• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.63-76
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• 2018

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of contact type textile electrode structure on heart activity signal acquisition for smart healthcare. In this study, we devised six contact type textile electrodes whose electrode size and configuration were manipulated for measuring heart activity signals using computerized embroidery. We detected heart activity signals using a modified lead II and by attaching each textile electrode to the chest band in four healthy male subjects in a standing static posture. We measured the signals four times repeatedly for all types of electrodes. The heart activity signals were sampled at 1 kHz using a BIOPAC ECG100, and the detected original signals were filtered through a band-pass filter. To compare the performance of heart activity signal acquisition among the different structures of the textile electrodes, we conducted a qualitative analysis using signal waveform and size as parameters. In addition, we performed a quantitative analysis by calculating signal power ratio (SPR) of the heart activity signals obtained through each electrode. We analyzed differences in the performance of heart activity signal acquisition of the six electrodes by performing difference and post-hoc tests using nonparametric statistic methods on the calculated SPR. The results showed a significant difference both in terms of qualitative and quantitative aspects of heart activity signals among the tested contact type textile electrodes. Regarding the configurations of the contact type textile electrodes, the three-dimensionally inflated electrode (3DIE) was found to obtain better quality signals than the flat electrode. However, regarding the electrode size, no significant difference was found in performance of heart signal acquisition for the three electrode sizes. These results suggest that the configuration method (flat/3DIE), which is one of the two requirements of a contact type textile electrode structure for heart activity signal acquisition, has a critical effect on the performance of heart activity signal acquisition for wearable healthcare. Based on the results of this study, we plan to develop a smart clothing technology that can monitor high-quality heart activity without time and space constraints by implementing a clothing platform integrated with the textile electrode and developing a performance improvement plan.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.309-316
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• 1995

RF (radio-frequency) probes of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance are one of the important factors and should be designed and built properly depending upon the geometry of the samples and the information. In general there are two kinds of rf probes : one encircles the sample while the other is placed on the surface of the sample. However, in case that the samples on human internal organs have a tube shape, the two kinds of rf probes, as specified above, are usually unsuitable for the internal imaging due to the degradation of signal-to-noise ratios (SNR's). In this case a probe should be positioned as close to the area as possible by putting the probe in the tubelike sample to improve filling factor In the present study inside-out probes have been constructed in the three different shapes such as an anti-solenoidal, a saddle and a dual surface types. RF-field distributions have also been calculated depending upon the geometrical changes of anti-solenoid probes. Moreover, the performance of the inside-out probes has been checked by measuring SNR's of the images acquired. The inside-out probes constructed in this study produced better SWR's and rf-field uniformity in the area close to the probes in comparing with any other commercial probes. There is a high feasibility that the constructed probes in the present study are applicable to the diagnosis of human bodies.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2002.11b
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• pp.613-616
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• 2002

본 논문은 OFDM의 Cyclic Prefix를 사용하여 적은 계산랑을 통해 보다 빠른 초기 시간동기획득을 구현하였다. QPSK 매핑 신호를 입력으로 하고 수신단에서 계산의 복잡도를 줄이기 위해 실수 부와 허수 부를 양자화를 하고 양자화된 신호를 이용하였다. 또한 양자화된 신호의 개수를 줄이는 방법으로 샘플링을 통해 기존의 상관성 알고리즘에 적용할 데이터 량을 줄였다. 즉, 계산량과 복잡도를 줄여 초기 시간 동기 획득률을 유지하면서 복잡도를 줄였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.775-776
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• 2008

본 논문은 WLAN 환경에서 웨이블릿과 신경망을 사용한 실내 위치인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 기본적인 아이디어는 경제적이면서 효율적인 방법으로써 실내에 설치된 무선 AP들로부터 수신된 신호들의 수신세기로부터 비교적 정확하게 위치를 추정하는 연구이다. 일반적으로 무선 신호는 주위 환경 및 건물 구조적 요인에 의해 수신세기가 더해지거나 감해지는 현상이 발생함으로써 수신된 각 신호세기로부터 신호 잡음과 오류에 강인하고 시간과 주파수 도메인의 정보 표현이 가능하며 각 신호세기들간의 구별성을 갖는 특징값 획득이 필요하다. 제안 방법에서는 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 수신된 신호로부터 중복 데이터와 잡음에 민감하게 반응하지 않는 특징값을 획득하고, 수신신호 전역 및 지역적 특징의 표현이 가능한 신경망을 사용하여 실내위치인식 방법은 제안한다. 실험 결과 실내위치 인식률이 94 % 이상 제시하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Radiology
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.409-414
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• 2021

