• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.842-849
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• 2011

The human ear canal amplifies the sound pressure level at specific frequency bands. The characteristics of the ear canal are very similar to those of curved cylindrical tube. In this study, the characteristics of sound transfer in human ear canal were measured and the acoustical space of ear canal was reproduced from the canal cavity geometry. For the measurement of sound transfer function in ear canal, a probe microphone and a reference microphone were used. The sound transfer functions were measured for 5 human subjects. To reproduce the acoustical space of the ear canal, two kinds of ear simulator were designed. The first one is a straight cylindrical tube type and the other is a real-shape ear of which geometry was taken from a micro-CT scanning of a human ear. The characteristics of the reproduced apparatus were compared with those of the human and a commercial ear simulator, RA0045 of G.R.A.S. Inc. The comparison results show that the developed apparatus well represent the ear canal characteristics in the low frequency, but have limited coincidence in level over high frequency range.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.637-650
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• 2019

이 논문은 가상현실 오디오에서 널리 사용되는 Ambisonics에 기반하여 헤드폰을 통해 재생하는 binaural sound의 한계를 분석한 것이다. 가상현실 오디오는 청자의 머리 움직임을 보상하는 binaural sound를 통해 제공된다. Ambisonics는 가상현실 오디오에서 청자를 둘러싼 배경음장을 레코딩하고 재생하는데에 널리 사용되는데, 1차 Ambisonics가 간단하다는 장점 때문에 여전히 가상현실 오디오에서 사용되고 있다. 그러나, 물리적인 관점에서 1차의 상한 주파수는 너무 낮아서 귀 위치의 신호를 완벽히 재현하지 못한다. 따라서 이렇게 재생된 binaural sound는 스펙트럼과 음원 위치 형성에서 근본적인 한계를 갖는다. 이 논문은 이러한 한계를 기준 음장과 재생 음장에서의 귀 위치의 신호 비교를 통해 알아 본다. 하나의 입사파를 기준 음장으로 정의하고, 이 것을 가상 스피커를 이용해서 Ambisonics를 통해 재생한다. 주파수 응답, 양이 레벨차, 양이 위상차가 비교된다. 비교 결과, 상한 주파수 이상에서 재생음장의 음압 레벨은 감소하고 수평면 상에서의 음원 위치는 청자의 정면 방향 근처에서만 잘 형성됨을 알 수 있었다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.557-565
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• 2009

인간의 청각기관은 소리의 방향과 거리인지에 있어서 여러 가지의 정보들을 복합적으로 이용한다. 이러한 양 귀에 들어오는 소리세기의 차이, 위상의 차이, 그리고 주파수 스펙트럼의 차이 등의 정보들을 종합적으로 포함하고 있는 것이 머리전달함수 (HRIF: Head Related Transfer Function)이다. 2채널 음향재생 시스템에서 이 머리전달함수를 이용하여 다채널 입체음향을 재생하는 방법이 많이 쓰이고 있다. 그러나 머리전달함수의 비개인화적인 특성 때문에 양쪽 귀까지의 거리가 같아지는 혼돈원추 상에서는 앞/뒤 방향 지각에 대한 혼돈을 주게 됨으로써 입체감을 저하시키게 된다. 본 논문에서는 입체음향을 생성하기 위해 머리전달함수를 사용하는 과정예서 발생하는 혼돈원추 문제점을 해결하기 위한 알고리즘을 제안한다. 각 머리전달함수의 주파수 차 및 인간의 청각 특성을 이용하여 각 방향에 해당하는 머리전달함수의 주파수 스펙트럼 특성을 조절하였다. 본 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 음상정위 테스트 및 청감 테스트를 실시하였으며 실험 결과 헤드폰을 기반으로 한 2채널 입체음향 시스템에서 향상된 입체음향을 재생하였다. 더불어 구현된 입체음향의 음질의 열화도 적음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 대한설비공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한설비공학회 2006년도 동계학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.79-79
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• 2006

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2012년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.454-455
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• 2012

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.161-167
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• 2021

This paper proposes a new personalized HRTF estimation method which is based on a deep neural network (DNN) model and improved elevation reproduction using a notch filter. In the previous study, a DNN model was proposed that estimates the magnitude of HRTF by using anthropometric measurements [1]. However, since this method uses zero-phase without estimating the phase, it causes the internalization (i.e., the inside-the-head localization) of sound when listening the spatial sound. We devise a method to estimate both the magnitude and phase of HRTF based on the DNN model. Personalized HRIR was estimated using the anthropometric measurements including detailed data of the head, torso, shoulders and ears as inputs for the DNN model. After that, the estimated HRIR was filtered with an appropriate notch filter to improve elevation reproduction. In order to evaluate the performance, both of the objective and subjective evaluations are conducted. For the objective evaluation, the root mean square error (RMSE) and the log spectral distance (LSD) between the reference HRTF and the estimated HRTF are measured. For subjective evaluation, the MUSHRA test and preference test are conducted. As a result, the proposed method can make listeners experience more immersive audio than the previous methods.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2014년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.955-956
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• 2014

