• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.45 no.5
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• pp.28-34
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• 2008

The real-time biomedical signal monitoring is a very important factor to realize the ubiquitous healthcare environment. Most of these devices for monitoring the biomedical information get the PPG signal from the user, and these signals are utilized for monitoring their health. It is inconvenient to get the PPG because the user should wear the finger probe with his finger for measuring the PPG signal. Also it is difficult to get the PPG correctly, because of the motion artifacts from the movement of the user. In this paper, we develop the watch type biomedical signal monitoring system without the finger probe, and propose the new algorithm for reducing the motion artifacts from the PPG signal. We designed the system which gets the PPG from the sensor on the wrist band strip. As compared with the finger probe type, this system we proposed is more affected by the motion artifacts. So to filter this motion artifacts, we propose the new method; the improved PMAF(Periodic Moving Average Filter) method.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.3
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• pp.691-697
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• 2013

Recently, u-healthcare device is developed and commercialized for healthcare management and emergency medical. The kinds of the measurable biomedical signals on the device are electrocardiogram, skin temperature, pulse oxygen, heart rate, respiration, etc. Specially, the photoplethysmograph(PPG) signal of these signals is the important signal in measuring oxygen, heart rate and peripheral vascular compliance. The accuracy of PPG signal reduce from influence of the motion artifacts that generated from the movements of user or patient. Therefore, this study suggests a new method to remove the motion artifact that is using optical power modulation and ICA(Independent Component Analysis). For analyzing the proposed method, we used variety of noises made by artificially. In the results of experiments, the proposed method showed good performances than an adaptive filter.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.183-190
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• 2013

The Photoplethysmogram is a similar periodic signal that synchrinized to a heartbeat. In this paper, we propose a exponential weight moving average filter that use similarity of Photoplethysmogram. This filtering method has the average value of each samples through separating the cycle of PPG signal. If there are some motion artifacts in continuous PPG signal, disjoin the signal based on cycle. And then, we made these signals to have same cycle by coordinating the number of sample. After arrange these cycles in 2 dimension, we put the average value of each samples from starting till now. So, we can eliminate the motion artifacts without damaged PPG signal.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.75-82
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• 2012

The Photoplethysmogram is a similar periodic signal that synchronized to a heartbeat. In this paper, we propose a periodic moving average filter that use similarity of Photoplethysmogram. This filtering method has the average value of each samples through separating the cycle of PPG signal. If there are some motion artifacts in continuous PPG signal, disjoin the signal based on cycle. And then, we made these signals to have same cycle by coordinating the number of sample. After arrange these cycles in 2 dimension, we put the average value of each samples from starting till now. So, we can eliminate the motion artifacts without damaged PPG signal.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.772-778
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• 2012

In this paper, the states and the parameters in the dynamic system are simultaneously estimated by applying the UKF(Unscented Kalman Filter), which is widely used for estimating the state of non-linear systems. Estimating the parameter is very important in various fields, such as system control, modeling, analysis of performance, and prediction. Most of the dynamic systems which are dealt with in engineering have non-linearity as well as some noise. Therefore, the parameter estimation is difficult. This paper estimates the states and the parameters applying to the UKF, which is a non-linear filter and has strong noise. The augmented equation is used by including the addition of the parameter factors to the original state equation of the system. Moreover, it is simulated by applying to a 2-DOF(Degree of Freedom) dynamic system composed of the pendulum and the slide. The measurement noise of the dynamic equation is assumed to be a Gaussian distribution. As the simulation results show, the proposed parameter estimation performs better than the LSM(Least Square Method). Furthermore, the estimation errors and convergence time are within three percent and 0.1 second, respectively. Consequentially, the UKF is able to estimate the system states and the parameters for the system, despite having measurement data with noise.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.46 no.5
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• pp.40-47
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• 2009

A motion adaptive video noise reduction scheme is proposed by cascading a temporal filter and a spatial filter. After a noise-robust motion detection is performed with a pre-spatial filter, the strength of the motion adaptive temporal filter is controlled by the amount of temporal movement. In order to fully utilize the temporal correlation of video signal, noisy input image is processed first by the temporal filter, therefore, image details of temporally stationary region are quite well preserved while undesired noises are suppressed. In contrast to the pre-spatial filter used for the robust motion detection, the cascaded post-spatial filter removes the remained noises by considering the strength of the temporal filter and the spatial self-similarity search results obtained from the pre-spatial filter.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1411-1412
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• 2015

본 연구에서는 맥박 측정에서 생기는 잡음들 중 많은 오류를 생기게 하는 동잡음 개선을 위하여 회로를 제안하고 설계하였다. 기존의 맥박추정 장비에서 가변저항, 광원 스위칭, 디지털 필터를 사용함으로써 정확도 향상을 위한 연구를 하였다. 손가락에서 광전용적맥파를 측정시 측정부의 광원을 2개를 사용하고, 이를 스위칭을 통해 파형을 측정을 하였다. 실험에서 PPG의 측정은 반사형 방식을 사용하고 이를 광원스위칭을 통해 신호를 받아들였다. 이를 저주파통과필터와 고주파통과필터를 사용하여 0.5~5Hz대역을 필터링 함으로써 PPG이외의 잡음을 제거하고 신호를 검출하였다. 검출된 파형을 지수가중이중필터로 필터링을 함으로써 정확성을 높였다. 이를 통하여 광원스위칭을 통한 PPG의 출력과 발광다이오드 한 개를 사용한 출력을 비교 분석을 보여줄 것이다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.572-575
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• 2010

본 논문은 SNR 이 매우 낮은 저조도 영상의 잡음 제거를 위한 새로운 기술을 제안한다. 제안하는 기술은 입력 영상에서 파라미터를 자동/적응적 방식으로 추정하는 알고리즘을 특징으로 한다. 제안하는 기술의 효율성을 검증하기 위해 실질적인 환경에서 취득한 저조도 동영상들을 가지고 실험을 수행하였다. 실험을 통해 제안하는 기술을 활용하여 적응적으로 추정된 파라미터가 필터링(filtering) 성능을 잘 유지시킴을 검증하였다. 또한 기존 연구들과 비교할 때 저조도 동영상의 명암대비 향상과 잡음 제거에 우수한 결과를 보임을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.685-686
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• 2016

엑스선 투시촬영장치와 같은 의료용 동영상의 잡음 제거에 있어서 시공간 잡음제거 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘에서는 무한 충격 응답 기반 시간 영역 잡음 제거 얄고리즘을 도입하여 움직임이 적은 영역에서는 자연스러운 잡음 제거가 가능하며 움직임이 많은 영역에서는 연산량 측면에서 효율성을 고려하여 지역적 평균 필터 기반 공간 잡음 제거 알고리즘을 적용하여 움직임에 의한 흐려짐 열화 현상을 최소화 하면서 잡음 제거를 수행하였다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.374-379
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• 2002

In this paper, a nobel method to reduce noise using voice/unvoice classification is proposed. Voice and unvoice are an important feature of speech and the proposed method processes noisy speech differently for each voice/unvoice part. Speech is classified into voice/unvoice using zero-crossing rate and energy, and a modified speech/noise dominant-decision is proposed based on voice/unvoice classification. The proposed method was tested on conditions of white noise and airplane noise, and on the basis of comparing segmental SNR with the existing method and listening to the enhanced speech, a performance of the proposed method was superior to that of the existing method.