• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.48-58
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• 2019

We investigate the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) of time-domain (i.e. pulsed illumination) and frequency-domain (i.e. chirped illumination) photoacoustic signals measured by a spherically focused ultrasound transducer for spherical absorbers. The simulation results show that the time-domain photoacoustic SNR is higher than that of frequency-domain photoacoustic signals, as reported in the previous literature. We understand the reason for this SNR gap between the two measurement modes by analyzing photoacoustic-signal spectra, considering the incident beam energy controlled by the maximum permissible exposure. As the result of this approach, we find that filtering off the DC term in the chirped signal's spectrum improves frequency-domain photoacoustic SNRs by up to approximately 5 dB. In particular, it is observed that photoacoustic SNRs are highly sensitive to an upper-frequency value of frequency filtering functions, and the optimal upper-frequency values maximizing the SNR are different in time- and frequency-domain photoacoustic measurements.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.28-32
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• 2014

For a signal such as speech showing piece-wise linear shape in a very short time period, a nonuniform sampling method based on the inflection point detection (IPD) is proposed to reduce data rate. The method exploits the geometrical characteristics of signal further than the existing local maxima/minima detection (MMD) based sampling method. As results, the reconstructed signal by the interpolation of the IPD based sampled data resembles the original speech more. Computer simulation shows that the proposed IPD based method produces about 9~23 dB improvement over the existing MMD method. To show the usefulness of the IPD technique, it is applied to speech coding, and compared to the continuously variable slope delta modulation (CVSD). The nonuniformly sampled data is binary coded with one bit flag set "1". Noninflection samples are not sent, but only flag bits set 0 are sent. The method shows 0.3 ~ 9 dB SNR and 0.5 ~ 1.3 mean opinion score (MOS) improvements over the CVSD.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.10
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• pp.377-383
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• 2015

This study evaluates the convergence radiation protection performance by measuring the PSNR(peak signal-to-noise ratio) values of the image J in the image evaluation program based on increased relative to this exposure of radiation workers.The aim of this study was to evaluate radiation protection performance of apron for design of it's basic information. Method was used to PSNR of Image J program and good condition apron was more than 27dB, the PSNR value of poor condition apron appeared to be less than 24dB. The result is the normality were satisfied distribution and T-test values were statistically significant with p<0.001. Results of evaluation of the performance protective apron through the more easily accessible experimental conditions and methods in the clinical was confirmed distinctly different. in order to reduce the radiation exposure we need to evaluate convergence protection performance and to be having a good performance apron.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.3
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• pp.359-366
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• 2001

이 논문에서는 주파수 비선택적 느린 나카가미 m-분포 페이딩 육상 이동통신 채널에서 M 진 QAM 신호에 L-가지의 최대비 합성 다이버시티를 적용하였을 때의 오율성능을 유도하 고 분석한다. 다이버시티 채널의 페이딩 인자가 동일한 경우와 서로 다른 경우에 대하여 각 각 다중가지 다이버시티 시스템을 고려한다. 페이딩 지수 m=1 인 경우 유도된 M진 QAM 신호의 최대비 합성 다이버시티 심볼 오율식은 레일리 페이딩 채널에서의 오류식으로 돌아 간다. 유도된 결과 식들은 L 값에 대하여 신호대 잡음비에 대한 함수로 최대비 합성 다이버 시티 심볼 오율을 나타낸다. L 값을 증가시킬수록 성능 향상을 가져옴을 보여준다. 이 논문 에서 제시된 결과들은 디지털 육상 이동통신에서 QAM 시스템의 성능을 편리하게 셰산하는 데 충분히 일반적이다.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.31-37
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• 2009

In the two-way relay channel, the relay employ Amplify-and-Forward (AF) or Decode-and-Forward (DF) protocol, and broadcast the network-coded signal to both user. In the system, DF protocol provides maximum throughput at low signal to noise ratio(SNR). On the other hand, at high SNR, AF protocol provides maximum throughput. The paper propose active transmission scheme which employ Amplify-and-Forward or Decode-and-Forward protocol based on received SNR at the relay over Two-way relay channel. The optimal threshold is investigated numerically for switching the protocol. Through numerical results, we confirm that the proposed scheme outperforms conventional schemes over two-way relay channel.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1571-1576
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• 2013

This paper proposes an improvement algorithm of signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) for speech signals under noisy environments. The proposed algorithm first estimates the SNRs in a low SNR, mid SNR and high SNR areas, in order to improve the SNRs in the speech signal from background noise, such as white noise and car noise. Thereafter, this algorithm subtracts the noise signal from the noisy speech signal at each bands using a spectrum sharpening method. In the experiment, good signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) are obtained for white noise and car noise compared with a conventional spectral subtraction method. From the experiment results, the maximal improvement in the output SNR results was approximately 4.2 dB and 3.7 dB better for white noise and car noise compared with the results of the spectral subtraction method, in the background noisy environment, respectively.

• Journal of the Society of Naval Architects of Korea
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• v.38 no.3
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• pp.117-122
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• 2001

The shock test of shipboard equipments is performed for the evaluation of the shock-resistant. capability by analyzing the maximum acceleration, the effective time duration and the shock response spectrum, etc. But some measured signals have impulsive noise and gaussian white noise because of the ambient noise, the acquisition equipment error and the transient movement of cables during the shock test. The improved transient signal analysis method which removes the noise of measured signal using the threshold policy of the median filter and the orthogonal wavelet coefficients is proposed. It was verified that the signal-to-noise ratio was improved about 30dB by the numerical simulation. And the shock response spectrum was extracted using the denoised shock response signal which was applied by this proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.42 no.2 s.332
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• pp.17-22
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• 2005

This paper presents our investigation for the effect of symbol timing errors in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) uplink systems. We express the symbol timing errors between users as the symbol timing misalignments with respect to the desired user. Then, we derive an explicit expression of the average effective signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio. (SINR) as a function of the maximum value of the symbol timing misalignments. Based on the resulting SINR degradation, we evaluate the SINR gain with guard subcarriers in order to mitigate the effect of the symbol timing misalignments.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.9C
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• pp.840-845
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• 2006

This paper presents a partial response maximum likelihood (PRML) detection method using partial response signal-to-noise ratio (PRSNR) that evaluates the signal quality of asymmetric optical recording channel. It is confirmed that the equalizer maximizing the PRSNR value can be most properly adapted to the asymmetric optical recording channel. The proposed PRML detection using this result has 1.8dB SNR gain at $8.5{\times}10-5$ bit error rate compared to PRML detection using typical adaptive equalizer.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.433-434
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• 2014

최근 간질환 검사의 비침습적인 방법으로 탄성초음파가 각광받고 있는 추세이다. 그러나 진단결과와 탄성초음파 결과 값에 따른 표준 진단 매뉴얼이 없는 실정이다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 탄성초음파 수치에 따른 간질환의 종류와 B-mode 영상 간의 경향을 알아보고자 하였다. 그리고 환자의 우측 늑간 초음파 B-mode 영상평가 파라미터인 평균, 신호 대 잡음비, 최대신호 대 잡음비, 엔트로피로 분석하고, 동일 부위에 시행한 탄성초음파 수치와의 비교를 통해 경향을 연구하였고, 그 기준을 제시하고자 하였다.