• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.100-107
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• 2017

The focused MVDR (Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) can be applied for source localization in near field. However, if the number of sensors are increased, it requires a large amount of calculation to obtain the inverse of the covariance matrix. In this paper we propose a focused MVDR method using that beam space is formed from output of far field beamformer at the subarray. The performances of the proposed method was evaluated by simulation. As a result of simulation, the proposed method has the higher spatial resolution performance then the conventional delay-and-sum beamformer.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2003

This paper analyses the performance of either the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) or the recursive least square (RLS) beamformer structured on the systolic array. Provided that the snapshot vector including the desired user's signal and the interferences with the noise is received at the array antenna. In order to improve the quality of received signal, MVDR or RLS algorithm can be utilized to update the beamformer weights recursively. Furthermore to increase the channel capacity, by the usage of the above schemes, the effect of the spatial filtering can be obtained which constructively combining multipath components corresponding to the desired user whereas the multiple access interferences (MAI) is nulled out on spatial domain. This paper introduces the MVDR and RLS beamformer structured on systolic array conducting the spatial filtering, and its performance under the multipath fading channel in the presence of multiple access interferences will be analyzed. To show the superior spatial filtering performances of the proposed scheme employing the systolic way structured beamformer, the computer simulations are carried out. And the validity of practical deployment of the proposed scheme will be confirmed throughout showing the BER behaviors and the beampatterns.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.33 no.5
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• pp.326-334
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• 2014

This paper proposes a novel covariance matrix estimation scheme for minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamforming. By accurately tracking direction-of-sound source arrival (DoA) information using audio-visual sensors, the covariance matrix is efficiently estimated by adopting a variable forgetting factor. The variable forgetting factor is determined by considering signal-to-interference ratio (SIR). Experimental results verify that the performance of the proposed method is superior to that of the conventional one in terms of interference/noise reduction and speech distortion.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.30-35
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• 2006

In this paper. we Propose a frequency domain beamforming algorithm composed of inverse-filtering stages followed by a MVDR (Minimum-Variance Distortionless Response) beamformer or a GSC (Generalized Sidelobe Canceller). The proposed method is shown to require less complexity than the conventional RTF-MVDR and TF-GSC. respectively, and it is shown that the Proposed method is equivalent to the conventional RTF-MVDR and TF-GSC in optimum solution. In order to evaluate the performance of the Proposed method. speech recognition experiments are performed using the speech database recorded in a car. The Proposed method shows equal or slightly degraded Performance comparing to the conventional methods in terms of the speech recognition rate.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.519-525
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• 2018

This paper deals with noise suppression of multi-channel data captured by microphone array using multi-channel Wiener filter. Multi-channel Wiener filter does not rely on information about the direction of the target speech and can be partitioned into an MVDR (Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) spatial filter and a single channel spectral filter. The acoustic transfer function between the single speech source and microphones can be estimated by subspace decomposition of multi-channel Wiener filter. The errors are incurred in the estimation of the acoustic transfer function due to the errors in the estimation of correlation matrices, which in turn results in speech distortion in the MVDR filter. To alleviate the speech distortion in the MVDR filter, diagonal loading is applied. In the experiments, database with seven microphones was used and MFCC distance was measured to demonstrate the effectiveness of the diagonal loading.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.491-498
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• 2017

GPS (global positioning system) is a popular system that provides location information by measuring arrival time difference at the receiver between several GPS satellite signals. GPS is widely used in commercial area as well as military systems. Reliable GPS signal reception is more important in the military applications such as guided missiles. However, since the carrier frequencies of the GPS signals are well known and the received power is extremely low, the GPS systems are vulnerable to intentional jamming attacks. To remove jammers while maintaining GPS signals at the received signals, a popular technique is an adaptive beam steering method based on array antenna. Among adaptive beam steering techniques, this paper considers MVDR (minimum variance distortionless response) algorithm, and proposes a new adaptive technique that preserves the received signals at desired directions, but removes the unknown jamming signals adaptively. The performance of the proposed method is verified through computer simulation.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.51-57
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• 2020

For the purpose of development of anti-jamming GPS receiver we have developed an anti-jamming algorithm and its Simulink implementation model. The algorithm used here is a form of Space-Time Adaptive Processing (STAP) filter which is well known as an effective way to remove wideband jamming signals. We have chosen Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) block-adaptive beamforming algorithm for our development since it can provide relatively fast convergence speed to reach optimal weights, stable and high suppression capability on various types of jamming signals. We will show modeling results for this MVDR type adaptive beamformer and some simulation results. We also show the integrity of the demodulated satellite signals and the accuracy of resulting navigation solutions after anti-jamming operation.

• Journal of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.59-63
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• 2020

The antenna arrays are known to be effective for GPS anti-jamming and the performance can be improved further if a dual-polarized antenna array is used. However, when the Minimum Variance Distortionless Response (MVDR) beamformer is used as a signal processing algorithm for the dual-polarized antenna array, the anti-jamming performance can degrade in the presence of errors in the steering vector that is a key factor of the MVDR beamformer. Therefore, in this paper, the effect of the steering vector error on the anti-jamming performance of the dual-polarized antenna array is analyzed by simulations and the result is compared to that of the single-polarized antenna array.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.06a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 W-CDMA(Wide-Code Division Mul-tiple Access)용 Systolic 어레이 구조를 잣는 상향링크 빔형성기법에 대한 성능 분석을 하였다. 적응 어레이 안테나와 Systolic 구조의 MVDR(Minimum Variance Distortionless Response) 알고리즘을 사용하여 구해진 가중치 벡터를 이용하여 원하는 사용자의 방향으로 빔을 형성하고 원하지 않는 사용자의 방향으로는 null을 형성하는 공간필터를 적용하여 W-CDMA 상향링크에서 다중 경로 페이딩과 다중 접속 간섭의 증가에 따른 수신 성능을 분석하였다. 그리고, 안테나 시스템에서 사용되는 가중벡터를 갱신하기 위해 Systolic 구조의 MVDR과 역방향 파일럿 채널을 이용하는 QR-RLS(QR-Recursive Least Squares) 알고리즘을 적용하였다. 본 논문에서는 빔 형성기에 사용하기 위한 역행렬의 계산과 정에 Systolic 어레이 구조를 적용하여 병렬적인 고속처리가 가능한 방법과 효율적인 계산과정을 위해 MVDR 과 QR-RLS 알고리즘을 적용한 공간 필터링의 성능을 소개한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2002

It is well known that the MDVR beamforming outperforms the conventional delay-sum beamformer in the sense of noise rejection and bearing resolution. However, the MDVR method requires long observation time to achieve high frequency resolution. The STMV method uses the steered covariance matrix of sensor data, so it has an ability to form an adaptive weight vector from a single time-series snapshot. But it uses the same weight vector across all frequencies. In this paper, we propose an SSMV method. The basic idea of the SSMV method is to decompose a full frequency band into several subbands to acquire a weight vector for each subband, individually. Also the wrap may be divided into several subarrays in order to reduce a computational load and the bandwidth of each subband. Simulations using real sea trial data show that the proposed SSMV method has good performance with short observation time.