• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.1491-1501
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose a method to measure respiration rate by dividing the respiration related region in depth image using level set method. In the conventional method, the respiration related region was separated using the pre-defined region designated by the user. We separate the respiration related region using level set method combining shape prior knowledge. Median filter and clipping are performed as a preprocessing method for noise reduction in the depth image. As a feasibility test, respiration activity was recorded using depth camera in various environments with arm movements or body movements during breathing. Respiration activity was also measured simultaneously using a chest belt to verify the accuracy of calculated respiration rate. Experimental results show that our proposed method shows good performance for respiration rate estimation in various situation compared with the conventional method.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2009년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.137-142
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• 2009

Impact noise is induced in a car when it is driven on a harsh road or over some bumps. This noise occurs with the very high level of sound, which affects passengers in some way or other. Although it is impossible to clearly remove such noise. It is necessary to research an improvement in sound quality for impact noise. A new sound metric for impact sound is presented in the previous work. This metric is verified by comparison between mean subjective ratings and several sound metrics. In this paper, more objective attributes are considered, which are the attributes expressing the level and modulation of sound. Three sound metrics are employed to get impact sound indexes for each course by the method of multiple linear regressions. The indexes are verified by considering the correlation between the estimated values from the multiple linear regressions and the mean subjective ratings by evaluators. Also, the subjective ratings on the indexes are estimated for the case in which some parts of suspension system are changed. The estimated ratings represent more reasonable or acceptable ratings. Thus, such indexes can be used for modification of the parts of suspension system under considering a good sound quality.

• 대한의용생체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한의용생체공학회 1994년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.96-99
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• 1994

Despite the simplicity of processing, a conventional autocorrelation function(ACF) method for the precise determination of fetal heart rate (FHR) has many problems. In case of weak or noise corrupted Doppler ultrasound signal. the ACF method is very sensitive to the threshold level and data window length. It is very troublesome to extract FHR when there is a data loss. To overcome these problems, the high resolution pitch detection algorithm was adopted to estimate the FHR. This method is more accurate, robust and reliable than the ACF method. With a lot of calculation, however, it is impossible to process real time FHR estimation. This paper is presented a new FHR estimation algorithm for real time processing.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권5호
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• pp.510-514
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• 2011

To detect the insulator in the fault state on the electric poles, we first measured radiation sounds from normal state insulators and error state insulators in the anechoic chamber. We processed the signals in frequency domain to find the features with filter bank, narrow band and wide band analysis. So we could found two apparent results from their frequency spectrums - one was 120Hz harmonic components, the other was high average noise level than normal state ones. Then we also introduced a technique for the direction detection of the fault state insulator using the cross correlation from the three dimensional array microphones. To eliminate the noise signal from unexpected directions, we suggested the zero padding technique in cross correlation function. From these, we could conclude that acoustic fault detection techniques are useful of the detection of insulators' faults and the estimation of the direction of the fault state insulators.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2007년도 춘계학술대회논문집
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• pp.344-348
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• 2007

The acoustic liner has been used for the suppression of noise. The impedance characteristics of the acoustic liner are increased by the incident pressure. For the estimation of the acoustic liner on the incident acoustic pressure effect, the modified impedance model is suggested on the basis of the GE impedance prediction model. The modified impedance model is originated from the 3 parameter impedance model, and extended to the incident pressure parameter. The modified model is applied on the simple duct analysis with variant source pressure. Through the computation, it is observed that the fore directivity patterns of the duct are varied by the incident SPL level.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제39권11호
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• pp.21-27
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• 2002

QAM-OFDM 시스템에서 결정지향 채널추정을 위해 사용하는 2차원 필터의 최적의 크기와 모양은 도플러 주파수, 신호의 지연확산, 신호 대 잡음비 등 채널의 특성과 함께 송신 심벌의 크기에 의해서 결정된다. 기존의 채널 추정방법들은 QAM 변조 방식에서의 송신 심벌의 크기의 다양성을 고려하지 않고 채널 특성만을 고려한 고정된 형태의 필터를 취하는 데 반해서 이 논문에서는 단순하면서도 송신 심벌의 크기의 다양성을 고려한 필터를 제안한다. 제안된 채널추정방법은 작은 크기의 필터로 예측잡음을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있으므로 구현 복잡도를 줄일 수 있는 가능성을 가질 뿐만 아니라 채널의 변화에 의한 성능 감소 효과도 적어 더 우수한 성능을 나타낼 수 있다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제30권6C호
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• pp.475-480
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• 2005

