The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea (한국음향학회지)

The Acoustical Society of Korea (한국음향학회)
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On the Perceptually Important Phase Information in Acoustic Signal

인지에 중요한 음향신호의 위상에 대해

  • Published : 2000.10.01
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Abstract

For efficient quantization of speech representation, it is common to incorporate Perceptual characteristics of human hearing. However, the focus has been confined only to the magnitude information of speech, and little attention has been paid to phase information. This paper presents a novel approach, termed perceptually irrelevant phase elimination (PIPE), to find out irrelevant phase information of acoustic signals in terms of perception. The proposed method, which is based on the observation that the relative phase relationship within a critical band is perceptually important, is derived not only for stationary Fourier signal but also for harmonic signal. The proposed method is incorporated into the analysis/synthesis system based on harmonic representation of speech, and subjective test results demonstrate the effectiveness of proposed method.

음성 신호의 효과적인 양자화를 위해서 인간의 청각 인지 특성을 이용하는 방법이 널리 사용되고 있다. 그러나 아직까지는 음성 스펙트럼의 크기 정보에 대한 인지 특성만을 이용하고 있을 뿐, 음성의 위상 정보는 그 중요성에 비해 간과되어 온 것이 사실이다. 본 논문에서는, 음향 신호로부터 청각 인지 측면에서 관련 없는 위상 성분을 추정하는 PIPE(Perceptually Irrelevant Phase Elimination) 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 청각 특성이 critical band 대역 내의 상대적인 위상 관계에 민감하다는 관측 결과에 근거하여, 일반적인 stationary 푸리에(Fourier) 신호와 고조파(harmonic) 신호에 대해 각각 인지 측면에서 관련 없는 위상을 판별하는 방법을 제공한다. 제안된 방법을 음성 분석-합성(analysis / synthesis) 시스템에 적용함으로써 일부 위상 정보만을 이용해 음성을 복원하였으며, 청취 실험 결과 제안된 방법의 효율성을 알 수 있었다.

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