• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.117-123
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• 2011

Most individuals with hearing impairment have difficulty in understanding speech in noisy situations. This study was conducted to investigate sentence recognition ability using the Korean Standard-Sentence Lists for Preschoolers (KS-SL-P2) in pre-school age children with cochlear implants and hearing aids. The subjects of this study were 10 pre-school age children with hearing aids, 12 pre-school age children with cochlear implants, and 10 pre-school age children with normal hearing. Three kinds of signal-to-noise (SNR) conditions (+10 dB, +5 dB, 0 dB) were applied. The results for all pre-school age children with cochlear implants and hearing aids presented a significant increase in the score for sentence recognition as SNR increased. The sentence recognition score in speech noise were obtained with the SNR +10 dB. Significant differences existed between groups in terms of their sentence recognition ability, with the cochlear implant group performing better than the hearing aid group. These findings suggest the presence of a sentence recognition test using speech noise is useful for evaluating pre-school age children's listening skill.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.323-329
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 임의의 시점에서 발생하여 음성 신호의 일부분을 심하게 손상시키는 시간선택 잡음 (time-selective noise)을 보상하기 위한 프레임 신뢰도 가중 방법을 제안한다. 음성 프레임들은 서로 다른 정도의 신뢰도를 갖으며, 신뢰도는 프레임의 신호대잡음비 (signal-to-noise ratio)에 비례한다. 잡음이 일정한 경우에는 무음구간에서 획득한 잡음 정보를 이용하여 프레임의 신호대잡음비 추정이 용이하나, 시간선택 잡음은 잡음추정이 어렵다. 따라서, 본 연구에서는 프레임 신뢰도를 추정하기 위해 깨끗한 음성의 통계적 모델을 사용하였다. 제안한 MFR (model-based frame reliability) 방법은 탐조 모델의 평균 벡터열과 입력 MFCC (mel-frequency cepstral coefficient) 특징 벡터 열의 역변환에 의해 얻은 필터뱅크 에너지를 이용하여 프레임 신호대잡음비를 근사한다. 다양한 버스트 (burst) 잡음에 대한 인식 실험 결과, 제안한 방법은 프레임의 신뢰도를 효과적으로 나타낼 수 있었으며, 이 신뢰도를 우도 계산에서 가중치로 적용하여 인식 성능을 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Current Optics and Photonics
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.213-219
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• 2021

We describe a single-channel rubidium (Rb) radio-frequency atomic magnetometer (RFAM) as a receiver that takes magnetic signal resonating with Zeeman splitting of the ground state of Rb. We optimize the performance of the RFAM by recording the response signal and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in various parameters and obtain a noise level of 159 $fT{\sqrt{Hz}}$ around 30 kHz. When a resonant radiofrequency magnetic field with a peak amplitude of 8.0 nT is applied, the bandwidth and signal-to-noise ratio are about 650 Hz and 88 dB, respectively. It is a good agreement that RFAM using alkali atoms is suitable for receiving signals in the very low frequency (VLF) carrier band, ranging from 3 kHz to 30 kHz. This study shows the new capabilities of the RFAM in communications applications based on magnetic signals with the VLF carrier band. Such communication can be expected to expand the communication space by overcoming obstacles through the high magnetic sensitive RFAM.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제35권6호
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• pp.427-435
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• 2016

해양에서 배열센서를 사용하여 신호를 수신하는 경우 성능을 측정하는 척도로서 배열이득(Array Gain, AG)을 사용한다. 배열이득은 배열의 형상, 주파수 및 해양환경에 의한 소음의 방향성에 영향을 받는다. 본 논문에서는 배열이득을 모델링하고 예측하기 위하여 공간상관성을 이용하였으며, 해상실험을 통해서 예측모델을 검증하였다. 예측 모델에서는 임의형상의 배열 및 소음의 방향성을 고려할 수 있는 신호와 소음의 공간상관성을 사용하여 배열이득을 계산하였다. 해상실험에서는 예인음원을 이용하여 CW(Continuous Wave)를 수평배열센서로 수신하였으며, 송신신호 사이에 주변 소음을 측정하였고, 이로부터 개별센서와 배열센서의 SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio)을 계산하여 배열이득을 추정하였다. 최종적으로 실험적으로 측정한 배열이득과 예측모델을 이용한 배열이득을 비교 검증하였다.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권9호
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• pp.3122-3125
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• 2021

