• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.227-236
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• 2013

In this paper, we present a vocal suppression algorithm that can enhance the quality of music signal coded using Spatial Audio Object Coding (SAOC) in Karaoke mode. The residual vocal component in the coded music signal is estimated by using a cross prediction method in which the music signal coded in Karaoke mode is used as the primary input and the vocal signal coded in Solo mode is used as a reference. However, the signals are extracted from the same downmix signal and highly correlated, so that the music signal can be severely damaged by the cross prediction. To prevent this, a psycho-acoustic disturbance rule is proposed, in which the level of disturbance to the reference input of the cross prediction filter is adapted according to the auditory masking property. Objective and subjective test were performed and the results confirm that the proposed algorithm offers improved quality.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.44 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2007

Digital Multimedia Broadcasting is the next generation broadcasting service which enables various digital multimedia contents, i.e., audio and video, and data access for mobile users. However, due to the bandwidth limitation, the spatial resolution is limited to CIF(Common Interleaved Frame). The Advanced Terrestrial DMB (AT-DMB) secures additional bandwidth by adopting hierarchical modulation transmission technology and provides high data rate and quality for mobile multimedia broadcasting services with scalable video coding(SVC). This paper proposes scalable video coding technology for AT-DMB which enables high quality mobile multimedia broadcasting services that exceeds current DMB service's quality and contents capability.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2008.02a
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• pp.183-186
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• 2008

본 논문은 공간영역에서의 오디오 채널 신호의 압축 방법에 있어서, 공간 파라메터의 효율적인 표현 방법을 제안하려 한다. 대상이 되는 공간 파라메터는 인간청각의 ILD(Internaural Level Difference) 인지와 관련한 공간 파라메터에 관한 것으로 ICLD(Inter-Channel Level Difference) 파라메터의 표현방법 관한 것이다. 본 논문의 목적은, ICLD 의 통계적 특성을 분석하고 이에 충실한 표현방법을 제안함으로써, 양자화 시 기존 표현 방법보다 왜곡율을 개선시킴으로써 복원된 오디오 신호의 충실도를 높이는 것을 목적으로 한다. 따라서 본 논문에서는, 새로운 ICLD 표현 방법을 소개하고 이에 대한 이론적 통계적 근거를 제시하며, 실험결과로써 기존 방법과 비교된 왜곡율 측정(distortion measure) 결과를 제시하여 제안된 방법의 우수성을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.58-60
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• 2022

본 논문에서는 복소(complex) 공간큐를 활용한 다채널 오디오 부호화 기술을 제안한다. 복소 공간큐 방식의 다채널 오디오 부호화 기술은 시간영역에서 수행된다. 시간영역의 오디오 채널 신호를 복소 데이터로 변환하여 각 오디오 채널 간의 상관관계를 복소 공간큐로 표현하고, 이를 활용하여 채널 부호화를 수행하기 위한 오디오 채널 신호를 생성한다. 참조 기술로는 최고 성능의 오디오 코덱인 USAC의 예측 부호화 방식의 다채널 오디오 부호화 기술과 비교하여 정보량 감축 측면에 있어서 평균 2.24 dB 이상의 높은 SNR을 나타냄을 관측할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.221-227
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a synthesis method that can effectively suppress the ambience which affects tonal components in the PS decoder. Ambience component was obtained by using decorrelation filter and the weighting of the ambience in the decoder was determined through IC parameter. However, since the parameters are extracted in the sub-band domain, a low IC value could be analyzed even if the tonal component is dominant. The quality of the output signal may be degraded. To prevent this problem, the tonality was measured in the downmixed signal and the weighting of the ambience components were adjusted appropriately according to the measured tonality index. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated by simulations. Furthermore, the subjective test was performed and the results confirmed that the proposed method offers improved quality.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.169-181
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• 1997

In this paper, we propose and discuss about image enhancement techniques for MPEG-4. which represents very low bit-rate, content-based. and object-based hierarchical audio-visual coding standard. The proposed enhancement technique removes undesired artifacts arising in the compression procedure and increase resolution in both spatial and temporal domains. In order to remove undesired artifacts. we divide the MPEG-4 video algorithm in two parts: MPEG-2 like part and the new part. For removing artifacts caused by the first part. we adopt the conventional blocking artifacts algorithm developed for MPEG-2. On the other hand for removing artifacts caused by the second part. we provide a new degradation model. and propose the corresponding image restoration method. For increasing resolution of the MPEG-4 images, we propose a general framework of multichannel image interpolation process. which includes both spatial and temporal interpolations. As the MPEG-4 standard is under development. various sophisticated techniques are considered. but research on image enhancement techniques is relatively underestimated. By this reason. additional image enhancement techniques will become very important issue in realization phase of MPEG-4.