• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.10
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• pp.217-228
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• 2013

In this paper, the brain function in relation with human's visual attention was investigated by means of coherence and bicoherence methods. Throughout experimentation with attentional visual stimulus ERP (Event Related Potential) data and synthesized simulated data with different combinations of parameters, it is demonstrated that bicoherence and coherence can be useful to reveal the phase synchronies between different frequency bands at fixed scalp location, and between different scalp locations at fixed frequency band, respectively. Both methods are also affected by time interval from the onset, and the level of white noise added. The phase coupled relationships among ${\Theta}$, ${\delta}$, and ${\alpha}$ bands, and between frontal and central lobes were observed for attentional tasks, while those were little observable for inattentional tasks, which can show brain's functional spatio-spectral differences associated with human's attention.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.57-68
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• 1993

In this paper, we describe a multiprocessor system using the HiPi bus with pended protocol and multiple cache memories, and evalute the performance of the multiprocessor system in terms of processor utilization for various cache coherence protocols. The HiPi bus is delveloped as the shared bus of TICOM II which is a main computer system to establish a nation-wide computing network in ETRI. The HiPi bus has high data transfer rate, but it doesn't allow cache-to-cache transfer. In order to evaluate the effect of cache-to-cache transfer upon the performance of system and to choose a best-performed protocol for HiPi bus, we simulate as follows: First, we analyze the performance of multiprocessor system with HiPi bus in terms of processor utilizatIOn through simulation. Each of cache coherence protocol is described by state transition diagram, and then the probability of each state is calculated by Markov steady state. The calculated probability of each state is used as input parameters of simulation, and modeling and simulation are implemented and performed by using SLAM II graphic symbols and language. Second, we propose the HiPi bus which supports cache-to-cache transfer, and analyze the performance of multiprocessor system with proposed HiPi bus in terms of processor utilization through simulation. Considered cache coherence protocols for the simulation are Write-through, Write-once, Berkely, Synapse, Illinois, Firefly, and Dragon.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 2016

The brain and muscles both of which are composed of top-down structure occur the connectivity with the change of Electroencephalogram(EEG) and Electromyogram(EMG). In this paper, we studied the difference of functional connectivity between brain and muscles that by applying coherence method to EEG and EMG signals when users exercised upper limb with and without the movement intention. The changes in the EEG and EMG signals were inspected using coherence method. During the upper limb exercise, the mu (8~14 Hz) and beta (15~30 Hz) rhythms of the EEG signal at the motor cortex area are activated. And then the beta and piper (30~60 Hz) rhythms of the EMG signal are activated as well. The result of coherence analysis between EEG and EMG showed the coefficient of active exercise including movement intention is significantly higher than passive exercise. The coherence relations between cognitive response and muscle movement could interpret that the connectivity between the brain and muscle appear during active exercise with movement intention. The feature of coherence between brain and muscles by the status of movement intention will be useful in designing the rehabilitation system requiring feedback depending on the users' movement intention status.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.41 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2017

The estimation of non-linear ship motion is one of the most important issues in recent studies of ship stability. In this paper, bispectral analysis and bicoherence analysis were introduced in order to analyze the non-linear ship motion. In addition to the previously observed non-linear pitching motion in following seas, this study observed the non-linear phase coupling of pitching motion in following & quartering seas, and starboard beam seas. By comparing phase coupling between each frequency quantitatively via the bicoherence analysis, it was confirmed that non-linear phase coupling was much stronger in frequency regions other than the peak frequencies of a power spectrum. Furthermore, it was found out that the results of bicoherence calculation were analagous to each other, although the different normalization methods were applied.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.48 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2011

In this paper, a water tank experiment using Binary Frequency Shift Keying (BFSK) method for text transmission performance by water surface fluctuation is conducted. Water surface fluctuation and delay spread which affect the channel coherence bandwidth is a limiting factor in underwater acoustic communication. The amplitude fluctuation and delay spread the smooth surface and fluctuation surface, were identified. The effective delay spread of both cases are 5ms, 4ms corresponding to the coherence bandwidth of 200Hz, 250Hz, respectively. The bit error rate of BFSK modulated text transmission is about $10^{-4}$ in less than 200bps in smooth surface but less than 250bps in fluctuation surface. Therefore, this experiment shows that the water surface fluctuation is important factor determining the performance of the underwater acoustic transmission.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.4A
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• pp.310-315
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• 2002

