• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.105-112
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• 2013

In this study, the applicability of impact-echo method for assessment of residual strength of fire-damaged concrete is investigated. A series of standard fire test is performed to obtain fire-damaged concrete specimens. Impact-echo tests are executed on the specimens and the responses are analyzed. Compressive strengths of the fire-damaged concrete are evaluated and correlated with the ultrasonic wave velocities determined from the impact-echo responses. The effectiveness of impact-echo based ultrasonic wave velocity measurement for assessment of residual strength of fire-damaged concrete is discussed.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.281-291
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new double talk detection algorithm which detects near end signals with less degradation, tracking echo path variation of echo canceler simultaneously. Our method makes use of a cross-correlation between channel input signals and estimated error signals and a normalized cross-correlation between microphone input signals and estimated error signals. By combing thresholds for these cross-correlations pertinently, this algorithm discriminates between variation of echo path and occurrence of double talk. These two cross-correlation are used to detect double talk periods, tracking echo path variation. During the detection period, adjustive adaptive filter is ceased to prevent the echo canceler from being disturbed by near end signals. Also, the echo canceler will still be kept on for tracking any variation in echo path. Through computer simulation results, it was confirmed that the proposed algorithm shows better performance, tracking echo path variation and detecting the double talk periods, than the Ye et. al's and the NLMS algorithms from ERLE viewpoint.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.162-166
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a novel approach of an acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) algorithm which is differently adopted in the relevant period condition by the suppression parameter of a parametric wiener filter (PWF). The PWF uses the suppression parameter to compensate uncertainty of acoustic echo signal estimation. The existing PWF method using the fixed suppression parameter derives the distortion of the near-end signal at the double-talk. To solve this problem, the boundary condition is devised using decision of the double-talk detection (DTD) algorithm and voice activity detector (VAD). The boundary condition makes it possible to treat differently depending on the case of the single-talk and double-talk. According to the experimental results, the proposed approach is found to be effective for acoustic echo cancellation using the boundary condition.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.33-40
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• 1999

Purpose: To simulate and measure the signal intensity of various tissues near bone interface in 2D and 3D neurological MR images. Materials and Methods: In neurological proton density (PD) weighted images, every component in the head including cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), muscle and scalp, with the exception of bone, are visualised. It is possible to acquire images in 2D or 3D. A 2D fast spin-echo (FSE) sequence is chosen for the 2D acquisition and a 3D gradient-echo (GE) sequence is chosen for the 3D acquisition. To find out the signal intensities of CSF, muscle and fat (or scalp) for the 2D spin-echo(SE) and 3D gradient-echo (GE) imaging sequences, the theoretical signal intensities for 2D SE and 3D GE were calculated. For the 2D fast spin-echo (FSE) sequence, to produce the PD weighted image, long TR (4000 ms) and short TE$_{eff}$ (22 ms) were employed. For the 3D GE sequence, low flip angle (8$^{\circ}$) with short TR (35 ms) and short TE (3 ms) was used to produce the PD weighted contrast. Results: The 2D FSE sequence has CSF, muscle and scalp with superior image contrast and SNR of 39 - 57 while the 3D GE sequence has CSF, muscle and scalp with broadly similar image contrast and SNR of 26 - 33. SNR in the FSE image were better than those in the GE image and the skull edges appeared very clearly in the FSE image due to the edge enhancement effect in the FSE sequence. Furthermore, the contrast between CSF, muscle and scalp in the 2D FSE image was significantly better than in the 3D GE image, due to the strong signal intensities (or SNR) from CSF, muscle and scalp and enhanced edges of CSF. Conclusion: The signal intensity of various tissues near bone interface in neurological MR images has been simulated and measured. Both the simulation and imaging of the 2D SE and 3D GE sequences have CSF, fat and muscle with broadly similar image intensity and SNR's and have succeeded in getting all tissues about the same signal. However, in the 2D FSE sequence, image contrast between CSF, muscle and scalp was good and SNR was relatively high, imaging time was relatively short.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.425-433
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• 2003

Acoustic Echo Canceller (AEC) is a signal processing system for removing unwanted echo signals in teleconference and hands-free communication. Least mean square (LMS) algorithm is one of the adaptive echo cancellation algorithms and it has been most attractive because of its simplicity and robustness. However, the convergence properties of the LMS algorithm degrade with highly correlated input signals such as speech. For this reason, transform-domain adaptive filtering algorithm was introduced to decorrelate the colored input samples by using the orthogonal transform matrix such as DCT, DFT and then LMS adaptive filtering process is applied. In this paper, we propose a MLT domain adaptive echo canceller base on the MLT (Modulated lapped Transform) orthogonal transform matrix. The proposed algorithm achieves high decorrelation efficiency and fast convergence speed via modulated lapped transform of size 2NXN instead of NXN unitary transform such as DCT, DFT, Hadamad and it is applied to the acoustical echo cancellation system. Form the computer simulation with both synthesis and real speech, the proposed MLT domain adaptive echo canceller shows approximately twice faster convergence speed and 20∼30 ㏈ ERLE improvements over the DCT frequency domain acoustic echo cancellation system.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.19-22
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• 2000

