고리즘의 구현 및 이를 이용한 러프니스 기여성분 탐색방법의 제안)

  • Jeong, Hyuk;Kim, Hyun-Bin;Ih, Jeong-Guon
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.20 no.7
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    • pp.3-12
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    • 2001
  • It is known that the roughness is one of the most important metrics in assessing the sound quality. In this study, a new roughness model is suggested by combing the previous auditory filter model and several signal processing methods for the enhancement of calculation efficiency and accuracy. For testing the usefulness of the present model, the predicted responses are compared with the experimental data and it is observed that they are in good agreements. Also, it is found that the previous models have limitations to search frequency components mainly contributed to overall roughness. By modifying the correlation criteria of the present model, the revised model for the proper estimation of roughness-contributed components is embedded.

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