• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.18 no.12
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• pp.2982-2988
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• 2014

The edge detection is a pre-processing of such as image segmentation, image recognition, etc, and many related studies are being conducted both in domestic and abroad. Representative edge detection methods are Sobel, Prewitt, Laplacian, Roberts and Canny edge detectors. Such existing methods are possible for superb detections of edges if edges are detected from videos without noises. However, for video degraded by the salt-and-pepper noise, the edge detection characteristic is shown to be insufficient due to the noise influence. Therefore, in this study, the area is separated as the top, down, left and right from the mask's center pixel first to acquire a superb edge detection characteristic from the video damaged by the salt-and-pepper noise. And the algorithm that detects the final edge by applying the directional mask on the assumed factor of mask that is obtained according to the result of determination for the noise status of representative pixel value of each area.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.289-297
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• 2003

The performance of a bimodal system is affected by the accuracy of the endpoint detection from the input signal as well as the performance of the speech recognition or lipreading system. In this paper, we propose the endpoint detection method which detects the endpoints from the audio and video signal respectively and utilizes the signal to-noise ratio (SNR) estimated from the input audio signal to select the reliable endpoints to the acoustic noise. In other words, the endpoints are detected from the audio signal under the high SNR and from the video signal under the low SNR. Experimental results show that the bimodal system using the proposed endpoint detector achieves satisfactory recognition rates, especially when the acoustic environment is quite noisy.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.3
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• pp.262-269
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• 2023

In this paper, we propose a Linear Prediction (LP) analysis-based feature for detecting Snapping Shrimp (SS) Noise (SSN) in underwater acoustic data. SS is a species that creates high amplitude signals in shallow, warm waters, and its frequent and loud sound is a major source of noise. The proposed feature takes advantage of the characteristic of SSN, which is sudden and rapidly disappearing, by using LP analysis to detect the exact noise interval and reduce the effects of SSN. The error between the predicted and measured value is large and results in effective SSN detection. To further improve performance, a constant false alarm rate detector is incorporated into the proposed feature. Our evaluation shows that the proposed methods outperform the state-of-the-art MultiLayer-Wavelet Packet Decomposition (ML-WPD) in terms of receiver operating characteristic curve and Area Under the Curve (AUC), with the LP analysis-based feature achieving a higher AUC by 0.12 on average and lower computational complexity.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1998.10c
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• pp.464-466
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• 1998

경계선 검출은 시각 인식 또는 기계 시각 인식의 과정에서 제일 먼저 수행되는 전처리 단계이다. 경계선 검출은 컴퓨터 시각 인식성능에 매우 중대한 요인으로 작용한다. 최근 MPEG-4에서 Model Based Coding 기법이 채택되면서, 경계선 검출 및 이를 이용한 컴퓨터 시각 인식의 중요성은 날로 커지고 있다. 한편, 잡음이 있는 영상의 경계선 검출 방법으로 여러 가지가 제시되었는데, 특히 잡음의 종류가 Additive White Gaussian인 경우에는 Canny Edge Detector가, Impulse인 경우에는 Dual Stack Filter를 적용한 방법이 각각 높은 성능으로 인정을 받고 있다. 그러나 Canny Edge Detector의 경우, Canny는 이론적인 Optimal Filter를 구하는 데에 성공하였지만 실제 적용에는, 이 Optimal Filter의 근사로써 Gauss함수의 1계 도함수를 사용하였다. 본 연구에서는 Gauss함수보다는 상당히 Optimal Filter와 가까운 Filter를 얻기 위하여 웨이블릿 변환을 사용한 Liao등의 방법과, 각기 다른 Scale에서의 웨이블릿 변환들이 가지는 잡음과의 관계를 고려한 새로운 경계선 검출방법을 개발하였다. 실험결과, 본 연구에서의 방법은 기존에 사용되던 Canny Edge Detector나 Stochastic Operator보다 뛰어난 성능을 보여주었다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.599-604
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• 2002

