• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.29-36
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• 2009

The analysis of Radar signal, telecommunication, bioengineering, seismic, and acoustic signal is consist of the Non-stationary signal which has non-linear phase variation. Non-stationary signal means that the physical properties of signal depend on time variation and the instantaneous frequency represents physical property of these type of signal. Thus estimation of the instantaneous frequency of non-stationary signal is important subject in signal processing. In this work, the instantaneous frequency analysis method utilizing continuous wavelets transform is represented and compared with Hilbert Transform method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.48-59
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• 2000

Eigendecomposition based direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation algorithm such as MUSIC(multiple signal classification) is known to perform well and provide high resolution in white noise environment. However, its performance degrades severely when the noise process is not white. In this paper we consider the DOA estimation problem in a colored noise environment as a problem of extracting periodic signals from noise, and we take the problem to the wavelet domain. Covariance matrix of multiscale components which are obtained by taking wavelet decomposition on the noise has a special structure which can be approximated with a banded sparse matrix. Compared with noise the correlation between multiscale components of narrowband signal decays slowly, hence the covariance matrix does not have a banded structure. Based on this fact we propose a DOA estimation algorithm that transforms the covariance matrix into wavelet domain and removes noise components located in specific bands. Simulations have been carried out to analyze the proposed algorithm in colored noise processes with various correlation properties.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.3 s.106
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• pp.309-314
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• 2006

Recently, multimedia DBMS is appeared to be the core technology of the information society to store, manage and retrieve multimedia data efficiently. In this paper, we propose a new method for content based-retrieval system using wavelet transform, energy value to extract automatically feature vector from image data, and suggest an effective retrieval technique through this method. Wavelet transform is widely used in image compression and digital signal analysis, and its coefficient values reflect image feature very well. The correlation in wavelet domain between query image data and the stored data in database is used to calculate similarity. In order to assess the image retrieval performance, a set of hundreds images are run. The method using standard derivation and mean value used for feature vector extraction are compared with that of our method based on energy value. For the simulation results, our energy value method was more effective than the one using standard derivation and mean value.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.10-10
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• 2003

This paper extracts the edge of main components of face with Gabor wavelets transformation in facial expression images. FCM(Fuzzy C-Means) clustering algorithm then extracts the representative feature points of low dimensionality from the edge extracted in neutral face. The feature-points of the neutral face is used as a template to extract the feature-points of facial expression images. To match point to Point feature points on an expression face against each feature point on a neutral face, it consists of two steps using a dynamic linking model, which are called the coarse mapping and the fine mapping. This paper presents an automatic extraction of feature-points by dynamic linking model based on Gabor wavelets and fuzzy C-means(FCM) algorithm. The result of this study was applied to extract features automatically in facial expression recognition based on dimension[1].

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.144-154
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• 1999

The binomial sequences are family of orthogonal sequences that can be generated with remarkable simplicity-no multiplications are necessary. This paper introduces a class of non-recursive multidimensional filters for frequency-selective image processing without multiplication operations. The magnitude responses are narrow-band. approximately gaussian-shaped with center frequencies which can be positioned to yield low-pass. band-pass. or high-pass filtering. Algorithms for the efficient implementation of these filters in software or in hardware are described. Also. we show that the binomial QMFs are the maximally flat magnitude square Perfect Reconstruction paraunitary filters with good compression capability and these are shown to be wavelet filters as well. In wavelet transform the original image is decomposed at different scales using a pyramidal algorithm architecture. The decomposition is along the vertical and horizontal direction and maintains constant the number of pixels required to describe the images. An efficient perfect reconstruction binomial QMF-Wavelet signal decomposition structure is proposed. The technique provides a set of filter solutions with very good amplitude responses and band split. The proposed binomial QMF-filter structure is efficient, simple to implement on VLSl. and suitable for multi-resolution signal decomposition and coding applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.11C
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• pp.1098-1110
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose a homomorphic wavelet-based MMSE filter with edge detection to restore images degraded by speckle noise. In the proposed method, a noisy image is first transformed into logarithmic domain. Each pixel in the transformed image is then classified into flat and edge regions by applying DIP operator to the image restored by homomorphic directional MMSE filter. Each pixel in flat region is restored by homomorphic wavelet-based MMSE filter. Each pixel in edge region is restored by the weighted sum of the output of homomorphic wavelet-based MMSE filtering and that of homomorphic directional MMSE filtering. The restored image in spatial domain is finally obtained by applying the exponential function to the restored image in logarithmic domain. Experimental results show that the restored images by the proposed method have ISNR improvement of 3.3-4.0 ㏈ and ${\beta}$, a measurement parameter on edge preservation, improvement of 0.0103-0.0126 and superior subjective image quality over those by conventional methods.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.202-209
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• 2005

