• The Korean Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology
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• 제13권3호
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• pp.221-227
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• 2009

For successful restoration of visual function by a visual neural prosthesis such as retinal implant, electrical stimulation should evoke neural responses so that the informat.ion on visual input is properly represented. A stimulation strategy, which means a method for generating stimulation waveforms based on visual input, should be developed for this purpose. We proposed to use the decoding of visual input from retinal ganglion cell (RGC) responses for the evaluation of stimulus encoding strategy. This is based on the assumption that reliable encoding of visual information in RGC responses is required to enable successful visual perception. The main purpose of this study was to determine the influence of inter-dependence among stimulated RGCs activities on decoding accuracy. Light intensity variations were decoded from multiunit RGC spike trains using an optimal linear filter. More accurate decoding was possible when different types of RGCs were used together as input. Decoding accuracy was enhanced with independently firing RGCs compared to synchronously firing RGCs. This implies that stimulation of independently-firing RGCs and RGCs of different types may be beneficial for visual function restoration by retinal prosthesis.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.411-421
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• 2013

Digital fountain codes are record-breaking codes for erasure channels. They have many potential applications in both wired and wireless communications. Most existing digital fountain codes operate over binary fields using an iterative belief-propagation (BP) decoding algorithm. In this paper, we propose a new iterative decoding algorithm for both binary and nonbinary fields. The basic form of our proposed algorithm considers both degree-1 and degree-2 check nodes (instead of only degree-1 check nodes as in the original BP decoding scheme), and has linear complexity. Extensive simulation demonstrates that it outperforms the original BP decoding scheme, especially for a small number of source packets. The enhanced form of the proposed algorithm combines the basic form of the algorithm and a guess-based algorithm to further improve the decoding performance. Simulation results demonstrate that it can provide better decoding performance than the guess-based algorithm with fewer guesses, and can achieve decoding performance close to that of the maximum likelihood decoder at a much lower decoding complexity. Last, we show that our nonbinary scheme has the potential to outperform the binary scheme when choosing suitable degree distributions, and furthermore it is insensitive to the size of the Galois field.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.20-26
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 NM(node monitoring) 알고리듬과 NP(Piecewise Linear Function Approximation)를 사용해서 LDPC 코드 복호의 복잡도를 감소시키기 위한 효율적인 알고리듬을 제안한다. 이 NM 알고리듬은 새로운 node-threshold 방법과 message passing 알고리듬에 근거해서 제안되었는데, 이에 NP 방법을 사용해서 알고리듬의 복잡도를 더 줄일 수 있었다. 이 알고리듬의 효율성을 입증하기 위해서 모의 실험을 하였다. 모의실험결과, 기존에 잘 알려진 방법에 비해서 20% 정도 더 효율적이었다.

• 한국수학교육학회지시리즈E:수학교육논문집
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• 제6권
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• pp.371-381
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• 1997

Let p be an odd prime number. We introduce simple and useful decoding algorithm for orthogonal Latin square codes of order p. Let H be the parity check matrix of orthogonal Latin square code. For any x ${\in}$ GF(p)$^{n}$, we call xH$^{T}$ the syndrome of x. This method is based on the syndrome decoding for linear codes. In L$_{p}$, we need to find the first and the second coordinates of codeword in order to correct the errored received vector.

• 대한임베디드공학회논문지
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• 제6권3호
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• pp.168-173
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• 2011