The Bark Coherence Function (BCF) defies a coherence function within perceptual domain as a new cognition module, robust to linear distortions due to the analog interface of digital mobile system. Our previous experiments have shown the superiority of BCF over current measures. In this paper, a new BCF suitable for VoIP is developed. The unproved BCF is based on the wavelet series expansion that provides good frequency resolution while keeping good time locality. The proposed Wavelet based Bark Coherence function (WBCF) is robust to variable delay often observed in packet-based telephony such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). We also show that the refinement of time synchronization after signal decomposition can improve the performance of the WBCF. The regression analysis was performed with VoIP speech data. The correlation coefficients and the standard error of estimates computed using the WBCF showed noticeable improvement over the Perceptual Speech Quality Measure (PSQM) that is recommended by ITU-T.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.200-213
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• 2004

The realization of partially coherent Gaussian Schell-model beams with isotropic cross section and anisotropic degree of coherence function is investigated theoretically. An optical system is devised to transform diffused light generated by passing the Gaussian beam of the He-Ne laser thorough a rotating holographic diffuser to the partially coherent Gaussian Schell-model beam with isotropic cross section and anisotropic degree of coherence function. Analytic design equations are formulated and design examples are presented.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.172-177
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• 2006

Various research and development on Synthetic Aperture Sonar technique is under way to enhance bearing resolution of a SONAR system. In this paper, we estimated perturbed array shapes, and compensated distortion by using estimated away shapes and synthesized arrays in aperture domain such as an ETAM technique. As experimental data, we used the one obtained from towed array in neighboring waters of the Korean peninsula. Through simulation on data where tow-ship speed is maintained at a constant level, we confirmed that synthesis effect of increasing SNR and narrowed beam width of main lobe was consistently demonstrated for about 1 minute when coherence of target signal was maintained. Also, we showed that the synthesis effect with respect to time was constantly maintained.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.4B
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• pp.437-446
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• 2001

음질 평가에는 주관적 음질 평가법과 객관적 음질 평가법이 있는데, 주관적 음질 평가법은 사람이 직접 듣고 평가하므로 실제 체감 음질을 나타낸다. 그러나 많은 사람들에 의하여 직접 평가되므로 비용과 시간이 많이 소모되는 단점이 있다. 객관적 음질 평가법은 수학적인 계산에 의하여 원음과 왜곡음의 유사성을 비교하는 것으로 빠르고 비용이 적게 되나 실제 체감 음질과는 거리과 있다. 본 논문에서는 객관적 음질 평가 척도로 BCF(Bark Coherence Function)을 제안한다. BCF는 심리 음향 영역에서 코히어런스 함수를 정의한 것으로 기존의 객관적 음질 평가법에 비하여 주관적 음질과 상관관계가 높고 계산량이 적다. CDMA 이동 전화 시스템의 음성 데이터와 회기분석 결과, BCF가 ITU-T 표준안의 PSQM(Perceptual Speech Quality Measure)와 MNB(Measuring Normalizing Block)에 비하여 높은 상관관계를 갖음을 입증하였다.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.527-534
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• 2013

In this study, we analyzed spatial-frequency relationship related brain function for change of the time during attentional visual stimulus through the analysis of Coherence. With experimentation about ERP(Event Related Potential)data, it revealed that change of the phase synchronization between different scalp locations at ${\theta}$, ${\alpha}$ band. ERP between left and right frontal lobes, between the frontal and central lobes showed the phase synchronization at the P100, N200, ERP between the frontal and occipital lobes showed the phase synchronization at the P300 related information of visual stimulus. Compared to STFT using the window of a fixed length, CWT is able to multi-resolution analysis with the adjustment of parameters of mother wavelet. Thus, coherence results with CWT was found to be effective for analysis of time-varying spatial-frequency relationship in ERP. The phase synchronization for inattentional visual stimulus was not observed.