• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.273-278
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• 2017

In this paper, a post-processing algorithm to suppress reverberation for continuous-wave active sonar system is developed. The developed algorithm is designed for a low-doppler environment where the target echo is not distinguishable from the reverberation. The algorithm is developed based on overlapping nonnegative matrix factorization method. The algorithm analyzes the frequency characteristics of transmitting ping signal, then suppresses the reverberation using time-frequency characteristics of the received signal. Simulations performed in order to evaluate the proposed algorithm, and the results show that the proposed algorithm makes 6 dB signal-to-reverberation ratio enhancement in various reverberation energy conditions.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.31 no.5
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• pp.332-339
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• 2012

Beamspace transform algorithm transforms spatial-domain data - such as x, y, z dimension - into incidence-angle-domain data, which is called beamspace-domain data. The beamspace transform method is generally used in source localization and tracking, and adaptive beamforming problem. When the beamspace transform method is used in multichannel audio source separation, the inverse beamspace transform is also important because the source image have to be reconstructed. This paper studies the beamspace transform and inverse transform algorithms for multichannel audio source separation system, especially for the beamspace-domain multichannel NMF algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.509-515
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• 2010

This paper presents a new method for upmixing mono signal to stereo signal with guaranteeing high stereophonic image quality (SIQ) and large apparent source width (ASW). The proposed method consists of analysis phase and synthesis phase. In analysis phase, a mono signal is first decomposed into multiple sound sources by the use of high-rank nonnegative matrix factorization. Then the multiple sources are clustered into two groups based on tonality criterion. In synthesis phase, one group is directly fed into left and right channels while the other group is decorrelated before being fed into each channel. Subjective tests reveals that the proposed method gives listener high SIQ and large ASW with minimizing timbral distortions.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.347-364
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• 2011

In this paper, we propose a automatic image bases extraction method for visual image reconstruction from brain activity using Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF). Image bases are basic elements to construct and present a visual image. Previous method used brain activity that evoked by predefined 361 image bases of four different sizes: $1{\times}1$, $2{\times}1$, $1{\times}2$, $2{\times}2$, and $2{\times}2$. Then the visual stimuli were reconstructed by linear combination of all the results from these image bases. While the previous method used 361 predefined image bases, the proposed method automatically extracts image bases which represent the image data efficiently. From the experiments, we found that the proposed method reconstructs the visual stimuli better than the previous method.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.391-393
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• 2006

인터넷의 급속한 확산과 대량 정보의 이동은 문서의 요약을 더욱 필요로 하고 있다. 본 논문은 비음수 행렬 인수분해로(NMF, non-negative matrix factorization) 얻어진 비음수 의미 가변 행렬(NSVM, non-negative semantic variable matrix)을 이용하여 자동으로 포괄적 문서요약 하는 새로운 방범을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 인간의 인식 과정과 유사한 비음수 제약을 사용한다. 이 결과 잠재의미색인에 비해 더욱 의미 있는 문장을 선택하여 문서를 요약할 수 있다. 또한, 비지도 학습에 의한 문서요약으로 사전 전문가에 의한 학습문장이 필요 없으며, 적은 계산비용을 통하여 쉽게 문장을 추출할 수 있는 장점을 갖는다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.15 no.7
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• pp.1517-1524
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• 2011

In this paper, a new document summarization method, which uses the semantic features and the pseudo relevance feedback (PRF) by using WordNet, is introduced to extract meaningful sentences relevant to a user query. The proposed method can improve the quality of document summaries because the inherent semantic of the documents are well reflected by the semantic feature from NMF. In addition, it uses the PRF by the semantic features and WordNet to reduce the semantic gap between the high level user's requirement and the low level vector representation. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves better performance that the other methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.34 no.3
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• pp.240-246
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• 2015

In this paper, speech enhancement using nonnegative matrix factorization with temporal continuity has been addressed. Speech and noise signals are modeled as Possion distributions, and basis vectors and gain vectors of NMF are modeled as Gamma distributions. Temporal continuity of the gain vector is known to be critical to the quality of enhanced speech signals. In this paper, temporal continiuty is implemented by adopting Gamma-Markov chain priors for noise gain vectors during the separation phase. Simulation results show that the Gamma-Markov chain models temporal continuity of noise signals and track changes in noise effectively.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.8
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• pp.89-96
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• 2015

Human visual system has chromatic adaptation to determine the color of an object regardless of illumination, whereas digital camera records illumination and reflectance together, giving the color appearance of the scene varied under different illumination. NMFsc(nonnegative matrix factorization with sparseness constraint) was recently introduced to estimate original object color by using sparseness constraint. In NMFsc, low sparseness constraint is used to estimate illumination and high sparseness constraint is used to estimate reflectance. However, NMFsc has an illumination estimation error for images with large uniform area, which is considered as dominant chromaticity. To overcome the defects of NMFsc, illumination estimation via nonnegative matrix factorization with dominant chromaticity image is proposed. First, image is converted to chromaticity color space and analyzed by chromaticity histogram. Chromaticity histogram segments the original image into similar chromaticity images. A segmented region with the lowest standard deviation is determined as dominant chromaticity region. Next, dominant chromaticity is removed in the original image. Then, illumination estimation using nonnegative matrix factorization is performed on the image without dominant chromaticity. To evaluate the proposed method, experimental results are analyzed by average angular error in the real world dataset and it has shown that the proposed method with 5.5 average angular error achieve better illuminant estimation over the previous method with 5.7 average angular error.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.469-472
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• 2006

본 논문은 비음수 행렬 인수분해(NMF, non-negative matrix factorization)를 이용하여 문장을 추출하여 문서를 요약하는 새로운 방법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법은 문장추출에 사용되는 의미 특징(semantic feature)이 비 음수 값을 갖기 때문에 잠재의미분석에 비해 문서의 내용을 정확하게 요약한다. 또한, 적은 계산비용을 통하여 쉽게 요약 문장을 추출할 수 있는 장점을 갖는다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.31 no.10
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• pp.1412-1417
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• 2004

Sparse coding or independent component analysis (ICA) which is a holistic representation, was successfully applied to elucidate early auditor${\gamma}$ processing and to the task of sound classification. In contrast, parts-based representation is an alternative way o) understanding object recognition in brain. In this thesis we employ the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) which learns parts-based representation in the task of sound classification. Methods of feature extraction from the spectro-temporal sounds using the NMF in the absence or presence of noise, are explained. Experimental results show that NMF-based features improve the performance of sound classification over ICA-based features.