• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.575-578
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• 2001

원격 조작이나 해저 수중 탐사에서 실제와 같이 거리감을 인식하며 제어하기 위하여, 3차원 입체 영상 카메라 장치를 사용하고 있다. 기본적인 구성 형태인 Stereoscopic Camera 시스템은 기구적으로 주시각 제어와 초점 제어가 이루어 지고 있으며, 획득영상에 대하여 영상 distortion 보정, 압축 처리 등의 영상 신호처리가 행하여진다. 양안 카메라의 수평 위치를 일치시켜 수평적으로 동일 위치의 pixel들이 정확한 epipolar line을 형성할 경우에, 주시각 제어가 용이하고 보정 및 영상처리 등의 연산량이 대폭 감소된다. 이와 같은 calibration 과정을, 기존의 시스템에서는, 주로 영상 획득 포기에 패턴을 사용하여 실시하거나, 물리적 수평 장치와 sensor 등의 보조 장치를 이용하여 calibration을 행한다. 그러나, 기계적으로 정밀하게 정렬을 한다고 하여도 두 카메라의 광축 및 CCD조립상 상이점과 특성의 불일치로 인하여 실제 획득된 영상에서는 변이와 회전이 포함된 영상을 얻게된다. 본 논문에서는 Stereoscopic Camera의 위와같은 정렬 오류의 문제점을 분석한 후, 제안 방식으로서 두 카메라의 획득되는 영상을 직접 영상 처리하여 수직 방향 및 회전 오류를 최소화 시켜 정렬하는 새로운 방법을 제시하며, 실험적으로 제안 방식의 효율성을 보인다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1083-1088
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• 2013

Detection and classification of undersea mines in shallow waters using active sonar returns is a difficult task due to complexity of underwater environment. Support vector machine(SVM) is a binary classifier that is well known to provide a global optimum solution. In this paper, classification experiments of sonar returns from mine-like objects and non-mine-like objects are carried out using the SVM, and classification performance is analyzed and presented with discussions depending on parameter values of SVM kernel functions.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.320-328
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• 2023

Underwater active target detection is vital for defense systems, requiring accurate detection and estimation of distance and velocity. Sequential transmission is necessary at each beam angle, but divided pulse length leads to range ambiguity. Multi-frequency transmission results in time-bandwidth product losses when bandwidth is divided. To overcome these problem, we propose a novel method using Generalized Sinusoidal Frequency Modulation (GSFM) for rapid target detection, enabling low-correlation pulses between subpulses without bandwidth division. The proposed method allows for rapid updates of the distance and velocity of target by employing GSFM with minimized pulse length. To evaluate our method, we simulated an underwater environment with reverberation. In the simulation, a linear frequency modulation of 0.05 s caused an average distance estimation error of 50 % and a velocity estimation error of 103 % due to limited frequency band. In contrast, GSFM accurately and quickly tracked targets with distance and velocity estimation errors of 10 % and 14 %, respectively, even with pulses of the same length. Furthermore, GSFM provided approximate azimuth information by transmitting highly orthogonal subpulses for each azimuth.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.3 s.303
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• pp.33-40
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• 2005

In order to successfully exploit underwater resources, the first step would be a marine environmental research and exploration on the seafloor. Traditionally one sets up a long-term underwater experimental unit on the seafloor and retrieves the unit later after a certain period time. Essential to these applications is the reliable teleoperation and telemetering of the unit. This study presents ultrasonic-wave remote control system and an underwater sound recognition algorithm that can identify the sound signal without the influence of disturbances due to underwater environmental changes. The proposed method provides a means suitable for units which require low power dissipation and long-time underwater operation. We demonstrate its ability of securing stability and fast sound recognition through experimental methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.218-226
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• 2022

The main characteristics of the underwater acoustic channel have varying multipath and fast fading. Especially, Frequency Shift Keying (FSK) signals with multiple frequency bands caused loss of information bits allocated on the specific frequencies due to selective fading phenomenon. Therefore, this paper proposes frequency gain control algorithm based on preamble error rates. The proposed algorithm estimates optimal gain value in the range of preamble error rate with less than 10 % for specific faded frequency. By employing turbo equalized FSK signals with rate of 1/3, the experiment was conducted on a lake in Munkyeong city with distance of 300 m to 500 m. The result confirms that packets are decoded successfully by applying proposed algorithm as increasing number of iterations.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.9-15
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• 2011

