• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.248-251
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• 2014

We develop the signal processing method for implementing the human perceptual variant on frequency and space. The human visual perceptual sensitivity varies as frequency components and the human perceivable resolution diminishes as the distances further from the eye-focused point. For realizing the frequency sensitivity, we developed the signal direction adaptive multiband energy scaling method to weight the frequency components. The low-pass filtering is designed on the developed energy scaling method for diminishing perceivable resolutions as the deviated distance from the eye-focused point. The developed method not only enhances the frequency components of image signals at the eye-focused region but also smoothes non-perceivable detailed image signals at non-focused regions. The proposed method is verified by the subjective and objective evaluations that it can improve human perceptual visual quality.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.32 no.1
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• pp.1-10
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• 2010

In this paper, we present a fast Fourier transform (FFT) processor with four parallel data paths for multiband orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing ultra-wideband systems. The proposed 128-point FFT processor employs both a modified radix-$2^4$ algorithm and a radix-$2^3$ algorithm to significantly reduce the numbers of complex constant multipliers and complex booth multipliers. It also employs substructure-sharing multiplication units instead of constant multipliers to efficiently conduct multiplication operations with only addition and shift operations. The proposed FFT processor is implemented and tested using 0.18 ${\mu}m$ CMOS technology with a supply voltage of 1.8 V. The hardware- efficient 128-point FFT processor with four data streams can support a data processing rate of up to 1 Gsample/s while consuming 112 mW. The implementation results show that the proposed 128-point mixed-radix FFT architecture significantly reduces the hardware cost and power consumption in comparison to existing 128-point FFT architectures.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.57 no.8
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• pp.1464-1469
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• 2008

A CMOS Gm-C filter with variable cutoff frequency applicable for using in the direct conversion receiver is designed. The designed filter comprises the CMOS differential transconductors, and the gm of the transconductor is controlled by the bias voltage. This configuration can compensate variant of the cutoff frequency which could be generated by external noises, and also be used in multiband receiver. As a results of HSPICE simulation, the control range of the cutoff frequency is $1.5MHz{\sim}3.5MHz$ and the gain control range is $-2.8dB{\sim}2.6dB$. The layout of the designed 5th-order Elliptic low-pass filter is performed to fabricate a chip using $2.5V-0.25{\mu}m$ CMOS processing parameter.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.138-146
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• 2013

Passive sonars employ DEMON (Detection of Envelope Modulation on Noise) processing to extract propeller information from the radiated noise of underwater targets. Conventional DEMON processing improves SNR(Signal to Noise Ratio) characteristic by Welch method. The conventional Welch method overlaps several different time domain DEMON outputs to reduce the variance. However, the conventional methods have high computational complexity to get high SNR with correlated acoustic signals. In this paper, we propose new DEMON processing method that divides acoustic signal into several frequency bands before DEMON processing and averages each DEMON outputs. Therefore, the proposed method gathers independent acoustic signal faster than conventional method with low computational complexity. We prove the performance of the proposed method with mathematical analysis and computer simulations.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.6C
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• pp.589-602
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• 2006

잡음은 음성과 관련된 시스템의 성능을 제한하는 주된 원인이기 때문에 음성향상과 관련된 연구는 꾸준히 계속되어왔다. 전통적인 음성향상 방법은 무성음과 잡음을 구분하지 알기 때문에 잡음제거 과정에서 무성음이 함께 제거되는 단점이 있으며, 웨이블릿 기반의 전통적인 잡음제거 방법은 각 대역마다 동일한 문턱값을 사용하기 때문에 시변 환경에서 성능이 떨어지는 단점이 있다. 이 단점들을 개선하기위해 다중대역 파워 차감법과 Perceptual 웨이블릿 패킷 분해를 이용한 웨이블릿 기반의 개선된 음성향상 방법을 제안한다. 전처리 과정으로 다중대역 파워 차감법을 사용하여 광대역 잡음을 제거하고 뮤지컬 잡음의 발생을 줄이며, psycho-acoustic 모델 기반 Perceptual 웨이블릿 패킷으로 신호를 분해한 후 각 웨이블릿 노드의 엔트로피 비율과 음성검출을 이용하여 무성음/유성음/잡음을 구분한다. 구분된 신호에 따라 각 웨이블릿 노드마다의 문턱값을 기준으로 웨이블릿 Shrinkage를 적용하여 잡음을 제거하고 무성음이나 파워가 작은 유성음이 제거되는 오류를 최소화한다. 또한 잡음 파워 추정 과정에 적응적으로 망각 계수를 선택하여 잡음 파워 추정 오류를 최소화한다.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.23 no.6
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• pp.950-956
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• 1986

In this paper, a direct addressing mode of a microprocessor is introduced to save memory capacity, and also a dedicated digital filter is constructed to speed up the filter processing and to enable an easy selection of the impulse response types. A theoretical analysis has been conducted on the errors caused by the finite word klength, rounding-off and multiplication procedures. The digital filter designed by the proposed method is made into a module which can function as a 7th-order recursive or a 14-order nonrecursive type with a simples witch operation. The proposed filter is implemented on a printed-circuit board. The frequency characteristics of this filter can be controlled by the multiplication values stored in ROMs. A low-pass, a high-pass and a band-pass filter have been designed and their frequency characteristics are verified by actual measurements. For a order higher filer, two filter modules have been cascaded into an integrated filter of 23rd-order non-recursive low-pass type and a 12th-order recursive multiband type. Their frequency characteirstics have been found to agree with the theory.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.43 no.1
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• pp.42.1-42.1
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• 2018

Deep Ecliptic Patrol of the Southern Sky (DEEP-South) observation is being made during the off-season for exoplanet survey, using Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet). An optimal combination of its prime focus optics and the 0.3 billion pixel CCD provides a four square degrees field of view with 0.4 arcsec/pixel plate scale which is also best suited for small body studies. Normal operation of KMTNet started in October 2015, and a significant portion of the allocated telescope time for DEEP-South is dedicated to targeted observation, Opposition Census (OC), of near-Earth asteroids for physical and taxonomic characterization. This is effectively achieved through multiband, time series photometry using Johnson-Cousins BVRI filters. Uninterrupted monitoring of the southern sky with KMTNet is optimized for spin characterization of a broad spectrum of asteroids ranging from the near-Earth space to the main-belt, including binaries, asteroids with satellites, slow/fast- and non-principal axis-rotators, and thus is expected to facilitate the debiasing of previously reported lightcurve observations. Our software subsystem consists of an automated observation scheduler, a pipelined data processing system for differential photometry, and an easy-to-use lightcurve analysis toolkit. Lightcurves, spin periods and provisional determination of class of asteroids to which the lightcurve belongs will be presented, using the dataset from first year operation of KMTNet. Our new taxonomic classification scheme for asteroids will also be summarized.