• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제29권2E호
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• pp.86-99
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• 2010

This paper analyzes the performance of various single channel speech enhancement algorithms when they are applied to automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems as a preprocessor. The functional modules of speech enhancement systems are first divided into four major modules such as a gain estimator, a noise power spectrum estimator, a priori signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimator, and a speech absence probability (SAP) estimator. We investigate the relationship between speech recognition accuracy and the roles of each module. Simulation results show that the Wiener filter outperforms other gain functions such as minimum mean square error-short time spectral amplitude (MMSE-STSA) and minimum mean square error-log spectral amplitude (MMSE-LSA) estimators when a perfect noise estimator is applied. When the performance of the noise estimator degrades, however, MMSE methods including the decision directed module to estimate a priori SNR and the SAP estimation module helps to improve the performance of the enhancement algorithm for speech recognition systems.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.514-517
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• 1998

This paper proposed a symmetric feedback current enhancement circuit with 1.5V power supply to design a 3$^{rd}$ order butterworth low pass filter. The proposed filter designed on 0.8.mu.m CMOS n-well double poly/double metal process simulated in HSPICE composed of the 3dB frequency enhancement circuit and the unity-gain frequency enhancement circuit. The simulation result on the design filter shows the badnwith of 25MHz, phase of 92.6 .deg. and power consumption of 0.3mW..

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1999년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집
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• pp.521-524
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• 1999

In spite of advances in image resolution and film contrast, check screen/film mammography remains one of diagnostic imaging modality where the image interpretation is very difficult. For the enhancement of film mammography, in this paper, dyadic wavelet transform is introduced. An unsharp masking technique is proposed and performed in wavelet domain. In addition, simple nonlinear enhancement and a denosing stage that preserves edges using wavelet shrinkage are computed into this technique. In this paper. we propose a new method for the gain setting of nonlinear enhancement and show result and comparison.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.199-204
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• 2007

In digital radiography, to improve the contrast of digital radiography image, the multi-scale nonlinear amplification algorithm based on unsharp masking is one of the major image enhancement algorithms. In this paper, we used the Laplacian pyramid to decompose a digital radiography(DR) image. In our simulation, the DR image was decomposed into seven layers and the coefficients of the each layer was amplified with nonlinear function. We also imported a noise containment algorithm to limit noise amplification. To enhance the contrast of image, we proposed a new adaptive non-linear gain amplification coefficients. As a result of having applied to some clinical data, a detail visibility was improved significantly without unacceptable noise boosting. Images that acquired with the proposed adaptive non-linear gain coefficients have shown superior quality to those that applied similar gain control method and expected to be accepted in the clinical applications.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.134-142
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• 2016

This paper proposes a technique for improving the conventional conical horn antenna for the X-band frequency using metamaterial on a wire medium structure. The main idea of this research is the application of the wire medium metamaterial to the conical horn's aperture for the enhancement of the horn's gain; this is done without changing the antenna's dimensions. The results show that the wire medium structure can increase the gain of a conventional conical horn antenna from approximately 17.7 dB to 20.9 dB (an increase of approximately 3.2 dB). A prototype antenna was fabricated, and its fundamental parameters including its reflection coefficient ($S_{11}$), radiation patterns, and directive gain were measured. The simulated and measured results were very good. The wire medium structure of the proposed antenna improved the radiation pattern, enhanced the directivity, increased the gain, and reduced the side lobe level using a simple integrated wire medium structure.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제38C권6호
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• pp.503-511
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• 2013

본 논문은 비음수 행렬 인수분해(NMF)를 이용한 음성향상 기법을 다루고 있다. 음성과 잡음에서 적절한 훈련을 통해 각각의 기저(basis) 행렬을 구하고 이 행렬들을 이용하여 두 음원을 분리 하는 것이다. 이 때 훈련으로부터, 시간 흐름에 따른 기저 사용량의 변화량을 각기 독립적인 가우시안 모델들로 만들고, 이를 이용하여 매 시간 프레임에서 주어진 모델들에 일정 가중치만큼 가까워지는 방향으로 최적화를 수행하였다. 또한 매 시간 얻은 NMF의 부호화 행렬의 결과를 이전 시간 프레임의 부호화 행렬 값과 평활화(smoothing) 과정을 수행하였다. 향상 과정에서는 Log-spectral Amplitude를 이용하여 이득(gain) 함수를 구하였다. 실험 결과에서는 PESQ 값을 지표로 사용하였고, 기존의 NMF를 이용한 음성 향상 보다 이 두 과정을 적용한 방법이 뛰어남을 확인 했다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.240-246
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• 2015

본 논문은 시간 연속성을 갖는 비음수 행렬 분해(Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, NMF)를 이용하여 잡음에 열화된 음성 신호의 음질을 개선하는 문제를 다룬다. 음성과 잡음 신호는 포아송 분포로 모델되며, NMF의 기본 벡터와 이득 벡터는 감마 분포로 모델된다. 이득 벡터의 시간 연속성은 음질 개선에 중요한 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서 시간의 연속성은 이득 벡터를 감마-마르코프 연쇄(Gamma-Markov chain, GMC) 사전 분포로 모델함으로써 이루어진다. 실험 결과는 제안된 알고리즘이 잡음 신호의 시간 연속성을 효과적으로 모델하는 것을 보여준다.

• 전자공학회논문지A
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• 제32A권8호
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• pp.86-93
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• 1995

Linwidth enhancement factor .alpha., linwidth, chirping and differential gain characteristics were measured and compared for each DFB-LDs containing active layers composed of bulk, MQW, and S-MQW, respectively. .alpha. of 6, 4 and 3.2 and chirping measured under 2.5Gbps modulation of 1.29nm, 0.67nm and 0.48nm were given for DFB-LDs of bulk, MQW and S-MQW active layers, respectively. And S-MQW has the largest differential gin of 2.4*10$^{-15}$ cm$^{2}$ (S-MQW) compared to the of 5.4*10$^{-16}$ cm$^{2}$(bulk) and 8.6*10$^{-16}$ cm$^{2}$(MQW). Linewidth enhancement facter .alpha. of less than 2 is expected with p-type modulation doped S-MQW DFB-LD.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1000-1006
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• 2006

정사각형 혼 안테나의 개구면을 $3{\times}3$의 도체 격자로 분할하여 이득을 개선하였다. 개구면상의 균일한 필드 분포를 얻기 위해서, 중앙과 가장자리의 격자에 두께가 서로 다른 유전체 판을 삽입하여 위상을 보상하였다. 12.5GHz 대역의 혼 안테나를 설계하여 FDTD 방법으로 개구면의 필드 분포를 해석하였고, 이로부터 복사 패턴을 계산하였다. 실제 측정한 결과, 격자형 개구면을 갖는 안테나의 이득은 18 dBi로 일반적인 혼에 비해 이득이 약 2 dB 개선됨을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Information Display
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.28-32
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• 2009

The correlation between the optical performance of the reflective polarizer, which is a key optical component for the brightness enhancement of the liquid crystal display (LCD), and the configuration of optical sheets was investigated in a direct-lit CCFL (cold-cathode fluorescent lamp) backlight. The optical gain of the reflective polarizer, the polarization state of the light emitted from each film, and the loss factor for the polarization conversion process occurring in the lower part of the backlight were determined using a phenomenological approach for the polarization recycling process. The present study suggests that the correlation between the optical performance of the brightness enhancement films and the backlight configuration should be carefully considered in the optimization of the backlight structure.