• ETRI Journal
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.492-504
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• 2023

Researchers have recently shown an increased interest in estimating the direction-of-arrival (DOA) of wideband noncircular sources, but existing studies have been restricted to subspace-based methods. An off-grid sparse recovery-based algorithm is proposed in this paper to improve the accuracy of existing algorithms in low signal-to-noise ratio situations. The covariance and pseudo covariance matrices can be jointly represented subject to block sparsity constraints by taking advantage of the joint sparsity between signal components and bias. Furthermore, the estimation problem is transformed into a single measurement vector problem utilizing the focused operation, resulting in a significant reduction in computational complexity. The proposed algorithm's error threshold and the Cramer-Rao bound for wideband noncircular DOA estimation are deduced in detail. The proposed algorithm's effectiveness and feasibility are demonstrated by simulation results.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.106-114
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• 2016

Differential sensing methods are more effective in alleviating panel noise than single-line sensing, and thus have been increasingly used in the touch screen industry. However, they have a drawback: they tend to cancel out multiple touches and need touch position recovery algorithms. This paper introduces a novel algorithm of touch position recovery for differential sensing, which is a low-complexity but high-accuracy approach for determining multiple touch positions. We have implemented the proposed method in a touch screen controller system on a chip. In the simulation experiments using realistic touch screen models and a differential sensing circuit, the algorithm exhibited a high detection performance of a signal-to-noise ratio gain of up to 52.21 dB. Therefore, we can conclude that the proposed method is substantially more accurate than the previous method. Further, the proposed method incurs little or no overhead in terms of the detection speed and the chip size.

• 한국광학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국광학회 2009년도 창립 20주년기념 특별학술발표회
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• pp.34-35
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• 2009

• Journal of Magnetics
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.148-152
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• 2016

The main goal was to evaluate effectiveness of a modified TSE sequence compared with DIR (double inversion recovery) sequence in acquisition of fast flow brain vessel images using signal void effect. 32 healthy volunteers (10 men and 22 women; mean age of 31 years; ranging between 28-43 years) who underwent black blood DIR sequence (group A) and the modified TSE sequence (group B) were enrolled in our study. Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) and Contrast to Noise Ratio (CNR) of the internal carotid arteries' lumen were compared in T1 and T2 weighted images for both group A and B. The images obtained from group B showed lower SNR values in internal carotid artery than the group A in both of the T1 and T2 weighted images (11.49% and 13.66% respectively). While the CNR values were higher in the group B than the group A in both of the T1 and T2 weighted images (8.69% and 7.55 % respectively). The qualitative score of all categories were not significantly different between the two groups. Furthermore approximately 49% of the total scan time was reduced from group B. Our study is to shorten the scanning time and minimize the inconveniences of the patients in acquisition of the black blood images of brain by using the signal void effect in the modified TSE technique while keeping the diagnostic value of the test.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제44권5호
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• pp.859-874
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• 2022

This paper presents a low-power and lightweight human body communication (HBC) receiver with an embedded dummy electrode for improved signal acquisition. The clock data recovery (CDR) circuit in the receiver operates with a low supply voltage and utilizes a clock phase inversion scheme. The receiver is equipped with a main electrode and dummy electrode that strengthen the capacitive-coupled signal at the receiver frontend. The receiver CDR circuit exploits a clock inversion scheme to allow 0.9-V operation while achieving a shorter lock time than at 3.3-V operation. In experiments, a receiver chip fabricated using 130-nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology was demonstrated to successfully receive the transmitted signal when the transmitter and receiver are placed separately on each hand of the user while consuming only 4.98 mW at a 0.9-V supply voltage.

• Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science
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• 제40권2호
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• pp.212-217
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• 2023

We report a case of transient osteoporosis of the hip with a femoral neck fracture found during follow-up. A 53-year-old man presented with left hip pain without trauma. The pain did not improve after 2 weeks and he was brought to our hospital by ambulance. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the left hip joint showed diffuse edema in the bone marrow, which was identified by low signal intensity on T1-weighted images, high signal intensity on T2-weighted images, and increased signal intensity on short tau inversion recovery. This edema extended from the femoral head and neck to the intertrochanteric area. He was diagnosed with transient osteoporosis of the left hip. Rest gradually improved his pain; however, 3 weeks later, his left hip pain worsened without trauma. X-ray, computed tomography, and MRI results of the hip joint demonstrated a left femoral neck fracture, and osteosynthesis was performed. Differential diagnoses included avascular necrosis of the femoral head, infection, complex regional pain syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, leukemia, and other cancers. Transient osteoporosis of the hip generally has a good prognosis with spontaneous remission within a few months to 1 year. However, a sufficient length of follow-up from condition onset to full recovery is necessary to avoid all probable complications such as fractures.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제19권11호
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• pp.2081-2093
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• 1994

