• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.253-260
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• 2018

The acoustic communication channel in shallow underwater is typically shown as time-varying multipath fading channel characteristics. The received signal through channel transmission cause inter-symbol interference (ISI) owing to multiple components of different time delay and amplitude. To compensate for this, several techniques have been used, and one of them is acoustic equalizer. In this study, we used four equalizers - feed forward equalizer (FFE), decision directed equalizer (DDE), decision feedback equalizer (DFE) and combination DDE with DFE to compensate ISI. And we applied two adaptive algorithms to adjust coefficient of equalizers - normalized least mean square algorithm and recursive least square algorithm. As result, we found that it has a significant performance improvement over 6 dB on SNR in nonlinear equalizer. By combination of DFE and DDE has almost best performance in any case.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.81-84
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• 2004

패킷망을 통한 음성 통신이 발달됨에 따라 패킷 스위칭 채널 환경에서 계층적 구조를 가지는 광대역 음성 부호화기의 개발에 대한 요구가 늘어나고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 차세대 패킷 전화용 광대역 음성 부호화기의 상위 대역에 대해서 효율적인 양자화 방법을 제안한다. 먼저 전체 프레임을 다수의 짧은 부프레임으로 구분하고, 각각의 부프레임에 MLT(Modulated Lapped Transform)변환을 적용하여 주파수 영역으로 변환하여 2차원 구조의 데이터 행렬을 생성한다. 이러한 2차원 구조의 데이터를 크기와 부호로 분리하고, 크기는 2차원 DCT를 사용하여 시간과 주파수 영역에서의 신호 압축을 동시에 얻을 수 있게 하였다. 이와 같은 새로운 구조를 활용하여 기존의 방법보다 Energy Compaction 효과를 높이고 양자화 성능을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 또한 Core Layer의 부호화된 파라미터를 상위 대역의 양자화에 이용함으로써 그 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.173-180
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• 2017

Underwater communications are degraded as a result of inter symbol interference in multipath channels. Therefore, a channel coding scheme is essential for underwater communications. Packets consist of a PN sequence and a data field, and the uncoded PN sequence is used to estimate the frequency and phase offset using a Doppler and phase estimation algorithm. The estimated frequency and phase offset are fed to a coded data field to compensate for the Doppler and phase offset. The PN sequence is generally utilized to acquire the synchronization information, and the bit error rate of an uncoded PN sequence predicts the performance of the coded data field. To ensure few errors, we resort to powerful BCJR decoding algorithms of convolutional codes with rates of 1/2, 2/3, and 3/4. We use this powerful channel coding algorithm to present an efficient receiver structure based on the relation between the bit error of the uncoded PN sequence and coded data field in computer simulations and lake experiments.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.487-490
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• 2004

OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) 방식의 수중음향 데이터 통신시스템에서 도플러 편이(Doppler Shift)와 도플러 확산(Doppler Spread)의 영향을 완화하여 주파수 효율을 향상시킬 수 있는 수신신호처리 방안을 설계하고 해상에서 송수신 된 시험 데이터의 BER 로써 성능을 평가한다. 도플러 편이를 OFDM 심볼에 부가된 Cyclic Prefix 와 상관계수법을 통해 추정하였으며 도플러 확산에 의해 시간에 따라 변화하는 채널을 Time-Frequency 축상에서 $2\times1D$ MMSE 방식으로 추정한다. 해상실험 결과, $8kHz\~11kHz$ 의 전송대역을 사용 할 때 복호 전 전송률 3098bps, 송수신 소자간 거리 7km, SNR 15dB에서 약 $1\~3\%$의 BER이 추정된다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.83-86
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• 2002

훈련과정과 인식과정에서의 주변환경 잡음과 채널 특성 등의 불일치는 음성인식 성능을 급격히 저하시킨다. 이러한 불일치를 보상하기 위해서 켑스트럼 영역에서의 다양한 전처리 방법이 시도되고 있으며 최근에는 stereo 데이터와 잡음 음성의 Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)을 이용해 보상벡터를 구하는 SPLICE 방법이 좋은 결과를 보이고 있다(1). 기존의 SPLICE가 전체 발성에 대해서 음향학적인 정보만으로 Gaussian 모델을 구하는 반면 본 논문에서는 발성에 해당하는 음소정보를 고려하여 전체 음향 공간을 각 음소에 대해 나누어서 모델링하고 각 음소에 대한 Gaussian 모델과 그 음소에 해당하는 음성데이터만을 이용하여 음소별 보상벡터가 훈련되도록 하였다. 이 경우 보상벡터는 잡음이 각 음소에 미치는 영향을 보다 자세히 나타내게 된다. Aurora 2 데이터베이스를 이용한 실험결과, 제안된 방법이 기존의 SPLICE방법에 비해 성능향상을 보였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.166-173
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• 2022