이동 통신 시스템에서 최대 도플러 주파수 정보는 여러 가지 채널 적응 기술들과 무선 자원 관리 방법들의 무선 채널에 대한 최적화를 가능하게 한다. 본 논문에서는 레벨 교차율(LCR: level crossing rate) 및 공분산 함수(COV: covariance)에 기반을 둔 두 가지 최대 도플러 주파수 추정 기법을 제안한다. 부가 잡음의 영향을 제거하기 위해 신호 대 잡음비(SNR)에 독립적인 성능을 위한 조건을 분석하고, 제시한 조건을 만족시키기 위하여 하향 표본화 (downsampling) 방법을 이용한 도플러 주파수 추정 알고리즘을 새로이 제안하다. 모의실험을 통해, 제안된 기법이 SNR 변화에 상관없이 좋은 성능을 나타냄을 확인할 수 있다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.647-667
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• 2016

In this paper, dynamic displacement is estimated with high accuracy by blending high-sampling rate acceleration data with low-sampling rate displacement measurement using a two-stage Kalman estimator. In Stage 1, the two-stage Kalman estimator first approximates dynamic displacement. Then, the estimator in Stage 2 estimates a bias with high accuracy and refines the displacement estimate from Stage 1. In the previous Kalman filter based displacement techniques, the estimation accuracy can deteriorate due to (1) the discontinuities produced when the estimate is adjusted by displacement measurement and (2) slow convergence at the beginning of estimation. To resolve these drawbacks, the previous techniques adopt smoothing techniques, which involve additional future measurements in the estimation. However, the smoothing techniques require more computational time and resources and hamper real-time estimation. The proposed technique addresses the drawbacks of the previous techniques without smoothing. The performance of the proposed technique is verified under various dynamic loading, sampling rate and noise level conditions via a series of numerical simulations and experiments. Its performance is also compared with those of the existing Kalman filter based techniques.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제68권1호
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• pp.102-107
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• 2019

This paper proposes a method to improve the mass spectral detection performance of the residual gas analyzer. By improving the mode estimation method for setting the threshold value and improving the additive noise elimination method, it is possible to detect mass spectrums having low peak values of the threshold level difficult to distinguish from noise. Ion signal blocks for each mass index with noise removed by the improved method are effective for eliminating invalid ion signals based on the linear and quadratic fittings. The mass spectrum can be obtained from the quadratic fitted curves for the reconstructed ion signal block using only the valid ion signals. In addition, the resolution of the mass spectrum can be improved by correcting the error caused by the shift of the spectral peak position. To verify the performance of the proposed method, computer simulations were performed using real ion signals obtained from the residual gas analysis system under development. The simulation results show that the proposed method is valid.

• 자원환경지질
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.155-163
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• 2005

RR (Remote Reference)과 SNS (Signal Noise Separation) 기법을 도입하여 용인과 이천에서 측정된 지자기 전달함수를 분석하였다. RR 기법은 측정 사이트와 동시에 기록되는 원격참조 자료를 사용하여 자기장의 비상관 잡음 (un-correlated noise)을 제거하는 기법으로서 전달함수의 편향을 최소화한다. 한편 SNS 기법은 원격참조 자료가 잡음이 거의 없다는 가정을 바탕으로 신호에 의한 전달함수와 상관잡음(correlated noise)에 의한 전달함수를 분리하는 기법으로서, 측정 사이트에 상관잡음이 지배적인 경우에도 신호에 의해 전달함수를 성공적으로 추정할 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 자료의 질이 양호하다고 판단되는 이천을 원격참조 자료로 사용하여, 용인에서의 전달함수를 분석하였다. RR기법을 적용한 곁과, 단일 로버스트 추정(Single robust estimation)에서 나타났던 편향이 감소되었고, 주파수에 따른 전달함수의 연결성도 향상되었다. 잡음원에 대한 보다 정량적인 분석을 위해 SNS 기법을 적용한 결과, 주기 100초 이하에서 용인의 서쪽에 존재하는 잡음원의 존재를 확인하였다. 이러한 잡음원은 용인의 서쪽을 지나가는 국철, 고속철도 등의 철도 시스템에 의한 것으로 생각된다.