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Blind Neural Equalizer using Higher-Order Statistics

  • Lee, Jung-Sik
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.2 no.3
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    • pp.174-178
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    • 2002
  • This paper discusses a blind equalization technique for FIR channel system, that might be minimum phase or not, in digital communication. The proposed techniques consist of two parts. One is to estimate the original channel coefficients based on fourth-order cumulants of the channel output, the other is to employ RBF neural network to model an inverse system fur the original channel. Here, the estimated channel is used as a reference system to train the RBF. The proposed RBF equalizer provides fast and easy teaming, due to the structural efficiency and excellent recognition-capability of R3F neural network. Throughout the simulation studies, it was found that the proposed blind RBF equalizer performed favorably better than the blind MLP equalizer, while requiring the relatively smaller computation steps in tranining.

A Development of Blind Force Control of Robot for Grind Automation (사상 자동화를 위한 로봇의 Blind Force Control 기술 개발)

  • Lee Woo-Won;Park Chan-Ho;Lim Kye-Young
    • Proceedings of the KIPE Conference
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    • 2006.06a
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    • pp.158-162
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    • 2006
  • A lot of pieces of iron plate are used to build a ship. The states of cutting surface of iron are however bended or ununiformly cuttled by cutting machine. These may cause bad Quality of painting, and shorter lifetime of iron by rust. In this paper, a new approach of grinding force control method which teaching of robot is not required is proposed to avoid long preparation time of robot and to improve the productivity. The way used in this paper is just like a blind man works through the road with stick only.

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A Two-Step Screening Algorithm to Solve Linear Error Equations for Blind Identification of Block Codes Based on Binary Galois Field

  • Liu, Qian;Zhang, Hao;Yu, Peidong;Wang, Gang;Qiu, Zhaoyang
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.15 no.9
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    • pp.3458-3481
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    • 2021
  • Existing methods for blind identification of linear block codes without a candidate set are mainly built on the Gauss elimination process. However, the fault tolerance will fall short when the intercepted bit error rate (BER) is too high. To address this issue, we apply the reverse algebra approach and propose a novel "two-step-screening" algorithm by solving the linear error equations on the binary Galois field, or GF(2). In the first step, a recursive matrix partition is implemented to solve the system linear error equations where the coefficient matrix is constructed by the full codewords which come from the intercepted noisy bitstream. This process is repeated to derive all those possible parity-checks. In the second step, a check matrix constructed by the intercepted codewords is applied to find the correct parity-checks out of all possible parity-checks solutions. This novel "two-step-screening" algorithm can be used in different codes like Hamming codes, BCH codes, LDPC codes, and quasi-cyclic LDPC codes. The simulation results have shown that it can highly improve the fault tolerance ability compared to the existing Gauss elimination process-based algorithms.

Comparing Solar Heat Shading Performances of Internal Blinds in the Summer (내측 블라인드의 하절기 일사열 차폐 성능 비교)

  • Park, Eun-Mi;Choi, Dong-Ho;Park, Min-Yong;Lee, Kyung-Hee
    • Journal of the Korean Solar Energy Society
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    • v.34 no.6
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    • pp.75-83
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    • 2014
  • Heat loss through windows and doors occupies 20 to 45% of the total heat loss in building. It accounts for a large proportion of the total heat loss in building. In order to suppress the amount of heat flow through the windows and doors were considered actions such as reinforcement of insulation performance of window, adoption of low-e glass, and installation of solar heat shading device. The Purpose of this study is to compare solar heat shading performances of 3 types of internal blinds in the summer. In order to verify the solar heat shading performances of the blinds, a roll blind, blind A(Venetian blind) and blind B(Daylight guiding venetian blind)were installed in the four rooms with the same environmental conditions. As a result of the experiment, the blind B, blind A, roll blind showed an excellent performance in that order. Its because the blind B is made of aluminum materials coated with special paints on surface. It doesn't converted to long wave by short wave light. and it is reflected to short wave to outside.

A Semi-blind Digital Watermarking Scheme Based on the Triplet of Significant Wavelet Coefficients

  • Chu, Hyung-Suk;Batgerel, Ariunzaya;An, Chong-Koo
    • Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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    • v.4 no.4
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    • pp.552-558
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    • 2009
  • We proposed a semi-blind digital image watermarking technique for copyright protection. The proposed algorithm embedded a binary sequence watermark into significant wavelet coefficients by using a quantization method. The main idea of the quantization method was to quantize a middle coefficient of the triplet of a significant wavelet coefficient according to the watermark's value. Unlike an existing algorithm, which used a random location table to find a coefficient in which the watermark bit will be embedded: the proposed algorithm used quad-tree decomposition to find a significant wavelet coefficient for embedding. For watermark detection, an original host image was not required. Thanks to the usage of significant wavelet coefficients, the proposed algorithm improved the correlation value, up to 0.43, in comparison with the existing algorithm.

