• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.135-145
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• 2020

Recently, deep-learning based methods for low-light image enhancement accomplish great success through supervised learning. However, they still suffer from the lack of sufficient training data due to difficulty of obtaining a large amount of low-/normal-light image pairs in real environments. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised learning approach for single low-light image enhancement using the bright channel prior (BCP), which gives the constraint that the brightest pixel in a small patch is likely to be close to 1. With this prior, pseudo ground-truth is first generated to establish an unsupervised loss function. The proposed enhancement network is then trained using the proposed unsupervised loss function. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt that performs a low-light image enhancement through unsupervised learning. In addition, we introduce a self-attention map for preserving image details and naturalness in the enhanced result. We validate the proposed method on various public datasets, demonstrating that our method achieves competitive performance over state-of-the-arts.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권5호
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• pp.35-43
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• 2014

본 논문에서는 이동하는 항공기의 통신장비와 지상 통신장비 간의 무선통신 링크 유지 및 통신신호 추적을 위하여 모노펄스 시스템과 ${\alpha}{\beta}$ 필터가 결합된 통신신호 추적 시스템의 성능향상 방안을 제시한다. 모노펄스 오차각 추적을 위하여 일반적으로 사용되는 모노펄스 기울기 곡선(Monopulse Ratio Curve)에 의한 추적 방식이 아닌 최소거리 연산방식을 제안하며, 통신 신호의 일시적 단절 상황에서 모노펄스 추적 재연결 확률 및 추적 정확도 향상을 위하여 가변 이득 방식의 ${\alpha}{\beta}$ 필터 알고리즘을 제안한다. 프로토타입 안테나로 측정한 MR Curve를 이용하여 제안된 모노펄스 시스템의 성능향상을 확인할 수 있다. 또한, 통신 단절 및 연결 상황에서 항공기 모의궤적을 이용한 모의실험은 고정 이득 방식의 ${\alpha}{\beta}$ 필터 대비 가변 이득 방식의 ${\alpha}{\beta}$ 필터 알고리즘의 성능향상을 보여준다. 본 논문에서 제시한 방식은 기존 통신신호 추적 시스템의 하드웨어에 대한 변경 없이 알고리즘의 변경만으로 가능하기 때문에 최소비용을 통한 성능향상을 기대할 수 있다.

• 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.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.1590-1596
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• 2003

The experiments of boiling heat transfer were performed to investigate the boiling enhancement in saturated water by using multi-stage electroplated surface. In order to optimize the boiling performance, current flux and duration in multi-stage electroplating were varied. Current flux, 2 $A/12cm^2$ and 0.33 $A/cm^2$, and duration ranging from 15 second to 50 second are considered. The results showed that multi-stage electro plated surfaces generate enhancement of boiling parameters such as boiling incipient superheat, boiling heat transfer coefficient, and critical heat flux compared to plain surface. The SEM images of the coated surfaces were captured to examine the structure of porous surface, which provides the enhancement of boiling heat transfer.

• 음성과학
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.259-269
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• 2004

In this paper, we propose a new excitation enhancement technique to improve the speech quality of low bit-rate code-excited linear prediction (CELP) coders. The proposed technique is based on a harmonic model and it is employed only in the decoding process of speech coders without any additional bits. We develop the procedure of harmonic model parameter estimation and harmonic generation, and apply this technique to a current state-of-the-art low bit rate speech coder, ITU-T G.729 Annex D. Also, its performance is measured by using the ITU-T P.862 PESQ score and compared to those of the phase dispersion filter and the long-term postfilter applied to the decoded excitation. It is shown that the proposed excitation enhancement technique can improve the quality of decoded speech and provide better quality for male speech than other techniques.

• 대한한의진단학회지
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• 제20권1호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2016

Ultrasonic imaging is the most widely modality among modern imaging device for medical diagnosis. Nevertheless, medical ultrasound images suffer from speckle noise and low contrast. In this paper, we propose probabilistic edge map for ultrasound image edge enhancement using automatic alien algorithm. The proposed method used applied speckle reduced ultrasound imaging for edge improvement using sequentially acquired ultrasound imaging. To evaluate the performance of method, the similarity between the reference and edge enhanced image was measured by quantity analysis. The experimental results show that the proposed method considerably improves the image quality with region edge enhancement.

• 음성과학
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.115-126
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• 2007

There have been many research efforts to improve the performance of the speech recognizer in noisy conditions. Among them, the model compensation method and the speech enhancement approach have been used widely. In this paper, we propose to combine the two different approaches to further enhance the recognition rates in the noisy speech recognition. For the speech enhancement, the minimum mean square error-short time spectral amplitude (MMSE-STSA) has been adopted and the parallel model combination (PMC) and Jacobian adaptation (JA) have been used as the model compensation approaches. From the experimental results, we could find that the hybrid approach that applies the model compensation methods to the enhanced speech produce better results than just using only one of the two approaches.

• 설비공학논문집
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.861-870
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• 1999

An experimental study was carried out to investigate the effects of using various shapes of turbulence promoter on the heat-transfer enhancement of 2-D and 3-D arrays of rectangular modules in a rectangular channel for design of noiseless and low-powered cooling fan in the electronic systems. Measurements of heat/mass transfer coefficients were made using a naphthalene sublimation technique, and the friction factors were measured for Reynolds numbers in the range$3.3{\time}10^3$~$1.6{\time}10^4$. Flow visualization was peformed by oil-film method. It was found that heat transfer and pressure drop increased remarkably due to the existence of the promoter. The results of the performance evaluation based on equal pumping power were showed that substantial heat-transfer enhancement was obtained at low Reynolds number range by use of a turbulence promoter.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.14-21
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• 2010

Fiber ring laser based intra-cavity absorption spectroscopic sensor has great potential for high sensitivity gas detection. Using the rate equations and propagation equations, we investigated theoretically factors that affect the sensitivity of such fiber ring laser sensors and determined the optimal design parameters and conditions for significant enhancement of the system sensitivity. Experiments have been conducted to determine the sensitivity enhancement performance. The results showed a factor of 25 ~ 30 in sensitivity enhancement in the experimental system, agreeing well with the theoretical expectations. Experiments on acetylene detection have also been carried out and the results showed that the ring cavity significantly increases the signal absorption and that high sensitivity can be obtained for gas detection.

• 전기전자학회논문지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.1188-1194
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• 2018

This paper proposes an image enhancement-based license plate detection algorithm to improve the overall performance of system. Non-uniform illumination conditions have huge impact on overall plate detection system accuracy. In this paper, we propose an algorithm for color image enhancement-based license plate detection for improving accuracy of images degraded by excessively strong and low sunlight. Firstly, the image is enhanced by Multi-Scale Retinex algorithm. Secondly, a plate detection method is employed to take advantage of geometric properties of connected components, which can significantly reduce the undesired plate regions. Finally, intersection over union method is applied for detecting the accurate location of number plate. Experimental results show that the proposed method significantly improves the accuracy of plate detection system.