• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.1837-1851
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• 2016

Newspaper reader mobile applications using text-to-speech (TTS) function enable blind people to read newspaper contents. But, tables cannot be easily read by the reader program because most of the tables are stored as images in the contents. Even though we try to use OCR (Optical character reader) programs to recognize letters from the table images, it cannot be simply applied to the table reading function because the table structure is unknown to the readers. Therefore, identification of exact location of each table cell that contains the text of the table is required beforehand. In this paper, we propose an efficient image processing algorithm to recognize all the cells in tables by identifying columns and rows in table images. From the cell location data provided by the table column and row identification algorithm, we can generate table structure information and table reading scenarios. Our experimental results with table images found commonly in newspapers show that our cell identification approach has 100% accuracy for simple black and white table images and about 99.7% accuracy for colored and complicated tables.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제23권2E호
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• pp.56-67
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• 2004

Despite abundant research outcomes of blind source separation (BSS) in many types of simulated environments, their performances are still not satisfactory to be applied to the real environments. The major obstacle may seem the finite filter length of the assumed mixing model and the nonlinear sensor noises. This paper presents a two-step speech enhancement method with multiple microphone inputs. The first step performs a frequency-domain BSS algorithm to produce multiple outputs without any prior knowledge of the mixed source signals. The second step further removes the remaining cross-channel interference by a spectral cancellation approach using a probabilistic source absence/presence detection technique. The desired primary source is detected every frame of the signal, and the secondary source is estimated in the power spectral domain using the other BSS output as a reference interfering source. Then the estimated secondary source is subtracted to reduce the cross-channel interference. Our experimental results show good separation enhancement performances on the real recordings of speech and music signals compared to the conventional BSS methods.

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 디지털 영상의 블라인드 워터마킹 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 제안한 알고리즘은 웨이블릿 평면에서 처리되는 변환 평면 워터마킹 알고리즘으로서 2차원 EMD을 이용하여 분해된 워터마크의 EMF 성분들이 웨이블릿 대역에 삽입되어, 각 웨이블릿 대역은 워터마크의 일부 정보만을 포함하고 있는 것을 특징으로 하고 있다. 워터마크의 추출은 각 웨이블릿 대역에서 추출한 워터마크의 일부 정보들을 2차원 EMD의 선형적인 특징에 의해 산술적 또는 논리적 연산을 통하여 회복할 수 있도록 하였다. 개발한 워터마킹 알고리즘은 비가시성, 강인성 등 워터마킹 알고리즘에서 요구되는 조건들에 대한 실험을 수행하여 성능을 비교 분석하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.489-497
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• 2009

원 영상을 이용하지 않고 워터마크를 검출할 수 있는 블라인드 워터마킹 기법들은 주로 주파수 변환 계수의 관계를 이용하였다. 하지만 대부분의 블라인드 워터마킹 방법에서는 공격에 취약하고 미세한 계수 값의 변화에도 영향을 많이 받는다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 개선하기 위하여 계수 적응적인 다중 삽입 방법과 계수 변경 보호값을 설정하여 공격에 의한 계수 관계 변화를 최소화하였다. 실험 결과 제안한 방법은 우수한 화질에서 손실 압축, 잡음 첨가 등의 공격에 강인함을 유지 할 수 있었다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제54권3호
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• pp.97-107
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• 2017

