• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제15권5호
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• pp.1108-1118
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• 2019

Non-local means (NLM) algorithm is an effective and successful denoising method, but it is computationally heavy. To deal with this obstacle, we propose a novel NLM algorithm with fuzzy metric (FM-NLM) for image denoising in this paper. A new feature metric of visual features with fuzzy metric is utilized to measure the similarity between image pixels in the presence of Gaussian noise. Similarity measures of luminance and structure information are calculated using a fuzzy metric. A smooth kernel is constructed with the proposed fuzzy metric instead of the Gaussian weighted L2 norm kernel. The fuzzy metric and smooth kernel computationally simplify the NLM algorithm and avoid the filter parameters. Meanwhile, the proposed FM-NLM using visual structure preferably preserves the original undistorted image structures. The performance of the improved method is visually and quantitatively comparable with or better than that of the current state-of-the-art NLM-based denoising algorithms.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제7권12호
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• pp.3037-3054
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• 2013

Interference between primary user (PU) and secondary user (SU) transceivers should be mitigated in order to implement underlay spectrum sharing in cognitive radio networks (CRN). Considering this scenario, an improved joint subcarrier and bit allocation scheme for cognitive user with primary users' cooperation (PU Coop) in CRN is proposed. In this scheme, the optimization problem is formulated to minimize the average interference power level at the PU receiver via PU Coop, which guarantees a higher primary signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) while maintaining the secondary user total rate constraint. The joint optimal scheme is separated into subcarrier allocation and bit assignment in each subcarrier via arith-metric geo-metric (AM-GM) inequality with asymptotical optimization solution. Moreover, the joint subcarrier and bit optimization scheme, which is evaluated by the available SU subcarriers and the allocated bits, is analyzed in the proposed PU Coop model. The performance of cognitive spectral efficiency and the average interference power level are investigated. Numerical analysis indicates that the SU's spectral efficiency increases significantly compared with the PU non-cooperation scenario. Moreover, the interference power level decreases dramatically for the proposed scheme compared with the traditional Hughes-Hartogs bit allocation scheme.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.665-670
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• 2016

This paper proposes a repeat-back jamming signal detection scheme using a correlation ratio test metric of a combined pseudo-random noise signal for global navigation satellite systems. The correlation ratio test metric allows for the monitoring of possible distortions in the signal correlation. The proposed scheme is a modified version of the correlation ratio test metric to detect a repeat-back jamming signal in a multipath environment. Through a Monte-Carlo simulation, it is confirmed that the proposed scheme detects almost the whole case, which is received a repeat-back jamming signal under the 6 dB jamming to signal power ratio.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제27권6A호
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• pp.562-567
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• 2002

잡음 예측 최대 유사도(noise predictive maximum likelihood, NPML) 검출기는 잡음 예측/백색화 과정을 비터비 검출기의 가지 메트릭 계산 과정에 삽입하여 데이터 검출의 신뢰성을 높이게 된다. 따라서 기존의 PRML 검출기에 잡음 예측기를 포함시킴으로써 그것의 실제 성능이 향상되고 복잡도가 줄어드는 이점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 선형 채널과 비선형 채널 하에서 랜덤 시퀀스와 런-길이 제한 (1,7) 시퀀스를 적용하여, 고밀도 수직 자기 기록 (1.7$\leq$K$_{p}$$\leq$3.0)에서 잡음 예측 PR-등화 신호에 의한 NP(1221)ML 검출 시스템이 보다 높은 타수의 PR(12321)ML 시스템보다 복잡도가 낮으면서 우월한 성능을 나타냄을 모의 실험을 통해 분석, 검증하였다.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권3C호
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• pp.336-342
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• 2003

잡음 예측 최대 유사도(noise predictive maximum likelihood, NPML) 검출기는 잡음 예측/백색화 과정을 비터비 검출기의 가지 메트릭 계산 과정에 삽입하여 데이터 검출의 신뢰성을 높이게 된다. 따라서 기존의 PRML검출기에 잡음 예측기를 포함시킴으로써 그것의 실제 성능이 향상되고 복잡도가 줄어드는 이점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 선형 채널 하에서 랜덤 시퀸스를 적용하였다. 수직 자기 기록 밀도 Kp=2.5에서 잡음 예측 PR-등화 신호에 의한 NP(121)ML과 NP(1221)ML 검출 시스템을 모의 실험을 통해 성능을 분석한 후 VHDL로 구현하여 검증하였다.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제18권5호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2010

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. This metric is verified by comparison between mean subjective ratings and several sound metrics. In this paper, more objective attributes are considered, which the attributes are 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.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제23권1호
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• pp.73-83
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• 2013

In previous works, psychoacoustic parameters have been used for objective quantification. However, these parameters do not agree well with subjective assessment. Therefore, the correlation between psychoacoustic parameters and the subjective rating of door closing sounds of sampled cars is low, and it is not sufficient to use psychoacoustic parameters as an objective metric to quantify the sound quality of door closing sounds. In this paper, a new method is proposed to objectively quantify the sound quality based on physiological acoustics and statistical signal processing. The gammatone filter, as a pre-processing, is used in models of the auditory system and kurtosis, which is the fourth-order moment of temporal signal, and is used to extract information about sound quality quantification for door closing sounds. The new metric obtained through the proposed method is highly correlated with subjective rating, and it is successfully applied to the quantification of the sound quality of door closing sounds.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2011년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.107-108
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• 2011

A methodology to measure 3-dimensional vibrational displacement of a structure by digital photogrammetry is proposed in this paper. Stereo digital images of a vibrating structure were obtained by two non-metric cameras. Then by applying the collinearity condition to the images, the 3-d displacement time history data of a point or many points can be calculated by the present methodology. Experimental work was performed to measure the displacement time history for a cantilever beam excited by a piezoelectric patch, in which the in-depth displacement data obtained by the proposed method well matched the laser sensor data.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문초록집
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• pp.332.2-332
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• 2002

Booming sound is one of the most important interior sound of a passenger car. The conventional booming noise research was focused on the reduction of the A-weighted sound pressure level. However A-weighted sound pressure level can not give the whole story about the booming sound of a passenger car. In this paper, we employed sound metric which is the subjective parameter used in psychoacoustics. (omitted)

• 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.