• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.6-12
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• 2013

맘모그램은 유방암의 조기발견을 위해 가장 일반적으로 이용되고 있다 유방암의 정확한 진단과 효율적인 치료를 위하여 많은 영상향상 방법들이 개발되어왔다. 본 논문은 디지털 유방 촬영상의 영상향상을 위하여 새로운 비선형 영상향상 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 영상의 밝기 정보를 향상시키기 위한 비선형 함수와 경계와 디테일 정보를 개선하기 위한 비선형 필터로 구성된다. 비선형 함수는 영상의 어두운 영역의 밝기를 향상시키고 밝은 영역의 동적범위를 넓혀주며, 비선형 필터는 영상의 특정 영역이나 객체를 효과적으로 개선시킨다. 최종 향상된 영상은 비선형 함수로 처리한 영상과 비선형 필터로 필터된 영상을 더하여 얻어진다. 제안된 비선형 영상향상 방법은 실험에서 기존 방법과 영상향상 결과를 비교하여 우수한 성능을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제41권1호
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• pp.30-37
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• 2022

본 논문은 주파수 영역에서 심층 신경망 기반 음성 향상 모델 학습을 위하여 학습 대상과 네트워크 구조에 따라 두 가지 관점에서 성능을 비교 평가한다. 이때, 학습 대상으로는 스펙트럼 매핑과 Time-Frequency(T-F) 마스킹 기법을 사용하였고 네트워크 구조는 실수 네트워크와 복소 네트워크를 사용하였다. 음성 향상 모델의 성능은 데이터 셋 규모에 따라 Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality(PESQ)와 Short-Time Objective Intelligibility(STOI) 두 가지 객관적 평가지표를 통해 평가하였다. 실험 결과, 네트워크의 종류와 데이터 셋 종류에 따라 적정한 훈련 데이터의 크기가 다르다는 것을 확인하였다. 또한, 데이터의 크기와 학습 대상에 따라 복소 네트워크보다 실수 네트워크가 비교적 높은 성능을 보이기 때문에 총 파라미터의 수를 고려한다면 경우에 따라 실수 네트워크를 사용하는 것이 보다 현실적인 해결책일 수 있다는 것을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Welding and Joining
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• 제33권4호
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• pp.50-56
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• 2015

In general, discontinuity of metallurgical and structural points of weld zone could decline the fatigue strength. For the lightweight trend, the AHSS application in automotive chassis is in-progress. However, there are few research reports on AHSS welds fatigue strength in especially automotive chassis parts. Therefore, in this study, we evaluated the effects of the factors affecting the AHSS welding fatigue strength. As the result, the stress concentration of weld bead is the most important factor for welding fatigue strength. For the enhancement of welding fatigue strength, we focused on reducing the stress concentration of the welding beads. So, we applied and proved the plasma welding process and GTAW (Gas Tungsten Arc Welding) dressing method. It was verified by uniaxial fatigue specimen, fatigue performance increased from 40 to 60% by applying TIG dressing method compared to the conventional GMAW (Gas Metal Arc Welding). These results could be recommended the enhancement of fatigue performance of AHSS.

• 대한전자공학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.663-671
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• 1988

In this paper, in order to reduce the blocking effect of block coded images, we propose the method considering the lowpass and bandpass components of Granrath's human visual model. This method consists of two-stage enhancement procedure. The first step is lowpass filtering which smooths out the blocking effect, and the second step is a high frequency enhancement procedure to increase the contrast decreased by the lowpass filtering in the first step. In the first step, the one-dimensional Gaussian filter which aligthns parallel to the edge direction is considered to preserve the edge in the block and the two-dimensional Gaussian filter is used to smooth out the blocking effect near the block boundaries. In the second step, the lowpass and bandpass components of the Granrath's model are considered to increase contrast in a restored image. The performance comparison of the proposed method and the existing mehtods is made by a computer simulation with several block coded images. We can see that the enhancement in the subjective quality of images of the proposed method is more significant than the enhancement in the subjective quality of images of the proposed method is more significant than the existing methods, though the proposed method does not show better performance on the PSNR gain, the poor measure of picture quality for block coded images.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제28권11C호
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• pp.1161-1168
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 음성검출의 성능을 향상시킬 목적으로 정합 필터를 이용한 음성향상 전처리 과정을 통하여 SNR을 개선한 후, 이를 LLR(Log Likelihood Ratio) 검사에 의한 최적 결정방법을 적용하여 확률적인 모델을 기준으로 하는 향상된 음성검출 방법을 제안한다. 또한 기존의 음성검출 방법들에서는 제시되지 않았던 문턱값 갱신 알고리즘을 제안하며, 이 방법을 통해서 기존의 방법들에서 성능이 좋지 않았던 낮은 SNR 환경에서도 음성검출을 할 수 있게 되었다. 마지막으로 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 이미 상용화되어 널리 이용중인 G.729B(ITU-TG.729 Annex B)의 음성검출 결과와 비교를 통해서 제안한 음성검출 방법의 성능의 우수성을 검증하며, 실제적인 환경에도 적용이 가능함을 보인다.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제52권7호
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• pp.119-124
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• 2015

