• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2009.04a
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• pp.141-142
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• 2009

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2014.10a
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• pp.646-650
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• 2014

• Proceedings of the KSR Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.155-161
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• 2001

In order to evaluate the sound transmission loss of a structure, a large reverberation room described by ISO is generally used. ISO test method is however for architectural structures, which is not properly implemented for small mechanical structures, such as rolling stocks. In this paper, evaluation procedure for railway vehicle structures has been proposed.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.49-57
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• 2008

The case study for this research is a middle school music room located in Iksan City, Korea. Although the room is used for teaching music, indiscreet sound-absorbing materials were applied within the space. Accordingly, a number of difficulties have been experienced when using the room. During a music lesson, the sound-volume is inadequate for music appreciation, while the music performance has an arid sound due to an insufficient echo. In order to control the obstructive factors resulting from a short Reverberation Time, the acoustic factor is optimized in this study by using an Acoustic Simulation, following an arrangement of Acoustic Design. A Psycho-acoustics Experiment was conducted using the Auralizational Technique, whereby the Virtual Acoustic Field can be experienced at the design stage.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.32-39
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• 1994

The speech transmission quality in telephone is quantified in terms of loudness rating, but this method has been validated only for the handset telephony. The transmission quality of loudspeaking telephony in any room must be evaluated not only with speech transmission but also with background noise, echo and reverberation since the effect of room acoustics is much stroger for loudspeaking telephoy. Therefore, it requires a better approach to specify the quality of loudspeaking telephony. By calcuating the speech transmission index (STI), a physical method for measuring the quality of speech transmission was proposed by Steeneken. In this paper, the application of a STI method for estimating articulation of loudspeaking telephony was discussed. And the STI measurement system with high speed calculation was also three rooms, having different reverberation times. The result show that the STI decreases as the reverberation time of rooms increases. It suggests that speech transmission index method can be useful evaluating articulation of a loudspeaking telephony including the sound field characteristics.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1845-1851
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• 2007

Background noise and room reverberation are two causes of degradation in speech in listening situations. Many algorithms developed to enhance reverberant speech. In this paper we propose a dereverberation method for enhancement of speech using modified the linear prediction(LP) residual in reverberant room condition. The proposed dereberberation method based on the fact that the signification excitation of the vocal tract system takes place at the instant of glottal closure in voiced speech. Our method used delay information form each sensor, and we need reverberant signals from 3 sensors. We obtain a new LP residual signal using modified IP residual combination which derived form weighting of the LP residual and the Hilbert transform of LP residual. The nature of the coherently added Hilbert envelop has several large amplitude spikes because of the effects of noise and reverberation. This residual of the clean speech is used to excite the time-varying all-pole filter to obtain the enhanced speech. We achieved simulation of proposed algorithm for performance analysis in reverberation environment. The proposed algorithm improves substantially the quality of reverberant speech.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Educational Facilities
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.17-25
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• 2006

Elementary school classroom designs have been developed toward open education system to provide students diverse and improved educational environments since the early of 1990 in Korea. Unfortunately, the quality of music room has not still shown dramatic improvements due to the lack of the acoustical knowledges of architects. This report aims to investigate typical acoustic quality of previous or current music room of elementary schools and show new acoustic treatment technologies to improve the room acoustic of music room by adapting composite perforated panel system and diffusion technology. The music room at Daihyun Elementary school in Yongin was chosen as a case study of this report. The music room was measured to be analyzed using field measurements and the acoustical specifications of composite perforated panel systems and kinds of diffusors were set. Acoustic measurements were performed after the renovation to show the differences between previous room acoustic and after the acoustic renovations. As the result, the case study has shown that the new composite perforated panel systems and diffusion surfaces lowered reverberation time at proper level along with improving the clarity of music, RASTI, and spatial impressions. Also, acoustic interferences such as comb filtering and flutter echoes have been controlled dramatically by diffusive surfaces. The study shows music rooms in elementary schools, middle and high schools can be improved by adapting composite perforated panel systems and diffusors.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.6
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• pp.649-659
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• 2021

Wall absorption treatment effectively reduces reverberation, but requires a large area for a live room and each wall absorption affects speech intelligibility differently. In this study, we try to find the most effective wall for the absorption treatment using the beamforming array microphone in terms of speech intelligibility. The absorption importance factor is defined by using the collision number of reflected sounds on each wall. It allows estimating how much the speech signal will be enhanced by the absorption treatment. A cuboid room with a size of 107 m³ and a reverberation time of 1.1 s is selected for the simulation. When a Helmholtz-type absorption is treated on the wall with the most significant importance factor, the modified clarity for 500 and 1k Hz is improved by 5.1 dB and 4.8 dB respectively, and the speech transmission index is enhanced by 0.06. The difference in results between the proposed method and commercial simulation code is less than a Just-Noticeable Difference (JND). The absorption treatment on the wall with the most significant importance factor shows improvement greater than the wall with the largest area, and its difference is larger than a JND value.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.73-82
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• 2000

This paper presents a significant improvement achieved in the acoustic characteristics of a conference room of I-company originally designed and built without consideration for room acoustic characteristics. The reverberation time of the room was excessive, which resulted in poor 'Definition' for speech. Thus the improvement of room acoustic characteristics was required. In this study, experiments and simulations using the principles of geometrical acoustics were executed to improve the acoustic characteristics in the room. By performing a series of simulation, it has become possible to predict acoustic parameters for an improvement plan. And the improvement plan of room acoustic characteristics was established. And for the verification of the simulation results, the experimental data were compared and evaluated against those from the simulation. Additionally, the proposed method in this paper demonstrated its effectiveness by successfully improving the room acoustic characteristics resulted from repair construction.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.227-230
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• 1999

잔향에 대한 인간의 주관적인 지각을 잔향기 설계에 객관적인 수치로써 반영하는 방법으로, 5 자유도 잔향 모델이 제안된 바 있다[1]. 5자유도 잔향 모델은 잔향에 대한 다섯 개의 객관적인 평가량들을 이용하여 시간에 따른 음 에너지 감쇠 곡선을 근사화한 것이다. 즉 5 자유도 잔향 모델을 이용하여 청취자가 원하는 특성을 갖는 잔향을 객관적으로 묘사할 수 있고, 이는 잔향을 합성할 때 잔향 필터의 설계 기준이 된다. 그러나 이 모델로부터 만들 수 있는 잔향 필터의 개수는 실로 무한하고, 그 중에는 인간이 듣기에 부자연스러운 합성음을 만들어 내는 경우도 있다. 즉 자연스러운 잔향을 만들기 위해서는 잔향 모델 외에도 부가적인 잔향 설계 기준이 필요하다. 시간, 주파수 영역에서 대표적인 특성을 갖는 몇 종류의 원음에 대한 청음실험을 통해, 필요한 잔향 설계 기준을 제시한다.