Electromagnetic vortex flowmeter is a new type of instrument for detecting leakage of steam generator, and the signal processing method based on the envelope to calculate energy ratio can effectively detect bubbles in sodium flow. The signal processing method is not affected by changes in the amplitude of the sensor output signal, which is caused by changes in magnetic field strength and other factors. However, the detection sensitivity of the electromagnetic vortex flowmeter is reduced. To this end, a signal processing method based on inverse Fourier transform to calculate energy ratio is proposed. According to the difference between the frequency band of the bubble noise signal and the flow signal, only the amplitude in the frequency band of the flow signal is retained in the frequency domain, and then the flow signal is obtained by the inverse Fourier transform method, thereby calculating the energy ratio. Using this method to process the experimental data, the results show that it can detect 0.1 g/s leak rate of water in the steam generator, and its performance is significantly better than that of the signal processing method based on the envelope to calculate energy ratio.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.11-18
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• 2001

다구찌가 제안한 파라미터 설계는 제품설계나 공정설계 단계에서 품질특성치의 수행변동(performance variation)을 줄이는데 있다. 파라미터 설계에서 품질평균 근처에서 품질의 변동을 줄일 수 있는 최적조건을 찾는데 있어서 신호대 잡음비(Signal-to-noise ratio; SN비)라는 수행측도(performance measure)를 사용하였다. 그러나 많은 통계학자들은 SN비를 이용한 다구찌 분석 기법을 비판한다. 본 논문에서는 파라미터 설계를 위한 최적조건을 찾는데 있어서 SN비를 사용하지 않는 보다 실질적인 최적방안을 제안한다.

• 전기의세계
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• 제29권9호
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• pp.584-593
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• 1980

Conventional radar antenna systems are susceptible to performance degradation caused by unwanted signals received via the antenna sidelobes and/or mainlobes. Adaptive array systems offer possible solution to this interference problem by automatically steering nulls to unwanted signals providing significant system performance improvement. Another important andvantage of the adaptive array is its self-optimization capability which uses the collective incoming noise data for the nulling purposes. This paper provides a tutorial introduction to adaptive arrays as well as some new development of recent research in this area. Optimum link between the antenna theory and signal processing has been sought by illustrating the gain patterns and output signal-to-noise ratio. Signal acqusition methods are shown including a new attempt of the use of spread-spectrum techniques in conjuction with array systems.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2003년도 ICCAS
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• pp.1254-1258
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• 2003

One of the major factors that effect sensor performance is analog noise that added in a sensor signal such as voltage. In multi-axis force sensors, error sources may be classified mainly in two groups. One is structural error due to inaccuracy of sensor body. The other error source is noise signals existing in the sensed information. This paper presents a brief review about the principle of multi-axis force sensors, and then proposes a method that can reduce the effect of noise signal to sensor performance. The method is to convert analog voltage signal to digital numbers near sensor body and then to read these digital signals and conduct signal processing in the computer. By this way, we can eliminate a bad effect of electromagnetic wave emitted from computer and of 60 Hz noise emitted from AC source. The proposed method is investigated through experimental demonstration. The experimental results show that it improves S/N ratio of the sensor about 40 times in our experimental setup.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.102-109
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• 2016

본 논문은 밀접한 간격의 두 개의 마이크 배열 환경에서 SNR(Signal-to-Noise Ratio) 추정을 통한 잡음 억제 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 방법은 전 밴드에서 간섭 함수 기반의 SNR 추정을 통해 이득 함수를 얻는 잡음 억제 방법을 사용한다. 그러나 이 방법은 잡음으로 인한 손상이 모든 특징 벡터 성분에 영향을 미쳐 성능을 저하시키는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 따라서 주파수 영역의 신호를 N개의 다중 주파수 밴드로 구분하고 각 밴드별로 간섭 함수 기반의 SNR 추정을 통한 이득 함수를 얻는 잡음 억제 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법의 성능평가는 ITU-T(International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication)에서 제공되는 객관적인 품질 평가 방법인 PESQ(Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality)로 비교하여 나타내었다.

• 한국측량학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국측량학회 2006년도 춘계학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.193-198
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• 2006

Among 242 Hyperion bands, there are 46 bands that contain completely no information and some other bands with various kinds of noise. It is mainly due to the atmosphenc absorption and the low signal-to-noise ratio. The visual inspection for selecting clean and stable bands is a simple practice, but is a manual, inefficient, and subjective Process. Though uncalibrated, overlapping, and all deep water absorption bands are removed, there still exist noisy bands. In this paper, we propose that the extrema ratio be measured for noise estimation and the unsupervised band selection be performed using the Expectation-Maximization algorithm. The Hyperion data were classified into 5 categories according to the image quality by visual inspection, and used as the reference data. The accuracy of the proposed method was compared with signal-to-noise ranking and entropy ranking. As a result, the proposed mettled was effective as preprocessing step for band selection.