자동문에 있어서 적외선과 마이크로파 센서는 물체인식 입력신호를 통해 모터 개폐동작 제어를 담당하는 핵심부품으로 많이 사용하고 있다. 적외선과 마이크로파 기반의 센서를 자동문에 적용한 기존 시스템 경우, 대부분 건물외부로 노출하여 설치하기 때문에 태양의 적외선 또는 가시광선에 의해 오동작이 발생하게 된다. 또한 실내 외의 온도 차로 인한 환경변화는 물체인식 검출신호에 잡음을 일으키는 원인이 되기도 한다. 이러한 문제점과 더불어 빠르게 이동하는 물체를 감지센서가 검출영역에 대한 처리속도를 따라가지 못하는 하드웨어 결함이 감지 사각지대를 만들게 된다. 이는 자동문을 이용하는 통행자의 안전문제에 직접적인 영향을 주고 있기 때문에 빠른 개선방안이 필요한 시점이다. 본 논문은 기존의 감지센서 외에 초음파 센서를 추가 설치하여 검출영역을 개선하기 위한 실험을 진행하였다. 초음파 신호의 검출특성과 장점을 자동문에 적용하여 빠르게 이동하는 물체의 접근경로와 고정 장애물의 위치영역을 정확하고 신속하게 처리하는 연산회로와 검출 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 이를 통해 초음파 센서를 적용한 자동문이 사각지대를 감지하는 검출영역에서 성능개선으로 이어지는 결과를 현장실험을 통해서 확인하고 개선방안을 제안하였다.

• 조명전기설비학회논문지
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• 제25권9호
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• pp.69-74
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• 2011

In this paper, the UV corona camera was developed using the solar blind and Multi Channel Plate(MCP) technology for the target localization of UV image. UV camera developed a $6.4[^{\circ}]{\times}4.8[^{\circ}]$ of the field of view as a conventional camera to diagnose a wide range of slightly enlarged, and power equipment to measure the distance between the camera and the distance meter has been attached. UV camera to measure the discharge count and the UV image was developed, compared with a commercial camera, there was no significant difference. In salt spray environments breakdown voltage was lower than the normal state, thereby discharging the image was rapidly growing phenomenon.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.565-568
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• 1998

In this paper, we implemented the electornic moving aid system for safe walking of the blind. An obstacle detecting of each sector used ultrasound and a distance measurement used time of flight. The alarm is designed to have a sound and a tactile function that can be selected on an user's convenience. This system can detect and obstacle of upward, forward, downward and optimally warn to the blind with vibration, beep sound by appling warning algorithm on object detection. Experimental testing and performance evaluation have been successfully carried out with a prototype cane, and the experiment shows the capability of the function to detect unknown objects within an assigned distance, under knees, over head height, and crushed puddles.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.28-33
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• 2007

Estimated channel information, especially multipath length and multipath channel of the desired user, is necessary for most previously reported linear blind multiuser detectors in code division multiple access (CDMA) systems. This paper presents a new blind intersymbol decorrelating detector in asynchronous CDMA systems, which uses the cross correlation matrix of the consecutive symbols. The proposed detector is attractive for its simplicity because no channel estimation is required except the synchronization of the desired user. Compared with other reported multiuser detectors, simulation results show that the proposed detector provides a good performance when the active users have significant intersymbol interference and the multipath length is short.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.398-398
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• 2000

Since there is a blind zone in driver's view around the excavator, industrial accidents between the equipment and the workers within the zone have been occurred frequently. The purpose of this paper is to develop a obstacle recognition system which can prevent such an accident by providing the driver with the information on direction and distance of the obstacle within the blind zone. We designed the ultrasonic sensor based obstacle recognition system which consists of sensor arrays and a control unit connected via CAN(controller area network). The Cross-correlation technique and histogramic probability distribution method are used as a reliable obstacle detection algorithms to remove the environmental noise. The experimental results using a real excavator show the effectiveness of the system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.239-246
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• 2002

We investigate an alternative blind adaptive multiuser detection scheme based on a non-canonical linearly constrained constant modulus (LCCM) criterion and prove that, under the constrained condition, the non-canonical linearly constrained constant modulus algorithm (LCCMA) can completely remove multiple -access interference. We further demonstrate that the non-canonical LCCM criterion function is strictly convex in the noise-free state, and that under the constrained condition, it is also strictly convex even where small noise is present. We present a simple method for selecting the constant as well as a stochastic gradient algorithm for implementing our scheme. Numerical simulation results verify the scheme's efficiency.