The rapid development of digital media and communication network urgently brings about the need of data certification technology to protect IPR (Intellectual property right). This paper proposed a new watermarking method for embedding owner's audio signal. Because this method uses an audio signal as a watermark to be embedded, it is very useful to claim the ownership aurally. And it has the advantage of restoring audio signal modified and especially removed by image removing attacks by applying our LBX(Linear Bit-expansion) interleaving. Three basic stages of our watermarking include: 1) Encode . analogue owner's audio signal by PCM and create new digital audio watermark, 2) Interleave an audio watermark by our LBX; and 3) Embed the interleaved audio watermark in the low frequency band on DTn (Discrete Haar Wavelet Transform) of image. The experimental results prove that this method is resistant to lossy JPEG compression as standard image compression and especially to cropping and rotation which remove a part of Image.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.4
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• pp.45-54
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 변환 대역에서 영역분할 기법을 적용하여 얻어진 각 영역을 중요 영역과 비 중요 영역으로 분류하고 각각의 영역을 그의 특성에 적합한 방식으로 부호화 하는 기법을 제안하였다. 중요 영역은 전체 영역가운데 매우 작은 부분을 차지하지만 영상 복원에 매우 큰 영향을 주기 때문에 이러한 영역 부호화를 위해 기존의 EZW 방식보다 성능이 우수하며 단일계수 전송에 성능이 뛰어난 SPIHT 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 그러나 비 중요영역은 영상복원에 미치는 영향이 적을 뿐만 아니라, 매우 큰 동질 영역을 형성하기 때문에 텍스춰 모델링을 이용할 경우 높은 압축률을 얻을 수 있다. 또한 이 방식을 이용할 경우 인위적인 에러가 거의 없기 때문에 이용할 경우 높은 압축률을 얻을 수 있다. 또한 이 방식을 이용할 경우 인위적인 에러가 거의 없기 때문에 시각적으로도 좋은 영상을 복원 할 수 있다. 실험결과 제안한 시스템은 다양한 영상에 대하여 적응성이 있음을 보였고 특히 0.2bpp 이하의 매우 낮은 비트 율에서도 EZW 와 같은 기존의 웨이브렛 기반 부호화기보다 좋은 성능을 나타내었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 1998.06a
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• pp.77-80
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• 1998

영상 데이터는 방대하므로 한정된 대역폭을 통하여 영상을 전송하기 위해서는 압축을 필요로 한다. 그러나 압축으로 전송 비트율은 낮아지지만 고압축률에서는 여러 가지 화질 열화가 발생한다. 화질 열화에는 이산 여현 변환을 수행하는 압축 부호화 알고리듬에서 나타나는 블록킹 현상 또는 모기잡음이 있고 웨이브렛 기반 압축 영상에서는 에지 부근에 나타나는 링잉 현상이 있다. 이와 같은 화질 열화들은 후처리를 통해 제거되지만, 많은 처리 시간이 소요되지 않도록 해야 한다. 본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 기반 영상 압축에서 링잉 현상을 효율적으로 제거하는 후처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법에 대한 모의실험 결과 기존의 방법과 비교하여 처리 속도를 빠르게 하면서 유사한 주관적, 객관적 화질을 얻었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.18 no.6
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• pp.57-64
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• 1999

In this paper, we investigated the robust endpoint detection algorithm in noisy environment. A new feature parameter based on a discrete wavelet transform is proposed for word boundary detection of isolated utterances. The sum of standard deviation of wavelet coefficients in the third coarse and weighted first detailed scale is defined as a new feature parameter for endpoint detection. We then developed a new and robust endpoint detection algorithm using the feature found in the wavelet domain. For the performance evaluation, we evaluated the detection accuracy and the average recognition error rate due to endpoint detection in an HMM-based recognition system across several signal-to-noise ratios and noise conditions.