Active noise control is noise reduction method by generate anti-phase control signal for destructive interference of through control speaker. purpose of this paper is create a virtual control source at a using the DBAP(Distance Based Amplitude Panning) algorithm which is one of the three-dimensional sound reproduction method, and verified through the experimentally for noise control method through the virtual control source. We compared active noise method by using one control speaker with active noise control method by using DBAP algorithm.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.289-297
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• 2007

SAFRS is the system designed to reproduce the harmonic sound into the space according to the environmental factors. Here the harmonic sound means the sound which judged by the subjective tests, and the methods were suggested in the former studies. In this research, SAFRS was applied into the Square of D University to evaluate and verify the effectiveness of the system and a few evaluations were carried out as follows; 1) sound perception, frequency, volume and harmony with the space, 2) images of the square and acoustic environment and 3) acoustic environment with existing sounds, fountain sound, produced sound by SAFRS, and both of them respectively. The results can be summarized as follows; 1) According to the evaluation on acoustic environment, no relationships were shown between the cognition of sounds produced by SAFRS and the frequency or volume, but inverse proportion was shown between the volume and special harmony. 2) As the result of image evaluation. the relationship between space and sound image was shown proportional only except the evaluation on main road at night time, it means that the sound proposal with the visual contents matching with the sounds would be more effective than the proposal of sound only. 3) Results of evaluation on acoustic environment showed that the cognition effect at night time was shown higher than that of day time when only the acoustic element was given and the effect was increased when the visual elements matches with the acoustic elements if both of them were given. It confirmed the harmony between visual and acoustic elements was very important.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.964-969
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• 2006

The soundscape is a novel attempt to offer comfortable sound environments at the urban public spaces by adding pleasant sounds and removing unagreeable ones. Most important factors to be considered therein are to determine what kind of sounds to offer and how to adjust them to the changing circumstances. But nowadays, the audio system provided in the almost every urban public spaces is just only a PA system with CD player or radio broadcasting music, the provided sound is only intended by the operator. Furthermore, providing the soundscape which fits to the situation and the atmospheric conditions needs enormous effort and time, it is almost impossible with the existing PA systems which installed in the public spaces nowadays. Thus, the new sounds cape reproduction system was developed on the basis of the prior VAFSS(Virtual Acoustic Field Simulation System) systems, which has the artificial intelligence to read out the mood of the field and select the appropriate soundscape to reproduce. In this new system, various environmental sensors with standard voltage, current or resistance output are available simultaneously, and the monitoring with video and sound became available via the TCP/IP communication protocol. The update and control of this system can be very convenient, so the money, time and the effort of maintaining and providing soundscape on the public spaces can be enormously saved. This new soundscape reproducing system was named as Virtual Acoustic Field Simulation System II (V AFSS II).

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.515-518
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• 2007

SAFRS(Spontaneous Acoustic Field Reproduction System) is a system to sense changes of surroundings and produce sounds which can go well with environment elements sensed by the system in to the space. The sounds were judged by individual evaluation and, the classification of the preferred sounds according to the mood of the space was suggested in the former study. Effectiveness of SAFRS with field application was validated by prior studies which dealt with researching acoustic environment, evaluating images of sounds, and rating environment with existence and nonexistence of sound resources such as fountains and the system after applied in D university. In this study, for more effective field application of SAFRS, research for the acoustic environment around sound resources and subjective evaluation of the preference of the sounds from the resources were made and it was considered that the results of the experiments should be primary information to propose proper sound level to be offered by the system. The results of the study are as follows; 1) It was considered that the ambience of the center road was dependent upon produced sounds by the system and water sounds of the fountain and that of walk way was mostly dependent upon produced sounds. 2) The results of the subjective evaluation showed that the distance from sound resources was suggestive; the more distant from produced sounds the less full and clear the sounds, the less distant from the sounds of water the more delight and idyllic ambience, and the less distant from the forest the more idyllic ambient and diversity. 3) The results upwards were telling that an average value of six elements for the evaluation was even at the place set back 10.2m from center road and walk way. And harmony of all sounds of the place should be considered to propose suitable sound level of SAFRS.