• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.44 no.2 s.314
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• pp.10-17
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• 2007

The echo signal on ultrasonic transducer is a mixed signal from tissues, blood vessel walls, blood cells and noise. In this mixed-signal, the signal reflected from tissues and blood vessel walls is called clutter. It is necessary to extract pure blood signal from this mixed-signal, when measuring blood flow velocity with medical ultrasonic system The quality of measured blood flow velocity is highly dependent on sufficient attenuation of the clutter signals. In this paper, we suggest a clutter rejection method using ICA For simulation, the echo signals are generated by Field n ultrasonic simulation program In this echo signals, independent signals are separated by using ICA Then the blood signal is obtained from the separated signals. Blood flow velocity is measured by 2D autocorrelation method. We compare ICA clutter rejection method with PCA-based eigen filter method using both measured blood flow velocity profiles by 2D autocorrelation. In simulation results, ICA clutter rejection method can be better applied measuring blood flow velocity in noisy echo signals.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.175-181
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a robust clutter pre-thresholding method using background adaptive Threshold Map for the clutter rejection in the complex coastal environment. The proposed algorithm is composed of the use of Threshold Map's and method of its calculation. Additionally we also suggest an automatic decision method of Thresold Map's update. Experimental results on some sets of real infrared image sequence show that the proposed method could remove clutters effectively without any loss of detection rate for the aim target and reduce processing time dramatically.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.101-108
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• 2005

Adaptive constant false alarm rate(CFAR) algorithm is used for good detection probability as well as constant false alarm rate in clutter background. Especially, filtering technique adaptive to spatial variation is necessary for improving detection quality in non stationary clutter environment which has spatial correlation and large magnitude deviation. In this paper, we propose a two-dimensional block interpolation(TBI) adaptive CFAR algorithm that calculates the node estimate in the fred two dimensional region and subsequently determines the final estimate for each resolution cell by two-dimensional interpolation. The proposed method is efficient for filtering abnormal ejection by adopting distribution median in fixed region and also has advantage of reducing required memory space by using estimation method which gets final values after calculating the block node values. Through simulations, we show that the proposed method is superior to the traditional adaptive CFAR algorithms which are transversal or recursive in aspect of the detection performance and required memory space.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Military Science and Technology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.334-342
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• 2012

Data association is important technology which designate final destination in the target tracking. The joint probabilistic data association(JPDA) algorithm provides excellent ability to maintain track on multiple targets. Currently, it is not easily implemented in real time because of track coalescence & switch. The aim of this paper is to develop probabilistic filters that increase JPDA's sensitivity and decrease track coalescence & switch in a cluttered environments.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.6
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• pp.661-669
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• 2019

High frequency active sonar is appropriate for detecting small targets such as a diver in coast environment. In case of using high frequency active sonar in shallow coastal environment, a false alarm rate is high due to clutters caused by marine biological noise, ship noise, wake, etc. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for target detection which is robust against clutter in active sonar system in shallow coastal environment. The proposed algorithm increases the rate of reduction clutter using calculation of statistical characteristics of signal and a clustering method. The algorithm is evaluated and analysed with sea trial data, as a result, that shows the rate of reducing rate of clutter of 96 % and over.

• Journal of Advanced Navigation Technology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.142-150
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• 2019

Muzzle Velocity is one of the most important measurement items for evaluation of ammunition. The muzzle velocity is defined as the velocity when the projectile leaves the muzzle. Particularly, since the muzzle velocity is closely related to the performance of the propellant, precise measurement of muzzle velocity is required. Doppler radar is used to measure the muzzle velocity, but the quality of Doppler radar signal depends on the test site environment. In this paper, a method to remove the clutter that degrades the signal quality of Doppler radar by improving the structure of the test site and the signal processing method is suggested. For the application of the improved signal processing method, a program for acquiring Doppler radar's raw Doppler data was created. Statistical verification of the velocity data obtained through the improvement of the test site structure and signal processing method proved that the proposed method is effective for the removal of clutter as compared with the existing method.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.5 no.1
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• pp.100-110
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• 1994

