• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제15권3호
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• pp.305-316
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• 1994

All physical data in the real world are nonstationary signals that have the time varying statistical characteristics. Although few algorithms suitable to process the nonstationary signals have ever been suggested, these are treated the nonstationary signals under the assumption that the nonstationary signal is a piece-wise stationary signal. Recently, statistical analysis algorithms for the nonstationary signal have concentrated so much interest. In this paper, nonstationary EMG signals are mapped onto the orthogonal wavelet transform domain so that the eigenvalue spread of its autocorrelation matrix could be more smaller than that in the time domain. Then the model in the wavelet transform domain and an algorithm to estimate the model parameters are suggested. Also, an test signal generated by a white gaussian noise and the EMG signal are identified, and the algorithm performance is considered in the sense of the mean square error and the evaluation parameters.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.317-324
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• 1995

A need exists for the accurate identification of time series models having time varying parameters, as is important in the case of real time identification of nonstationary EMG signal. Thls paper describes real time identification and muscle fatigue monitoring method of nonstationary EMG signal. The method is composed of the efficient identifier which estimates the autoregressive parameters of nonstationary EMG signal model, and its real time implementation by using T805 parallel processing computer. The method is verified through experiment with real EMG signals which are obtained from surface electrode. As a result, the proposed method provides a new approach for real time Implementation of muscle fatigue monitoring and the execution time is 0.894ms/sample for 1024Hz EMG signal.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.291-297
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• 2012

Conventional Fourier analysis can give only limited information about the dynamic characteristics of nonstationary signals. Instead, time-frequency analysis is widely used to investigate the nonstationary signal in detail. Several time-frequency analysis methods are compared for a typical acoustic emission burst generated during the impact between a ferrite ceramic and aluminum plate. This AE burst is inherently nonstationary and random containing many frequency contents, which leads to severe interference between cross terms in bilinear convolution type distributions. The smoothing and reassignment processes can improve the readability and resolution of the results. Spectrogram and scalogram of the AE burst are obtained and compared to get the characteristics information. Renyi entropies are computed for various bilinear time-frequency transforms to evaluate the randomness. These bilinear transforms are reassigned by using the improved algorithm in discrete computation.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제38권2호
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• pp.366-375
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• 2016

This paper describes an algorithm to suppress composite noise in a two-microphone speech enhancement system for robust hands-free speech communication. The proposed algorithm has four stages. The first stage estimates the power spectral density of the residual stationary noise, which is based on the detection of nonstationary signal-dominant time-frequency bins (TFBs) at the generalized sidelobe canceller output. Second, speech-dominant TFBs are identified among the previously detected nonstationary signal-dominant TFBs, and power spectral densities of speech and residual nonstationary noise are estimated. In the final stage, the bin-wise output signal-to-noise ratio is obtained with these power estimates and a Wiener post-filter is constructed to attenuate the residual noise. Compared to the conventional beamforming and post-filter algorithms, the proposed speech enhancement algorithm shows significant performance improvement in terms of perceptual evaluation of speech quality.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 1994년도 FIFTH WESTERN PACIFIC REGIONAL ACOUSTICS CONFERENCE SEOUL KOREA
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• pp.674-679
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• 1994

Acoustic signal such as speech and scattered sound, are generally a nonstationary process whose frequency contents vary at any instant of time. For time-varying signal, whether a nonstationary or a deterministic transient signal, a traditional frequency domain representation does not reveal the contents of signal characteristics and may lead to erroneous results such as the loss of desired characteristics features or the mis-interpretation for a wrong conclusion. A time-frequency domain representation is needed to characterize such signatures. Pseudo Wigner-Ville distribution (PWVD) is ideally suited for portraying nonstationary signal time-frequency domain and carried out by adapting the fast Fourier transform algorithm. In this paper, the important properties of PWVD were investigated using both stationary and nonstationry signatures by numerical examples PWVD was applied to acoustic sigtnatures to demonstrate its application for time-ferquency domain analysis.

• International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems
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• 제6권6호
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• pp.818-827
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a new noise estimation and reduction algorithm for stationary and nonstationary noisy environments. This approach uses an algorithm that classifies the speech and noise signal contributions in time-frequency bins. It relies on the ratio of the normalized standard deviation of the noisy power spectrum in time-frequency bins to its average. If the ratio is greater than an adaptive estimator, speech is considered to be present. The propose method uses an auto control parameter for an adaptive estimator to work well in highly nonstationary noisy environments. The auto control parameter is controlled by a linear function using a posteriori signal to noise ratio(SNR) according to the increase or the decrease of the noise level. The estimated clean speech power spectrum is obtained by a modified gain function and the updated noisy power spectrum of the time-frequency bin. This new algorithm has the advantages of much more simplicity and light computational load for estimating the stationary and nonstationary noise environments. The proposed algorithm is superior to conventional methods. To evaluate the algorithm's performance, we test it using the NOIZEUS database, and use the segment signal-to-noise ratio(SNR) and ITU-T P.835 as evaluation criteria.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제27권7호
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• pp.386-393
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• 2008

