• 센서학회지
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.224-229
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new Active Noise Control (ANC) system using a teacher forced Blind Source Separation (BSS) algorithm. The Blind Source Separation based on the Independent Component Analysis (ICA) separates the desired sound signal from the unwanted noise signal. In the proposed system, the BSS algorithm is used as a preprocessor of ANC system. Also, we develop a teacher forced BSS learning algorithm to enhance the performance of BSS. The teacher signal is obtained from the output signal of the ANC system. Computer experimental results show that the proposed ANC system in conjunction with the BSS algorithm effectively cancels only the ship engine noise signal from the linear and convolved mixtures with human voice.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2006년도 하계종합학술대회
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• pp.321-322
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a method that extracts invariant iris codes from user's iris pattern in order to apply these codes to a new cryptographic construct called fuzzy vault. The fuzzy vault, proposed by Juels and Sudan, has been used to manage cryptographic key safely by merging with biometrics. Generally, iris data has intra-variation of iris pattern according to sensed environmental changes, but cryptography requires correctness. Therefore, to combine iris data and fuzzy vault, we have to extract an invariant iris feature from iris pattern. In this paper, we obtain invariant iris codes by clustering iris features extracted by independent component analysis(ICA) transform. From experimental results, we proved that the iris codes extracted by our method are invariant to sensed environmental changes and can be used in fuzzy vault.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권5호
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• pp.555-562
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 영상의 비선형 평활화와 특징들의 통계적 상관성에 기반을 둔 조합형 인식성능 개선기법을 제안하였다. 여기서 비선형 평활화는 로지스틱 함수에 기반을 둔 히스토그램 재조정의 전처리 기법으로 영상의 밝기를 조정하여 화질을 개선하기 위함이다. 통계적 상관성은 정규상호상관계수에 의해 측정되며, 이는 유사도를 좀 더 빠르고 정확하게 측정하기 위함이다. 또한 독립성분분석에 의한 국부적인 특징들을 대상으로 정규상호상관을 계산함으로써 좀 더 정확한 유사도를 통계적으로 측정하기 위함이다. 제안된 기법을 30개 40*50픽셀의 명암도 변화를 가지는 얼굴영상들을 대상으로 실험한 결과, 전처리를 하지 않은 기법이나 기존 및 적응적 변형히스토그램 평활화에 의한 전처리 기법에 비해 각각 영상의 속성을 잘 반영한 우수한 인식성능이 있음을 확인하였다.

• 한국지능시스템학회논문지
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.200-208
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 효율적인 학습규칙의 신경망 기반 독립성분분석기법을 이용한 영상신호의 분리와 특징추출을 제안하였다. 제안된 학습규칙은 할선법과 모멘트를 이용한 조합형 고정점 학습알고리즘이다. 여기서 할선법은 독립성분 상호간의 정보를 최소화하기 위한 목적함수의 최적화 과정에서 요구되는 1차 미분에 따른 계산을 간략화하기 위함이고, 모멘트는 최적화 과정에서 발생하는 발진을 억제하여 보다 빠른 학습을 위함이다. 제안된 기법을 $512\times512$의 픽셀을 가지는 10개의 영상을 대상으로 임의의 혼합행렬에 따라 발생되는 혼합영상의 분리에 적용한 결과, 뉴우턴법에 기초한 기존의 알고리즘과 할선법만에 기초한 알고리즘보다 각각 우수한 분리률과 빠른 분리속도가 있음을 확인하였다. 또한 $256\times256$ 픽셀의 10개 지문상과 $480\times225$ 픽셀의 지폐영상에서 선택된 각각 10,000개의 3가지 영상패치들을 대상으로 적용한 결과, 제안된 기법은 뉴우턴법이나 할선법의 알고리즘보다도 빠른 특징추출 속도가 있음을 확인하였다. 한편 추출된 $16\times16$ 펙셀의 160개 독립성분 기저벡터 각각은 영상 각각에 포함된 공간적인 주파수 특성과 방향성을 가지는 경계 특성이 잘 드러나는 국부적인 특징들임을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1825-1838
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• 2016

The detection of skin pigment is crucial in the diagnosis of skin diseases and in the evaluation of medical cosmetics and hairdressing. Accuracy in the detection is a basis for the prompt cure of skin diseases. This study presents a method to recognize and measure human skin pigment using Hemoglobin-Melanin (HM) coordinate. The proposed method extracts the skin area through a Gaussian skin-color model estimated from statistical analysis and decomposes the skin area into two pigments of hemoglobin and melanin using an Independent Component Analysis (ICA) algorithm. Then, we divide the two-dimensional (2D) HM coordinate into rectangular bins and compute the location histograms of hemoglobin and melanin for all the bins. We label the skin pigment of hemoglobin, melanin, and normal skin on all bins according to the Bayesian classifier. These bin-based HM projective histograms can quantify the skin pigment and compute the standard deviation on the total quantification of skin pigments surrounding normal skin. We tested our scheme using images taken under different illumination conditions. Several cosmetic coverings were used to test the performance of the proposed method. The experimental results show that the proposed method can detect skin pigments with more accuracy and evaluate cosmetic covering effects more effectively than conventional methods.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제66권2호
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• pp.431-438
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• 2017