In this paper, the performance of joint equalizer and phase-locked loop in underwater communications is analyzed. In the channel where the Doppler frequency exists, it is difficult to recover the transmitted data only by the equalizer. To compensate for the Doppler frequency, the phase-locked loop is used. For removing the time-varying multipath and the Doppler frequency simultaneously, the equalizer and the phase-locked loop operate jointly. Also, if the initial Doppler frequency error obtained by Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is compensated, the convergence speed of the joint equalizer and phase-locked loop can be improved. To verify the performance, lake and sea experiments were conducted. As a result, it was showed that the joint equalizer and phase-locked loop converges sufficiently in the preamble (known data) period regardless of whether the Doppler frequency is compensated or not. And, the bit error in random data period is not occurred. However, we can increase the convergence speed of the equalizer more than twice through the compensation of Doppler frequency.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1577-1582
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• 2013

In this paper, we have analyzed the performance of MIMO (Multi-Input Multi-Output) underwater acoustic communication by using the acquired data via the experiments in water tank. First of all, in the pursuit of this aim, we have measured the channel transfer characteristics at several transceiver locations. The transmitted signal was modulated by QPSK(Quadrature Phase Shit Keying) and the received signal was recovered through the detector that contains the zero forcing equalizer. A maximum 30~40 ms delay was appeared because of physically closed water tank environment that has the harsh multi-path transmission conditions. In result of experiment, even though the bit error rate showed comparatively large when $2{\times}2$ MIMO system with two transmitters and receivers was considered. However, we confirmed it has approximately 15% enhanced performance compared with SISO (Single-Input Single-Output) system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.41-48
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• 1997

This paper proposes the methods for improving the recognition rate of theARS, especially equipped with the speech recognition capability. Telephone speech, which is the input to the ARS, is usually affected by the announcements from the system, channel noise, and channel distortion, thus directly applying the recognition algorithm developed for clean speech to the noisy telephone speech will bring the significant performance degradation. To cope with this problem, this paper proposes three methods: 1)the accurate detection of the inputting instant of the speech in order to immediately turn off the announcements from the system at that instant, 2)the effective end-point detection of the noisy telephone speech on the basis of Teager energy, and 3)the SDCN-based compensation of the channel distortion. Experiments on speaker-independent, noisy telephone speech reveal that the combination of the above three proposed methods provides great improvements on the recognition rate over the conventional method, showing about 77% in contrast to only 23%.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.63-70
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• 1994

In this paper, we Investigate the $Q^2PSK$ modulation and demodulation system and analyze the BER performance of the receiver system under 2-way Rayleigh fading and Gaussian noisy channel environment. The TDL equalizer with the adaptive LMS algorithm is used to improve the receiver performance since the received signal is distorted through that channel and the recovered carrier from the noncoherent demodulation has much phase deviation error. From the results of computer simulation, It is shown that at 12dB SNR, the reception performance is improved by $83.7\%$ in the fading case, $89.3\%$ in the carrier phase error case and $60.4\%$ in the case of the fading and carrier phase error.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.139-142
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• 2004

훈련 과정과 인식 과정사이의 주변 잡음과 채널 특성으로 인한 환경의 불일치는 음성 인식 성능을 급격히 저하시킨다. 이러한 차이를 극복하기 위해 다양한 전처리 방법이 제안되어 왔으며, 최근에는 스테레오 데이터와 잡음 음성의 Gaussian Mixture Model(GMM)을 이용하여 보상벡터를 구하는 SPLICE 방법이 좋은 성능을 보여주고 있다. 하지만 차원별로 특징벡터를 보상해주는 추정된 보상벡터는 underestimation되는 경향이 있으며, 그 정도가 각각의 차원마다 달라짐이 관찰되었다. 본 논문에서는 SPLICE 방법에 기반하여 추정된 보상벡터와 실제 보상벡터 사이의 관계를 관찰하여 차원별로 다른 가중치를 적용하는 차원별 가중 보상 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법은 Aurora2 Clean-condition인 경우 baseline 실험 결과에 비해 $68\%$의 높은 상대적인 인식 향상율을 얻었다.