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Earth Mover's Distance Approximate Earth Mover's Distance for the Efficient Content-based Image Retreival (효율적인 내용 기반 이미지 검색을 위한 근사 Earth Mover's Distance)

  • Jang, Min-Hee;Kim, Sang-Wook
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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    • v.18D no.5
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    • pp.323-328
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    • 2011
  • For content-based image retrieval, the earth mover's distance and the optimal color composition distance are proposed to measure the dissimilarity. Although providing good retrieval results, both methods are too time-consuming to be used in a large image database. To solve the problem, we propose a new distance function that calculates an approximate earth mover's distance in linear time. To calculate the dissimilarity in linear time, the proposed approach employs the space-filling curve. We have performed extensive experiments to show the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed approach. The results reveal that our approach achieves almost the same results with the EMD in linear time.

A Cluster Validity Index Using Overlap and Separation Measures Between Fuzzy Clusters (클러스터간 중첩성과 분리성을 이용한 퍼지 분할의 평가 기법)

  • Kim, Dae-Won;Lee, Kwang-H.
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.455-460
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    • 2003
  • A new cluster validity index is proposed that determines the optimal partition and optimal number of clusters for fuzzy partitions obtained from the fuzzy c-means algorithm. The proposed validity index exploits an overlap measure and a separation measure between clusters. The overlap measure is obtained by computing an inter-cluster overlap. The separation measure is obtained by computing a distance between fuzzy clusters. A good fuzzy partition is expected to have a low degree of overlap and a larger separation distance. Testing of the proposed index and nine previously formulated indexes on well-known data sets showed the superior effectiveness and reliability of the proposed index in comparison to other indexes.

Speech Quality Measure in a Mobile Communication System Using PLP Cepstral Distance with CMS (심리 음향 켑스트럼 평균 차감법을 이용한 이동 전화망에서의 음질 평가)

  • Yun, J.J.;Park, S.W.;Park, Y.C.;Youn, D.H.;Cha, I.H.
    • Speech Sciences
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    • v.6
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    • pp.163-179
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    • 1999
  • For the set up, management and repair of a mobile communication system, continuous estimation of speech quality is required. Speech quality measurement can be conducted by listener's judgement in a subjective test such as MOS (Mean Opinion Score) test. However, this method is laborious, expensive and time-consuming, it is advisable to predict subjective speech quality via objective measures. This paper presents a robust objective speech quality measure, PLP-CMS (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Mean Subtraction), which can predict subjective speech quality in mobile communication systems. PLP-CMS has a high correlation with subjective quality owing to PLP (Perceptual Linear Predictive) analysis and shows a robust performance not being influenced by PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) channel effects due to CMS (Cepstral Mean Subtraction). To prove the performance of our proposed algorithm, we carried out subjective and objective quality estimation on speech samples which are variously distorted in a real mobile communication system. As a result, we demonstrated that PLP-CMS has a higher correlation with subjective quality than PSQM (Perceptual Speech Quality Measure) and PLP-CD (Perceptual Linear Predictive-Cepstral Distance).

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A study on the determination of Ultrasonic Travel Time by Norm Phase-Time Method (위상시간법에 의한 초음파전파시간의 결정에 관한 연구)

  • 이은방
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Navigation
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    • v.18 no.4
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    • pp.137-146
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    • 1994
  • In this paper, a new algorithm to measure the ultrasonic travel time is proposed, which is fundamental to estimate distance depth and volume in several media. Pulse wave has been used to measure travel time of transmitted signal. However, due to the characteristic of transducer and propagation, the received signal is so distorted that it is difficult to measure travel time, which is propagation, the received signal is so distorted that it is difficult to measure travel time, which is to be time difference between transmitted and received signals. In this proposed method, transmitted and received signal are transformed respectively into norm phase newly designed by this paper and displayed on phase-time curve. And travel time is simply determined by the arithmetic numerical mean of time difference at the identical norm phase on the phase-time curves of transmitted and received signals. This method has several features; firstly, travel time is calculated analytically with high accuracy by least square error method, secondly, it is useful to compare the difference of signal magnitude for time information, thirdly, noise and discrete errors are relatively small, finally, the measurement accuracy is not influenced by D.C. bias. In particular, this method is useful and applicable to measuring very short distance and sound speed with high accuracy.

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Similarity Measure Between Interval-valued Vague Sets (구간값 모호집합 사이의 유사척도)

  • Cho, Sang-Yeop
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.19 no.5
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    • pp.603-608
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    • 2009
  • In this paper, a similarity measure between interval-valued vague sets is proposed. In the interval-valued vague sets representation, the upper bound and the lower bound of a vague set are represented as intervals of interval-valued fuzzy set respectively. Proposed method combines the concept of geometric distance and the center-of-gravity point of interval-valued vague set to evaluate the degree of similarity between interval-valued vague sets. We also prove three properties of the proposed similarity measure. It provides a useful way to measure the degree of similarity between interval-valued vague sets.

