• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.619-627
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• 2015

This paper presents a speech enhancement method using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). In the training phase, each basis matrix of source signal is obtained from a proper database, and these basis matrices are utilized for the source separation. In this case, the performance of speech enhancement relies heavily on the basis matrix. The proposed method for which speech basis matrix is made a high reconstruction error for noise signal shows a better performance than the standard NMF which basis matrix is trained independently. For comparison, we propose another method, and evaluate one of previous method. In the experiment result, the performance is evaluated by perceptual evaluation speech quality and signal to distortion ratio, and the proposed method outperformed the other methods.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.171-176
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• 2006

Objectives : The objective of this study is to assess the factors influencing biological monitoring of textile coating factory workers exposed to N,N-dimethylformamide(DMF). Methods : We studied 35 workers who were occupationally exposed to DMF from 9 textile coating factories. The study was carried out in two phases; summer and winter. While air concentration of DMF, temperature and humidity were assessed in order to monitor the atmospheric conditions, biological monitoring was done to determine the internal dose by analyzing the N-methylformamide(NMF) collected from urine at the beginning and end of the shift. Questionnaires and medical surveillance were also obtained during the two phases. Results : Median air concentrations of DMF in winter and summer were 1.85 ppm and 2.78 ppm respectively. Also the difference between the urinary NMF concentration at the beginning and end of the shift $({\Delta}NMF)$ was always significant in each season (P < 0.001). The correlations between log DMF in air, log end-of-shift urinary NMF (r=0.555, P < 0.001) and log ${\Delta}NMF$ (r = 0.444, P < 0.001) was statistically significant in summer. The temperature, humidity, a shift system and different styles of clothing worn were significantly different during the two phases. In a multivariate analysis, temperature and the concentration of DMF in the air were the main factors influencing biological monitoring of textile coating factory workers. Conclusions : Concerning more comprehensive prevention measures to reduce exposure for those workers occupationally exposed to DMF, dermal exposure conditions such as temperature and humidity together with the air concentration of DMF should be assessed and biological monitoring is necessary to reduce adverse health effects, especially during the summer.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.682-689
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• 2019

In part-based image representation, the partial shapes of an object are represented as basis vectors, and an image is decomposed as a linear combination of basis vectors where the coefficients of those basis vectors represent the partial (or local) feature of an object. In this paper, a face recognition for occluded faces is proposed in which face images are represented using non-negative matrix factorization(NMF), one of part-based representation techniques, and recognized using an artificial neural network technique. Standard NMF, projected gradient NMF and orthogonal NMF were used in part-based representation of face images, and their performances were compared. Learning vector quantizer were used in the recognizer where Euclidean distance was used as the distance measure. Experimental results show that proposed recognition is more robust than the conventional face recognition for the occluded faces.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.32-41
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• 2023

Recently, studies on reverberation suppression using Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) have been actively conducted. The NMF method uses a cost function based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence for optimization. And some constraints are added such as temporal continuity, pulse length, and energy ratio between reverberation and target. The tendency of constraints are controlled by hyperparameters. Therefore, in order to effectively suppress reverberation, hyperparameters need to be optimized. However, related studies are insufficient so far. In this paper, the reverberation suppression performance according to the three hyperparameters of the NMF was analyzed by using sea experimental data. As a result of analysis, when the value of hyperparameters for time continuity and pulse length were high, the energy ratio between the reverberation and the target showed better performance at less than 0.4, but it was confirmed that there was variability depending on the ocean environment. It is expected that the analysis results in this paper will be utilized as a useful guideline for planning precise experiments for optimizing hyperparameters of NMF in the future.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.345-347
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• 2010

In this letter, we present a new speech hash function based on the non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) of linear prediction coefficients (LPCs). First, linear prediction analysis is applied to the speech to obtain its LPCs, which represent the frequency shaping attributes of the vocal tract. Then, the NMF is performed on the LPCs to capture the speech's local feature, which is then used for hash vector generation. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed hash function in terms of discrimination and robustness against various types of content preserving signal processing manipulations.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.773-777
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• 2005

