• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.340-351
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• 2012

In this paper, we proposed the stereo-10.2channel blind upmix algorithm for the enhanced 3D sound. Recently, consumers want to enjoy better sound and the use of a various of multichannel configuration has been steadily improved. Thus, upmix algorithms have been researched. However, conventional upmix algorithms have the problem that distorts the spatial information of original source. To solve this problem and enhance the spatial sound quality, we proposed front and rear channel gain adjustment and 10.2 channel upmix algorithm for each additional channel. The listening test results show that it maintains spatial information of stereo input and enhances 3D sound effects unlike other conventional upmix algorithms.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.12
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• pp.184-190
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• 2013

Parametric stereo(PS) audio coding is a specific version of spatial audio coding. In this paper, the problem due to the conventional synthesis of phase differences. In the conventional upmix matrix, phase differences are synthesized not only on downmix signal but also ambient signal, which violates the assumption that the ambient signals are anti-phased. Deterioration due to the phase synthesis is analyzed, especially, for low interchannel correlation. To solve this problem, new upmix matrix is proposed, which synthesizes phase differences only on downmix signal. The performance of the proposed upmix matrix is verified by the subjective listening tests.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2013.06a
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• pp.8-11
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• 2013

스테레오-멀티채널 업믹스(Stereo-to-Multichannel Upmix)기술은 시장의 대부분을 차지하는 스테레오 음원을 홈시어터와 같은 멀티채널 스피커 재생 환경에서 효과적으로 재생하기 위한 채널 포맷 변환 기술을 말한다. 수평적인 공간감뿐만 아니라 수직적인 공간감을 재현하기 위하여 10.2, 22.2채널 환경의 경우 고도 채널이 추가되었다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 채널 환경에서 수직, 수평적인 공간감을 재현하기 위하여 새로운 초기 반사음을 생성하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 진폭 패닝방법을 이용하여 전방의 가상 음원들에 의하여 발생되는 리시버 위치에서의 음압을 일치시킴으로써 기존 알고리즘이 가지지 못했던 이론적인 배경을 갖는다. 청취 평가 실험을 통하여 제안된 알고리즘은 음장의 수직, 수평적인 폭을 증가시키며, 좀 더 안정적인 음상 정위 성능을 가지는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.924-932
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• 2012

Decomposition of a stereo signal into the primary and ambient components is a key step to the stereo upmix and it is often based on the principal component analysis (PCA). However, major shortcoming of the PCA-based method is that accuracy of the decomposed components is dependent on both the primary-to-ambient power ratio (PAR) and the panning angle. Previously, a modified PCA was suggested to solve the PAR-dependent problem. However, its performance is still dependent on the panning angle of the primary signal. In this paper, we proposed a new PCA-based primary-ambient decomposition algorithm whose performance is not affected by the PAR as well as the panning angle. The proposed algorithm finds scale factors based on a criterion that is set to preserve the powers of the mixed components, so that the original primary and ambient powers are correctly retrieved. Simulation results are presented to show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.07a
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• pp.160-163
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• 2012

업믹스(Upmix) 기술은 홈시어터와 같은 다채널 스피커 재생 환경에서 콘텐츠의 대부분을 차지하는 스테레오 음원을 다채널 환경에 재생하기 위한 채널 포맷 변환 기술을 말한다. 업믹스를 위한 전처리 단계로서 특정 방향으로 패닝된 주(primary)성분과 잔향 및 배경음과 같은 Ambient 성분을 분리하는 과정이 필요하다. Primary와 Ambient를 분리하기 위한 방법으로 채널 간의 상관도, 적응 필터 및 주성분 분석법(principal component analysis, PCA)이 널리 이용되고 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 비교적 정확하게 Primary와 Ambient를 분리한다고 알려진 주성분 분석법을 이용하여 신호를 분리해 내고 이 때 주성분 분석법이 가지는 문제점을 해결한 향상된 Primary-Ambient 분리 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리즘은 분리 성능이 Primary 성분이 패닝된 각도에 영향을 받지 않으며 또한 Primary 성분에 섞인 잔여 Ambient를 제거함으로써 기존의 주성분 분석법 보다 더 정확하게 Primary와 Ambient를 분리 할 수 있고 상관성이 없는 Ambient 특성을 좀 더 정확하게 반영한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.509-515
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• 2010

This paper presents a new method for upmixing mono signal to stereo signal with guaranteeing high stereophonic image quality (SIQ) and large apparent source width (ASW). The proposed method consists of analysis phase and synthesis phase. In analysis phase, a mono signal is first decomposed into multiple sound sources by the use of high-rank nonnegative matrix factorization. Then the multiple sources are clustered into two groups based on tonality criterion. In synthesis phase, one group is directly fed into left and right channels while the other group is decorrelated before being fed into each channel. Subjective tests reveals that the proposed method gives listener high SIQ and large ASW with minimizing timbral distortions.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.64-74
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• 2014

The primary and ambient signal decomposition of a stereo sound is a key step to the stereo upmix. The principal component analysis (PCA) is one of the most widely used methods of primary-ambient signal decomposition. However, previous PCA-based decomposition algorithms assume that stereo sound sources are only amplitude-panned without any consideration of phase difference. So it occurs some performance degradation in case of live recorded stereo sound. In this paper, we propose a new PCA-based stereo decomposition algorithm that can consider the phase difference between the channel signals. The proposed algorithm overcomes limitation of conventional signal model using PCA with phase alignment. The phase alignment is realized by using inter-channel phase difference (IPD) which is widely used in parametric stereo coding. Moreover, Enhanced Modified PCA(EMPCA) is combined to solve the problem of conventional PCA caused by Primary to Ambient energy Ratio(PAR) and panning angle dependency. The simulation results are presented to show the improvements of the proposed algorithm.