• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.219-226
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• 2008

In this study, we have conducted characterization of imaging performance for a flat panel digital X-ray detector using amorphous Selenium and a-Si TFT which was developed by the authors. The procedures for characterization were in concordance with internationally recommended standards such as IEC (international electrotechnical commission). The measures used for imaging performance characterization include response characteristic, modulation transfer function (MTF), detective quantum efficiency (DQE), noise power spectrum (NPS), and quantum limited performance. The measured DQEs at lowest and highest spatial frequencies were 40% and 25% respectively, which was superior to that of commercial products by overseas vendor. The MTF values were significantly superior to that of CR and indirect type DRs. The quantum limited performance showed the detector was limited by quantum noise at the entrance exposure level below 0.023 mR, which is sufficiently low for general X-ray examination.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.229-234
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• 2018

Texture is one of the most useful features in classifying and segmenting images. The LBP-based approach previously presented in the literature has been successful in many applications. However, it's theoretical foundation is based only on the difference of pixel values, and consequently it has a number of drawbacks like it performs poorly for the images corrupted with noise, and especially it cannot be used as a multiscale texture descriptor due to the exploding increase of feature vector dimension with increase of the number of neighbor pixels. In this paper, we present a method to address these drawbacks of LBP-based approach. More specifically, our approach quantizes the range of pixels values and construct a 3D histogram which captures the correlative information of pixels. This histogram is used as a texture feature. Several tests with texture images show that the proposed method outperforms the LBP-based approach in the problem of texture classification.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.335-340
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• 2018

Commercialized speech recognition systems that have an accuracy recognition rates are used a learning model from a type of speaker dependent isolated data. However, it has a problem that shows a decrease in the speech recognition performance according to the quantity of data in noise environments. In this paper, we proposed the vector quantization based speech recognition performance improvement using maximum log likelihood in Gaussian distribution. The proposed method is the best learning model configuration method for increasing the accuracy of speech recognition for similar speech using the vector quantization and Maximum Log Likelihood with speech characteristic extraction method. It is used a method of extracting a speech feature based on the hidden markov model. It can improve the accuracy of inaccurate speech model for speech models been produced at the existing system with the use of the proposed system may constitute a robust model for speech recognition. The proposed method shows the improved recognition accuracy in a speech recognition system.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.261-273
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• 2010

For the use of Indirect-conversion CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) detectors for digital x-ray radiography and their better designs, we have theoretically evaluated the spatial-frequency-dependent detective quantum efficiency (DQE) using the cascaded linear-systems transfer theory. In order to validate the developed model, the DQE was experimentally determined by the measured modulation-transfer function (MTF) and noise-power spectrum, and the estimated incident x-ray fluence under the mammography beam quality of W/Al. From the comparison between the theoretical and experimental DQEs, the overall tendencies were well agreed. Based on the developed model, we have investigated the DQEs values with respect to various design parameters of the CMOS x-ray detector such as phosphor quantum efficiency, Swank noise, photodiode quantum efficiency and the MTF of various scintillator screens. This theoretical approach is very useful tool for the understanding of the developed imaging systems as well as helpful for the better design or optimization for new development.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.1
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• pp.105-112
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• 2001

In this paper, we present the advanced QCELP codebook search improving the qualification of speech, which can make QCELP vocoder used in noise robust system. While conventional QCELP usually searches stochastic codebook once, we can find that two times search is the most suitable for improving the quality of speech after we did 2-5 times search. Consequently, the advanced QCELP vocoder represents excitation signal in detail using two times precise quantization and so improve the qualification of speech. In our experiment, we use the speeches collected from circumstance (such as lecture room, house, street, laboratory etc.) without regarding noise as input dat and measure the speech Qualification using SNR, segSNR. As the result of the experiment, we find that the advanced QCELP makes SNR and segSNR improved by 38.35% and 65.51% respectively compared with conventional QCELP.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.11C
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• pp.932-939
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• 2008

