• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.18-28
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• 2008

In inverse acoustic problem with nearfield sources, it is important to separate multiple acoustic sources and to measure the position of each target. This paper proposes a new algorithm by applying MUSIC(Multiple Signal Classification) to the outputs of discrete wavelet transformation with sub-band selection based on the entropy threshold, Some numerical experiments show that the proposed method can estimate the more precise positions than a conventional MUSIC algorithm under moderately correlated signal and relatively low signal-to-noise ratio case.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2013년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.779-781
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• 2013

다양한 멀티미디어 서비스에 대한 요구가 증가됨에 따라, 영상을 정보전달의 수단으로 사용하기 위한 기술들이 급격히 발전하고 있다. 영상에 첨가되는 여러 가지 잡음을 제거하기 위해, 평균 필터, 메디안 필터, 가중치 필터 방법 등이 제안되었으나 기존의 방법들은 잡음제거 및 에지 보존 성능이 미흡하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 영상에 첨가되는 복합잡음을 효과적으로 제거하기 위해 먼저 잡음을 판단한 후, 변형된 메디안 필터와 적응 가중치 평균 필터를 이용하여 처리하는 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 그리고 시뮬레이션을 통해 기존의 방법들과 비교하였으며 판단의 기준으로 PSNR(peak signal to noise ratio)을 사용하였다.

• 해양환경안전학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.571-576
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• 2015

본 논문은 X-band 레이더 기반 파고추정 방법의 비교연구에 대한 내용으로, 신호 대 잡음비 및 음영비를 이용하였다. 신호대 잡음비의 경우 기존 파고 추정을 위한 방법으로 널리 사용되고 있으며, 음영비의 경우 새로이 제시되는 방법이다. 본 연구에 사용된 레이더 영상의 경우 울산 주전해안에서 계측된 자료이며, 기상청 등표에서 계측된 해양기상정보와 비교하였다. 자료는 약 34일동안 계측된 자료를 비교하였으며, 동해안 태풍 진출 기간 자료를 확보하여 다양한 파고분포에 대한 결과를 검증하였다. 분석 결과 음영비를 이용한 파고추정의 경우, 부이와의 보정이 필요 없는 장점과 실시간 파고 계측의 가능성을 확인하였으며, 일부 풍속, 타 물체 탐지 등 레이더 영상의 외적 요소에 의한 오차 발생의 요인을 파악하였다.

• 대한산업공학회지
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• 제39권5호
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• pp.351-360
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• 2013

Taguchi's robust design is a method for quality improvement by making a system insensitive to uncontrollable variations incurred by noise factors and it has received much attention in a wide range of engineering fields. Robust design can be broadly classified into static and dynamic ones. This paper is concerned with dynamic robust design. Taguchi suggested to use a signal-to-noise ratio as a robustness measure, but there has been much debate and criticism on its blind use. In order to cope with this drawback, many alternatives have been proposed. They are divided into performance measure modeling (PMM) and response function modeling (RFM) approaches. In this paper, both PMM and RFM approaches for dynamic robust design are reviewed. An example for illustration is provided as well.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.22-25
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• 1998

We present a spectrum broadening technique to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of spectrum sliced incoherent light sources using the fiber four-wave mixing effect which occurs in a nonlinear loop mirror located at the receiver. The initial transmission channel bandwidth of 0.92 nm was increased to 1.62 nm in the nonlinear loop mirror at the optical receiver, which enhances the signal-to-noise ratio to a desired value. Using this technique, we have demonstrated the transmission of a 2.5 Gb/s NRZ signal with the 0.92 nm bandwidth through a 80 km dispersion-shifted fiber. The measured transmission penalty was less than 0.2 dB at $1{\imes}10^{-10}$ BER.