In this paper, the abdomen ECG(AECG) is employed to measure the mother's ECG instead of the conventioanl thoracic ECG measurement. The fetus ECG signal can be extracted from the AECG using an algorithm that utilizes the mobile fetal ECG measurement platform, which is based on the BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy). The algorithm has been implemented by using a replacement processor processed directly from the platform BLE instead of the large statistical data processing required in the ICA(Independent component analysis). The proposed algorithm can be implemented on a mobile BLE wireless ECG system hardware platform to process the maternal ECG. Wireless technology can realize a compact, low-power radio system for short distance communication and the IOT(Intenet of Things) enables the transmission of real-time ECG data. It was also implemented in the form of a compact module in order for mothers to be able to download and store the collected ECG data without having to interrupt or move the logger, and later link the module to a computer for downloading and analyzing the data. A mobile ECG measurement prototype is manufactured and tested to measure the FECG for pregnant women. The experimental results verify a real-time FECG extraction capability for the proposed system. In this paper, we propose an ECG measurement system that shows approximately 91.65% similarity to the MIT database and the conventional algorithm and SNR performance about 10% better.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2007년도 제38회 하계학술대회
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• pp.1910-1911
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• 2007

A new method for estimating and eliminating electrocardiogram (ECG) artifacts from single channel scalp electroencephalogram (EEG) is proposed. The proposed method consists of emphasis of QRS complex from EEG using least squares acceleration (LSA) filter, generation of synchronized pulse with R-peak and ECG artifacts estimation and elimination using adaptive filter. The performance of the proposed method was evaluated using simulated and real EEG recordings, we found that the ECG artifacts were successfully estimated and eliminated in comparison with the conventional multi-channel techniques, which are independent component analysis (ICA) and ensemble average (EA) method. In conclusion, we can conclude that the proposed method is useful for the detecting and eliminating the ECG artifacts from single channel EEG and simple to use for ambulatory/portable EEG monitoring system.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제6권12호
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• pp.89-95
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• 2006

독립성분분석을 사용한 암묵신호분리의 성능은 잔향이 존재하는 환경에서 잔류 누설 성분 (cross-talk) 때문에 현저히 저하된다. 본 논문에서는 잔류 누설 성분을 제거하기 위한 후처리 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 주파수 영역에서의 변형된 NLMS(normalized least mean square) 필터를 사용하며 필터의 역할은 잔류 누설 성분을 유발하는 누설 경로를 추정하는 데 있다. 특정 채널에서 잔류하는 누설 성분은 상대 채널의 직접 성분에 해당되므로 관측되는 상대 채널의 입력신호를 이용하여 누설 경로를 추정할 수 있다. 변형된 NLMS 필터는 필터 입력 신호의 전력과 추정 오차 신호의 전력을 함께 고려하여 정규화한다. 특정 채널의 직접 신호 성분은 적응 필터에서 잡음처럼 동작하여 결국 적응필터가 오조정되기 때문에 제안하는 방법을 통해 적응필터의 오조정을 방지할 수 있다. 음성 신호를 사용한 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 결과를 통해 제안하는 방법이 후처리를 사용하지 않은 경우에 비해 잡음 제거 성능(NRR)이 약 3dB 정도 개선되는 것을 확인 할 수 있다.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제43권4호
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• pp.185-192
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• 2022

Early detection of mild cognitive impairment can help prevent the progression of dementia. The purpose of this study was to design and validate a machine learning model that automatically differential diagnosed patients with mild cognitive impairment and identified cognitive decline characteristics compared to a control group with normal cognition using resting-state quantitative electroencephalogram (qEEG) with eyes closed. In the first step, a rectified signal was obtained through a preprocessing process that receives a quantitative EEG signal as an input and removes noise through a filter and independent component analysis (ICA). Frequency analysis and non-linear features were extracted from the rectified signal, and the 3067 extracted features were used as input of a linear support vector machine (SVM), a representative algorithm among machine learning algorithms, and classified into mild cognitive impairment patients and normal cognitive adults. As a result of classification analysis of 58 normal cognitive group and 80 patients in mild cognitive impairment, the accuracy of SVM was 86.2%. In patients with mild cognitive impairment, alpha band power was decreased in the frontal lobe, and high beta band power was increased in the frontal lobe compared to the normal cognitive group. Also, the gamma band power of the occipital-parietal lobe was decreased in mild cognitive impairment. These results represented that quantitative EEG can be used as a meaningful biomarker to discriminate cognitive decline.

• Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.223-232
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• 2017

Purpose: To report the use of multiband accelerated echo-planar imaging (EPI) for resting-state functional MRI (rs-fMRI) to achieve rapid high temporal resolution at 3T compared to conventional EPI. Materials and Methods: rs-fMRI data were acquired from 20 healthy right-handed volunteers by using three methods: conventional single-band gradient-echo EPI acquisition (Data 1), multiband gradient-echo EPI acquisition with 240 volumes (Data 2) and 480 volumes (Data 3). Temporal signal-to-noise ratio (tSNR) maps were obtained by dividing the mean of the time course of each voxel by its temporal standard deviation. The resting-state sensorimotor network (SMN) and default mode network (DMN) were estimated using independent component analysis (ICA) and a seed-based method. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed between the tSNR map, SMN, and DMN from the three data sets for between-group analysis. P < 0.05 with a family-wise error (FWE) correction for multiple comparisons was considered statistically significant. Results: One-way ANOVA and post-hoc two-sample t-tests showed that the tSNR was higher in Data 1 than Data 2 and 3 in white matter structures such as the striatum and medial and superior longitudinal fasciculus. One-way ANOVA revealed no differences in SMN or DMN across the three data sets. Conclusion: Within the adapted metrics estimated under specific imaging conditions employed in this study, multiband accelerated EPI, which substantially reduced scan times, provides the same quality image of functional connectivity as rs-fMRI by using conventional EPI at 3T. Under employed imaging conditions, this technique shows strong potential for clinical acceptance and translation of rs-fMRI protocols with potential advantages in spatial and/or temporal resolution. However, further study is warranted to evaluate whether the current findings can be generalized in diverse settings.