• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2001.11b
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• pp.1182-1188
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• 2001

The objective of this paper is to show the effectiveness of the wavelet transform by means of its capability to estimate the Lipschitz exponent. In particular, we show that the magnitude of the Lipschitz exponent can be used as a useful tool estimating the damage extent. An effective method based on the Lipschitz exponent is proposed and we present the results investigated both numerically and experimentally. The continuous wavelet transform by a Mexican hat wavelet having two vanishing moments is utilized for the estimation of the Lipschitz exponent.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.39-48
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• 2005

This paper proposes a novel approach to recognize nine kinds of motion for a multifunction myoelectric hand, acquiring four channel EMG signals from electrodes placed on the forearm. To analyze EMG with properties of nonstationary signal, time-frequency features are extracted by wavelet packet transform. For dimensionality reduction and nonlinear mapping of the features, we also propose a feature projection composed of PCA and SOFM. The dimensionality reduction by PCA simplifies the structure of the classifier, and reduces processing time for the pattern recognition. The nonlinear mapping by SOFM transforms the PCA-reduced features to a new feature space with high class separability. Finally a multilayer neural network is employed as the pattern classifier. From experimental results, we show that the proposed method enhances the recognition accuracy, and makes it possible to implement a real-time pattern recognition.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.59-68
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• 2002

In this paper, we design the two-dimensional Discrete Wavelet Transform (2D DWT) filter that is widely used in various applications such as image compression because it has no blocking effects and relatively high compression rate. The filter that we used here is two-channel four-taps QMF(Quadrature Mirror Filter) Lattice filter with PR (Perfect Reconstruction) property. The proposed DWT architecture, with two consecutive inputs shows an efficient performance with a minimum of such hardware resources as multipliers, adders, and registers due to a simple scheduling. The proposed architecture was verified by the RTL simulation, and utilizes the hardware 100%. Our architecture shows a relatively high performance with a minimum hardware when compared with other approaches. An efficient memory mapping and address generation techniques are introduced and the fixed-point arithmetic analysis for minimizing the PSNR degradation due to quantization is discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.364.1-364
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• 2002

This work is concerned with the damage size estimation by using propagating bonging wave signals in a beam. To this end, we apply the continuous wavelet transforms to the incident waves and the reflected waves from a small damage in a long cylindrical beam. In particular, we propose to use the relative magnitudes of the two kinds of waves along the ridges in the wavelet transformed time-frequency planes. (omitted)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.724-730
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• 2000

Although there have been many investigations employing the continuous wavelet transform for the analysis of dispersive waves, they seem to lack theoretical justifications for the effectiveness of the continuous wavelet transform over other time-frequency analysis tools such as the short-time Fourier transform. The goal of this paper is to answer this question by investigating theoretically the performance of the continuous wavelet transform and the short-time Fourier transform in tracing rapidly time-varying flexural waves. As a specific example, the performance of the two transforms is compared in a problem dealing with flexural waves generated by an impact in a solid circular cylinder.

• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.51 no.4
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• pp.509-523
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• 2016

The soil prediction can provide quantitative soil information for sustainable mountainous ecosystem management. Visible near infrared spectroscopy, one of soil prediction methods, has been applied to predict several soil properties with effective costs, rapid and nondesctructive analysis, and satisfactory accuracy. Spectral preprocessing is a essential procedure to correct noisy spectra for visible near infrared spectroscopy. However, there are no attempts to evaluate various spectral preprocessing methods. We tested 5 different pretreatments, namely continuum removal, Savitzky-Golay filter, discrete wavelet transform, 1st derivative, and 2nd derivative to predict soil carbon(C) and nitrogen(N). Partial least squares regression was used for the prediction method. The total of 153 soil samples was split into 122 samples for calibration and 31 samples for validation. In the all range, absorption was increased with increasing C contents. Specifically, the visible region (650nm and 700nm) showed high values of the correlation coefficient with soil C and N contents. For spectral preprocessing methods, continuum removal had the highest prediction accuracy(Root Mean Square Error) for C(9.53mg/g) and N(0.79mg/g). Therefore, continuum removal was selected as the best preprocessing method. Additionally, there were no distinct differences between Savitzky-Golay filter and discrete wavelet transform for visual assessment and the methods showed similar validation results. According to the results, we also recommended Savitzky-Golay filter that is a simple pre-treatment with continuum removal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.311-316
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• 2004

