• 음성과학
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.179-200
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• 2007

In voice pathology, various measurements calculated from pitch values are proposed to show voice quality. However, those measurements frequently seem to be inaccurate and unreliable because they are based on some wrong pitch values determined from pathological voice data. In order to solve the problem, we compared several pitch estimation methods to propose a better one in pathological voices. From the database of 99 pathological voice and 30 normal voice data, errors derived from pitch estimation were analyzed and compared between pathological and normal voice data or among the vowels produced by patients with benign vocal fold lesions. Results showed that gross pitch errors were observed in the cases of pathological voice data. From the types of pathological voices classified by the degree of aperiodicity in the speech signals, we found that pitch errors were closely related to the number of aperiodic segments. Also, the autocorrelation approach was found to be the most robust pitch estimation in the pathological voice data. It is desirable to conduct further research on the more severely pathological voice data in order to reduce pitch estimation errors.

• International Journal of Automotive Technology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.753-760
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• 2007

In this paper, a roll and pitch estimation algorithm using a set of accelerometers and wireless sensor networks(S/N) is presented for use in a passenger vehicle. While an inertial measurement unit(IMU) is generally used for roll/pitch estimation, performance may be degraded in the presence of longitudinal acceleration and yaw motion. To compensate for this performance degradation, a new roll and pitch estimation algorithm is proposed that uses an accelerometer array, global positioning system(GPS) and in-vehicle networks to get information from yaw rate and roll rate sensors. Angular acceleration and roll and pitch approximation are first calculated based on vehicle kinematics. A discrete Kalman filter is then applied to estimate both roll and pitch more precisely by reducing noise from the running engine and from road disturbance. Finally, the feasibility of the proposed algorithm is shown by comparing its performance experimentally with that of an IMU in the framework of an indoor test platform as well as a test vehicle.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.211-217
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• 2011

The dynamic response of a multi-MW wind turbine to a sudden change in wind speed is usually slow, because of the slow pitch control system. This could cause a large excursion of the rotor speed and an output power over the rated. A feedforward pitch control can be applied to minimize the fluctuations of these parameters. This paper introduces the complete design steps for a feedforward pitch controller, which consist of three stages, i.e. the aerodynamic torque estimation, the 3-dimensional lookup table for the wind seed estimation, and the calculation of the feedforward pitch amount. The effectiveness of the feedforward control is verified through numerical simulations of a multi-MW wind turbine.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.34-41
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• 2001

기존의 IMBE (개량형 다중대역 여기 : Improved Multi-band Excitation) 음성 부호기의 초기 피치 추정 과정은 전체 부호기 연산 시간의 대부분을 차지하며 또한 미래의 음성 프레임들이 초기 피치 추정시 사용되므로 시간 지연이 유발되어 실시간 구현에 장애 요소로 작용되었다. 또한 무성음에 해당되는 프레임에 대해서도 유성음과 동일한 피치 추정을 수행하므로 알고리즘의 효율성을 떨어뜨린다 본 논문에서는 초기 피치 추정 전에 다이애딕 웨이브렛 변환 (Dyadic Wavelet Transform)을 이용하여 이를 바탕으로 유/무성음을 판별한 후 유성음으로 결정된 프레임에 대해서만 피치 추정을 행하고 무성음으로 결정된 프레임은 랜덤 잡음을 주어서 부호화시의 처리 시간을 단축하였다. 또한, 초기 피치 추정 전에 판별된 유/무성음을 판별하여 유성음과 무성음에 각기 다른 초기 피치 추정 알고리즘을 사용하고 미래의 두 프레임을 사용하지 않음으로써 송, 수신단에 유발되는 시간 지연을 제거하였다. 그 결과 초기 피치 추정 과정의 상대적인 복잡도가 23％ 감소되었고 프레임당 처리 시간이 1/10∼ 1/11로 감소되었고 기존의 부호기와 거의 같은 음질을 얻을 수 있었다.

