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Auditory impulse by Relaxed on Heart rate Pattern Guidance (청각 자극에 의한 안정화된 심박 패턴 유도)

  • Kim, Jea-Kyung;Park, Min-Ho;Jang, Gye-Sun;Jeong, Chan-Soon;Ko, Il-Ju
    • 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.02a
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    • pp.158-162
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    • 2008
  • Heart rate has many effect by environment factor and body factor and mind factor. Experimental testing decide to make relaxed condition. so It want to get correct data peoples different time and condition in the day so medical mans think relaxed to low Heart rate. but normal heart different from peoples and time. there was noting standard. so Heart rate is really hard to relaxed heart rate. Heart rate pattern must have long time analysis for good result. if you get relaxed heart rate so you don't need long-time analysis. Relaxed heart pattern used for guidance of auditory impulse public got concentration and solve to stress. it chose MC Square and mozart music. Two kind of auditory impulse analysis to make a relaxed Heart rate and relaxed pattern. way of analysis is HRV and minute of heart bit rate. result It have find Guidance to Relaxed Heart rate.

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Performance Evaluation for Noise Suppression of a Silencer in Small Arms (소형 화기용 소음기의 소음 저감 성능 평가)

  • 박문선;구태완;강범수
    • Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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    • v.20 no.9
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    • pp.151-158
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    • 2003
  • The impulse noise of bullet after shooting in small arms has an effect on the hearing ability of human. Although a silencer has been developed for noise reduction in small arms, there is only a few researches about relationships between the sound pressure level and the auditory sense of human. In this study, the quantitative sound pressure levels are revealed by experimental measurements of impulse noise with each silencer type. And the performance evaluation for noise suppression of a silencer in small arms is carried out to reduce a serious loss of the hearing ability of the small arms user. It is concluded that the evaluated results can be utilized for checking sound pressure and data accumulation for new small arms design with silencer.

Practical Considerations for Hardware Implementations of the Auditory Model and Evaluations in Real World Noisy Environments

  • Kim, Doh-Suk;Jeong, Jae-Hoon;Lee, Soo-Young;Kil, Rhee M.
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.1E
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    • pp.15-23
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    • 1997
  • Zero-Crossings with Peak Amplitudes(ZCPA) model motivated by human auditory periphery was proposed to extract reliable features speech signals even in noisy environments for robust speech recognition. In this paper, some practical considerations for digital hardware implementations of the ZCPA model are addressed and evaluated for recognition of speech corrupted by several real world noises as well as white Gaussian noise. Infinite impulse response(IIR) filters which constitute the cochliar filterbank of the ZCPA are replaced by hamming bandpass filters of which frequency responses are less similar to biological neural tuning curves. Experimental results demonstrate that the detailed frequency response of the cochlear filters are not critical to performance. Also, the sensitivity of the model output to the variations in microphone gain is investigated, and results in good reliability of the ZCPA model.

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The Effects of Visual Input on the Evaluation of the Acoustics in the Opera Houses (오페라하우스의 객석음향평가에 대한 시지각의 영향)

  • Kim, Su-Yeon;Jeon, Jin-Yong
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2004.11a
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    • pp.772-777
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    • 2004
  • Opera house acoustics were subjectively evaluated in order to investigate the effect of performance stage views on the audience's perception of the seat acoustics in an opera house. Nine seats from an existing opera house were selected for the auditory and/or visual experiments according to seating area distribution and acoustical parameters such as RT and $1-IACC_{E3}$. The recorded music, convolved from the impulse response, was presented with and without visual images of the stage. Subjects were asked to assess the auditory/visual descriptors and overall impression of the music at each seat. The results showed that good visual input helps produce a favorable impression of the acoustics, but a limited view degrades acoustical impression. The acoustical parameters in the tested seats were also investigated to find the relationship between the acoustical parameters and the visual/sound impression.

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Modeling of individual head-related impulse responses using a set of general basis functions (보편적인 기저함수를 이용한 개인의 머리전달함수 모델링)

  • Hwang, Sung-Mok;Park, Young-Jin;Park, Youn-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2007.11a
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    • pp.1430-1436
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    • 2007
  • A principal components analysis (PCA) of the median head-related impulse responses (HRIRs) in the CIPIC HRTF database reveals that the individual HRIRs can be adequately reconstructed by a linear combination of 12 orthonormal basis functions. These basis functions can be used generally to model arbitrary HRIRs, which are not included in the process to obtain the basis functions. To clarify whether these basis functions can be used to model other set of arbitrary HRIRs, an numerical error analysis for modeling and a series of subjective listening tests were carried out using the measured and modeled HRIRs. The results showed that the set of individual HRIRs, which were measured in our lab using different measurement conditions, techniques, and source positions, can be well modeled with reasonable accuracy. Furthermore, all subjects reported not only the accurate vertical perception but also the front-back discrimination with the modeled HRIRs based on 12 basis functions. However, as less basis functions were used for HRIR modeling, the modeling accuracy and localization performance deteriorated.

