• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.364-369
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• 2023

Time-delay estimation between two receivers is a technique that has been applied in a variety of fields, from underwater acoustics to room acoustics and robotics. There are two types of time delay estimation techniques: one that estimates the amount of time delay from the correlation between receivers, and the other that parametrically models the time delay between receivers and estimates the parameters by system recognition. The latter has the characteristic that only a small fraction of the system's parameters are directly related to the delay. This characteristic can be exploited to improve the accuracy of the estimation by methods such as Lasso regularization. However, in the case of Lasso regularization, the necessary information is lost. In this paper, we propose a method using Elastic Net that adds Ridge regularization to Lasso regularization to compensate for this. Comparing the proposed method with the conventional Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC) method and the method using Lasso regularization, we show that the estimation variance is very small even for white Gaussian signal sources and colored signal sources.

• Journal of Environmental Health Sciences
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.149-158
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• 2023

Background: Injury is one of the major health problems in South Korea. Few studies have evaluated both intentional and unintentional injury when investigating the association between exposure to air pollutants and injury. Objectives: We aimed to explore the association between short-term exposure to ambient air pollution and years of life lost (YLLs) due to injury. Methods: Data on daily YLLs for 2002~2019 were obtained from the the Death Statistics Database of the Korean National Statistical Office. This study estimated short-term exposure to particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of <10 ㎛ (PM₁₀), particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter of <2.5 ㎛ (PM_2.5), sulfur dioxide (SO₂), nitrogen dioxide (NO₂), carbon monoxide (CO), and ozone (O₃). This time series study was conducted using a generalized additive model (GAM) assuming a Gaussian distribution. We also evaluated a delayed effect of ambient air pollution by constructing a lag structure up to seven days. The best-fitting lag was selected based on smallest generalized cross validation (GCV) value. To explore effect modification by intentionality of injury (i.e., intentional injury [self-harm, assault] and unintentional injury), we conducted stratified subgroup analyses. Additionally, we stratified unintentional injury by mechanism (traffic accident, fall, etc.). Results: During the study period, the average daily YLLs due to injury was 307.5 years. In the intentional injury, YLLs due to self-harm and assault showed positive association with air pollutants. In the unintentional injury, YLLs due to fall, electric current, fire and poisoning showed positive association with air pollutants, whereas YLLs due to traffic accident, mechanical force and drowning/submersion showed negative associations with air pollutants. Conclusions: Injury is recognized as preventable, and effective strategies to create a safe society are important. Therefore, we need to establish strategies to prevent injury and consider air pollutants in this regard.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1093-1101
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• 2009

Quantile regression has become a more widely used technique to describe the distribution of a response variable given a set of explanatory variables. This paper proposes a novel modelfor quantile regression using doubly penalized kernel machine with support vector machine iteratively reweighted least squares (SVM-IRWLS). To make inference about the shape of a population distribution, the widely popularregression, would be inadequate, if the distribution is not approximately Gaussian. We present a likelihood-based approach to the estimation of the regression quantiles that uses the asymmetric Laplace density.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.39 no.7
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• pp.38-45
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• 2002

This paper derives the electric field integral equation to calculate scattering from arbitrary large target above and radiating of an electric line source within a lossy ground. Sommerfeld’s type integral requires a lot of time to calculate and has some difficulties and limitations for an analysis region. But SDP (steepest descent path) integration gives fast calculation of the integral, and the result shows that SDP integration has the validity for all over the analysis region with fast evaluation. Moment method with SDP integration is used to calculate the scattering of an arbitrary large conducting target and the results are compared with that of the numerical integration with Gaussian quadrature rule and GPOF (generalized pencil of function) method.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.38 no.11
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• pp.41-48
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• 2001

The exact general bit error rate (TIER) expression of M-ary square quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) for arbitrary M has not been derived so far. In this paper, a generalized closed-form expression for the BER performance of M-ary square QAM with Gray code bit mapping is derived and analyzed in the presence of additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. The derivation is based on the consistency of the format in signal constellation o[ Gray coding and it has been derived from the results for M-16, 64, and 256.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.1008-1014
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• 2003