The practice of blind bolting connections to structural hollow sections: A review

  • Barnett, T.C.;Tizani, W.;Nethercot, D.A.
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2001
  • Due to aesthetic, economic, and structural performance, the use of structural hollow sections as columns in both continuous moment resisting and nominally pinned construction is attractive. Connecting the beams to these sections is somewhat problematic as there is no access to the interior of the section to allow for the tightening of a standard bolt. Therefore, bolts that may be tightened from one side, i.e., blind bolts, have been developed to facilitate the use of site bolting for this arrangement. This paper critically reviews available information concerning blind bolting technology, especially the performance of fasteners in shear, tension, and moment resisting connections. Also provided is an explanation of the way in which the results have been incorporated into design guidance covering the particular case of nominally pinned connections. For moment resisting connections, it is concluded that whilst the principle has been adequately demonstrated, sufficient data are currently not available to permit the provision of authoritative design guidance. In addition, inherent flexibilities in the connections mean that performance equivalent to full strength and rigid is unlikely to be achievable: a semicontinuous approach to frame design will therefore be necessary.

Lagged Cross-Correlation of Probability Density Functions and Application to Blind Equalization

  • Kim, Namyong;Kwon, Ki-Hyeon;You, Young-Hwan
    • Journal of Communications and Networks
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    • v.14 no.5
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    • pp.540-545
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, the lagged cross-correlation of two probability density functions constructed by kernel density estimation is proposed, and by maximizing the proposed function, adaptive filtering algorithms for supervised and unsupervised training are also introduced. From the results of simulation for blind equalization applications in multipath channels with impulsive and slowly varying direct current (DC) bias noise, it is observed that Gaussian kernel of the proposed algorithm cuts out the large errors due to impulsive noise, and the output affected by the DC bias noise can be effectively controlled by the lag ${\tau}$ intrinsically embedded in the proposed function.

Investigation of a blind-deconvolution framework after noise reduction using a gamma camera in nuclear medicine imaging

  • Kim, Kyuseok;Lee, Min-Hee;Lee, Youngjin
    • Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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    • v.52 no.11
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    • pp.2594-2600
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    • 2020
  • A gamma camera system using radionuclide has a functional imaging technique and is frequently used in the field of nuclear medicine. In the gamma camera, it is extremely important to improve the image quality to ensure accurate detection of diseases. In this study, we designed a blind-deconvolution framework after a noise-reduction algorithm based on a non-local mean, which has been shown to outperform conventional methodologies with regard to the gamma camera system. For this purpose, we performed a simulation using the Monte Carlo method and conducted an experiment. The image performance was evaluated by visual assessment and according to the intensity profile, and a quantitative evaluation using a normalized noise-power spectrum was performed on the acquired image and the blind-deconvolution image after noise reduction. The result indicates an improvement in image performance for gamma camera images when our proposed algorithm is used.

Table Structure Recognition in Images for Newspaper Reader Application for the Blind (시각 장애인용 신문 구독 프로그램을 위한 이미지에서 표 구조 인식)

  • Kim, Jee Woong;Yi, Kang;Kim, Kyung-Mi
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.19 no.11
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    • pp.1837-1851
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    • 2016
  • Newspaper reader mobile applications using text-to-speech (TTS) function enable blind people to read newspaper contents. But, tables cannot be easily read by the reader program because most of the tables are stored as images in the contents. Even though we try to use OCR (Optical character reader) programs to recognize letters from the table images, it cannot be simply applied to the table reading function because the table structure is unknown to the readers. Therefore, identification of exact location of each table cell that contains the text of the table is required beforehand. In this paper, we propose an efficient image processing algorithm to recognize all the cells in tables by identifying columns and rows in table images. From the cell location data provided by the table column and row identification algorithm, we can generate table structure information and table reading scenarios. Our experimental results with table images found commonly in newspapers show that our cell identification approach has 100% accuracy for simple black and white table images and about 99.7% accuracy for colored and complicated tables.

Fragile Watermarking Based on LBP for Blind Tamper Detection in Images

  • Zhang, Heng;Wang, Chengyou;Zhou, Xiao
    • Journal of Information Processing Systems
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.385-399
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    • 2017
  • Nowadays, with the development of signal processing technique, the protection to the integrity and authenticity of images has become a topic of great concern. A blind image authentication technology with high tamper detection accuracy for different common attacks is urgently needed. In this paper, an improved fragile watermarking method based on local binary pattern (LBP) is presented for blind tamper location in images. In this method, a binary watermark is generated by LBP operator which is often utilized in face identification and texture analysis. In order to guarantee the safety of the proposed algorithm, Arnold transform and logistic map are used to scramble the authentication watermark. Then, the least significant bits (LSBs) of original pixels are substituted by the encrypted watermark. Since the authentication data is constructed from the image itself, no original image is needed in tamper detection. The LBP map of watermarked image is compared to the extracted authentication data to determine whether it is tampered or not. In comparison with other state-of-the-art schemes, various experiments prove that the proposed algorithm achieves better performance in forgery detection and location for baleful attacks.