• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.4E
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• pp.154-158
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• 2006

In this paper, we suggest a noise estimation method for speech enhancement in nonstationary noisy environments. The proposed method consists of the following two main processes. First, in order to receive fewer affect of variable signals, a best fitting regression line is used, which is obtained by applying a least squares method to coefficient magnitudes in a node with a uniform wavelet packet transform. Next, in order to update the noise estimation efficiently, a differential forgetting factor and a correlation coefficient per subband are used, where subband is employed for applying the weighted value according to the change of signals. In particular, this method has the ability to update the noise estimation by using the estimated noise at the previous frame only, without utilizing the statistical information of long past frames and explicit nonspeech frames by voice activity detector. In objective assessments, it was observed that the performance of the proposed method was better than that of the compared (minima controlled recursive averaging, weighted average) methods. Furthermore, the method showed a reliable result even at low SNR.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• v.67 no.5
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• pp.457-464
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• 2018

This paper presents a method for detecting damage in irregular 2D and 3D continuum structures based on combination of wavelet transform (WT) with fuzzy inference system (FIS) and particle swarm optimization (PSO). Many damage detection methods study regular structures. This method studies irregular structures and doesn't need response of healthy structures. First the damaged structure is analyzed with finite element methods, and damage response is obtained at the finite element points that have irregular distance, secondly the FIS, which is optimized by PSO is used to obtain responses at points, having equal distance by response at those points that previously obtained by the finite element methods. Then a 2D (for 2D continuum structures) or a 3D (for 3D continuum structures) matrix is performed by equal distance point response. Thirdly, by applying 2D or 3D wavelet transform on 2D or 3D matrix that previously obtained by FIS detail matrix coefficient of WT is obtained. It is shown that detail matrix coefficient can determine the damage zone of the structure by perturbation in the damaged area. In order to illustrate the capability of proposed method some examples are considered.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.513-520
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• 2010

The degradation phenomenon caused by noises significantly corrupts digitalized data. Therefore, a variety of methods to preserve the edge component of signals and remove noise simultaneously have been used in time domain and frequency domain. In this paper, we have proposed a new noise reduction algorithm using wavelet approximation coefficients to reduce the mixed noise overlapping the signal. The proposed algorithm adopts the distribution characteristics of the error function which is obtained by accumulating the wavelet approximation coefficients, in order to improve the capability to separate edges of the signal and noises.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.4 no.3
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• pp.190-196
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• 2009

A new time adapted threshold using the standard deviations of Wavelet coefficients after Wavelet transform by frame scale is proposed. The time adapted threshold is set up using the sum of standard deviations of Wavelet coefficient in level 3 approximation and weighted level 1 detail. Level 3 approximation coefficients represent the voiced sound with low frequency and level 1 detail coefficients represent the unvoiced sound with high frequency. After reducing noise by soft thresholding with the proposed time adapted threshold, there are still residual noises in silent interval. To reduce residual noises in silent interval, a detection algorithm of silent interval is proposed. From simulation results, it can be noticed that SNR and MSE of the proposed algorithm are improved than those of Wavelet transform and than those of Wavelet packet transform.

• Architectural research
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.7-14
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• 2009

In this paper, we take advantage of Wavelet Transform to identify damping ratios of membrane structures under wind action. Due to the lightweight and flexibility of membrane structures, they are very sensitive to the wind load, and show a type of fluid-structure interaction phenomenon simultaneously. In this study, we firstly obtain the responses of an air-supported membrane structure by ADINA with the consideration of this characteristic, and then conduct Wavelet Transform on these responses. Based on the Wavelet Transform, damping ratios could be obtained from the slope of Wavelet Transform in a semi-logarithmic scale at a certain dilation coefficient. According to this principle, damping ratios could eventually be obtained. There are two numerical examples in this study. The first one is a simulated signal, which is used to verify the accuracy of the Wavelet Transform method. The second one is an air-supported membrane structure under wind action, damping ratios obtained from this method is about 0.05~0.09. The Wavelet Transform method could be regarded as a very good method for the the damping analysis, especially for the large spatial structures whose natural frequencies are closely spaced.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.376-382
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• 2003

Recently, there have been many types of wavelet transformations proposed to remove the noise from an signal and image data By using feature of seperating the noise from the original image the Wavelet transformations can retain the edges of the images The wavelet analysis is complete when the basis function is coded into the wavelet This Thesis describes a method of using wavelet transformation to remove the noise from an image signal. Although the wavelet transformation proposed by Donoho and Johnstone works, it does not reliably remove all the noise from the images. So this thesis propose an algorithm that selected Wavelet Shrinkgae and threshold according to the features of bands and amplitude of noise.

