• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.42 no.4
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• pp.364-369
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• 2023

Time-delay estimation between two receivers is a technique that has been applied in a variety of fields, from underwater acoustics to room acoustics and robotics. There are two types of time delay estimation techniques: one that estimates the amount of time delay from the correlation between receivers, and the other that parametrically models the time delay between receivers and estimates the parameters by system recognition. The latter has the characteristic that only a small fraction of the system's parameters are directly related to the delay. This characteristic can be exploited to improve the accuracy of the estimation by methods such as Lasso regularization. However, in the case of Lasso regularization, the necessary information is lost. In this paper, we propose a method using Elastic Net that adds Ridge regularization to Lasso regularization to compensate for this. Comparing the proposed method with the conventional Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC) method and the method using Lasso regularization, we show that the estimation variance is very small even for white Gaussian signal sources and colored signal sources.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.8
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• pp.12-19
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• 2017

In this paper a super-resolution time delay estimation algorithm that estimates the time delays of spread spectrum signals using sparse signal reconstruction approach is introduced. So far, the correlation method has been mostly used to estimate the time delays of spread spectrum signals. However it fails to accurately estimate the time delays in the case where the signals are spaced within approximately 1 PN chip duration and a further processing should be applied to the correlation outputs in order to enhance the resolution capability. Recently sparse signal approaches attract much interest in the area of directions-of-arrival estimation, of which SPICE is the most representative. Thus we introduce a super-resolution time delay estimation algorithm based on the SPICE approach and compare its performance with that of MUSIC algorithm by applying them to the ISO/IEC 24730-2.1 RTLS system.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.6
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• pp.499-505
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• 2018

Time delay estimation between two acoustic sensors is widely used in room acoustics and sonar for target position estimation, tracking and synchronization. A cross-correlation based method is representative for the time delay estimation. However, this method does not have enough consideration for the noise added to the receiving acoustic sensors. This paper proposes a new time delay estimation method considering the added noise on the receiver acoustic sensors. From comparing with the existing GCC (Generalized Cross Correlation) method, and adaptive eigen decomposition method, we show that the proposed method outperforms other methods for a colored signal source in the white Gaussian noise condition.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.36 no.11
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• pp.1079-1086
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• 2008

During transfer alignment navigation information transferred MINS(master inertial navigation system) to SINS(slave inertial navigation system) has a changed time delay. The changed time delay degrades the performance of transfer alignment. This paper proposes an adaptive filter that estimates covariance of a time delay in real-time using residual of measurements. The performance of the adaptive filter is compared with that of the EKF(extended Kalman filter) in case of transfer alignment for vertical launcher in the ship. The results show that proposed method is more effective than EKF in estimating attitude errors.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.36 no.4
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• pp.279-284
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• 2017

The localization of sources has a numerous number of applications. To estimate the position of sources, the relative time delay between two or more received signals for the direct signal must be determined. Although the GCC (Generalized Cross-Correlation) method is the most popular technique, an approach based on CCA (Canonical Correlation Analysis) was also proposed for the TDE (Time Delay Estimation). In this paper, we propose a new adaptive algorithm based on CCA in order to utilized the sparsity in the eigenvector of CCA based time delay estimator. The proposed algorithm uses the eigenvector corresponding to the maximum eigenvalue with log-sum regularization in order to utilize the sparsity in the eigenvector. We have performed simulations for several SNR(signal to noise ratio)s, showing that the new CCA based algorithm can estimate the time delays more accurately than the conventional CCA and GCC based TDE algorithms.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.11 no.4
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• pp.365-372
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• 2016

Recently, UWAC(: UnderWater Acoustic Communication) has been studied by many scholars and researchers. There are several method to estimate the time-difference between the two signals such estimating as the arrival time of the first non-background segment in both signals and calculate the temporal difference, calculating the cross-correlation between the two signal to infer the time-lagged, and estimating the phase delay to infer the time difference. In this paper, we present estimating method by the phase delay to infer the time difference in two signals.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.452-459
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• 2021

Estimating the mutual time delay between two acoustic sensors is used in various fields such as tracking and estimating the location of a target in room acoustics and sonar. In the time delay estimation methods, there are a non-parametric method, such as Generalized Cross Correlation (GCC), and a parametric method based on system identification. In this paper, we propose a time delay estimation method based on the parametric method. In particular, we propose a method that considers the noise in each receiving acoustic sensor. Simulation confirms that the proposed algorithm is superior to the existing generalized cross-correlation and adaptive eigenvalue analysis methods in white noise and reverberation environments.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.115-116
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• 2006

UWB 시스템은 실내 LBS 에 가장 유망한 기술로 각광받고 있다. 그러나 실내건물을 이루는 손실성 매질로 인해서 신호에 지연이 발생, 거리오차가 발생하게 된다. 본 문제를 해결하기 위해서 공기중의 채널과 매질의 채널정보를 통해서, 신호의 지연을 추정하려고 하였다. 신호의 스팩트럼의 주파수에 관한 손실기울기는 투과한 매질의 두께에 비례하여, 깊어진다는 것을 사용하여, 매질 투과로 인한 신호의 지연시간을 추정하는 기술과 손실기울기를 측정하기 위한 RAKE 수신기를 소개한다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.460-465
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• 2021

In active sonar, time delay estimation is used to find the distance between the target and the sonar. Among the time delay estimation methods for active sonar, estimation in the frequency domain is widely used. When estimating in the frequency domain, the time delay can be thought of as a frequency estimator, so it can be used relatively easily. However, this method is prone to rapid increase in error due to noise. In this paper, we propose a new method which applies weighted dictionary and sparsity in order to reduce this error increase and we extend it to two receivers to propose an algorithm for estimating the time delay between two receivers. And the case of applying the proposed method and the case of not applying the proposed method including the conventional frequency domain algorithm and Generalized Cross Correlation-Phase transform (GCC-PHAT) in a white noise environment were compared with one another. And we show that the newly proposed method has a performance gain of about 15 dB to about 60 dB compared to other algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.37 no.2A
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• pp.119-127
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• 2012

In this paper a super-resolution time delay estimation algorithm is developed for real-time locating systems (RTLSs) that employ a direct-sequence spread spectrum technique, along with its performance analysis in multipath environments. The classical correlation method provides relatively good performance in line-of-sight (LOS) environments but its performance seriously degrades in multipath environments, especially when signals are spaced closer than a PN chip. Therefore we shall develop a super-resolution time delay estimation algorithm that may estimate the time delays of multipath signals even in closely spaced multipath environments using the MUSIC algorithm for direction-of-arrival estimation and analyze its performance by applying the algorithm to the ISO/IEC 24730-2.1 RTLS system.