• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.143-146
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• 2004

일반적으로, 화상회의에서 화자의 위치를 검출하는 것은 음향 신호를 기반으로 이루어져 왔다. 그러나 물리적인 환경의 제약이나 화자 검출 시스템의 한계를 벗어나는 노이즈가 발생하는 경우에는 검출 시스템의 성능저하를 초래하게 된다. 본 논문에서는 음향 기반의 검출 시스템과 독립적으로, 혹은 상호 보완적으로 사용될 수 있는 영상 기반의 화자 검출 알고리즘에 대하여 제안하고자 한다. 화자의 위치에 관한 정보는 화상회의에 한층 사실감을 부여하는 3 차원 오디오 재생에 사용될 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1897-1900
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• 2002

This paper proposes a novel computer-human interface, named invisible Messenger. It integrates face detection and tracking, and speaker array signal processing. By speaker array it is possible to form acoustic focus at the arbitrary location that is measured by the face tracking. Thus the proposed system can whisper in a person's ear as if an invisible virtual messenger were standing by the person. Not only speculative discussion, the authors have implemented a working prototype system based upon the proposed idea. This paper also describes about this prototype. In order to confirm effectiveness of the proposed idea, the authors conduct experiments using the implemented system. Experimental results demonstrate the effectivenss of the proposed idea.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.637-640
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• 2005

We propose a sound source localization method using the Head-Related-Transfer-Function (HRTF) to be implemented in a given platform. HRTFs contain not only the information regarding proper time delays but also phase and magnitude distortions due to diffraction and scattering by the shading object. Therefore, a set of HRTFs for any given platform provides a substantial amount of information as to the whereabouts of the source. In this study, we introduce new phase criterion in order to find the sound source location in accordance with the HRTF database empirically obtained in an anechoic chamber with the given platform. Using this criterion, we analyze the estimation performance of the proposed method in a household environment.

• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.360-365
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• 2008

We propose an efficient robot name registration and recognition method in order to enable a Call-and-Come service for home robots. In the proposed method for the name registration, the search space is first restricted by using monophone-based acoustic models. Second, the registration of robot names is completed by using triphone-based acoustic models in the restricted search space. Next, the parameter for the utterance verification is calculated to reduce the acceptance rate of false calls. In addition, acoustic models are adapted by using a distance speech database to improve the performance of distance speech recognition, Moreover, the location of a user is estimated by using a microphone array. The experimental result on the registration and recognition of robot names shows that the word accuracy of speech recognition is 98.3%.