• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2008.10a
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• pp.379-382
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• 2008

In order to reduce the noise quantity in a conversation under the noisy environment, it is necessary for the signal processing system to process adaptively according to the noise quantity in order to enhance the performance. There fore this paper presents a recognition method for noise quantity by linear predictive coefficient using a three layered neural network, which is trained using three kinds of speech that is degraded by various background noises. In the experiment, the average values of the recognition results were 97.6% or more for various noises using Aurora2 database.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.77-85
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• 2010

This paper proposes an efficient feature vector processing technique to guard the Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) system against a variety of noises. In the proposed approach, emotional feature vectors are extracted from speech processed by comb filtering. Then, these extracts are used in a robust model construction based on feature vector classification. We modify conventional comb filtering by using speech presence probability to minimize drawbacks due to incorrect pitch estimation under background noise conditions. The modified comb filtering can correctly enhance the harmonics, which is an important factor used in SER. Feature vector classification technique categorizes feature vectors into either discriminative vectors or non-discriminative vectors based on a log-likelihood criterion. This method can successfully select the discriminative vectors while preserving correct emotional characteristics. Thus, robust emotion models can be constructed by only using such discriminative vectors. On SER experiment using an emotional speech corpus contaminated by various noises, our approach exhibited superior performance to the baseline system.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.34-39
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• 1999

In this paper, boundary extraction algorithm is suggested by removing boundary noises efficiently and simplifying object shape in binary image. To remove boundary noises, $2{times}2$ mask boundary extraction algorithm is modified . Proposed method is designed to generate a symmetric path for the parasitic branch noise and to analysis traced features on end point of noise. It can extract more simplified object boundary but preserve original object shape by combining white background color extraction result with foreground extraction result. The usefulness of the proposed method was proved through experiments with various binary images.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.357-358
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• 2006

We propose the robust PBFLMS in noises, which is the enhanced acoustic echo canceller using ACPBF-LMS(Alternative Constrained Partitioned Block Frequency domain Least Mean Square) algorithm. The defect of the block structure filtering is the deterioration of convergence efficiency from noise and interference. To improve the performance of convergence efficiency, noise effect should be reduced. The new method of reducing noise effect is proposed, which apply the estimated background noise to adaptive filter step size. By experiments, the proposed acoustic echo canceller has TCL of 50dB, and always provides faster convergence speed and lower complexity than the full-tap NLMS. We also carried out an implementation of PBFLMS using ARM9EJ-S.

• Journal of Magnetics
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.357-360
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• 2013

A modified SQI method using magnetic leakage flux (MFL) signal for underground gas pipelines' defect detection and characterization is presented in this paper. Raw signals gathered using MFL signals include many unexpected noises and high frequency signals, uneven background signals, signals caused by real defects, etc. The MFL signals of defect free pipelines primarily consist of two kinds of signals, uneven low frequency signals and uncertain high frequency noises. Leakage flux signals caused by defects are added to the case of pipelines having defects. Even though the SQI (Self Quotient Image) is a useful tool to gradually remove the varying backgrounds as well as to characterize the defects, it uses the division and floating point operations. A modified SQI having low computational complexity without time-consuming division operations is presented in this paper. By using defects carved in real pipelines in the pipeline simulation facility (PSF) and real MFL data, the performance of the proposed method is compared with that of the original SQI.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1-9
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• 2008

One of the problems for implementing the spot detection phase in the 2-DE gel image analysis program is the eliminating noises in the image. Remained noises after the preprocessing phase cause the over-segmented regions by the segmentation phase. To identify and exclude the over-segmented background regions, if we use the fixed thresholding method that is choosing an intensity value for the threshold, the spots that is invisible by the eyes but mean a very small amount proteins which have important role in the biological samples could be eliminated. This paper propose an adaptive thresholding method that come from an idea that is got on statistical analysing for the prominences of the peaks. The adaptive thresholding method works as following. Firstly we calculate an average prominence value curve and fit it to exponential function curve, as a result we get parameters for the exponential function. And then we calculate a threshold value by using the parameters and probability distribution of errors. Lastly we apply the threshold value to the region for determining the region is a noise or not. According to the probability distribution of errors, the reliability is 99.85% and we show the correctness of the proposed method by representing experiment results.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.1264-1286
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• 2018

In this paper, a novel background prior-based salient object detection framework is proposed to deal with images those are more complicated. We take the superpixels located in four borders into consideration and exploit a mechanism based on image boundary information to remove the foreground noises, which are used to form the background prior. Afterward, an initial foreground prior is obtained by selecting superpixels that are the most dissimilar to the background prior. To determine the regions of foreground and background based on the prior of them, a threshold is needed in this process. According to a fixed threshold, the remaining superpixels are iteratively assigned based on their proximity to the foreground or background prior. As the threshold changes, different foreground priors generate multiple different partitions that are assigned a likelihood of being foreground. Last, all segments are combined into a saliency map based on the idea of similarity voting. Experiments on five benchmark databases demonstrate the proposed method performs well when it compares with the state-of-the-art methods in terms of accuracy and robustness.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.495-498
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• 2004

In the sound insulation measurements, the influence of background (extraneous) noise is often serious problem and how to reduce its effect and to improve the signal-to-noise(S/N) ratio is an important theme. As the background noise, such extraneous noises as road traffic noise and machine noise often disturb the measurement. In laboratory measurements on specimens with high sound insulation performances, even the internal noise of the measurement system can become a problem. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio and to improve the measurement accuracy, various kinds of digital signal processing techniques can be applied. In this paper, four kinds of digital signal processing techniques are applied and their effectiveness is examined by a simple sound insulation measurement.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.441-444
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• 2004

In the sound insulation measurements, the influence of background (extraneous) noise is often serious problem and how to reduce its effect and to improve the signal-to-noise(S/N) ratio is an important theme. As the background noise, such extraneous noises as road traffic noise and machine noise often disturb the measurement. In laboratory measurements on specimens with high sound insulation performances, even the internal noise of the measurement system can become a problem. To improve the signal-to-noise ratio and to improve the measurement accuracy, various kinds of digital signal processing techniques can be applied. In this paper, four kinds of digital signal processing techniques are applied and their effectiveness is examined through field measurements.

• Journal of Advanced Information Technology and Convergence
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.125-138
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• 2020

Due to the development of camera technology, the cost of producing time-lapse video has been reduced, and time-lapse videos are being applied in many fields. Time-lapse video is created using images obtained by shooting for a long time at long intervals. In this paper, we propose a method to improve the quality of time-lapse videos monitoring the changes in plants. Considering the characteristics of time-lapse video, we propose a method of separating the desired and unnecessary objects and removing unnecessary elements. The characteristic of time-lapse videos that we have noticed is that unnecessary elements appear intermittently in the captured images. In the proposed method, noises are removed by applying a codebook background modeling algorithm to use this characteristic. Experimental results show that the proposed method is simple and accurate to find and remove unnecessary elements in time-lapse videos.