최근 이동전화의 사용이 급격히 확산됨에 따라 핸즈프리 단말기를 이용한 전화통신의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 차량내 핸즈프리 통신상황의 경우 근거리에 위치한 스피커와 마이크로폰의 커플링에 의해 발생하는 음향반향과 차량내에 존재하는 배경잡음은 통화 품질을 크게 저하시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이동통신에 적합한 음향반향제거기와 잡음제거기의 결합시스템을 제안하고, 이를 고정 소수점 DSP를 이용하여 실시간 구현하였다. 실시간 구현을 위하여 음향반향제거기에는 NLMS 알고리즘에 의해 구동되는 제한된 차수의 적응반향제거기법을 사용하였다. 잔여반향 및 배경잡음제거를 위해 CDMA방식의 셀룰라 이동통신에 사용되는IS-127 EVRC음성 부호화기의 표준안에 포함된 잡음제거방식을 사용하였다. 제안된 시스템을 16 비트 고정소수점DSP인 OAK DSP Core를 이용하여 약 18.6MIPS의 연산량으로 실시간 구현되었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2000.09a
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• pp.11-14
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• 2000

현장감 있는 원거리 회의를 위해서는 두 채널 이상의 신호를 전송하는 스테레오 시스템이 필요하다. 이러한 원거리 회의 시스템의 경우 스피커와 마이크로폰간의 커플링에 의해 발생하는 음향 반향을 제거하기 위해 스테레오 음향 반향 제거기가 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 스테레오 음향 반향제거기의 성능을 효과적으로 개선하기 위하여 인간의 청각 특성과 음성 신호 특성을 이용한 전처리단을 제안한다 제안한 전처리단은 마스킹 현상을 이용하여 청각적으로 인지할 수 없는 크기의 부가 잡음을 음성 신호 분석을 통해 발생시켜 원 신호에 더해줌으로 두 채널 신호의 상호 상관 관계를 낮추어 준다. 또한 본 논문에서는 적응 반향 제거 알고리즘인 Affine Projection(AP) 알고리즘이 Cram-Schmidt(GS) 직교화 과정을 통한 벡터 연산으로 갱신될 수 있음을 이용하여, 별도의 음성 분석 과정 없이 AP알고리즘의 GS 직교화단으로 제안한 전처리단을 구현할 수 있음을 보이고, 최종적으로 전처리단과 적응 알고리즘이 결합된 스테레오 음향반향 제거를 위한 적응 알고리즘을 제안한다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.193-203
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• 1988

In this paper, an echo canceller(EC) using decision feedback at the ISDN U-interface is presented and its performance based on the stochastic iteration algorithm is analyzed, and compared with the other conventional EC. The steady state mean-squared error(MSE) by the analytical resutls on the decision feedback-EC turns out to be smaller than that of the other linear EC. The performance of the ECs with the same convergence factor are almost the same regardless of different channel characteristics.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.10-16
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• 1998

본 논문은 음향반향제거기에서 동시통화구간을 검출하고 처리하는 알고리듬에 대하 여 논하고 있다. 새로운 동시통화처리 알고리듬은 송신신호와 잔류신호간의 상호상관계수를 이용하여 동시통화 여부 및 구간을 검출하고 이 구간에서는 반향제거기의 계수적응을 중지 하도록 하는 것이다. 본 알고리듬을 사용함으로서 동시통화구간의 검출에 소요되는 계산량 이 대폭 감소할 뿐만 아니라 비정상상태의 원인이 동시통화에 의한 것인지 아니면 반향경로 응답의 변화에 의한 것인지를 구별할 수가 있다. 음향반향제거기에 제안한 알고리듬을 적용 하여 모의실험을 수행하므로서 본 알고리듬의 성능을 분석하였고 기존의 알고리듬을 적용한 경우와 비교, 검토하였다. 실험 결과 본 알고리듬을 적용한 음향반향제거기는 동시통화구간 을 완벽하게 검출하므로서 동시통화 후에도 계수가 발산하지않고 안정적으로 정상상태를 유 지함을 확인하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.249-252
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 음향반향제거기에서 상관계수를 이용하여 동시통화 구간을 검출하는 방법에서 검출 오류로 인해 발생되는 문제점에 대해서 다룬다. 상관계수(correlation coefficient)를 이용한 DT 검출 방법에서 동시통화 구간과 반향경로의 변화를 명확하게 구분 짓는 문턱값 설정이 어렵기 때문에 때때로 검출 오류가 발생한다. 즉, 동시통화 중간에 반향경로가 변함으로써 동시통화 구간의 끝점 검출에 실패하거나 반항경로 변화를 DT로 잘못 인식하는 경우가 발생하는데, 이럴 경우 더 이상 적응필터의 계수를 갱신을 할 수 없는 상태에 빠지기도 한다. 본 논문에서는 반향제거기에 보조필터를 사용하여 이러한 문제점을 해결하고자 한다. 이는 보조필터가 기준입력신호(reference signal)를 이용하여 변화된 반향신호 성분은 추정할 수 있지만 근단화자 신호는 추정할 수 없다는 점을 이용한다 실험을 통해 제안한 알고리즘이 검출 오류로 인해 발생되는 문제를 효율적으로 해결할 수 있음을 확인하였다.