• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제34권10C호
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• pp.955-960
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 주파수영역에서 음향학적 반향 억제 (AES, acoustic echo suppression) 성능을 개선시키기 위해 tracking echo-presence uncertainty (TEPU) 기법에 근거한 새로운 잔여 반향 억제 (RES, residual echo suppression) 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 RES를 위해 마이크로폰 입력신호 대 원단의 반향신호가 제거된 결과신호의 전력 비 (ratio)를 문턱 (threshold) 값에 의한 decision rule에 적용하여 추정된 echo-presence uncertainty를 RES 필터로 이용한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 각각의 주파수 채널에서 echo-presence uncertainty를 도출하여 용이하게 잔여 반향신호를 제거하는 장점을 가진다. 실제로 잔여 반향신호를 제거하기 위한 기존의 방법과 객관적인 실험을 통해 비교 평가한 결과 우수한 성능을 보였다.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.34-39
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• 2017

Background: Automated nerve excitability testing is used to assess various peripheral neuropathies and motor neuron diseases. Comparing these excitability parameters with normal data provides information regarding the axonal excitability properties and ion biophysics in diseased axons. This study measured and compared normal values of axonal excitability parameters in both the distal motor and sensory axons of normal Koreans. Methods: The axonal excitability properties of 50 distal median motor axons and 30 distal median sensory axons were measured. An automated nerve excitability test was performed using the QTRACW threshold-tracking software (Institute of Neurology, University College London, London, UK) with the TRONDF multiple excitability recording protocol. Each parameter of stimulus-response curves, threshold electrotonus, current-voltage relationship, and recovery cycle was measured and calculated. Results: Our Korean normal data on axonal excitability showed ranges of values and characteristics similar to previous reports from other countries. We also reaffirmed that there exist characteristic differences in excitability properties between motor and sensory axons: compared to motor axons, sensory axons showed an increased strength-duration time constant, more prominent changes in threshold to hyperpolarizing threshold electrotonus (TE) and less prominent changes in threshold to depolarizing TE, and more prominent refractoriness and less prominent subexcitability and superexcitability. Conclusions: We report normal data on axonal excitability in Koreans. These data can be used to compare various pathological conditions in peripheral nerve axons such as peripheral neuropathies and motor neuron disease.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.64-71
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• 2012

Background: It is generally accepted that upper motor neuron (UMN) lesion can alter lower motor neuron (LMN) function by the plasticity of neural circuit. However there have been only few researches regarding the axonal excitability of LMN after UMN injury especially during the acute stage. The aim of this study was to investigate the nerve excitability properties of the LMNs following an acute to subacute supratentorial corticospinal tract lesion. Methods: An automated nerve excitability test (NET) using the threshold tracking technique was utilized to measure multiple excitability indices in median motor axons of 15 stroke patients and 20 controls. Testing of both paretic and non-paretic side was repeated twice, during the acute stage and subacute stage. The protocols calculated the strength-duration time constant from the duration-charge curve, parameters of threshold electrotonus (TE), the current-threshold relationship from sequential sub-threshold current, and the recovery cycle from sequential supra-threshold stimulation. Results: On the paretic side, compared with the control group, significant decline of superexcitablity and increase in the relative refractory period were observed during the subacute stage of stroke. Additionally, despite the absence of statistical significance, a mildly collapsing in ('fanning in') of the TE was found. Conclusions: Our results suggest that supratentorial brain lesions can affect peripheral axonal excitability even during the early stage. The NET pattern probably suggests background membrane depolarization of LMNs. These features could be associated with trans-synaptic regulation of UMNs to LMNs as one of the "neural plasticity" mechanisms in acute brain injury.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.176-181
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• 2002

이 논문에서는 PDA(Probabilistic Data Association) 필터를 이용한 표적 추적에서 평균자승추정오차의 기대값을 최소화하는 표적 검출 문턱값의 최적제어 방법을 제시하고, 닫힌 형태의 준최적해를 구한다. 최적의 검출 문턱값을 구하기 위한 이전의 연구에서는 그래프를 이용한 부정확한 최적화 방법이나, 매우 시간이 많이 소요하는 수치해석적 최적화 알고리듬을 사용하였다. 하지만, 이 논문에서는 정보감소인자의 수치적 근사화식을 이용하여, 최적제어문제로 정식화하여 닫힌 형태의 준최적 검출 문턱값을 구하였다. 이 결과는 실시간 표적 추적에서 유용하게 사용될 수 있다.