In order to acquire an image from a gamma camera, linearity correction must be performed. To this end, digital coordinates are acquired by using a linearity map to accurately specify the location where the scintillator and gamma rays interact. In this study, a method for acquiring undistorted images and digital coordinates was developed using a lookup table and maximum likelihood position estimation without using a linearity map. The proposed method was verified by configuring a small gamma camera through DETECT2000 simulation. A gamma camera was constructed using a GAGG scintillator and a SiPM optical sensor, and a gamma-ray interaction was generated at the center of the scintillator, and a lookup table was prepared using the ratio of the signals obtained from the SiPM. Through the prepared lookup table and the maximum likelihood position estimation, the position of the signal obtained by the gamma-ray interaction was acquired as digital coordinates to compose an image. As a result, the linearity was maintained compared to the generally acquired image, the accuracy of the location where the gamma-ray interaction was generated was excellent, and the distance between the locations was uniform. Since the lookup table obtained through simulation is created using the ratio of the signal, it can be directly used in the experiment, and the position of the signal can be conveniently obtained with digital coordinates with corrected linearity without creating a linearity map.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.899-912
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• 2016

In ATSC 3.0 systems, a bootstrap signal is located at the start of each frame. In this paper, we propose an initial synchronization scheme for ATSC 3.0 systems using the bootstrap signal. The bootstrap signal of ATSC 3.0 has several repetition patterns in the time domain. By utilizing the repetition patterns within the bootstrap, the proposed scheme can obtain an initial synchronization at the receiver. Also, simulation results show that the proposed scheme can obtain an initial synchronization at very low signal-to-noise ratios.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.159-160
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• 2008

차세대 위성항법 시스템은 높은 변조율을 갖는 이진 천이 반송파 변조된 확산신호를 사용한다. 그런데 부호 획득을 위해 기존 선형탐색 기법을 사용할 경우 변조율 증가에 따라 탐색회수가 크게 증가하여 초기고정시간도 증가하는 단점이 나타난다. 이에 본 논문은 차세대 위성항법 시스템이 사용하는 높은 변조율을 갖는 이진천이 반송파 변조된 확산신호를 위한 빠른 부호획득 기법을 제안하고, 복잡도를 분석한다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.11 no.10
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• pp.1968-1976
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• 2007

This paper proposes a hybrid pseudo-noise (PN) code acquisition scheme for Multicarrier Direct Sequence - Code Division Multiple Access (MC DS-CDMA) mobile communication systems on the code acquisition performance for Nakagami-m fading channel. The hybrid acquisition scheme combines parallel search with serial search to cover the whole uncertainty region of the input code phase. It has a much simpler acquisition hardware structure than the total parallel acquisition and can achieve the mean acquisition time (MAT) slightly inferior to that of the total parallel acquisition. The closed-form expressions of the detection and false-alarm probabilities are derived.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.38 no.8
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• pp.863-867
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• 2014

In this study, an acoustic emission (AE) sensor was used for measuring the abrasive and molecular-scale phenomena in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP). An AE sensor is a transducer that converts a mechanical wave into an electrical signal, and is capable of acquiring high-level frequencies from materials. Therefore, an AE sensor was installed in the CMP equipment and the signals were measured simultaneously during the polishing process. In this study, an AE monitoring system was developed for investigating the sensitivity of the AE signal to (a) the variations in the material properties of the pad, slurry, and wafer and (b) the change in conditions during the CMP process. This system was adapted to Oxide and Cu CMP processes. AE signal parameters including AE raw frequency, FFT, and amplitude were analyzed for understanding the abrasive and molecular-level phenomena in the CMP process. Finally, we verified that AE sensors with different bandwidths could function in complementary ways during CMP process monitoring.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2004.04a
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• pp.188-191
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• 2004

야간에 비디오카메라로 촬영시 열악한 주위 환경과 영상 전송에 기인하여 다양한 잡음에 의하여 왜곡되거나 흐린 저대비(low contrast)영상을 가질 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 획득한 저대비 영상을 대비 향상시켜주는 기법을 제안한다. 동영상 압축표준인 MPEG-2는 인간의 시각 특성상 색차(chrominance)신호보다 밝기(luminance)신호에 더 민감하기 때문에 밝기신호와 색차 신호를 분리하여 압축한다. 밝기신호만을 추출한 후 K-means 알고리듬을 사용하여 교차점을 자동으로 선정하는 방법을 사용하는데, 이 최적의 교차점을 선정하는 과정은 획득한 영상을 물체와 배경으로 분리하는 두 개의 클래스 문제로 보고 K-means 알고리듬을 적용하였고 구한 교차점을 사용하여 영상을 양분하여 히스토그램 평활화 방법을 적용하였다 븐 논문에서는 퍼지성 지수(index of fuzziness)를 사용하여 향상의 정도를 측정하였다. 제안된 기법을 저대비 영상에 적용하였으며 그 결과를 히스토그램 평활화 기법의 결과와 비교하였다.