• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
• /
• 1998.08a
• /
• pp.60-64
• /
• 1998

음성인식 시스템의 실용화 과정에서 훈련환경과 테스트 환경의 불일치로 인한 인식성능의 저하는 반드시 극복되어야 할 문제이다. 본 논문에서는 잡음 tR인 입력음성의 비음성구간에서 잡음레벨을 추정하여 음성 스펙트럼에서 추정된 잡음레벨을 빼는 스펙트럼 차감법고 스펙트럼 영역에서 미리 정해진 마스킹 레벨보다 낮은 에너지 값을 마스킹 레벨로 올려주는 잡음 마스킹을 함께 사용함으로써 훈련 환경과 테스트환경의 불일치를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 그리고 복수의 마스킹 레벨에 대한 모델들을 미리 만들어 두고 추정된 잡음 레벨에 따라 적합한 마스킹 레벨의 보델을 사용하여 인식을 수해？는 다중 모델 방법을 적용하였다. 자동차 소음환경에서 두 가지 마스킹 레벨에 대한 모델을 이용한 화자독립고립단어 인식 실험을 통하여 본 논문에서 제안한 방식은 정차중 무시동 환경에서 95.8%, 정차중 시동 환경에서 95.6%, 한적한 도로환경에서 92.8%, 복잡한 시내도로 환경에서 89.6%, 고속도로 환경에서 74.4%의 인식성능을 나타내었으며, 평균 90.7%의 성능을 얻을 수 있다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
• /
• v.15 no.3
• /
• pp.223-230
• /
• 2004

A method for measuring array manifold which is the array antenna response of incident signal is presented. Array manifold measurement procedure by the presented method is explained for UCA(Uniform Circular Array), and spatial spectrum of 300 ㎒ tone signal incident on UCA is estimated by MUSIC algorithm in which spatial spectrum peak is searched with measured array manifold. Spatial spectrum estimation using array manifold measured by the proposed method shows superior performance to calculated array manifold.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.18 no.8
• /
• pp.1791-1797
• /
• 2014

A water level measurement radar estimates beat frequencies to extract the corresponding water level information for water resource management. Therefore, it is required to maintain the high degree of reliability and accuracy in beat frequency estimates. However, Beat spectra of water surface return echoes can have very widely varying shapes according to system frequency linearity, measurement environments and weather conditions. Therefore, serious problems may arise in maintaining the reliability and accuracy of the conventional level estimation method. Therefore, in this paper, high resolution spectrum estimates are analyzed for improvement of the conventional method. These methods show that the more accurate level measurement can be possible on the condition that SNR is higher than a certain required threshold. However, if SNR is too low, the conventional method shows that estimates are more reliable than the suggested method though absolute errors are too large.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
• /
• 2009.05a
• /
• pp.605-608
• /
• 2009

It is necessary to estimate the Doppler spectrum for each range cell for the extraction of useful information from the return echoes in radar systems used for the remote sending purpose. However, The conventional spectrum estimation method, FFT(Fast Fourier Transform), called the Doppler filter bank, causes the frequency resolution problem if the dwell time is relatively short. This short acquisition time also spreads the side lobe levels of return echoes further, resulting in difficulties for the discrimination of weak target signals included in relatively strong target echoes. Therefore, in this paper, the efficient Doppler spectrum estimation methods are compared and investigated through the parameter spectrum estimation in the time domain to overcome these problems.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
• /
• 2010.11a
• /
• pp.1-3
• /
• 2010

본 논문에서는 VSB 수신기를 위한 반송파 위상 오차에 독립적인 심벌 타이밍 옵셋 추정 알고리즘을 제안하고자 한다. 심벌 타이밍 옵셋 추정에 대표적인 알고리즘인 가드너 방법은 반송파 위상 옵셋이 포함된 VSB 수신기에서는 타이밍 옵셋을 추정할 수 없다. 본 논문에서는 수신신호의 공액 곱 연산을 통하여 신호의 스펙트럼을 확장하고 반송파 위상 옵셋을 상쇄 하였고, 그 후 가드너 알고리즘을 통하여 인접 스펙트럼 간의 중복부분을 발생시켜, 타이밍 옵셋을 추정하는 방식을 연구하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 제안하는 알고리즘은 VSB 수신기에서 반송파 위상 오차에 영향을 받지 않고, 정확하게 타이밍 옵셋을 추정할 수 있는 것으로 나타났다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
• /
• 1998.06c
• /
• pp.465-468
• /
• 1998

