• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.1207-1212
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• 2018

The signal intelligence (SIGINT) technology is actively used for collecting various data, in a number of fields, including a military industry. In order to collect the signal information and data and to transmit/receive the collected data efficiently, the accurate angle-of-arrival (AOA) information is required and communication disturbance from the interference or jamming signal should be minimized. In this paper, we present the structure of an adaptive beam-forming satellite system based on the planar array antenna, for collecting and transmitting/receiving the signal information and data efficiently. The presented adaptive beam-forming system consists of an antenna in the form of a planar array, an AOA estimator based on the Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm, an adaptive Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) interference canceler, a signal processing and D/B unit, and a transmission beamformer based on Minimum mean Square Error (MMSE). In addition, through the computer simulation, we evaluate and analyze the performance of the proposed system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.145-153
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• 2019

Adaptive beamforming methods are known to suppress sidelobes and improve detection performance of weak signal by constructing weight vectors depending on the received signal itself. A standard adaptive beamforming like the MVDR (Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) is very sensitive to mismatches between weight vectors and actual signal steering vectors. Also, a large computational complexity for estimating a stable covariance matrix is required when wideband beamforming for a large-scale array is used. In this paper, we exploit the WBRCB (Wideband Robust Capon Beamforming) method for stable and robust wideband adaptive beamforming of a passive large uniform line array sonar. To improve robustness of adaptive beamforming performance in the presence of mismatches, we extract a optimum mismatch parameter. WBRCB with extracted mismatch parameter shows performance improvement in beamforming using synthetic and experimental passive sonar signals.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• spring
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• pp.207-210
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• 2004

수직선배열과 이동음원을 이용하여 수심이 140m인 동해 연안에서 정합장처리 실험을 실시하고 신호를 분석하였다. Battlett, MVDR, WMGC 정합장처리기를 이용하여 음원위치추정을 수행하였다. 실험 해역의 수온구조는 내부파등의 단주기 변동의 영향을 크게 받는 것으로 알려져 왔으며, 정합장처리 결과에서도 단주기변동의 영향을 받아 부엽준위가 증가하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.24 no.1E
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• pp.21-27
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• 2005

Environmental mismatch has been one of important issues discussed in matched field processing for underwater source detection problem. To overcome this mismatch many algorithms professing robustness have been suggested. Feature extraction method (FEM) [Seong and Byun, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 27(3), 642-652 (2002)] is one of robust matched field processing algorithms, which is based on the eigenvector estimation. Excluding eigenvectors of replica covariance matrix corresponding to large eigenvalues and forming an incoherent subspace of the replica field, the processor is formulated similarly to MUSIC algorithm. In this paper, by using the ocean experimental data, processing results of FEM and MVDR with white noise constraint (WNC) are presented for two levels of multi-tone source. Analysis of eigen-space of CSDM and FEM performance are also presented.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.934-936
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• 2017

화자인식 기술은 등록된 화자 목록 내 화자 또는 사칭 화자의 발화로부터 발화자를 식별하는 기술로써, 음성 소스를 기반으로 동작하는 디바이스의 개인화를 위해 필요한 기술이다. 본 논문에서는 차량 잡음이 존재하는 자동차 주행 환경을 타겟으로 하는 화자인식 시스템 개발 방법을 제안한다. 차량 잡음에 의해 오염된 음성신호로부터 잡음 성분을 제거하기 위해 parametric multi-channel Wiener filter (PWMF)를 이용하여 실험한 결과, 남성화자 조건에서는 PMWF의 내부 파라미터 조절을 통해 필터를 minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) 빔포머로 동작하도록 설정하였을 때, 여성화자 조건에서는 잡음을 제거하지 않았을 때 가장 낮은 동일오류율을 보임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.457-459
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• 2018

화자인식 기술은 주어진 임의의 두 발화로부터 발화자의 일치 여부를 판단하여 등록된 화자의 목록으로부터 임의로 입력된 발화의 발화자를 식별하는 기술이다. 그러나, 배경잡음이나 반향이 존재하는 경우에는 음성신호가 왜곡되어 화자인식 성능이 저하될 수 있기 때문에 별도의 음성신호 전처리 알고리즘을 함께 사용할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 배경잡음이 존재하는 환경에서 다수의 마이크로폰을 통해 수집한 음성신호에 대해 화자인식을 수행하는 방법으로써 parametric multi-channel Wiener filter (PMWF)를 이용한 화자일치 점수 앙상블 기법을 제안한다. 입력신호의 신호대잡음비를 기준으로 점수 결합 시 사용되는 결합계수를 정하고, Wiener filter 로 잡음을 제거하여 얻은 점수와 minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) 빔포머를 통해 잡음을 제거하여 얻은 정수를 가중결합하는 방식으로 동일오류율을 측정한 결과, 각 전처리 알고리즘을 독립적으로 사용하여 점수를 계산한 경우보다 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.379-385
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• 2020