Communication environments in the context of underwater channel are characterized to be bad by the characteristics of multipath. Multipaths are affected by various factors e.g. the temperature and the salinity of the ocean. In this paper, the representative sound speed profiles were calculated in the southern part of Baengnyeoung island so that the eigen-ray paths with the channel impulse responses were determined using the average sound speed profile of last decade. The performance of underwater communication was analyzed using the BPSK modulation and time reversal method. The significant differences of results were shown according to the change of season and carrier frequency by using computer simulation. In addition, improved performance is obtained using preprocess channel impulse response for the better comparison of two cases of summer and autumn.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Fisheries and Ocean Technology
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• v.35 no.2
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• pp.129-135
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• 1999

The telemetry system for the current speed and direction, the underwater ambient noise and the distribution ecology of fishes was constructed by the author and his collaborator in order to product and manage effectively in shallow sea culture and setnets fisheries, and then the experiments for the telemetry system carried out at set net fishing ground located Nungpobay in Kojedo from October 1996 to June 1997. As this results, the techniques suggested in the telemetry system gave full display its function even though far away 1.5 km from transmitting part, but with the suggested telemetry system could not be ascertained relationship between physical environment and distribution ecology of fishes.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.5
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• pp.3434-3439
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• 2015

As a criterion of information theoretic learning, the Euclidean distance (ED) of two error probability distribution functions (minimum ED of error, MEDE) has been adopted in nonlinear (decision feedback, DF) supervised equalizer algorithms and has shown significantly improved performance in severe channel distortion and impulsive noise environments. However, the MEDE-DF algorithm has the problem of heavy computational complexity. In this paper, the recursive ED for MEDE-DF algorithm is derived first, and then the feed-forward and feedback section gradients for weight update are estimated recursively. To prove the effectiveness of the recursive gradient estimation for the MEDE-DF algorithm, the number of multiplications are compared and MSE performance in impulsive noise and underwater communication environments is compared through computer simulation. The ratio of the number of multiplications between the proposed DF and the conventional MEDE-DF algorithm is revealed to be $2(9N+4):2(3N^2+3N)$ for the sample size N with the same MSE learning performance in the impulsive noise and underwater channel environment.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.359-369
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• 2021

In underwater communications, to compensate performance degradation induced from rapidly changing channel transfer characteristic, multi-band communication method which allocate the same data to different frequency bands is used. However, the multi-band configuration may have worse performance than the single-band one because performance degradation in a particular band affects the output from the entire bands. This problem can be solved through a receiving end that analyzes error rates of each band, sets threshold values and allocates lower weights to inferior bands. Therefore, this paper proposed a weighting algorithm based on estimated Bit Error Rate (BER) which analyzes reliability of received data based on the performance difference between demodulated and decoded data. Employing turbo codes with coding rate of 1/3, we evaluate the performance of the proposed weighted multi-band transmission model in real underwater environments based on optimal simulation parameters. Through the sea trial experiment, we confirmed error performance was improved by applying the proposed weighting algorithm.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.428-438
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• 2021

For long-range communication in deep water, low carrier frequency is efficient due to a decrease in transmission loss. However, there is a limitation in that the data rate decreases due to a narrow bandwith. In order to increase the data rate in an environment with a limited bandwidth, it is necessary to design a higher-order modulation scheme. This paper analyzes the long-range communication data modulated by higher-order modulation schemes. The long-range communication experiment (23 km ~) was conducted in East Sea in October 2020. During the experiment, a vertical line array was utilized and communication sequences were modulated by Phase Shift Keying (PSK) and Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (QAM) schemes and transmitted by a towed source. In more detail, PSK modulation consists of quadrature PSK and 8PSK, QAM modulation consists of 8QAM and 16QAM. Time reversal processing is applied to mitigate inter-symbol interference by utilizing the correlation between received signals and channel impulse responses. All modulation schemes show successful results at 23 km range, demonstrating the feasibility of higher-order modulation in long-range communication.