• 센서학회지
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.479-487
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• 2004

The prevention of noise induced hearing loss is very important, because there is no treatment for it. There are some kinds of devices for hearing protection, and those are effective in preventing a noise induced hearing loss. However, people often resist the use of hearing protection devices because it is difficult to have a conversation. Therefore, a hearing protection device is must effective not only in hearing protection but also in preserving communication ability. In this paper, we proposed a small acoustic filter for ITE type noise protector to solving the problem about the difficulties of conversation. That is applied a principle of acoustic filters that have been used for a muffler of automobiles, guns, and etc. To find out the sound transmission characteristic at the eardrum, we regarded an acoustic filter and external ear canal as a coupled system. So, we simulated the coupled system with OrCad, and experimented with a designed acoustic filter and a 2 cc coupler which has the same transmission characteristic as the external ear canal has. We confirmed that it is possible to adjustment acoustic transmission characteristics through simulation of electrical model for acoustic filter and external ear and experiments using designed small acoustic filters.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제50권12호
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• pp.205-209
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• 2013

기존의 반향신호 억제기는 스피커와 마이크 사이의 선형 관계만을 고려하여, 마이크로 입력된 신호로 부터 반향신호를 억제한다. 하지만 실제적으로 스피커는 비선형성을 가지고 있으며, 이 때문에 기존의 반향신호 억제기는 비선형 반향신호 환경에서 그 성능이 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 스피커의 비선형성을 모델링하기에 적합한 주파수영역상의 Least square 방식의 Volterra filter를 적용한 비선형 반향신호 억제기를 제안하였다. 객관적 성능평가 방법인 Echo Return Loss Enhancement (ERLE)와 Speech Attenuation(SA)를 도입하여 제안된 알고리즘의 성능 검증에 사용하였다. 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 반향신호 억제기보다 선형 및 비선형 반향 신호 환경에서 우수한 성능을 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제24권12호
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• pp.91-99
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• 2010

HVDC converter station consists of a number of equipment such as converter transformer, ac filter, thyristor valve and so on. They can be acoustic noise sources. In this paper, we analyzed the simulation results of the outdoor acoustic noise for HVDC converter station. It shows that maximum noise level in boundary of HVDC converter station exceeds regulation value. The main factors in generating maximum noise level are ac filter and converter transformer. Then we applied some soundproof countermeasures in HVDC converter station. Shielding wall is enough to reduce transformer noise level but not enough to reduce ac filter noise level. In case of ac filter, soundproof building is effective in satisfying noise level regulation in boundary of HVDC converter station. In addition, we also studied effects of season, soundproof woods, ground.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2001년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.991-996
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• 2001

It is well known that there are two experimental errors on acoustic decay measurements. One is due to the influence of the band pass filter the other one is that of an averaging device. In this paper the influence of the filter is in detail investigated. To minimize the influence of filter, the product of the filter bandwidth Β (3㏈ bandwidth) and the reverberation time T$\sub$60/ of the room under test is at least 16. Moreover, if the initial part of an acoustic decay curve is important, the strong requirement, i.e. BT$\sub$60/＞ 64, must be satisfied. In this paper, the wavelet filter bank instead of the band pass filter bank is applied to obtain an acoustic decay curve. As results, the influence of filter is reduced and then the value of BT$\sub$60/ required for obtaining an acceptable decay curve is at least 4. The strong requirement for the initial part of a decay curve is also replaced by the BT$\sub$60/＞ 16 instead of BT$\sub$60/＞ 64.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.5-13
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 음 감쇠 측정에서 실험 오차발생의 원인 중하나인 대역 통과 필터의‘ringing’에 대하여 조사하였다. 이는 모든 감쇠 측정의 근본적인 제한으로서 이러한 필터의 영향을 줄이기 위해서는 필터의 대역폭B (3dB bandwidth)와 시스템의 잔향시간 T/sub 60/의 곱이 최소 16이상이 되어야 한다 그리고 감쇠 곡선의 초기부분이 필요한 경우에는 필요 조건이 64 이상으로 더욱 증가한다. 이에 비하여 웨이블렛 필터를 사용하는 경우 이러한 제한은 4 이상으로 완화되고 초기 부분의 사용 또한 16이상으로 조건이 크게 완화된다. 그러므로 웨이블렛 필터를 사용하여 음 감쇠 신호를 측정할 경우 저주파수 영역에서 짧은 잔향시간의 음 감쇠 신호에 대하여 더욱 정확한 측정이 가능하다.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.1077-1080
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• 2002