• 대한방사선기술학회지:방사선기술과학
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• 제44권4호
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• pp.327-333
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• 2021

Magnetic resonance imaging(MRI) uses strong magnetic field to image the cross-section of human body and has excellent image quality with no risk of radiation exposure. Because of above-mentioned advantages, MRI has been widely used in clinical fields. However, the noise generated in MRI degrades the quality of medical images and has a negative effect on quick and accurate diagnosis. In particular, examining a object with a detailed structure such as brain, image quality degradation becomes a problem for diagnosis. Therefore, in this study, we acquired T2 weighted 3D data of multiple sclerosis disease using BrainWeb simulation program, and used quantitative evaluation factors to find appropriate slice thickness among 1, 3, 5, and 7 mm. Coefficient of variation and contrast to noise ratio were calculated to evaluate the noise level, and root mean square error and peak signal to noise ratio were used to evaluate the similarity with the reference image. As a result, the noise level decreased as the slice thickness increased, while the similarity decreased after 5 mm. In conclusion, as the slice thickness increases, the noise is reduced and the image quality is improved. However, since the edge signal is lost due to overlapped signal, it is considered that selecting appropriate slice thickness is necessary.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.25-35
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• 1996

This paper derives the symbol error probability for quadrature amplitude modulation(QAM) with L-fold space diversity in Rayleigh fading channels. Two combining techniques, maximal ratio combining(MRC) and selection combining(SC), are considered. The formula for MRC space diversity is obtained by averaging the symbol error probability of M-ary QAM in an additive white Gaussian noise(AWGN) channel over a chi-square distribution with 2L degrees of freedom. The obtained formula overcomes the limitations of the earlier work, which has been limited only to deriving the symbol error rate(SER) of QAM with two branch MRC space diversity. The formula for SC space diversity is obtained by averaging the symbol error probability of M-ary QAM in an AWGN channel over the distribution of the maximum signal-to noise ratio among all of the diversity channels for SC space diversity has been reported yet. Analytical results show that the probability of error decreases with the order of diversity gain per additional branch decreases as the number of branches becomes larger. On the other hand, the performance of 16 QAM with MRC becomes much better than that of SC as the number of branches becomes larger. By giving the order of diversity, L, and the number of signal points, M, we have been able to obtain the SER performance of QAM with general space diversity. These results can be used to determine the order of diversity to achieve the desired SER in land mobile communication system employing QAM modulation.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제8권6호
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• pp.1503-1511
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• 2013

This paper deals with the analysis of leakage current characteristics of silicone rubber insulator in order to develop a new condition monitoring tool to identify the flashover of outdoor insulators. In this work, laboratory based pollution performance tests are carried out on silicone rubber insulator under ac voltage at different pollution levels and relative humidity conditions with sodium chloride (NaCl) as a contaminant. Min-Norm spectral analysis is adopted to calculate the higher order harmonics and Signal Noise Ratio (SNR). Choi-Williams Distribution (CWD) function is employed to understand the time frequency characteristics of the leakage current signal. Reported results on silicone rubber insulators show that the flashover development process of outdoor polymer insulators could be identified from the higher order harmonics and signal noise ratio values of leakage current signals.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.27-33
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• 2012

In this paper, a new blind signal processing scheme for equalization in fading and impulsive-noise channel environments is introduced based on probability density functionmatching method and a set of Dirac-delta functions. Gaussian kernel of the proposed blind algorithm has the effect of cutting out the outliers on the difference between the desired level values and impulse-infected outputs. And also the proposed algorithm has relatively less sensitivity to channel eigenvalue ratio and has reduced computational complexity compared to the recently introduced correntropy algorithm. According to these characteristics, simulation results show that the proposed blind algorithm produces superior performance in multi-path communication channels corrupted with impulsive noise.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.169-174
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• 2013

음성 인식 성능 저하의 문제는 모델 훈련 환경과 인식 환경의 차이이다. 이러한 환경의 불일치를 줄이기 위한 방법으로 다양한 묵음 특징 정규화 방법을 사용하고 있다. 기존의 묵음 특징 정규화 방법은 낮은 신호 대 잡음비에서 묵음 구간의 에너지 레벨이 증가하여 음성과 비음성에 대한 분류의 정확도가 떨어짐으로 인해 인식 성능이 저하되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 음성 에너지 최대화와 묵음 특징 정규화를 이용한 잡음 환경에 강인한 음성 검출 방법을 제안하였다. 제안한 방법은 높은 신호 대 잡음비에서는 음성 에너지를 최대화시켜 특징이 잡음의 영향을 적게 받는 특성을 이용하였고 낮은 신호 대 잡음비에서는 음성/비음성의 켑스트럼 특징 분포 특성을 이용하여 인식 성능을 향상시켰다. 인식 실험 결과 기존 방법에 비해 향상된 인식 성능을 확인할 수 있었다.