In this paper, a digital potentiometer is used as a load resistor of a wireless optical differential detector with a polarizer, to improve the noise reduction capability. In this structure, the noise voltages of the two photodiodes are made equal by controlling a digital potentiometer and the optical noise is cancelled out. With a digital potentiometer, the signal to noise ratio is enhanced by about 23 dB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2008.06c
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• pp.498-502
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 스케치 보정을 위한 계층적 지식 기반 잡음 제거 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 잡음 제거 방법은 방향 정보, 후보 영역간의 내적, 갈고리 잡음영역 검출이라는 세 개의 계층적 휴리스틱(heuristic) 방법으로 구성된다. 첫 번째 단계에서 방향정보를 이용하여 특징점 후보들이 검출되고, 두 번째 단계에서는 각 후보들 사이의 벡터 간 내적을 이용하여 부적절한 후보들이 제거되며, 세 번째 단계에서는 갈고리모양의 잡음영역을 검출하여 근거리에 모여있는 특징점들을 병합한다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 방법이 잡음에 민감한 실제 응용 환경에 적합하며 효율적임을 보였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.4
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• pp.207-212
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• 2015

We propose a noise estimation method using edge detection in moving pictures. Edge detection is to exclude structures and details which have an effect on the noise estimation. To detect edge, we use Sobel and morphological closing operators which are robust to details of images. The proposed noise estimation method is more efficiently applied to noise estimation in various types of moving images and has better results than those of existing noise estimation methods. Also, proposed algorithm can be efficiently applied to image and video applications.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.10 no.1
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• pp.54-62
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• 1999

In this paper, we investigated the signal-to-noise ratio improvement in a differential detector, which is a function of the optical noise coupling ratio and the differential gain ratio. A differential detector consists of two photodiodes and a differential amplifier. The differential detector reduced the noise component and improved the signal-to-noise ratio by about 20 dB when the differential gain ratio equals to the optical noise coupling ratio. The differential detector is very effective in removing the environmental optical noise or interference from an adjacent optical channel. This method is also effective when the noise wavelength is similar to the signal.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.519-521
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• 2015

세라믹 소재 영상에서 결함 영역이 다른 영역보다 명암도가 밝게 나타나는 정보를 이용하여 ROI 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 ROI 영역에서 Blurring 기법을 적용하여 미세 잡음을 제거한다. 미세 잡음이 제거된 ROI 영역에서 Median Filter기법을 적용하여 임펄스 잡음을 제거한다. 임펄스 잡음이 제거된 영역에서 Prewit Mask을 적용하여 수평과 수직 에지를 검출하고 검출된 에지에 윤곽선 추적 기법을 적용하여 결함 영역의 경계를 보정한다. 보정된 영상에서 Blob Labeling 기법을 적용하여 최종적으로 결함 영역을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 8mm와 10mm 세라믹 소재 영상을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 기존의 결함 검출 방법보다 제안된 검출 방법의 검출 성능이 개선된 것을 확인하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.447-453
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• 2009

This paper introduces the method for detect voices and exact end point at low SNR by maximizing voice energy. Conventional VAD (Voice Activity Detection) algorithm estimates noise level so it tends to detect the end point inaccurately. Moreover, because it uses relatively long analysis range for reflecting temporal change of noise, computing load too high for application. In this paper, the SEM-VAD (Speech Energy Maximization-Voice Activity Detection) method which uses psycho-acoustical bark scale filter banks to maximize voice energy within frames is introduced. Stable threshold values are obtained at various noise environments (SNR 15 dB, 10 dB, 5 dB, 0 dB). At the test for voice detection in car noisy environment, PHR (Pause Hit Rate) was 100%accurate at every noise environment, and FAR (False Alarm Rate) shows 0% at SNR15 dB and 10 dB, 5.6% at SNR5 dB and 9.5% at SNR0 dB.