For the location estimation in the conventional LPMS(Loose Parts Monitoring System), it is popular to employ a group delay among the acoustic sensors installed within a 3 ft range from the impact source. However, there exists inherent error in determining the arrival time differences of the generated wave group among the neighboring sensors. To overcome this problem in this study, the two dimensional approach has been proposed and applied to effectively estimate the arrival time differences by using a continuous wavelet transform which is one of the linear time-frequency analysis methods. The experiment has been performed to both the plate model and the real steam generator in a nuclear power plant. It is expected that the reliability of the location estimation could be enhanced when the proposed time-frequency method is introduced into the LPMS system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.141-144
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• 2006

본 논문은 적응형 육각 탐색에 기반한 고속 블록 정합 알고리즘의 성능 개선에 관한 것으로, 이전 프레임의 움직임 활동도를 산출한 후, 웨이블렛 변환의 다단계 저주파 부영상들로 구성된 피라미드 계층 구조상에서 이 움직임 활동도에 따라 초기 움직임 탐색 계층을 적응적으로 선택하면서 적응형 육각 탐색에 기반한 계층적 블록 정합을 수행함으로써 움직임 벡터 추정의 고속화를 실현함과 동시에 국부 최소화를 효과적으로 경감시킬 수 있는 블록 정합 알고리즘을 제안함에 그 목적이 있다. 우선, 초기 연속된 두 프레임에 대해 적응형 육각 탐색을 이용하여 움직임 벡터를 추정한 후 움직임 활동도를 산출한다. 이후, 움직임 활동도가 낮은 경우, 다음 프레임의 움직임 벡터를 추정 시 최하위 계층에서 적응형 육각 탐색을 수행하고, 움직임 활용도가 높은 경우 피라미드 계층 구조상의 최상위 계층에서부터 상하 계층들 간에 움직임 탐색 영역을 중복시키면서 움직임 벡터를 추정한다. 제안된 방법의 타당성과 보편성을 검증하기 위해 서로 다른 움직임 특성을 갖는 복수의 영상 시퀀스들을 대상으로 움직임 보상 화질과 수렴시간 측면에서 그 성능을 평가 분석하였다. 제안된 방법에 따르면, 고속 움직임 탐색이 가능한 적응형 육각 탐색의 장점을 유지하면서도 움직임 활동도가 높은 영상에서 야기되는 국부최소문제를 효과적으로 억제시키고 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.34 no.11
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• pp.1555-1565
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• 2010

This paper presents a new method for indentifying the location of impact source in a buried duct. In a gas pipeline, the problem of leakage occurs due to the mechanical load exerted by construction equipment. Such leakage can cause catastrophic disasters in gas supply industries. Generally, the cross-correlation method has been used for indentifying the location of impact source in a pipeline. Since this method involves the use of the dispersive acoustic wave, it derives an amount of error in process of estimating the time delay between acoustic sensors. The object of this paper is to estimate the time delay in the arrival of the direct wave by using the wavelet transform instead of the dispersive wave. The wavelet transform based method gives more accurate estimates of the impact location than the cross-correlation method does. This method is successfully used to identify the location of impact force in an actual buried gas duct.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.2271-2280
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• 1999

In this paper, a variable motion estimation scheme based on HBMA(Hierarchical Block Matching Algorithm) to improve the performance and to reduce heavy computational and transmission load, is presented. The proposed algorithm is composed of four steps. First, block activity for each block is defined using the edge information of differential image between two sequential images, and then average block activity of the present image is found by taking the mean of block activity. Secondly, camera pan compensation is carried out, according to the average activity of the image, in the hierarchical pyramid structure constructed by wavelet transform. Next, the LUT classifying each block into one among Moving, No Moving, Semi-Moving Block according to the block activity compensated camera pan is obtained. Finally, as varying the block size and adaptively selecting the initial search layer and the search range referring to LUT, the proposed variable HBMA can effectively carries out fast motion estimation in the hierarchical pyramid structure. The cost function needed above-mentioned each step is only the block activity defined by the edge information of the differential image in the sequential images.