• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
• /
• 2012.10a
• /
• pp.725-730
• /
• 2012

In this paper, flow noise characteristics of Savonius-type vertical-axis wind turbines are numerically investigated using hybrid CAA techniques. High frequency harmonics as well as BPF components are identified in the predicted noise spectra from a Savonius wind turbine. As the BPF components belong to infrasound, the higher harmonic components affects human response dominantly. Further analysis is performed to investigate the reason causing the higher frequency harmonic noise by changing operational conditions of a Savonius wind turbine. Based on this result, it is revealed that the frequency of higher harmonic components is determined by the radius of blades and angular velocity of Savonius wind turbine.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
• /
• v.5 no.1
• /
• pp.11-16
• /
• 2013

This paper proposes robust feature extraction for accurate voice activity detection (VAD). VAD is one of the principal modules for speech signal processing such as speech codec, speech enhancement, and speech recognition. Noisy environments contain nonstationary noises causing the accuracy of the VAD to drastically decline because the fluctuation of features in the noise intervals results in increased false alarm rates. In this paper, in order to improve the VAD performance, harmonic-weighted energy is proposed. This feature extraction method focuses on voiced speech intervals and weighted harmonic-to-noise ratios to determine the amount of the harmonicity to frame energy. For performance evaluation, the receiver operating characteristic curves and equal error rate are measured.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
• /
• 2005.11a
• /
• pp.439-442
• /
• 2005

Generally, noise from a home appliance has been measured by overall sound pressure level or sound power level, dB. Customers evaluation, however, of this noise should be depend on the only overall level but also the sensory feeling, annoyance, unpleasure and so on. Moreover, in this sensory evaluation, irregular, time-varying and uneven sounds which are difficult to describe itself by overall level are more affectable. Unfortunately however the formal evaluation method for this kinds of noise is not determined yet. In this research, the evaluation method for harmonic noise, which is a major noise from home appliance and one of the unmeasurable sounds by overall level, is proposed to evaluate its acceptability based on the consumer's sense of hearing. The proposed approach could be applied to the other sound, which acoustical characteristics are similar to the tonal noise.

• Journal of KSNVE
• /
• v.10 no.2
• /
• pp.325-330
• /
• 2000

A dynamic absorber is used to protect the primary vibration system under the steady-state harmonic disturbance. In a number of cases it appears expedient to install several absorbers of smaller masses instead of one. This may be due to the need of distribute the absorber's response along the construction, restrictions on the absorber's installation. So, we studied characteristics of the primary vibration system for the optimal natural frequency ratio and the optimal damping ratio of serial multi-dynamic absorber. Also we obtained the optimum values of the serial multi-dynamic absorber parameters using computer simulation for the damped primary vibration system. In designing multi-dynamic absorber, we presented for the optimal natural frequency and the optimal damping ratio of multi-dynamic absorbers.

• Proceedings of the KOR-BRONCHOESO Conference
• /
• 1997.04a
• /
• pp.116-116
• /
• 1997

배경 및 목적: 전신마취를 위하여 시행한 기관내 삽관은 삽관튜브와 성대내면의 접촉에 의한 압력과 마찰로 후두 미세한 손상을 주게된다. 저자들은 단기간 기관내 삽관 전,후의 음성분석을 통하여 손상의 유무와 회복을 측정할 수 있는 객관적인 음성지표를 찾아보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 만성 중이염 수술시 전신마취를 목적으로 경구기관 튜브를 거치한 성인 남자 10명과 여자 15명 환자를 대상으로 수술 1일전과 술후 24시간 후 각각 "a"음을 연장 발성시켜 CSL 4300B (KAY elemetrics Corp)의 MDVP(multidimensional voice program)을 이용하여 harmonic to noise ratio(NHR), Jitter, Shimmer, Fundamental frequency를 측정 비교하였다. 결 과: 남녀 모두에서 Jitter, Shimmer는 각각 평균 0.70%에서 1.06%, 1.92%에서2.28%로 증가되는 경향을 보였으나 통계학적 유의성은 없었다. Fundamental frequency는 여자에서 평균 220Hz에서 221Hz로 남자는 125Hz에서 128Hz로 변화를 보이지 않았고 harmonic to noise ratio(NHR)또한 평균 0.11로 수술 전, 후 변화를 관찰할 수 없었다. 결 론: 이상의 결과로 2내지 6시간의 단기간 삽관으로 인한 성대의 손상은 경미하여 24시간 이내에 회복되는 것으로 판단된다. 향후 6시간 이상의 기관내삽관이나 수일이상의 장기간 삽관후의 음성지표의 측정등의 연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.14 no.10
• /
• pp.1030-1035
• /
• 2003