본 논문에서는 비정상 잡음환경에서 음질향상을 위한 새로운 방법을 제안한다. 정상 잡음환경에서 음질향상을 위한 잡음제거 방법으로 주파수 차감법이 잘 알려져 있다. 그러나 실제 잡음환경은 대 부분 비정상적인 특성을 나타낸다. 제안한 방법은 다양한 잡음 과 비정상 환경에서 잘 동작 할 수 있도록 적응 임계 치를 위한 자동제어 파라미터를 사용한다. 특히, 자동제어 파라미터는 a posteriori SNR을 이용한 선형함수를 적용하여 잡음레벨의 증감에 따라 적응 임계 치를 제어한다. 제안한 알고리즘은 음질향상을 위해 Hangover (HO)을 이용한 주파수 차감법과 결합한다. 알고리즘의 성능은 다양한 잡음환경에서 ITU-T P.835 signal distortion (SIG)와 segment signal to-noise ratio (SNR)로 평가하여 (HO)을 이용한 음성검출과 minimum statistics (MS) 방법에 비해 우수한 결과를 나타냈다

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2005년도 제36회 하계학술대회 논문집 D
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• pp.2519-2521
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• 2005

Instantaneous frequency(IF) has important physical meaning for nonstationary signal. Motor current is well known that to be a nonstationary signal whose properties vary with respect to the time-varying normal operating conditions of the motor, particularly with load. Time-frequency methods can overcome the shortcomings of the traditional spectral analysis techniques, nonstationary signal analysis approaches have been introduced. We examine the concept of IF as a potential candidate for condition monitoring of motors.

• 한국소음진동공학회논문집
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.255-262
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• 2006

Frequency spectrum using the conventional Fourier analysis gives adequate information about the dynamic characteristics of the slider air bearing for the linear and stationary cases. The intermittent contacts for the extremely low flying height, however, generate nonlinear and nonstationary vibration at the instant of contact. Nonlinear dynamic model should be developed to simulate the impulse response of the air bearing during slider-disk contact. Time-frequency analysis is widely used to investigate the nonstationary signal. Several time-frequency analysis methods are employed and compared for the slider vibration signal caused by the impact against an artificially induced scratch on the disk. The representative Wigner-Ville distribution leads to the severe interference problem by cross terms even though it gives good resolution both in time and frequency. The smoothing process improves the interference problem at the expense of resolution. In order to get the results with good resolution and little interference, the reassignment method is proposed. Among others the reassigned Gabor spectrogram shows the best resolution and readability with negligible interference.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.507-516
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• 1995

근전도 신호(electromyogram)의 시변 비정상(time varying nonstationary) 특성은 신호의 정확한 모델링 및 인식에 제약 조건으로 받아들여 졌다. 특히, 최근 들어 장애자들을 위한 보철제어분야에서 근전도 신호를 이용한 기능적 전기 자극을 위한 FES(funcitonal electrical stimulation) 시스템에 있어 근전도 신호의 파라메터 인식은 중요한 요소로서 작용한다. 그러나, 근전도 신호는 자세의 변화 및 근육 피로도 등의 요인에 의해서 시변 비정상 특성을 띠고 있기 때문에 시간에 따라 변하는 인식 파라메터를 정확하게 인식할 수 있는 새로운 알고리즘의 개발과 실시간 처리가 가능한 컴퓨터 하드웨어의 설계가 요구된다. 따라서, 본 논문에서는 시평면의 근전도 신호를 이산 여현 변환(discrete cosine transform)을 이용하여 변환 평면으로 옮긴 다음 상태 방정식(state space equation)을 써서 변환 평면상에서의 AR(autoregressive) 모델을 세우고 주어진 근전도 신호에 대해 모델 파라메터를 추정하였으며, 제안한 알고리즘은 실시간 처리를 위하여 2개의 독립적인 중앙 연산 처리 장치를 갖춘 INMOS사의 IMS T-805 병렬 처리 컴퓨터를 이용하여 동시 다발적인 연산을 수행함으로서 알고리즘의 연산 효율을 높였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 타당성을 검증하기 위해 모델의 추정 오차에 영향을 미치는 입력 자기상관 행렬(input correlation matrix)의 condition number의 변화 및 평균자승오차(mean square error)를 구하여 기존의 SLS(sequential least square) 알고리즘과 비교하였다.