• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.103-106
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 입력음성신호로부터 음소간의 경계를 찾는 문제를 풀기위해 재귀적인 방식으로 EM 알고리즘을 적용한다. 즉, 예상되는 두 끝점 사이의 부분을 현재의 프레임 n 이라고 하면, 그 전 프레임 n-1 에서 구해진 끝점이 주는 정보와 그 끝점으로부터 이어지는 음성샘플로부터 현재 프레임의 끝점을 구한다. 또한 현재의 프레임 n 에서 끝점을 추정해 내면, 그 추정한 끝점과 그 점 이후에 이어지는 음성샘플값으로부터 다음 프레임 n+1 의 끝점을 구한다. 이러한 방식을 재귀적인 음소분리 방식이라고 한다. 그리고, 각 프레임에서 끝점을 구하기 위해서는 끝점의 좌표를 추정해야 할 파라메터로 하고, 그 주변의 음성샘플 값을 관찰 값으로 하여 EM(Expectation and Maximization) 알고리즘을 이용한다. 이 EM 알고리즘을 이용한 재귀적인 음소분리 방식을 실제 음성 DB 로부터 음소쌍을 추출하여 테스트 했을 때 약 5 회의 EM 반복 후에 경계간으로 수렴함을 볼 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.289-297
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• 2003

The performance of a bimodal system is affected by the accuracy of the endpoint detection from the input signal as well as the performance of the speech recognition or lipreading system. In this paper, we propose the endpoint detection method which detects the endpoints from the audio and video signal respectively and utilizes the signal to-noise ratio (SNR) estimated from the input audio signal to select the reliable endpoints to the acoustic noise. In other words, the endpoints are detected from the audio signal under the high SNR and from the video signal under the low SNR. Experimental results show that the bimodal system using the proposed endpoint detector achieves satisfactory recognition rates, especially when the acoustic environment is quite noisy.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.161-169
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• 2012

This paper presents a robust speech end-point detector using double talk detection in echoic conditioned speech recognition robot. The proposed method consists of combining conventional end-point detector result and double talk detector result. We have tested the proposed method in isolated word recognition system under echoic conditioned environment. As a result, the proposed algorithm shows superior performance of 30 % to the available techniques in the points of speech recognition rates.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.198-203
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• 2003

We develop the method of estimating the endpoints of speech by jointly using the lip motion (visual speech) and speech being included in multimedia data and then propose a new speech recognition system (SRS) based on that method. The endpoints of noisy speech are estimated as follows : For each test word, two kinds of endpoints are detected from visual speech and clean speech, respectively Their difference is made and then added to the endpoints of visual speech to estimate those for noisy speech. This estimation method for endpoints (i.e. speech interval) is applied to form a new SRS. The SRS differs from the convention alone in that each word model in the recognizer is provided an interval of speech not Identical but estimated respectively for the corresponding word. Simulation results show that the proposed method enables the endpoints to be accurately estimated regardless of the amount of noise and consequently achieves 8 o/o improvement in recognition rate.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.76-79
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• 1998

소음이 존재하지 않는 환경에서는 에너지 파라메터만으로도 정확한 끝점 검출을 수 행할 수 있으나 신호대 잡음비가 0dB에 가까운 자동차 환경에서는 끝점 검출이 거의 불가 능하다. 본 논문에서는 자동차 소음 환경에서 음성 구간 검출을 위하여 단구간 영교차율과 2∼4kHz의 주파수 영역 에너지를 사용한 끝점 검출 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법과 기 존의 방법의 성능을 DTW를 이용한 단독음 인식 시스템에 적용하여 인식률로 비교하였으 며 제안된 음성 구간 검출 방법을 적용한 경우가 보다 좋은 인식률을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.126-129
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• 2003

자동 음성 인식(ASR) 시스템에, 끝점 추출과 에너지 정규화는 중요한 역할을 하게 된다 그러나 낮은 SNR이나 nonstationary 환경에서, 기존 방법은 끝점 추출과 에너지 정규화에 있어서 자주 실패하게 되며, ASR을 급격히 열화시키곤 한다. ASR을 수행하기 위해, 최적의 필터에 3상태 천이도를 사용하고, 필터는 정확성과 강인함을 확실히 하기 위해 여러 이론들을 이용하여 설계하였고 여러 가지 잡음이 있는 음성 신호환경에서 거의 일정한 응답을 주었다. 검출된 끝점은 곧바로 에너지 정규화에 적용된다. 실험 결과는 제안된 알고리즘이 낮은 SNR에서 에러율을 크게 감소시키고 있다는 것을 보여준다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2013.11a
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• pp.1718-1720
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 다중 손 끝점 검출을 위해 특징 추출 기법 및 이를 기반으로 한 손 끝점 검출 알고리즘을 제안한다. 특징 추출을 위해 Local Binary Feature(LBP)을 사용하였고 특징의 차원을 축소하기 위해 Principal Component Analysis(PCA) 기법을 이용하였다. 손 끝점 판별을 위해 Reduced multivariate polynomial Model(RM) Classifier를 사용하여 실험 결과 제안된 손 끝점 검출 기법이 다양한 환경에서 동작 하는 것을 확인 하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.57-64
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• 1999

In this paper, we investigated the robust endpoint detection algorithm in noisy environment. A new feature parameter based on a discrete wavelet transform is proposed for word boundary detection of isolated utterances. The sum of standard deviation of wavelet coefficients in the third coarse and weighted first detailed scale is defined as a new feature parameter for endpoint detection. We then developed a new and robust endpoint detection algorithm using the feature found in the wavelet domain. For the performance evaluation, we evaluated the detection accuracy and the average recognition error rate due to endpoint detection in an HMM-based recognition system across several signal-to-noise ratios and noise conditions.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology
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• v.17 no.8
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• pp.75-83
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• 2019

In this paper, we propose a method that can detect and trace the end point of real - time reinforcement steel to various environmental conditions of industrial field by using Median flow and Depth information. We proposed a method to derive two steel end points by using Median filter, Binarization, Morphology, and Blob algorithm on image depth information. The coordinates of the final position were determined by comparing the coordinates of the reinforcement steel endpoints detected in the Depth image and the position tracking coordinates of the reinforcement steel using Median Flow. As a result, when the existing Median Flow method was used, the success rate of the final position determination of reinforcement steel of 75% was increased to 95% when the Depth of reinforcement steel was used.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.209-219
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• 2004

In order to implement a real time hardware for keyword spotting, we propose a Single-End-Point DTW(SEP-DTW) algorithm which is simple and less complex for computation. The SEP-DTW algorithm only needs a single end point which enables efficient applications, and it has a small wont of computations because the global search area is divided into successive local search areas. Also, we adopt new local constraints and a new distance measure for a better performance of the SEP-DTW algorithm. Besides, we make a normalization of feature same vectors so that they have the same variance in each frequency bin, and each frame has the same energy levels. To construct several reference patterns for each keyword, we use a clustering algorithm for all training patterns, and mean vectors in every cluster are taken as reference patterns. In order to detect a key word for input streams of speech, we measure the distances between reference patterns and input pattern, and we make a decision whether the distances are smaller than a pre-defined threshold value. With isolated speech recognition and keyword spotting experiments, we verify that the proposed algorithm has a better performance than other methods.