• The Journal of Information Systems
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.351-373
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• 2009

An index fund is a collective investment scheme that aims to replicate the movements of an index of a specific financial market regardless of market conditions. An index fund is a popular investment alternative because it is much cheaper to run than an active fund and it performs better than actively managed funds. This paper illustrates the usefulness of wavelet analysis in constructing an index fund. The wavelet analysis can decompose the time series data in frequency domain as well as in time domain. The major findings of this paper are as follows. First, the beta coefficient that represents the systematic risk has the scale dependent property. This result can provide important information to the investors with various investment time frequency. Investors can use the betas corresponding to their investment frequencies among the various scale betas estimated by wavelet analysis. Second, we can find the usefulness of wavelet analysis in constructing index fund because the wavelet technique gives less tracking error(difference between the index performance and the index fund performance) than the traditional constructing techniques. The result of this study implies that the wavelet techniques can be an important analytic method to the other financial markets such as option market, futures market, bond markets and currency market.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.1C
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• pp.102-110
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a VLSI structure of real-time image compression and reconstruction processor using 2-D discrete wavelet transform and implement into a hardware which use minimal hardware resource using ASIC library. In the implemented hardware, Data path part consists of the DWT kernel for the wavelet transform and inverse transform, quantizer/dequantizer, the huffman encoder/huffman decoder, the adder/buffer for the inverse wavelet transform, and the interface modules for input/output. Control part consists of the programming register, the controller which decodes the instructions and generates the control signals, and the status register for indicating the internal state into the external of circuit. According to the programming condition, the designed circuit has the various selective output formats which are wavelet coefficient, quantization coefficient or index, and Huffman code in image compression mode, and Huffman decoding result, reconstructed quantization coefficient, and reconstructed wavelet coefficient in image reconstructed mode. The programming register has 16 stages and one instruction can be used for a horizontal(or vertical) filtering in a level. Since each register automatically operated in the right order, 4-level discrete wavelet transform can be executed by a programming. We synthesized the designed circuit with synthesis library of Hynix 0.35um CMOS fabrication using the synthesis tool, Synopsys and extracted the gate-level netlist. From the netlist, timing information was extracted using Vela tool. We executed the timing simulation with the extracted netlist and timing information using NC-Verilog tool. Also PNR and layout process was executed using Apollo tool. The Implemented hardware has about 50,000 gate sizes and stably operates in 80MHz clock frequency.

• Journal of KSNVE
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.577-586
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• 1999

Estimation of damping ratio for vibration signals measured on the passenger car's sear is useful for the objective evaluation of impact harshness in car. The vibratio signal is a transient signal represented by many coupled modes of suspension system. Wavelet transform automatically decouples these modes in the time-frequency domain. Damping ratios for decoupled modes are obtained by logarithmic treatment for the Wavelet transformed signal. The objective evaluation using Wavelet transform has been well corresponded with subjective evaluation done by skilled engineers.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10b
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• pp.445-447
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 세포 영상에 대해 Wavelet 계수을 이용한 인식 방법을 제안하고 있다. 자궁 경부세포진은 핵과 세포질을 분할하기 힘들기 때문에 영역분할을 통해 얻은 핵특징이 잘못 계산될 수 있어 인식율이 떨어진다. 따라서 핵의 세포만을 나타낼 수 있도록 핵의 정보를 포함하고 있는 고대역 부밴드에서는 20$\times$20 영상을 사용하였고, 세포질에 정보를 포함하고 있는 저대역 부밴드에서는 50$\times$50의 영상을 사용하였다. 영상 인식을 위한 특징 추출은 2단계 Wavelet 변환후 생성된 변환 영역에 대해서 Wavelet 계수 평균값 표준편차와 Energy를 사용하였다. 실험 결과 Wavelet 계수를 이용한 방법이 영역분할을 이용한 방법과 비교하여 더 높은 인식율 보였다.