레이다 신호는 대표적인 전자파 신호로서 주변환경에 따라 시간, 주파수, 공간 영역에서 고유한 신호특성을 가지고 있으며, 신호처리 기법도 다양하다. 본 논문에서는 먼저 레이다를 위한 전파 신호처리 의정의와 필요성을 언급한뒤, 레이다 신호환경 특성을 살펴보고 신호처리를 위한 신호의 시간 및 스펙트럼 특성에 대해 기술하였다. 그리고, 신호특성에 적합한 신호처리기의 구현을 위해 레이다 신호처리에 관 련된 주요 기법에 대해 개괄적으로 설명하였다. 레이다 신호처리 분야는 일반적으로 잘 알려진 음성이 나 영상신호처리 분야와 달리 고유한 알고리듬과 구조가 요구된다. 신호처리기법으로서 레이다 파형설 계, 해상도 모호성, 펄스압축, 클러터제거, 도플러처리, 일정오경보탐지, 클러터 지도, 표적군 형성/ 추출, 표적식별, 레이다영상기법, 적응배열처리 등에 관해 개괄적으로 설명하였다. 레이다 선호처리 기술은 "스마트"한 레이다를 위한 두뇌 역할을 하기때문에 그 필요성과 중요성이 증가하고 있다. 그러나, 고속, 대용량의 신호를 주어진 빔 주사시간동안에 실시간으로 처리하여 표적 정보를 추출해야 하기 때문에 아직도 상용 프로세서의 속도 한계내에서 알고리듬의 수행에 다소 제약을 받고 있으나, 최근 디지탈 신호처리 전용의 고속 칩의 출현으로 많은 발전을 가져오고 있다. 끝으로, 향후 레이다 신호처리 발전 추세와 응용분야에 대해 살펴보았다. 응용분야는 군수 및 민수용의 겸용 파급효과가 매우 크고, 군용의 대공탐색 및 조기경보, 전장감시뿐만 아니라 전투기 탑재용으로 필수적이며, 특히 민수용의 공 항, 항공기, 선박, 위성 등 매우 다양하다. 최근 발전추세에 따른 기술로서 다중모드 신호처리, 고집적 회로기술, 적응배열, 디지탈 빔형성, 적응성, 고분해능 및 방향성, 표적식별, 다차원 신호처리에 대해 언급 하였다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.28-34
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• 2002

Irregular reflected signals on a sea surface make clutters to a ship's radar image. Clutters are similar to Gaussian white noises which are very harmful for detecting objecting at sea by a ship's radar. To remove the clutter effects, many papers show the algorithms by antenna, filters, and so on. This paper shows a new algorithm which uwes Wavelet and Morphology median filter conceps for removing clutter and enhancing image in order to detect well a distressed of being rescued ship in a rough weather condition at sea.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.695-704
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• 2018

The rainfall cases were identified by rainfall estimation techniques which were developed by using X - band marine radar. A digital signal converter was used to convert the signal received from the marine radar into digital reflectivity information. The ground clutter signal was removed and the errors caused by beam attenuation and beam volume changes were corrected. The reflectivity showed a linear relationship with the rain gauge rainfall. Quantitative rainfall was estimated by converting the radar signal into an cartesian coordinate system. When the rainfall was recorded more than $5mm\;hr^{-1}$ at three automatic weather stations, the rain cell distribution on the marine radar was consistent with that of the weather radar operated by Korea meteorological Adminstration.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.6
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• pp.35-41
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• 2008

The most important requirement for the automotive radars is the simultaneous target range and velocity measurement under environment of multi-target, clutters, multi-path, and so on. If the many vehicles with 77GHz FMCW(Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave) radar system are in the near area we should consider the interference signals occurred by other radar systems because these signals reduce exact detection of range and velocity. In this paper, we propose the interference cancellation method, which each vehicle radar transmits chirp trains with the different frequency sweep shapes. The proposed method is applied into the various applications such as an intelligent vehicle, Robot, and UGV(Unmanned Ground Vehicle).