The satellite employs an adaptive beamformer to efficiently detect various signals and to suppress multiple interference signals, simultaneously. Although the adaptive beamforming satellite system needs Angle-of-Arrival (AOA) information of the desired signal, it is difficult to estimate the signal AOAs on the satellite environment. However, the AOA estimation on the ground control tower is more efficient and accurate comparing to the satellite environment. In this paper, we propose an adaptive beamforming satellite system based on the signal location information on the ground, consisting on an angle estimator, an adaptive beamformer, and signal processing & D/B unit. The ground control tower estimates the accurate location of the signal source, and it sends the estimated coordinates of the desired signal to the satellite. The angle estimator mounted on the satellite calculates the desired signal AOA, based on the signal location information transmitted from the ground control center. The satellite beamformer detects the desired signal and suppresses unwanted signals based on the signal AOA calculated by the angle estimator. We provide computer simulation results to present the performance of the proposed satellite adaptive beamforming system based on the signal location information.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.32-45
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• 2000

This paper presents the analytic derivation of the SINR, when a linear array antenna is accommodated into the cellular CDMA basestation receiver, in relation to the two major performance effecting factors in beamforming(BF) applications, i. e., the direction selectivity, which refers to the narrowness of the mainbeam width, and the direction-of-arrival(DOA) estimation accuracy. The analytically derived results are compared with the operation simulation of the receiver realized with the several BF algorithms and their agreements are confirmed, consequently verifying the correctness of the analysis and the operation simulation. In order to investigate separately the effects of the errors occurring in the direction estimation and in the interference suppression, which are the two major functional components of general BF algorithms, both the algorithms of steering BF and the minimum- variance- distortionless-response(MVDR) BF are applied to the analysis. A signal model to reflect the spatially scattering phenomenon of the RF waves entering into the .:nay antenna, which directly affects on the accuracy of the BF algorithm's direction estimation, is also suggested in this paper and applied to the analysis and the operation simulation. It is confirmed from the results that the enhancement of the direction selectivity of the away antenna is not desirable in view of both the implementation economy and the BF algorithm's robustness to the erroneous factors. Such a trade-off characteristics is significant in the sense that it can be capitalized to obtain an economic means of BF implementation that does not severely deteriorate its performance while ensuring the robustness to the erroneous effects, consequently manifesting the significance of the analysis results of this paper that can be used as a design reference in developing BF algorithms to the cellular CDMA system.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.582-589
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose a new method that combines antenna array, which employs any beamforming algorithm, and successive interference cancelling multiuser detector which improves the performance of the receiver and analyse its performance. Antenna away receivers can improve the performance by spatially discriminating among the users and reducing the multiple access interference. But the performance of the receivers degrades when the difference of the direction of arrival of the users are too small. Many interference cancelling multiuser detectors have been suggested for DS/CDMA systems which have low complexity for their performance. In this paper, we show how to mitigate such a degradation by combining successive interference cancelling multiuser detector.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.74-86
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• 2014

The optimization techniques are explored in the direction of arrival (DOA) estimation based on single acoustic pressure gradient vector sensor (APGVS). By analyzing the working principle and measurement errors of the APGVS, acoustic intensity approaches (AI) and the minimum variance distortionless response beamforming approach based on single APGVS (VMVDR) are deduced. The radius to wavelength ratio of the APGVS must be not bigger than 0.1 in the actual application, otherwise its DOA estimation performance will degrade significantly. To improve the robustness and estimation performance of the DOA estimation approaches based on single APGVS, two modified processing approaches based on single APGVS are presented. Simulation and lake trial results indicate that the performance of the modified approaches based on single APGVS are better than AI and VMVDR approaches based on single APGVS when the radius to wavelength ratio is not bigger than 0.1, and the two modified DOA estimation methods have excellent estimation performance when the radius to wavelength ratio is bigger than 0.1.