New Distance Measure for Vector Quantization of Image (영상 벡터양자화를 위한 편차분산을 이용한 거리계산법)

  • Lee, Kyeong-Hwan;Choi, Jung-Hyun;Lee, Bub-Ki;Cheong, Won-Sik;Kim, Kyoung-Kyoo;Kim, Duk-Gyoo
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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    • v.36S no.11
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    • pp.89-94
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    • 1999
  • In vector quantization (VQ), mean squared error (MSE) is widely used as a distance measure between vectors. But the distance between averages appears as a dominant quantity in MSE. In the case of image vectors, the coincidence of edge pattern is also important considering human visual system (HVS). Therefore, this paper presents a new distance measure using the variance of difference (VD) as a criterion for the coincidence of edge pattern. By using this in the VQ encoding, we can reduce the degradation of edge region in the reconstructed image. And applying this to the codebook design, we can obtain the final codebook that has a lot of various edge codevectors instead of redundant shade ones.

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A cautionary note on the use of Cook's distance

  • Kim, Myung Geun
    • Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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    • v.24 no.3
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    • pp.317-324
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    • 2017
  • An influence measure known as Cook's distance has been used for judging the influence of each observation on the least squares estimate of the parameter vector. The distance does not reflect the distributional property of the change in the least squares estimator of the regression coefficients due to case deletions: the distribution has a covariance matrix of rank one and thus it has a support set determined by a line in the multidimensional Euclidean space. As a result, the use of Cook's distance may fail to correctly provide information about influential observations, and we study some reasons for the failure. Three illustrative examples will be provided, in which the use of Cook's distance fails to give the right information about influential observations or it provides the right information about the most influential observation. We will seek some reasons for the wrong or right provision of information.

Experimental Study to measure Aerodynamical Wind Effects of KTX for Determining the Distance Between Track Centers (선로간격 설정시 KTX 열차풍 영향 측정에 관한 실험 연구)

  • Nam, Seong-Won;Kwon, Hyeok-Bin
    • 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2008.03b
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    • pp.518-521
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    • 2008
  • When constructing a high-speed railroad, the reduction of the distance between track centers and the width of track bed will save the construction cost. However the shortening the distance between track centers may cause the stability problems due to higher wind pressure. Therefore the extensive technical review and aerodynamical study should be performed to determine the adequate distance between track centers. In this study, the impact that the increase in wind pressure due to the change of aerodynamic phenomena with the change of the distance between track centers may have on two trains passing by each other was predicted, and the stability of train operation was analyzed in order to review the distance between track centers suitable to Honam HSR trains. And we estimated the aerodynamical effects by the results of the real train experiments by using KTX.

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Performance Improvement of Microphone Array Speech Recognition Using Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance (가중특징 Mahalanobis거리를 이용한 마이크 어레이 음석인식의 성능향상)

  • Nguyen, Dinh Cuong;Chung, Hyun-Yeol
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.29 no.1E
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    • pp.45-53
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    • 2010
  • In this paper, we present the use of the Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance (FWMD) in improving the performance of Likelihood Maximizing Beamforming (Limabeam) algorithm in speech recognition for microphone array. The proposed approach is based on the replacement of the traditional distance measure in a Gaussian classifier with adding weight for different features in the Mahalanobis distance according to their distances after the variance normalization. By using Features Weighted Mahalanobis Distance for Limabeam algorithm (FWMD-Limabeam), we obtained correct word recognition rate of 90.26% for calibrate Limabeam and 87.23% for unsupervised Limabeam, resulting in a higher rate of 3% and 6% respectively than those produced by the original Limabearn. By implementing a HM-Net speech recognition strategy alternatively, we could save memory and reduce computation complexity.

Visualization of Bottleneck Distances for Persistence Diagram

  • Cho, Kyu-Dong;Lee, Eunjee;Seo, Taehee;Kim, Kwang-Rae;Koo, Ja-Yong
    • The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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    • v.25 no.6
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    • pp.1009-1018
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    • 2012
  • Persistence homology (a type of methodology in computational algebraic topology) can be used to capture the topological characteristics of functional data. To visualize the characteristics, a persistence diagram is adopted by plotting baseline and the pairs that consist of local minimum and local maximum. We use the bottleneck distance to measure the topological distance between two different functions; in addition, this distance can be applied to multidimensional scaling(MDS) that visualizes the imaginary position based on the distance between functions. In this study, we use handwriting data (which has functional forms) to get persistence diagram and check differences between the observations by using bottleneck distance and the MDS.