• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.11
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• pp.249-255
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• 2016

Since the elderly voices include a lot of noise caused by physiological changes in respiration, phonation, and resonance, the performance of the convergence health-care equipments such as speech recognition, synthesis, analysis program done by elderly voice is deteriorated. Therefore it is necessary to develop researches to operate health-care instruments with elderly voices. In this study, a voice activity detection using a symmetric higher-order differential energy function (SHODEO) was developed and was compared with auto-correlation function(ACF) and the average magnitude difference function(AMDF). It was confirmed to have a better performance than other methods in the voice interval detection. The voice activity detection will be applied to a voice interface for the elderly to improve the accessibility of the smart devices.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.391-399
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• 2008

In this paper, we further generalize the work of Lin and Abel to the case of the first and the second order derivatives of energy release rates for two-dimensional, multiply cracked systems. The direct integral expressions are presented for the energy release rates and their first and second order derivatives. The salient feature of this numerical method is that the energy release rates and their first and second order derivatives can be computed in a single analysis. It is demonstrated through a set of examples that the proposed method gives expectedly decreasing, but acceptably accurate results for the energy release rates and their first and second order derivatives. The computed errors were approximately 0.5% for the energy release rates, $3\sim5%$ for their first order derivatives and $10\sim20%$ for their second order derivatives for the mesh densities used in the examples. Potential applications of the present method include a universal size effect model and a probabilistic fracture analysis of cracked structures.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.56 no.8
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• pp.1498-1502
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• 2007

There have been many different definitions of energy functions as the second statistics of a signal. In this paper, using the higher order differential energy function, we propose an algorithm separating the amplitude and frequency components in a discrete sinusoidal signal. The proposed amplitude and frequency estimation methods have less computational requirement than the existing methods. It also shows large computational advantage over the root mean square (RMS) calculation of a signal. The proposed methods can be used in the detection of abnormal events in signals on the power line. Computer simulations show that proposed frequency estimation method can detect the presence of voltage increase or decrease for a short period of time. Also, the proposed estimation methods have been compared with existing methods in terms of estimation error variance.

• Journal of the KSME
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.200-206
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• 1983

FAM의 기본적인 구상은 해석 하고자하는 선형 또는 비선형 편미분 방정식을 국부적으로 해석 적인 해를 구하여 이용하자는 것이다. 그러기 위하여 유한차분법(FDM)과 유한변분법(FEM)에 서와 같이 전체유동장을 작은 요소로 나누고 그 요소 내에서 국부해를 구한 다음 이들 요소를 중첩시킴으로써 각 요소의 미지수에 대한 대수식을 얻어서 수치해를 구하자는 것이다. 그러나 FDM에서와 같이 국부요소에서 미분항을 구하지 않고, FEM 에서와 같이 요소에서 형상함수를 도입하지 않는 상태에서 해석적인 해를 구하고 있기 때문에 수치해석에서 얻어지는 미분양들은 비교적 정확하게 구해진다. 따라서 Navier-Stokes 방정식이나 에너지 방정식에서 최고차항이 작은 파라메타, 즉 레이놀즈수나 피크리수의 역수로 곱하여서 있는 경우에도 안정된 해를 구할 수 있다고 알려져 있다. 요소자체의 계수를 구하는 데는 계산시간이 많이 소요되지만 수치해석 상의 안정성이나 수렴성이 좋기 때문에 전체계산시간은 오히려 적게 걸리는 경우도 있다고 한다.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.60 no.12
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• pp.2374-2379
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• 2011

The fundamental frequency of the voiced speech is estimated using the instantaneous frequency based on the symmetric higher order differential energy operator. The instantaneous frequency based on the symmetric higher order energy operator shows better frequency estimation result since it is aligned to the time instance of the signal. The speech is pre-processed by a lowpass filter to remove higher frequency components. Then, it is processed by the instantaneous frequency to obtain the fundamental frequency estimates. The symmetric higher order energy operator has been used as an indicator to determine the voiced/unvoiced speech. The fundamental frequency estimates are further processed by a moving average filter to obtain the monotonically changed estimates. The obtained fundamental frequency estimates have been compared with the spectrogram of the speech to confirm its accuracy.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.61 no.8
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• pp.1193-1198
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• 2012

An instantaneous amplitude (IA) estimator using the symmetric higher order differential energy operator is proposed. The amplitude estimator and the instantaneous frequency (IF) estimator based on the symmetric higher order differential energy operator coincide with the analyzed signal in time, and they show better estimation results than the IA and IF based on the higher order differential energy operator. Various IF and IA estimators are applied to AM-FM signals for the performance comparison. Among the IF and IA estimators, the IF and IA estimators based on the symmetric higher order energy operator show the best estimation accuracy. Then, the IA and IF estimators are applied to the distorted power line signal to show their usefulness as power disturbance detectors.