In this paper, we compare the performance of IS-OFDM(interference suppressing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing) system with that of the conventional OFDM system. Each parallel branch symbol of IS-OFDM is multiplied by the orthogonal sequence and distributed into all sub-carriers. Then, each sub-carrier transmits information composed of the symbol components of all parallel branches in the given frame. The structure of IS-OFDM shows the frequency diversity characteristic. Therefore, IS-OFDM can be robust to the narrowband interference. BER performances are found in the narrow-band interference and a harmonic noise channels. When JSR(Jamming to signal ratio) increases from -10 dB to +10 dB in the constant interference bandwidth, IS-OFDM outperforms the conventional OFDM and the BER difference between IS-OFDM and OFDM is reduced as JSR increases. Also, the similar properly can be shown when interference bandwidth increases at the constant JSR. In the harmonic noise channel, we can find the good performance of IS-OFDM when the h-rate(harmonic noise bandwidth to signal bandwidth ratio) increases from 0.01 to 0.8. So, simulation results show that the IS-OFDM is more robust to the interference than the conventional OFDM.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
• /
• v.9 no.5
• /
• pp.12-18
• /
• 1972

The relation between output SNR and mth harmonic generation is determined for nonlinear system of zero memory type, half wave and the nth power law devices with narrow band form of the unmodulated sinusoidal wave plus zero mean and stationary gaussian noise input. It is found that the optimum generation condition for harmonic component at a small input of SNR is m and n equal 2, while for large input SNR is always n equals 2.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
• /
• v.53 no.2
• /
• pp.190-194
• /
• 2010

Purpose : To investigate the nature of deviant voice physiology in preoperative children with congenital heart disease. Methods : Ninety-four children with congenital heart disease were enrolled. Their cries and related acoustic variables (fundamental frequency, duration, noise to harmonic ratio, jitter and shimmer) were analyzed using a multi-dimensional voice program. Results : The average fundamental frequency showed a significant decrease in patent ductus arteriosus, ventricular septal defect, and tetralogy of Fallot, except in atrial septal defect and pulmonary stenosis. The length of the analyzed sample (duration) did not show a significant difference when compared with the control group. There was a significant increase in jitter percent in ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, and atrial septal defect. There was an increase in shimmer in ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, and atrial septal defect. The noise-to-harmonic ratio increased in ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus, and atrial septal defect but there was no significant difference in pulmonary stenosis and tetralogy of Fallot. While analyzing acoustic variables, the voice change was significantly higher, especially in patent ductus arteriosus followed by ventricular septal defect and atrial septal defect. Most of these acoustic variables were deviant in left-to-right shunt lesions in congenital heart disease, especially in patent ductus artriosus. Conclusion : The results of the voice change analysis of preoperative children with congenital heart disease revealed that the acoustic variables differed by each congenital heart disease. Moreover, the acoustic variables were prominently deviant in congenital heart disease with left-to-right shunts.

• Speech Sciences
• /
• v.12 no.3
• /
• pp.125-136
• /
• 2005

Automatic speech recognition is much more difficult in real world. Speech recognition according to SIR (Signal to Interface Ratio) is difficult in situations in which noise of surrounding environment and multi-speaker exists. Therefore, study on main speaker's voice extractions a very important field in speech signal processing in binaural sound. In this paper, we used directional filter and harmonic filter among other existing methods to extract the main speaker's information in binaural sound. The main speaker's voice was extracted using directional filter, and other remaining speaker's information was removed using harmonic filter through main speaker's pitch detection. As a result, voice of the main speaker was enhanced.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
• /
• v.4 no.3
• /
• pp.145-148
• /
• 2015

In this letter, we present a new linearization method for a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)-based quantizer in an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The nonlinearity of the VCO generates unwanted harmonic spurs and reduces the signal-to-noise and distortion ratio (SNDR) of the VCO-based quantizer. This letter suggests a frequency-to-current feedback method to effectively suppress harmonic distortion. The proposed method decreases the harmonic spurs by more than 53 dB. And a VCO-based quantizer employing the proposed linearization method achieves a high SNDR of 74.1 dB.