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Development of three-dimensional sound effects system for virtual reality (가상환경용 3차원 입체음향 시스템 개발)

  • Yang, Si-Young;Kim, Dong-Hyung;Jeong, Je-Chang
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.13 no.5
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    • pp.574-585
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    • 2008
  • 3D sound is of central importance for the virtual reality system, and is becoming increasingly important for the auditory displays and for the human-computer interaction. In this paper, we propose a novel real-time 3D sound representation system for virtual reality. At first, we propose a calculation method of the impulse response for virtual space. To transmit the information of the virtual space, we propose an enhanced DXF file type that contains the material information. And then, we implement the multi-channel sound panning system. we perform the experiment based on computer simulation and prove the utility of the proposed method.

Factors for Speech Signal Time Delay Estimation (음성 신호를 이용한 시간지연 추정에 미치는 영향들에 관한 연구)

  • Kwon, Byoung-Ho;Park, Young-Jin;Park, Youn-Sik
    • Transactions of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering
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    • v.18 no.8
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    • pp.823-831
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    • 2008
  • Since it needs the light computational load and small database, sound source localization method using time delay of arrival(TDOA method) is applied at many research fields such as a robot auditory system, teleconferencing and so on. Researches for time delay estimation, which is the most important thing of TDOA method, had been studied broadly. However studies about factors for time delay estimation are insufficient, especially in case of real environment application. In 1997, Brandstein and Silverman announced that performance of time delay estimation deteriorates as reverberant time of room increases. Even though reverberant time of room is same, performance of estimation is different as the specific part of signals. In order to know that reason, we studied and analyzed the factors for time delay estimation using speech signal and room impulse response. In result, we can know that performance of time delay estimation is changed by different R/D ratio and signal characteristics in spite of same reverberant time. Also, we define the performance index(PI) to show a similar tendency to R/D ratio, and propose the method to improve the performance of time delay estimation with PI.

Comparison of head-related transfer function models based on principal components analysis (주성분 분석법을 이용한 머리전달함수 모형화 기법의 성능 비교)

  • Hwang, Sung-Mok;Park, Young-Jin;Park, Youn-Sik
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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    • 2008.04a
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    • pp.920-927
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    • 2008
  • This study deals with modeling of Head-Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) using Principal Components Analysis (PCA) in the time and frequency domains. Four PCA models based on Head-Related Impulse Responses (HRIRs), complex-valued HRTFs, augmented HRTFs, and log-magnitudes of HRTFs are investigated. The objective of this study is to compare modeling performances of the PCA models in the least-squares sense and to show the theoretical relationship between the PCA models. In terms of the number of principal components needed for modeling, the PCA model based on HRIR or augmented HRTFs showed more efficient modeling performance than the PCA model based on complex-valued HRTFs. The PCA model based on HRIRs in the time domain and that based on augmented HRTFs in the frequency domain are shown to be theoretically equivalent. Modeling performance of the PCA model based on log-magnitudes of HRTFs cannot be compared with that of other PCA models because the PCA model deals with log-scaled magnitude components only, whereas the other PCA models consider both magnitude and phase components in linear scale.

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Folded Architecture for Digital Gammatone Filter Used in Speech Processor of Cochlear Implant

  • Karuppuswamy, Rajalakshmi;Arumugam, Kandaswamy;Swathi, Priya M.
    • ETRI Journal
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    • v.35 no.4
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    • pp.697-705
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    • 2013
  • Emerging trends in the area of digital very large scale integration (VLSI) signal processing can lead to a reduction in the cost of the cochlear implant. Digital signal processing algorithms are repetitively used in speech processors for filtering and encoding operations. The critical paths in these algorithms limit the performance of the speech processors. These algorithms must be transformed to accommodate processors designed to be high speed and have less area and low power. This can be realized by basing the design of the auditory filter banks for the processors on digital VLSI signal processing concepts. By applying a folding algorithm to the second-order digital gammatone filter (GTF), the number of multipliers is reduced from five to one and the number of adders is reduced from three to one, without changing the characteristics of the filter. Folded second-order filter sections are cascaded with three similar structures to realize the eighth-order digital GTF whose response is a close match to the human cochlea response. The silicon area is reduced from twenty to four multipliers and from twelve to four adders by using the folding architecture.

A study on the simplification of HRTF within high frequency region (고역 주파수 영역에서 HRTF의 간략화에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chai-Bong
    • Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.1-6
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    • 2011
  • In this study, we investigated the effect of the simplification for high frequency region in Head-Related Transfer Function(HRTF) on the sound localization. For this purpose, HRTF was measured and analyzed. The result in the HRTF frequency characteristic of the back sound source showed that the decrease revel of high frequency was smaller than that of low frequency region, which means the possibility of simplification in the high frequency region. Simplification was performed by flattening of the high frequency amplitude characteristics with the insertion of the low-pass filter, whose cutoff frequency is given by boundary frequency. Auditory experiments were performed to evaluate the simplified HRTF. The result showed that direction perception was not influenced by the simplification of the frequency characteristics of HRTF for the error of sound localization. The rate of confusion for the front and back was not affected by the simplification of the frequency characteristics over 8kHz of HRTF. Finally, we made it clear that the sound localization was not affected by the simplification of frequency characteristics of HRTF over 8kHz.