This article is about using information technology to apply with water loss inspection system in District Metering Area (DMA). Inspector can check Flow rate and Minimum Night Flow; NMF via Smart Phone or PDA include sending SMS Alert in case the Pressure, Flow rate and NMF is over the range of controlling. This will be used as equipment to implement water loss in international proactive and can keep on water loss reduction more efficiency. The system consists of Data Logger which collects data of Flow rate from DMA Master Meter. PC is Wap Server which dial via modem in order to get data through FTP Protocal that will convert text file to Microsoft Access Database. Wappage will use xhtml language to show database on Wapbrowser and can show the result on Smart Phone or PDA by graph and table for system analysis.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.957-958
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• 2008

The human facial appearances vary globally and locally according to identity, pose, illumination, and expression variations. In this paper, we propose a hybrid-nonsmooth nonnegative matrix factorization (hybrid-nsNMF) based appearance model to represent various facial appearances which vary globally and locally. Instead of using single smooth matrix in nsNMF, we used two different smooth matrixes and combine them to extract global and local basis at the same time.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2017.11a
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• pp.202-203
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• 2017

비음수 행렬 인수분해(Non-negative Matrix Factorization, NMF)의 신호분리 성능을 개선하기 위해 희소조건을 인가한 방법이 희소 비음수 행렬 인수분해 알고리즘(Sparse NMF, SNMF)이다. 기존의 SNMF 알고리즘은 개별 음원의 희소성을 고려하지 않고 임의로 결정한 희소 조건을 사용한다. 본 논문에서는 음원의 특성에 따른 희소성을 추정하고 이를 SNMF 학습알고리즘에 적용하는 새로운 신호분리 기법을 제안한다. 혼합 신호에서의 잡음제거 실험을 통해, 제안한 방법이 기존의 NMF와 SNMF에 비해 성능이 더 우수함을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2011.06c
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• pp.373-376
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• 2011

얼굴 영상에서 구성요소(눈썹, 눈, 코, 입 등)의 존재에 따라 보는 사람의 얼굴 인식 정확도는 큰 영향을 받는다. 이는 인간의 뇌에서 얼굴 정보를 처리하는 과정은 얼굴 전체 영역 뿐만 아니라, 부분적인 얼굴 구성요소의 특징들도 고려함을 말한다. 비음수 행렬 분해(NMF: Non-negative Matrix Factorization)는 이러한 얼굴 영역에서 부분적인 특징들을 잘 표현하는 기저영상들을 찾아내는데 효과적임을 보여주었으나, 각 기저영상들의 중요도는 알 수 없었다. 본 논문에서는 NMF로 찾아진 기저영상들에 대응되는 인코딩 정보를 SLR(Sparse Logistic Regression)을 이용하여 성별 인식에 중요한 부분 영역들을 찾고자 한다. 실험에서는 주성분분석(PCA)과 비교를 통해 NMF를 이용한 기저영상 및 특징 벡터 추출이 좋은 성능을 보여주고, 대표적 이진 분류 알고리즘인 SVM(Support Vector Machine)과 비교를 통해 SLR을 이용한 특징 벡터 선택이 나은 성능을 보여줌을 확인하였다. 또한 SLR로 확인된 각 기저영상에 대한 가중치를 통하여 인식 과정에서 중요한 얼굴 영역들을 확인할 수 있다.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.37 no.4
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• pp.780-786
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• 2015

This paper describes an audio source separation that is based on nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) and expectation maximization (EM). For stable and highperformance separation, an effective auxiliary source separation that extracts source residuals and reprojects them onto proper sources is proposed by taking into account an ambiguous region among sources and a source's refinement. Specifically, an additional NMF (model) is designed for the ambiguous region - whose elements are not easily represented by any existing or predefined NMFs of the sources. The residual signal can be extracted by inserting the aforementioned model into the NMF-EM-based audio separation. Then, it is refined by the weighted parameters of the separation and reprojected onto the separated sources. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed scheme (outlined above) is more stable and outperforms existing algorithms by, on average, 4.4 dB in terms of the source distortion ratio.