In this paper, an optical image hiding technique using real-valued decoding key is proposed. In the embedding process, a each zero-padded original image placed in a quadrants on an input plane is multiplied by a statistically independent random phase pattern and is Fourier transformed. An encoded image is obtained by taking the real-valued data from the Fourier transformed image. And then a phase-encoded pattern, used as a hidden image and a decoding key, is generated by the use of multiple phase wrapping from the encoded images. A transmitted image is made from the linear superposition of the weighted hidden images and a cover image. In reconstruction process, the mirror reconstructed images can be obtained at two quadrants by the inverse-Fourier transform of the product of the transmitted image and the decoding key. Computer simulation and optical experiment are demonstrated in order to confirm the proposed technique.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.1231-1238
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 노드 모니터링(NM)과 Piecewise Linear Function Approximation(: NP)을 사용하여 LDPC 디코딩 알고리듬의 계산복잡도를 감소시키는 알고리듬을 제안한다. 이 알고리듬은 기존의 알고리듬보다도 더 효율적이다. 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 방법보다도 개선되었다는 것을 확인하기 위해서 모의실험을 하였다. 실험결과, 제안된 알고리즘의 계산은 기존의 방법에 비해 약 20 % 향상되었음을 확인하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제33권12C호
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• pp.1062-1067
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• 2008

ABBA codes, a class of quasi-orthognal space-time block codes (QoSTBC) proposed by Tirkkonen and others, allow full rate and a fast maximum likelihood (ML) decoding, but do not have full diversity. In this paper, a linear complex precoder is proposed for ABBA codes to achieve full rate and full diversity. Moreover, the same diversity produce as that of orthogonal space-time block code with linear complex precoder (OSTBC-LCP) is achieved. Meanwhile, the size of the linear complex precoder can be reduced by half without affecting performance, which means the same complexity of decoding as that of the conventional ABBA code is guaranteed.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.44-54
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• 2008

In this paper, an iterative multiple symbol differential detection for turbo coded differential unitary space-time modulation using a posteriori probability (APP) demodulator is investigated. Two approaches of different complexity based on linear prediction are presented to utilize the temporal correlation of fading for the APP demodulator. The first approach intends to take account of all possible previous symbols for linear prediction, thus requiring an increase of the number of trellis states of the APP demodulator. In contrast, the second approach applies Viterbi algorithm to assist the APP demodulator in estimating the previous symbols, hence allowing much reduced decoding complexity. These two approaches are found to provide a trade-off between performance and complexity. It is shown through simulation that both approaches can offer significant BER performance improvement over the conventional differential detection under both correlated slow and fast Rayleigh flat-fading channels. In addition, when comparing the first approach to a modified bit-interleaved turbo coded differential space-time modulation counterpart of comparable decoding complexity, the proposed decoding structure can offer performance gain over 3 dB at BER of $10^{-5}$.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권10A호
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• pp.976-981
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• 2006

다중 안테나(MIMO) 시스템은 무선 통신에서 높은 전송용량을 제공하지만 사용하는 안테나의 숫자가 증가할수록 수신단의 복호 과정에서 높은 연산량이 요구된다. 높은 연산량은 고속 통신 시스템의 구현을 어렵게 만드는 요인이다. 본 논문에서는 MIMO 시스템의 복호 기법으로 널리 알려진 ZF(Zero-Forcing) 방법과 SD(Sphere decoding) 방법을 결합하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘을 통해 수신단의 복호 과정에서 필요한 연산량을 크게 줄이는 동시에 비트 에러 율(BER) 성능은 SD와 비슷한 결과를 얻을 수 있다

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.190-198
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• 2002

화자확인에서 사용되는 디코딩 방법에는 음성인식에서 주로 사용되는 비터비 알고리듬을 사용하여 왔다. 그러나 화자확인에서는 화자의 특성을 최대한 발휘하여 같은 음소라도 화자마다 다르게 인식해야 하는 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 기존 화자확인 디코딩에서 사용하는 비터비 알고리듬을 대신하는 새로운 알고리듬을 제안하였다. 제안된 알고리듬은 음성인식에서 사용되고 있는화자 적응 알고리듬을 화자의 특성에 따라 모델 파라미터로 변환하는 것을 응용한 방법이다. 본 논문에서는 여러 적응 알고리듬중 MLLR(Maximum Likelihood Linear Regression)과 MAP (Maximum A-Posterior) 적응 알고리듬을 사용하였고 제안된 알고리듬이 기존의 비터비 알고리듬을 사용하였을 때보다 평균 30%의 EER (Equal Error Rate) 향상을 이루었다.