• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.87-92
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• 2012

Speech enhancement aims to improve speech quality by removing background noise from noisy speech. Independent vector analysis is a type of frequency-domain independent component analysis method that is known to be free from the frequency bin permutation problem in the process of blind source separation from multi-channel inputs. This paper proposed a new method of microphone array based speech enhancement that combines independent vector analysis and beamforming techniques. Independent vector analysis is used to separate speech and noise components from multi-channel noisy speech, and delay-sum beamforming is used to determine the enhanced speech among the separated signals. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, experiments for computer simulated multi-channel noisy speech with various signal-to-noise ratios were carried out, and both PESQ and output signal-to-noise ratio were obtained as objective speech quality measures. Experimental results have shown that the proposed method is superior to the conventional microphone array based noise removal approach like GSC beamforming in the speech enhancement.

• Journal of international Conference on Electrical Machines and Systems
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.165-170
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• 2013

This paper presents the iron loss prediction of rotating electric machines taking account of the vector hysteretic properties of electrical steel sheet. The E&S vector hysteresis model is adopted to describe the vector hysteretic properties of a non-oriented electrical steel sheet, and incorporated into finite element analysis (FEA) for magnetic field analysis and iron loss prediction. A permanent magnet synchronous generator is taken as a numerical model, and the analyzed magnetic field distribution and predicted iron loss by using the proposed method is compared with those from a conventional method which employs an empirical iron loss formula with FEA based on a non-linear B-H curve. Through the comparison the effectiveness of the presented method for the iron loss prediction of the rotating machine is verified.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1995.07a
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• pp.3-5
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• 1995

For a linear induction motor(LIM), the constants of each phase are different due to the structure. In this paper, a vector control analysis method of a LIM taking into consideration its asymmetrical constants are proposed. And, in order to prove the propriety of proposed vector control method and to analyze the dynamic characteristics of LIM's vector control, FEM taking into account of movement and using stator tapped winding is used in the analysis region. So, It is confirmed that the proposed asymetrical constants vector control theory and simulation method of mixing with FEM is appropriate to dynamic characteristics analysis of LIM.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.11 no.6 s.44
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• pp.79-86
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• 2006

Classification technology is essential for fast retrieval in large multi-media database. This paper proposes a combining GA(Genetic Algorithm) and SVM(Support Vector Machine) model to fast retrieval. We used color and texture as feature vectors. We improved the retrieval accuracy by using proposed model which retrieves an optimal feature vector set in extracted feature vector sets. The first performance test was executed for the performance of color, texture and the feature vector combined with color and texture. The second performance test, was executed for performance of SVM and proposed algorithm. The results of the experiment, using the feature vector combined color and texture showed a good Performance than a single feature vector and the proposed algorithm using hybrid method also showed a good performance than SVM algorithm.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.32B no.3
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• pp.77-88
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• 1995

It is assumed in the block matching algorithm(BMA) that all the pels in a block have a same motion vector. Then, the motion vector of a block in the BMA is matched to only one or none of the objects in the worst case if objects in a block have different motion vectors. This is apparent in the motion estimation using the fast BMA which has the effect of reducing the computation time and hardware complexity, compared to the full search BMA. Although the motion vector in the motion estimation using small block size is accurate, the increased number of bits is required to represent motion vectors. In this paper, new motion vector segmentation with less additional information and hardware complexity than the conventional method is proposed. In the proposed method, a motion vector is derived from the block for motion vector segmentation and another motion vector is extracted from four neighboring blocks to consiture a motion vector pair. For the accurate motion vector of each subblock, the motion vector is assigned to each subblock by mean squared error measure. And the overlapped motion compensation using window is also applied to reduce displaced frame difference.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1989.07a
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• pp.189-194
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• 1989

The sparse vector method is more efficient than conventional sparse matrix method when solving sparse system. This paper considers the structural relation between factorized L and inverse of L and presents a new ordering algorithm for sparse vector method. The method is useful in enhancing the sparsity of the inverse of L while preserving the aparsity of matrix. The performance of algorithm is compared with conventional algorithms by means of several power system.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.14-21
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• 1995

General Mechanical Structures have various and complex vibration transmission paths. In order to identify the mechanism of vibration transmission. The correct estimation of exciation forces and the exact modeling of transmission paths are required. In this paper, vector synthesis technique is employed to identify the characteristics of vibration input and it's transmission to body structure for the mounting system of a compressor in a refrigerator. Vibration reduction efficiency of each transmission path is evaluated by comparing individual vector components obtained before and after the paths from experimental research. The degree of effect is used to estimate the contribution of vibration input components to total output. And this paper presents a new technique based on simulation studies using vector synthesis dragram, by which the effects of change of the magnitude and phase of transmission paths can be predicted.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.461-464
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• 2003

This paper proposes the multi-level vector error diffusion for smear artifact reduction in the boundary regions. Smear artifact mainly results from a large accumulation of quantization error. Accordingly, to reduce these artifacts, the proposed method excludes the large quantization error in the error diffusion process by comparing the magnitude of the error vector with predetermined first threshold. In addition, if the vector norm of the difference between the error adjusted input vector and the primary co]or that has minimum vector norm for the error adjusted input vector is larger than second threshold, the error is excluded. As a result, the proposed method reduce smear artifact in the boundary region and produces visually pleasing halftone pattern.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.167-167
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• 1999

The majority of text categorization systems use the term-based classification method. However, because of too many terms, this method is not effective to classify the documents in areal-time environment. This paper presents a real-time concept-based text categorization system,which classifies texts using thesaurus. The system consists of a Korean morphological analyzer, athesaurus tool, and a probability-vector similarity measurer. The thesaurus tool acquires the meaningsof input terms and represents the text with not the term-vector but the concept-vector. Because theconcept-vector consists of semantic units with the small size, it makes the system enable to analyzethe text with real-time. As representing the meanings of the text, the vector supports theconcept-based classification. The probability-vector similarity measurer decides the subject of the textby calculating the vector similarity between the input text and each subject. In the experimentalresults, we show that the proposed system can effectively analyze texts with real-time and do aconcept-based classification. Moreover, the experiment informs that we must expand the thesaurustool for the better system.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2000.07b
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• pp.1126-1129
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• 2000

The equivalent transformation of a brushless DC motor into an separately exited DC motor has been possible with the vector control technique. Vector control is an effective technique for controlling variable speed drives of brushless DC motors. Conventional vector controllers, however, suffer from electrical machine parameter variations because these controllers depend on the parameters. This paper presents the vector control of brushless DC motor using a neural network. In the proposed method, a neural network is employed as on-line estimator of the nonlinear dynamic equations of brushless DC motor. The neural network based vector controller has the advantage of robustness against machine parameter variations as compared with conventional vector controller The simulation results using Matlab/Simulink verify the useful of the proposed method.