Selection of meaningless steady noise for masking of speech

This paper focuses on masking speech with meaningless steady noise as a way of realizing a comfortable sound environment. As a basis for research, meaningless steady noise at minimum sound pressure levels for masking of male or female meaningful speech is considered, based on psychological experiments using a method of adjustment. From the results, band-limited pink noise can be selected as the most effective noise for masking of speech. In the case of speech with a lower sound pressure level, the sound pressure level of the meaningless steady noise needs to be a little higher.     

Prediction method for listening score and psychological impression taking into account hearing loss due to factors such as aging

This paper considers how the listening scores obtained for audio signals and psychological impressions for speech audibility change when factors such as hearing loss due to aging are taken into account. Concretely, frequency filters for simulating hearing loss due to factors such as aging are first prepared. Next, psychological listening experiments are conducted in which both the audio signal and the noise passing through the above-mentioned filters are transmitted to subjects with normal hearing. Using the observed experimental data, the relationships between the weighted-mean spectral distance and the listening scores of the audio signals and psychological impressions with respect to speech audibility are investigated. Next, based on these relationships, problems associated with the prediction of listening scores of audio signals and psychological impressions with respect to speech audibility are discussed. The predicted results are in good agreement with the observed values.     

TRC路径特征及其对时间反演信噪比的影响

时间反演具有时空聚焦特征,在许多方面有着潜在的应用。其中,基于时间反演腔的系统是一种主要的反演系统,可用于脉冲压缩、波束成形、微扰探测等。时间反演腔通常是一个电大的微波混沌腔,内部电磁波的传播具有明显的多径特征,即时间色散特征。因此,在时间反演过程中,反演腔可对反演信号进行相位补偿,重构出初始信号,从而在初始位置形成脉冲的时间压缩和空间聚焦。为了拓展时间反演腔的实际应用,本文基于多径信道模型研究腔体参数对反演性能的影响,重点分析路径的衰减特征、串扰特征和叠加特征对反演信噪比的影响,并总结给出影响反演信噪比的主要参数以及基本规律。     

Stochastic resonance in a gain--noise model of a single-mode laser driven by pump noise and quantum noise with cross-correlation between real and imaginary parts under direct signal modulation

Stochastic resonance (SR) is studied in a gain--noise model of a single-mode laser driven by a coloured pump noise and a quantum noise with cross-correlation between real and imaginary parts under a direct signal modulation. By using a linear approximation method, we find that the SR appears during the variation of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) separately with the pump noise self-correlation time \tau , the noise correlation coefficient between the real part and the imaginary part of the quantum noise \lambda_q , the attenuation coefficient \gamma and the deterministic steady-state intensity I_0 . In addition, it is found that the SR can be characterized not only by the dependence of SNR on the noise variables of \tau and \lambda_q, but also by the dependence of SNR on the laser system variables of \gamma and I₀. Thus our investigation extends the characteristic quantity of SR proposed before.     

天基激光告警系统成像特征及信噪比研究

目标成像特征和信噪比是天基激光告警系统优化设计、目标检测及攻击事件判定的重要依据.在介绍告警系统结构的基础上,分析计算了攻击激光成像光斑的情况,并进行了实验验证,讨论了系统的背景光噪声环境,计算了入瞳处的背景光辐照度,推导了系统成像信噪比公式,并得到了攻击激光成像信噪比.结果表明:攻击激光在正入射情况下的理论光斑直径约...