• Annals of Clinical Neurophysiology
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.3-12
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• 2017

Using threshold tracking, differences have been established between large myelinated sensory and ${\alpha}$ motor axons in humans. Major differences are that sensory axons are relatively depolarised at rest such that they have a greater persistent $Na^+$ current, and have greater activity of hyperpolarisation-activated cyclic nucleotide-gated (HCN) channels. Sensory axons may thereby be protected from hyperpolarising stresses, and are less likely to develop conduction block. However, the corollary is that sensory axons are more excitable and more likely to become ectopically active.

• 대한전기학회논문지
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• 제38권7호
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• pp.569-581
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• 1989

This paper deals with a tracking algorithm based on integral projection which tracks moving targets with varying brightness and size. An adaptive windowing technique is employed to reduce the sensitivity of the system to the complex background image and also to reduce the computational load. The threshold value is determined by considering both the size and the threshold value of the brightness intensity of the recognized target obtained in the previous processing step. Window position is estimated by using the information of the velocity and acceleration of the target. And integral projection is applied to find the position of the target in the window accurately. Experimental results show that moving targets with varying brightness and size can be tracked properly in noisy environments.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.13-18
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• 1984

확산 스펙트럼 통신방식의 tracking 과정에서 hold-in time 및 false loch를 벗어나는 시간의 확률분포를 연구하였다. 이것은 correlator회로의 dwell time과 threshold level을 결정하는데 도움이 된다. 구하고자 하는 이산확률함수에 대한 발생함수를 급수전개하고 해당되는 항들의 계수를 합하여 동기 유지 시간의 확률분포를 유도하였다. 그리하여 일반적인 시스템 파라미터들로 표현된 결과식을 구하였다.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제61권4호
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• pp.639-642
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• 2012

Optical coherence tomography(OCT) can provide real-time and non-invasive subsurface imaging with ultra-high resolution of micrometer scale. However, conventional OCT systems generally have a limited imaging depth range within a depth of only 1-2 mm. To overcome the limitation, we have proposed an active surface tracking algorithm used in common-path Fourier-domain OCT system in order to extend the imaging depth range. The surface tracking algorithm based on the threshold and Savitzky-Golay filter of A-scan data was applied to real-time tracking. The algorithm has controlled a moving stage according to the sample's surface variance in real time. An OCT image obtained by the algorithm clearly show an extended imaging depth range. Consequently, the proposed algorithm demonstrated the potential for improving the conventional OCT systems with limitary depth range.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 1994년도 추계학술대회 논문집 학회본부
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• pp.335-337
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• 1994

The correlation tracker developed by John M. Fitts in 1979 is the most complex to mechanize but provides the best tracking performance in a low SNR condition. Correlation tracker would rewove the requirements for optimizing threshold and has no need to know information about the target. But if the displacement of the target is large, the tracking error of the correlation tracker tends to diverge. In this paper, we suggest a precision image tracking algorithm which improves the tracking performance via iterative application of the matched filter estimation algorithm.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.40-50
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• 2007

본 논문에서는 카메라로부터 획득 되어진 비디오 시퀀스로부터 다중 움직임 객체와 배경을 분할하고 시공간 정보에 기반 한 객체 추적 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법은 3단계로 구성되어 있다. 먼저 입력 비디오 시퀀스로부터 프레임 사이의 차를 이용한 움직임 영역과 움직임이 존재하지 않는 영역을 구분하여 적응적 경계간을 추출한다. 두 번째는 참조 배경영상과 적응적 경계값을 이용하여 움직임이 존재하는 영역으로부터 개략적 객체 분할을 수행하며, 분할된 이진영상에 형태학적 영역 병합 알고리즘을 적용하여 객체 병합을 수행하였다. 마지막으로 분할된 객체에 시공간 정보를 이용하여 객체에 임의의 ID를 할당하여 추적하였다. 카메라로부터 획득되어진 비디오 시퀀스를 이용한 실험에서 객체들의 분할 및 추적의 효율성과 시스템의 유용성을 확인하였다.