In this paper, we propose the image retrieval method based on object regions using bidirectional round filter in the wavelet transform domain. A conventional method that includes unnecessary background information reduce retrieval efficiency, because of the extraction of feature vectors from the whole region of subband. On proposed method, it extracts accurate feature vectors and keep certainly retrieval efficiency in case of reduced feature vectors, because of the extraction of feature vectors from the only extracted object region. Furthermore, it improve retrieval efficiency by removing unnecessary background information. Consequently, the retrieval efficiency is improved with 2.5%∼5.5% values, which have a little chances to vary according to characteristics of image.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.827-830
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• 2005

본 논문은 DRM(Digital Rights Management)의 핵심요소기술인 디지털 비디오 워터마킹 기술에서 암호화 기법을 함께 적용하여 저작권 판별 및 콘텐츠 보호의 두 가지 역할을 수행하는 시스템을 제안하고자 한다. 본 논문에서는 저작권 정보를 공개키 기반의 RSA 암호화 방법으로 암호문을 만든 후 이진화 과정을 수행하여 워터마크 키 정보를 생성하였고, 워터마킹 기법으로는 통계적 모델의 계산 속도가 빠른 NVF(Noise Visibility Function) 방식의 Adaptive Stationary GG(Generalized Gaussian) model[1]의 기법을 사용하였다. 암호문은 사용자 컨트롤러에서 제어가 가능하도록 하여 권한이 부여된 사용자만이 재생이 가능하도록 하였다. 본 논문의 구성은 2장에서 암호화 과정을 설명하고, 3장에서는 기존의 기법과는 다른 통계적 접근의 워터마킹 기법을 적용한 과정을 설명하며, 4장에서는 제안한 방법이 실제 환경에서의 실험 결과를 보여준다. 마지막으로 5장에서는 결론과 개선점을 바탕으로 향후 연구방향을 제시한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 미래사회 인터넷에서의 올바른 디지털 콘텐츠 사용 문화 정책에 큰 역할을 할 것으로 기대된다.

• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.3 no.1
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• pp.51-61
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• 1993

Restricted maximum likelihood(RML) method was used to determine the parameters of generalized covariance, and universal krigig with RML was applied to estimate a groundwater level distribution of nonstationarv random function. Universal kriging with RML was compared to IRF-k with weighted least squares method for the comparison of their accuracies. Cross validation shows that two methods have nearly the same ability for the estimation of groundwater levels. Scattergram of estimates versus true values and contour maps of groundwater levels have nearly the same results. The reason why two methods produced the same results is thought to be the non-Gaussian distribution and the snaall number of sample data.

• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.835-847
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• 2016

To analyze lattice or areal data, a conditionally autoregressive (CAR) model has been widely used in the eld of spatial analysis. The spatial neighborhoods within CAR model are generally formed using only inter-distance or boundaries between regions. Kyung and Ghosh (2010) proposed a new class of models to accommodate spatial variations that may depend on directions. The proposed model, a directional conditionally autoregressive (DCAR) model, generalized the usual CAR model by accounting for spatial anisotropy. Properties of maximum likelihood estimators of a Gaussian DCAR are discussed. The method is illustrated using a data set of median property prices across Greater Glasgow, Scotland, in 2008.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.747-758
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• 2005

The problem of selection among competing models has been a fundamental issue in statistical data analysis. Good fits to data can be misleading since they can result from properties of the model that have nothing to do with it being a close approximation to the source distribution of interest (for example, overfitting). In this study we focus on the preference among models from a family of polynomial regressors. Three decades of research has spawned a number of plausible techniques for the selection of models, namely, Akaike's Finite Prediction Error (FPE) and Information Criterion (AIC), Schwartz's criterion (SCH), Generalized Cross Validation (GCV), Wallace's Minimum Message Length (MML), Minimum Description Length (MDL), and Vapnik's Structural Risk Minimization (SRM). The fundamental similarity between all these principles is their attempt to define an appropriate balance between the complexity of models and their ability to explain the data. This paper presents an empirical study of the above principles in the context of model selection, where the models under consideration are univariate polynomials. The paper includes a detailed empirical evaluation of the model selection methods on six target functions, with varying sample sizes and added Gaussian noise. The results from the study appear to provide strong evidence in support of the MML- and SRM- based methods over the other standard approaches (FPE, AIC, SCH and GCV).