• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.2 s.302
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• pp.121-130
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a feature extraction method for iris recognition using wavelet transforms. The wavelet transform is fast and has a good localization characteristic. In particular, the low frequency band can be used as an effective feature vector. In iris recognition, the noise caused by eyelid the eyebrow, glint, etc may be included in iris. The iris pattern is distorted by noises by itself, and a feature extraction algorithm based on filter such as Wavelets, Gabor transform spreads noises into whole iris region. Namely, such noises degrade the performance of iris recognition systems a major problem. This kind of noise has adverse effect on performance. In order to solve these problems, we propose to divide the iris image into a number of sub-region and apply the wavelet transform to each sub-region. Experimental results show that the performance of proposed method is comparable to existing methods using Gabor transform and region division noticeably improves recognition performance. However, it is noted that the processing time of the wavelet transform is much faster than that of the existing methods.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.172-177
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• 2007

Wavelet transforms provide basis functions for time-frequency analysis and have properties that are particularly useful for the compression of analogue point on wave transient and disturbance power system signals. This paper evaluates the compression properties of the discrete wavelet transform using actual power system data. The results presented in the paper indicate that reduction ratios up to 10:1 with acceptable distortion are achievable. The paper discusses the application of the reduction method for expedient fault analysis and protection assessment.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• summer
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• pp.244-248
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• 2004

This paper proposes a new noise cancellation method for speech recognition in noise environments. We determine the time adaptive threshold value using standard deviations of wavelet coefficients after wavelet transform by frames. The time adaptive threshold value is set up by using sum of standard deviations of wavelet coefficients in cA3 and weighted cD1. cA3 coefficients represent the voiced sound with lower frequency components and cD1 coefficients represent the unvoiced sound with higher frequency components. In experiments, we removed noise after adding white Gaussian noise and colored noise to original speech. The proposed method improved SNR and MSE more than wavelet transform and wavelet packet transform does. As a result of speech recognition experiment using noise speech DB, recognition performance is improved by $2\sim4\;\%.$

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.45-51
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• 2003

JPEG200, a new international standard for still image compression based on wavelet and bit-plane coding techniques, is developed. In this paper, we design the DWT(Discrete Wavelet Transform) and quantizer for JPEG2000 CODEC. DWT handles both lossy and lossless compression using the same transform-based framework: The Daubechies 9/7 and 5/3 transforms, and quantizer is implemented as SQ(Scalar Quantization). The architecture of the proposed DWT and SQ are synthesized and verified using Xilinx FPGA technology. It operates up to 30MHz, and executes algorithms of wavelet transform and quantization for VGA 10 frame per second.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.258-266
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• 2012

Recently, Acoustic Emission (AE) technique is widely applied to develop the early fault detection system, and the problem about a signal processing method for AE signal is mainly focused on. In the signal processing method, envelope analysis is a useful method to evaluate the rolling element bearing problems and Wavelet transform is a powerful method to detect faults occurred on gearboxes. However, exact method for AE signal is not developed yet. Therefore, in this paper, two methods, which is Hilbert transforms (HT) and Hilbert-Huang transforms (HHT), will be compared for development a signal processing method for early fault detection system by using AE. AE signals were measured through a fatigue test. HHT has better advantages than HT because HHT can show the time-frequency domain result. But, HHT needs long time to process a signal, which has a lot of data, and has a disadvantage in de-noising filter.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.85-88
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• 1999

Adapted Local Trigonometric Transforms은 매우 높은 energy compaction을 가지므로 음성 및 영상신호에 이용하려는 시도가 이루어지고 있다. [1] 그러나 이 경우 복원 된 신호에는 시간 영역에서 불연속점이 발생하여 일종의 tick noise가 발생한다. 또한 phase성분을 잃게 되어 금속성 잡음도 추가하여 나타난다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점을 해결하기 위한 Polynomial fitting 방식과 Wavelet Packet Transforms 방식을 제안한다. Polynomial fitting 방식으로는 시간축상에서 발생하는 문제를 해결하고 Wavelet Packet Transforms으로 Phase 문제를 해결한다. [2,3] 실험결과, 압축이전의 신호와 비교할 때 SNR에 있어서 개선을 보이며 tick noise와 금속성 잡음이 제거된 개선된 신호음을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers A
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.417-424
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• 2002

This paper presents an industrial peak load management system for the peak demand control. Kohonen neural network and wavelet transform based techniques are adopted for industrial peak load forecasting that will be used as input data of the peak demand control. Firstly, one year of historical load data of a steel company were sorted and clustered into several groups using Kohonen neural network and then wavelet transforms are applied with Biorthogonal 1.3 mother wavelet in order to forecast the peak load of one minute ahead. In addition, for the peak demand control, composite fuzzy model is proposed and implemented in this work. The results are compared with those of conventional model, fuzzy model and composite model, respectively. The outcome of the study clearly indicates that the composite fuzzy model approach can be used as an attractive and effective means of the peak demand control.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2000.06a
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• pp.724-730
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• 2000

Although there have been many investigations employing the continuous wavelet transform for the analysis of dispersive waves, they seem to lack theoretical justifications for the effectiveness of the continuous wavelet transform over other time-frequency analysis tools such as the short-time Fourier transform. The goal of this paper is to answer this question by investigating theoretically the performance of the continuous wavelet transform and the short-time Fourier transform in tracing rapidly time-varying flexural waves. As a specific example, the performance of the two transforms is compared in a problem dealing with flexural waves generated by an impact in a solid circular cylinder.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.2311-2314
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• 2003

In this paper, the embedded zero-tree wavelet image compression method using multi- threshold is proposed, which can reduce the scanning and symbol redundancy of the existing embedded zero-tree wavelet (EZW) method and enable more efficient coding. In the proposed scheme, a multi-threshold is constructed with the maximum absolute values from each subband decomposed by the wavelet transforms of the input image data. The multi-threshold values are compared with the threshold value T$_1$ in each pass in Successive Approximation Quantization (SAQ) to select the significant subbands, which are only used for the subsequent coding processes, therefore, can reduce the coding redundancy in the existing EZW. By the experimental results, it is verified that the proposed multi-threshold EZW method shows superior performances to the existing EZW method.

• Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.55-59
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• 2007

Wavelet Transform is amenable to efficient algorithms. So wavelet transform was adopted many signal processing and communication applications. For example, the wavelet transform was adopted as the transform for JPEG2000. However, Wavelet has weakness about smoothness along the contours and limited directional information. Hence, recently, some new transforms have been introduced to take advantage of this property. So we use to other transform, called contourlet transform in compression. In this paper, we propose a new method for image compression based on the contourlet transform, which has been recently introduced. Contourlet transform has a good result about images with smooth contours. Moreover, Contourlet is feasible multiresolution and multidirection expansion using non-separable filter bank. This treatise shows a good image representation after compressing using contourlet transform.