배경잡음에 강인한 음성인식을 위한 전처리기로써 음성향상 기법이 요구되고 있다. 코드북 기반의 음성향상 기법은 기존 잡음 추정 알고리즘들과 비교하여 nonstationary 배경잡음 환경에 강인하다는 장점이 있다. 하지만 코드북 정보에 의존적이기 때문에 입력신호와 상관성이 떨어지는 코드벡터의 조합을 사용할 경우 성능이 급격히 떨어진다는 단점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 학습된 음성과 잡음 코드벡터를 조합하는 과정에서 입력신호와 상관성이 떨어지는 코드벡터의 조합을 제거함으로써, Log-Spectral Distortion (LSD)과 Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) 관점에서 기존 코드북 기반 알고리즘의 성능을 향상시켰다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2022

Exploration has always been an instinct of humans, and underwater life is as fascinating as it seems. So, for studying flora and fauna below water, there is a need for high-quality images. However, the underwater images tend to be of impaired quality due to various factors, which calls for improved and enhanced underwater images. There are various Histogram Equalization (HE) based techniques which could aid in solving these issues. Classifying the HE methods broadly, there is Global Histogram Equalization (GHE), Mean Brightness Preserving HE (MBPHE), Bin Modified HE (BMHE), and Local HE (LHE). Each of these HE extensions have their own pros and cons and thus, by considering them we have considered BBHE, CLAHE, BPDHE, BPDFHE, and DSIHE enhancement algorithms, which are based on Mean Brightness Preserving HE and Local HE, for this study. The performance is evaluated with non-reference performance measures like Entropy, UCIQE, UICM, and UIQM. In this study, we apply the enhancement algorithms on 300 images from the UIEB benchmark dataset and then apply the techniques of cascading fusion on the best-performing algorithms.

• Journal of Medicine and Life Science
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.1-5
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• 2019

Our purpose was to evaluate usefulness of the contrast-enhanced 3 dimensional fluid attenuated inversion recovery (3D-FLAIR) technique of half brain volume to diagnose the patients with facial neuritis based on segment-based analysis. We assessed retrospectively 17 consecutive patients who underwent brain MR imaging at 3 tesla for facial neuritis: 11 patients with idiopathic facial neuritis and 6 with herpes zoster oticus. Contrast enhanced 3D-FLAIR sequences of the half brain volume were analyzed and 3D T1-weighted sequence of the full brain volume were used as the base-line exam. Enhancement of the facial nerve was determined in each segment of 5 facial nerve segments by two radiologists. Sensitivity, specificity and accuracy of enhancement of each segment were assessed. The authors experienced a prompt fuzzy CSF enhancement in the fundus of the internal auditory canal in patients with enhancement of the canalicular segment. Interobserver agreement of CE 3D-FLAIR was excellent(${\kappa}$-value 0.885). Sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of each segment are 1.0, 0.823, 0.912 in the canalicular segment; 0.118, 1.0, 0.559 in the labyrinthine segment; 0.823, 0.294, 0.559 in the anterior genu; 0.823, 0.529, 0.676 in the tympanic segment; 0.823, 0.235, 0.529 in the mastoid segment, respectively. In addition, those of prompt fuzzy enhancement were 0.647, 1.0, and 0.824, respectively. Incidence of prompt fuzzy enhancement with enhancement of the canalicular segment was 11 sites(55%): 6 (54.5%) in idiopathic facial neuritis and 5 (83.3%) in herpes zoster. Enhancement of the canalicular segment and prompt fuzzy enhancement on CE 3D-FLAIR was significantly correlated with occurrence of facial neuritis (p<0.001). CE 3D-FLAIR technique of the half brain volume is useful to evaluate the patients with facial neuritis as an adjunct sequence in addition to contrast-enhanced 3D T1-weighted sequence. On segment-based analysis, contrast enhancement of the canalicular segment is the most reliable. Prompt fuzzy enhancement is seen in not only herpes zoster, but in idiopathic facial neuritis.

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2006년도 추계학술대회논문집
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• pp.903-908
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• 2006

As environmental vibration requirements on precision equipment become more stringent. use of pneumatic isolators has become more popular and their performance is subsequently required to be further improved. Dynamic performance of passive pneumatic isolators is related to various design parameters in a complicated manner and, hence, is very limited especially in low frequency range by volume of chambers. In this study, an active control technique, so called time delay control which is considered to be adequate for a low frequency or nonlinear system, is applied to a single chamber pneumatic isolator. The procedure of applying the time delay control law to the pneumatic isolator is presented and its effectiveness in enhancement of transmissibility performance is shown based on simulation and experiment. Comparison between passive and active pneumatic isolators is also presented.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권8호
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• pp.923-936
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• 2014

Images can be contaminated with different types of noise, for different reasons. The neighborhood averaging and smoothing by image averaging are the classical image processing techniques for noise removal. The classical spatial filtering refers to the aggregate of pixels composing an image and operating directly on these pixels. To reduce or remove effectively noise in image sequences, it usually needs to use noise reduction filter based on space or time domain such as method of spatial or temporal filter. However, the method of spatial filter can generally cause that signals of objects as the target are also blurred. In this paper, we propose temporal filter using the piece-wise quadratic function model and enhancement algorithm of image quality for the performance improvement of target detection and tracking by heterogeneous noise reduction. Image tracking simulation that utilizes real IIR(Imaging Infra-Red) images is employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed image processing algorithm.