본 논문은 천해 상에서 목표물로부터 방사되어 견인 이동되는 하이드로폰을 통하여 입사되는 광대역 신호에 대한 DOA (Direction-Of Arrival) 추정기법을 제안한다. 견인 배열 어레이를 이용하는 경우 고정된 위치의 배열 하이드로폰을 사용하는 경우와는 달리 움직임에 의한 도플러 주파수 천이 값이 발생하며 배열 상에 입사되는 광대역 신호는 각 주파수성분에 따라 서로 다른 고유 벡터 영역을 갖게 된다. 따라서 주파수 성분별로 처리하여 평균 공간 스펙트럼을 구하여 입사각을 추정하는 기존의 Incoherent 처리기법은 심각한 추정 오차를 발생시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위하여 각 주파수 성분에 대한 고유한 벡터영역들을 Coherent 변환과정을 거쳐서 통합된 벡터영역으로 변환하여 공간 스펙트럼을 추정하고 이를 통하여 입사각을 추출한다. 시뮬레이션 결과를 통하여 Cherent 처리기법을 이용한 입사각 추정상의 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.16 no.10
• /
• pp.2101-2107
• /
• 2012

A current velocity measurement radar for a river or a stream estimates Doppler frequencies of return echoes to extract the corresponding surface velocity information. It is very important to maintain the reliability and accuracy of these velocity estimates for water resource management such as flooding or drought conditions. However, received Doppler spectra of water surface return echoes have very widely varying shapes according to different measurement environments and weather conditions. Therefore, serious problems may arise in maintaining the reliability and accuracy of velocity estimating algorithm in a radar sensor because of Doppler spectra which can have many different kind of shapes. Therefore, in this paper, an appropriate Doppler spectrum model is suggested to simulate many various Doppler spectra. This model can be very useful in validating the reliability and accuracy of surface velocity estimates.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
• /
• v.24 no.11
• /
• pp.1492-1499
• /
• 2020

A weather radar system generally shows the weather phenomena related with rainfall and wind velocity. These systems are usually very helpful to monitor the relatively high altitude weather situation for the wide and long range area. However, since the weather hazards due to the strong hail and heavy rainfall occurring locally are observed frequently in recent days, it is important to detect these wether phenomena. For this purpose, it is necessary to detect the fast varying low altitude weather conditions. In this environment, the effect of surface clutter is more evident and the antenna dwell time is much shorter. Therefore, the conventional Doppler spectrum estimation method may cause serious problems. In this paper, the AR(autoregressive) Doppler spectrum estimation methods were applied to solve these problems and the results were analyzed. Applied methods show that improved Doppler spectra can be obtained comparing with the conventional FFT(Fast Fourier Transform) method.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
• /
• v.12 no.1
• /
• pp.1-10
• /
• 2011

The spectrum sensing is one of the fundamental functions to realize the cognitive radios. One of problems in the spectrum sensing is that the performance of spectrum sensing can be degraded due to fading and shadowing. In order to overcome the problem, cooperative spectrum sensing method is proposed, which uses a distributed detection model and can increase sensing performance. However, the performance of cooperative spectrum sensing can be still affected by the interference factors such as obstacle and malicious user. Especially, most of cooperative spectrum sensing methods only considered the stationary primary user. In the ubiquitous environment, however the mobile primary users should be considered. In order to overcome the aforementioned problem, in this paper we propose a robust spectrum detection method based on localization where we estimate the location of the mobile primary user, and then based on the location and transmission range of primary user we detect interference users if there are, and then the local sensing reporting from detected interference users are excluded in the decision fusion process. Through simulation, it is shown that the sensing performance of the proposed scheme is more accurate than that of conventional other schemes

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.49 no.3
• /
• pp.89-97
• /
• 2012

In this paper, we propose a novel approach to noise power estimation for speech enhancement in noisy environments. The method based on IMCRA (improved minima controlled recursive averaging) which is widely used in speech enhancement utilizes a rough VAD (voice activity detection) algorithm which excludes speech components during speech periods in order to improves the performance of the noise power estimation by reducing the speech distortion caused by the conventional algorithm based on the minimum power spectrum derived from the noisy speech. However, since the VAD algorithm is not sufficient to distinguish speech from noise at non-stationary noise and low SNRs (signal-to-noise ratios), the speech distortion resulted from the minimum tracking during speech periods still remained. In the proposed method, minimum power estimate obtained by IMCRA is modified by SMT (spectral minima tracking) to reduce the speech distortion derived from the bias of the estimated minimum power. In addition, in order to effectively estimate minimum power by considering the distribution characteristic of the speech and noise spectrum, the presented method combines the minimum estimates provided by IMCRA and SMT depending on the weighting factor based on the subband. Performance of the proposed algorithm is evaluated by subjective and objective quality tests under various environments and better results compared with the conventional method are obtained.