• 대한전기학회논문지:시스템및제어부문D
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• 제49권6호
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• pp.330-333
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• 2000

In this paper, a new pitch estimation method is proposed using the Robinson cochlear model. This estimation method is useful in noisy environments and especially very efficient under cochannel in which two speaker voices exist at the same time. For the one speaker speech, the pitch can be extracted from just the neurogram of the Robinson cochlear model. In this case, as the estimation is performed in time domain, the exact pitch period can be detected though the pitch period is various. But in noisy and cochannel cases, the neurogram has many spurious peaks, so we use the autocorrelators in the neurogram to manifest the period. It the autocorrelators are used for the all delays, the large amount of calculations is necessary. Due to this defect, we propose that the autocorrelators are used for the part of the delays on which energy is concentrated. First of all, the proposed algorithm is applied to the one speaker speech, and later to the cochannel speech. And then the results are compared with the autocorrelation pitch detection method.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제25권1호
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• pp.49-51
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• 2003

Pitch estimation is important in various speech research areas, but when the speech is noisy, accurate pitch estimation with conventional pitch detectors is almost impossible. To solve this problem, we propose a new pitch detection algorithm for noisy speech using a noise whitening technique on the background noise and obtain successful results.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.38-44
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• 1980

본 논문에서는 peak 검출과 average magnitude difference function (AMDF)방법을 이용해서 음성의 주기를 고속도로 추출하는 방법이 연구되었다. 먼저 입력 음성을 800Hz로 대역폭을 줄인다음 Pitch peak가 될 만한 몇개의 Peak을 검출한다. 그 다음 이들 peak들의 값을 갖고 AMDF를 계산해서 이들 값들 중에서 최소의 AMDF치를 갖는 peak를 원하는 음성주기로 결정을 한다. 이 방법을 사용하여 음성의 주기를 검출하면 타 음성주기 추출방법 보다 훨씬 적은 계산 시간이 소요될 분만 아니라 비교적 정확한 결과를 얻을 수 있다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제20권4E호
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• pp.24-30
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• 2001

This paper describes a fast harmonic estimation, referred to as Delta Adjustment (DA), using a low resolution pitch. The presented DA method is based on modification of the Generalized Dual Excitation (GDE) technique[1] which was proposed to improve speech enhancement performance. We introduce the GDE technique and modify it to be suitable for low bit rate harmonic coding that uses only an integer pitch estimate. Unlike the GDE, the DA matches a frequency-warped version of the original spectrum that conforms to a fixed pitch at all harmonic bands. In addition, complexity and performance of the presented method are described in comparison with those of the conventional Fractional Pitch (FP) based harmonic estimation. Experimental results showed that the DA algorithm significantly reduces the complexity of the FP method while maintaining the performance.

• 대한전자공학회논문지SP
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.100-108
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• 2010

본 논문은 피치를 추출하는 방법으로 자기상관을 이용하였다. 시간과 주파수 영역의 자기상관은 서로 다른 특성을 가지고 있으며, 각각 피치주기와 기본주파수에 대응된다. 본 논문에서는 시간과 주파수 영역에서의 자기상관을 결합하는 방법을 이용하였다. 이 방법은 자기상관에서 발생하는 피치 doubling과 having 에러를 크게 개선시킬 수 있었다. 하지만, 시간과 주파수 영역에서 유성음의 주기적 특성인 피치주기와 기본주파수는 서로 역수 관계이며, 특히 기본주파수의 에러는 FFT의 분해능에 의하여 발생된다. 이러한 영향을 줄이기 위하여 시간 영역과 주파수 영역에서의 자기상관 결합에 보간법을 적용함으로써 피치 검출율을 향상 시킬 수 있었다. 자기상관을 결합할 때 시간영역에서 찾은 피치후보들에 대해서만 주파수영역의 자기상관을 구함으로써 계산량은 감축될 수 있었다. 또한, 선형보간을 이용하여 기존방법 보다 FFT 계수를 8배 줄일 수 있었다. 그 결과, FFT 연산량과 주파수영역의 자기상관 계산량을 크게 감축하여 기존 방법 대비 알고리즘 처리시간을 약 9.5배 줄일 수 있었다.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.1126-1133
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• 1994

When designing an internal gear. the bending strength around pitch point as well as that at tooth root fillet should be considered because the bending stress around pitch point may occur as high as that at tooth root fillet. In this study, including stress state around pitch point, the bending strength (tensile side and compressive side) of internal gear tooth is investigated by the use of the finite element method(FEM) with regarding many influencing factors of cutter and gear geometries. Then, the critical sections around pitch point and at tooth root fillet are determined, and the simple formulae based on nominal stresses(bending, compressive, and shear) are derived for the calculations of actual stresses as the functions of tooth thicknesses and radii of curvatures of involute and fillet curve at those critical sections. The stresses calculated by the formulae agree well with those by the FEM. And the bending stresses around pitch point and at tooth root are easily estimated by the use of those formulae, therefore, those formulae are useful for the purpose of the design or the bending strength estimation of internal gear.