본 연구에서는 DMR(Digital Microwave Radio) STM-1 신호전송을 위한 CCTTT G. 707 SDH(Synchronous Digital Hierachy) 제 1 레벨인 155Mbps 속도의 64 QAM 복조기를 설계, 구현하였다. 복조기 전반의 성능을 좌우하는 carrier recovery는 8 비트 A/D 변환기를 이용한 decision feedback carrier recovery 방식을 이용하였다. 또한 PSF(Pulse Shaping Filter)는 7차의 elliptic 필터를 이용하였다. Carrier recovery 회로는 8bit의 변환 데이터 중에서 MSB 3 bit는 데이타로 이용하고 나머지 하위 비트들은 에러성분 검출을 위한 제어신호로 이용되는 디지틀방식 및 전압제어 수정발진기와 적분기는 아나로그 방식을 이용하는 hybrid 형태로 설계, 구현하여 안정한 복조성능을 얻었다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.510-522
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• 2018

As the major source of information, digital images play an indispensable role in our lives. However, with the development of image processing techniques, people can optionally retouch or even forge an image by using image processing software. Therefore, the authenticity and integrity of digital images are facing severe challenge. To resolve this issue, the fragile watermarking schemes for image authentication have been proposed. According to different purposes, the fragile watermarking can be divided into two categories: fragile watermarking for tamper localization and fragile watermarking with recovery ability. The fragile watermarking for image tamper localization can only identify and locate the tampered regions, but it cannot further restore the modified regions. In some cases, image recovery for tampered regions is very essential. Generally, the fragile watermarking for image authentication and recovery includes three procedures: watermark generation and embedding, tamper localization, and image self-recovery. In this article, we make a review on self-embedding fragile watermarking methods. The basic model and the evaluation indexes of this watermarking scheme are presented in this paper. Some related works proposed in recent years and their advantages and disadvantages are described in detail to help the future research in this field. Based on the analysis, we give the future research prospects and suggestions in the end.

• 대한기계학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한기계학회 2004년도 추계학술대회
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• pp.585-590
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• 2004

Many machine failures are not detected well in advance due to the masking of background noise and attenuation of the source signal through the transmission mediums. Advanced signal processing techniques using adaptive filters and higher order statistics have been attempted to extract the source signal from the measured data at the machine surface. In this paper, blind deconvolution using the eigenvector algorithm (EVA) technique is used to recover a damaged bearing signal using only the measured signal at the machine surface. A damaged bearing signal corrupted by noise with varying signal-to-noise (s/n) was used to determine the effectiveness of the technique in detecting an incipient signal and the optimum choice of filter length. The results show that the technique is effective in detecting the source signal with an s/n ratio as low as 0.21, but requires a relatively large filter length.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.141-148
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 미상 디지털 통신 신호의 심볼율을 검출하기 위한 기술들을 소개하고 그 성능을 비교해 본다. 심볼율은 delay and multiplier, square law 또는 Hilbert 변환을 이용한 방법 등의 회로를 통과한 신호의 전력스펙트럼 밀도에서 검출해 낼 수 있다. 이러한 회로들을 통과한 신호를 이산 푸리에 변환(discrete Fourier Transform) 한 결과에서 많은 스펙트럼 라인과 복수개의 피크(peak)가 검출되고 그 중 첫 번째 피크가 심볼율을 나타내는 주파수에 위치하게 된다. 만약 해당 심볼율이 아닌 다른 주파수상의 스펙트럼 라인의 값이 첫 번째 피크보다 크다면 심볼율은 잘못 검출될 것이다. 그러므로 첫 번째 피크의 값과 가장 큰 주변 스펙트럼 라인의 값의 비를 이용하여 심볼율 검출기의 성능을 비교하였다. MPSK 변조 방식에서는 -20dB 이하의 Es/N0에서는 delay and multiplier가 가장 우수한 성능을 보였고 -20dB 이상의 Es/N0에서는 Hilbert 변환 방식이 더 좋은 성능을 나타내었다. 또한 QAM 변조 방식에서 delay and multiplier 회로는 낮은 Es/N0에서는 심볼율을 검출할 수 없으며 square law 방식은 MPSK 변조 방식에서 보다 우수한 성능을 나타내었다.