Recently lattice-reduction (LR) has been used in signal detection for multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The conventional LR aided detection schemes are combinations of LR and signal detection methods such as zero-forcing (ZF) and minimum mean square error (MMSE) detection. In this paper, we propose the Lattice-Reduction-aided scheme based on extended noise variance matrix to search good candidate symbol set in quantization step. Then this scheme estimates transmitted symbol with Semidefinite Relaxation by candidate symbol set. Simulation results in a random MIMO system show that the proposed scheme exhibits improved performance and a slight increase in complexity.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.677-682
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• 2015

In this paper, we investigated the effect of light on the performance of the receiver system noise and external noise added from the ever-present influence in general optical system. And calculated the reception sensitivity of the receiver at the time of off-keying transmission - from the optical transmission system in consideration of the case that the photo detector has a quantum yield of less than one-one. Not less than 50 it was confirmed that it is possible to configure the low power system is calculated and compared with the case where less than 300 the receiver sensitivity of the optical system to maintain the standard error probability. However, even if these values were considered, and the preamplifier in the receiver, considering a case of using a low-output light source, so that a heavy burden in the value less than the actual system installation, using the light source having less than the output, as shown in Figure 3, the results that were obtained also may be used.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.10
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• pp.72-82
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• 1999

The error diffusion algorithm is excellent for reproducing continuous gray-scale images to bianry images and also has good edge characteristics. However, it is well known that artifacts with objectionable patterns can occur in the halftoned images. On the other hand, a halftone algorithm using blue noise mask has been proposed. where the halftoning is achieved by a pixelwise comparison of gray-scale image with an array, the blue noise mask. It doesn't have pattern artifacts, but the halftoned image looks unclear because the quantization errors are not feedbacked compared to the error diffusion. In this paper, edge enhanced error diffusion which dithers the threshold with the blue noise mask is proposed. We show that the proposed algorithm can produce unstructured and edge enhanced halftone images. This algorithm is analyzed by the concept of an equivalent input image. The performace of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of the conventional halftoning by measuring the radially averaged power spectrum and edge correlation.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2004.07c
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• pp.1939-1941
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• 2004

밀도는 플라즈마의 기본적인 물리적 성질을 이해하는데 중요한 인자로 인식되고 있으며 많은 방법들이 밀도분포의 측정에 이용되었다. 이 중 마이크로파 진단법의 하나인 레플렉토메터리는 그 고유한 특성 때문에 현재 밀도분포측정법으로써 폭넓게 활용되고 있다. 그러나 레플렉토메터리 신호에 대한 처리 및 분석 방법은 다양하여 주어진 플라즈마에 가장 절적한 방법을 선택하는 것은 쉽지 않다. 본 논문에서는 레플렉토메터리의 신호로부터 밀도분포를 정확히 재구성하는 알고리즘을 개발하기 위한 기초 단계로써 모의된 레플렉토메터리 선호에 기존의 신호해석법들 중 우수한 해석법으로 알려진 CDM(complex demodulation method)과 웨이브레트(wavelet) 분석법을 적용하여 밀도분포재구성에 대한 양자의 성능을 비교한다. 그리고 플라즈마의 특성에 기초하여 모의된 신호에 실제 상황에서 존재할 수 있는 잡음신호를 첨가하여 이것이 밀도분포 재구성에 미치는 효과를 조사한다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.72-73
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 안테나 당 전력제한 조건 하의 다중 입출력 빔포밍 시스템을 위한 위상 추적 코드북을 제안한다. 위상 추적 빔포밍 방식은 인접한 프레임 정보의 차이만을 활용한다는 점에서 기존의 위상 조정 방식과 차별화 되며, 궤환 정보량의 감소 이득을 얻을 수 있다. 이러한 위상 추적 코드북 구성을 위하여 위상 조정 코드북의 목적함수를 새롭게 변형하여 Lloyd-Max 알고리듬에 적용한다. 성능평가를 위하여 위상 조정 코드북과의 신호 대 잡음비의 비교 수행하며, 이를 이용하여 제안하는 코드북의 효율성을 입증한다.