In building acoustics, reverberation time is an important acoustic parameter. However, it is often difficult to measure short reverberation times at low frequencies using the traditional band pass filter bank if the product of bandwidth (B) and reverberation time (T) is small. It is well known that the minimum permissible product of bandwidth and reverberation time of the traditional band pass filter is at least 16 ［F. Jacobsen, J. Sound Vib. 115, 163-170 (1987)]. 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, recently, the wavelet filter bank is developed and the minimum permissible product of bandwidth and reverberation time is replaced with 4 [S. K. Lee, J, Sound Vib. 252, 141-153 (2002)]. In the present paper, it is demonstrated how the short reverberation times at low frequencies are successfully measured by using the wavelet filter bank. In order to present this job, two synthetic signals and one measured signal are used for impulse responses of an acoustic room.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제5권9호
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• pp.1632-1652
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• 2011

This paper considers the object tracking problem in three dimensional (3-D) space when the azimuth and elevation of the object are available from the passive acoustic sensor. The particle filtering technique can be directly applied to estimate the 3-D object location, but we propose to decompose the 3-D particle filter into the three planes' particle filters, which are individually designed for the 2-D bearings-only tracking problems. 2-D bearing information is derived from the azimuth and elevation of the object to be used for the 2-D particle filter. Two estimates of three planes' particle filters are selected based on the characterization of the acoustic sensor operation in a noisy environment. The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound of the proposed 2-D particle filter-based algorithm is derived and compared against the algorithm that is based on the direct 3-D particle filter.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제38권1호
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• pp.114-119
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• 2019

천해에서 전송되어진 음향 신호는 해수면 및 바닥과 같은 경계로부터의 다중 반사파에 의해 많은 영향을 받는다. 경계로부터의 매우 큰 반사 신호는 심볼 간 간섭을 일으켜 수중 음향 통신의 성능을 저하시키는 요인이 된다. 일반적으로 이러한 종류의 음향 채널에서 반사된 신호를 방지하기 위해 파형 정형 필터를 사용되고 있다. 특히 상승 코사인 필터가 널리 사용되며, 이 필터는 전송 신호의 대역폭을 제한하는 데에도 사용된다. 본 연구에서는 천해에서 영상 데이터 전송을 위한 상승 코사인 필터를 평가하며, 이를 바탕으로 새로운 수정된 상승 코사인 필터를 제안하고 평가 하였다. 수중 음향 통신 시뮬레이션에 사용된 통신 시스템은 직교 위상천이변조(Quadrature Phase Shift Keying, QPSK) 시스템이고, 송수신 거리와 심볼율을 달리하여 수행한 결과, 최저 1.0 %에서 최고 32 %의 에러 감소율을 보였다.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제12권9호
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• pp.694-701
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• 2002

In this paper, through the study on locations of structural transducers for active control of the radiated sound from the vibrating plate, the active structural acoustic control (ASAC) system is proposed. And, for the evaluation of the proposed location, the experiment of the active structural acoustic control is implemented using the multi-channel filtered-x LMS algorithm and an additional filter (Acoustic Prediction Filter) to estimate the radiated sound using the acceleration signals of the plate. The structural transducers are piezoceramic actuator (PZT) and accelerometer. PZT is used as an actuator to reduce the vibration and the radiated sound. To maximize the control performance, each PZT actuator is located at the position that has the largest control sensitivity of the plate bending moment in the direction of x and y coordinates and the optimal PZT location is validated experimentally. Also, to find the acoustic prediction filter accurately, two accelerometers are located at the positions that have the largest radiation efficiencies of the plate, and the proposed locations are validated by simulation using the Rayleigh integral. The multi-channel filtered-x LMS algorithm is introduced to control a complex 2-D structural vibration mode. Finding the locations of structural transducers for active structural acoustic control of the radiated sound, the active structural acoustic control (ASAC) system can be presented and validated by experiments using a real time control system.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제59권6호
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• pp.1126-1130
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• 2010

Speech production can be viewed as a filtering operation in which a sound source excites a vocal tract filter. The vocal tract is modeled as a chain of cylinders of varying cross-sectional area in linear prediction acoustic tube modeling. In this modeling the most common implementation assumes equal length of tube sections. Therefore, to model complex vocal tract shapes, a large number of tube sections are needed. This paper proposes a new vocal tract model with unfixed sectionlengths, which uses the reduced lattice filter for modeling the vocal tract. This model transforms the lattice filter to reduced structure and the Burg algorithm to modified version. When the conventional and the proposed models are implemented with the same order of linear prediction analysis, the proposed model can produce more accurate results than the conventional one. To implement a system within similar accuracy level, it may be possible to reduce the stages of the lattice filter structure. The proposed model produces the more similar vocal tract shape than the conventional one.