• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.28 no.5C
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• pp.476-485
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• 2003

This paper proposers a preprocessing approach to improving the quality of the music produced by the EVRC(enhanced variable rate codec) which is one of the CDMA(Code Division Multiple Access) voice codecs. Since the EVRC is optimized only for speech signals, it can deteriorate the quality of the music passed through it. One of the problems with the EVRC-coded music is time-clipping, which usually occurs when subsequent frames are encoded at Rate l/8. Since the EVRC determines the bit rate for an input frame based on the long-term prediction gain, we increase the long-term prediction gain in order for the most of the frames to be encoded at Rate 1 or Rate 1/2. Experimental results show that the approach works well on music signals and the number of time-clipped frames is considerably reduced.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.1
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• pp.128-138
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• 2019

In this paper, we present fusion methods for two different lofargrams. Since the conventional method synthesizes the lofargrams using frequency spectrum, it has limited performance in fusion of tonal signals which have two-dimensional information of the time-frequency domain. Proposed algorithm uses a two-dimensional directional bilateral filter for preprocessing and fuses two lofargrams based on comparison of local anisotropy of the lofargrams. After noise is suppressed and tonals are sharpened, the local anisotropy can be used as a criterion to divide tonals and noise. The experiment results using simulated data and real data showed that the proposed algorithms result in similar or lower noise level of the fused lofargram than conventional algorithms and decrease tonal omission in fusion process.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.679-688
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• 2021

Gait is an evaluation index used in various clinical area including brain nervous system diseases. Signal source localizing and time-frequency analysis are mainly used after extracting independent components for Electroencephalogram data as a method of measuring and analyzing brain activation related to gait. Existing treadmill-based walking EEG analysis performs signal preprocessing, independent component analysis(ICA), and source localizing by merging data after the multiple EEG measurements, and extracts representative component clusters through inter-subject clustering. In this study we propose an analysis method, without merging to single dataset, that performs signal preprocessing, ICA, and source localization on each measurements, and inter-subject clustering is conducted for ICs extracted from all subjects. The effect of data merging on the IC clustering and time-frequency analysis was investigated for the proposed method and two conventional methods. As a result, it was confirmed that a more subdivided gait-related brain signal component was derived from the proposed "non-merging" method (4 clusters) despite the small number of subjects, than conventional method (2 clusters).

• Journal of Life Science
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.125-134
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• 2022

This study investigated whether or not the major bioactive compounds of Noni (Morinda citrifolia) are involved in anti-inflammatory activity through the JAK/STAT upper signaling pathway in RAW 264.7 cells. The experimental results show that the M. citrifolia ethyl acetate fraction (Mc-EtOAc) obtained by sequential fractionation with organic solvents from the plant's dried fruits exhibits the highest antioxidant activity. In addition, the cytoprotective effects of Mc-EtOAc against H₂O₂-induced oxidative stress in the RAW 264.7 cells suppressed cytotoxicity in a dose-dependent manner. The group pretreated with Mc-EtOAc at a concentration of 240 ㎍/ml showed higher cell viability of 84.5%, compared to 71.6% in the LPS-treated group, and LPS-induced NO production decreased to half the amount in the positive control group. Mc-EtOAc treatment also led to a significant dose-dependent reduction in iNOS expression. Although COX-2 expression was increased by 300% following LPS induction, it was significantly decreased in a dose-dependent manner by pretreatment with Mc-EtOAc at concentrations of 120 and 240 ㎍/ml. An inhibition of the mRNA expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β and TNF-α was observed. The investigation also revealed that the phosphorylation levels of pJAK1 and pSTAT3 in LPS-induced RAW 264.7 cells were significantly reduced by Mc-EtOAc treatment.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.07a
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• pp.598-600
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• 2005

본 논문은 MPEG-4 기반의 모바일 비디오 서비스 환경에서 발생하는 화질열화 현상의 하나인 블륵킹 현상을 제거하는 기법을 제안한다. 제안된 기법은 전처리 과정과 3가지 모드의 디블록킹 필터 및 후처리 과정으로 구성되어 있으며 각 모드는 블록경계의 특성에 따라 적용된다. 모드 1은 블록경계의 양쪽 모두가 평탄한 경우에 해당하며 가장 강한 필터를 적용한다. 모드 2는 블록경계의 한쪽만 평탄한 경우이고 이때는 비대칭 필터를 적용한다. 모드 3은 블록경계를 중심으로 양쪽 모두 복잡한 경우이고, 이 경우에는 블록경계의 주파수 특성을 고려하여 화소값을 보정한다. 전처리 과정에서는 각 필터의 모드를 올바르게 선택하도록 블록 내부의 불필요한 신호를 제거하고, 후처리 과정에서는 대각선 에지와 블록의 모서리가 만나는 경우 발생하는 corner outlier를 제거하여 주관적 화질을 향상시킨다. 실험결과에서 제안한 방법이 PSNR 관점에서 후처리 과정을 거치지 않는 비디오의 경우와 비교하여 약 0.7dB, MPEG-4 디블록킹 결과와 비교하여 약 0.4dB 향상됨을 보인다.

• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2024.10a
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• pp.527-528
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• 2024

부정맥은 심각한 합병증을 초래할 수 있는 심장 질환으로, 조기 진단이 중요하다. 본 연구는 부정맥 진단의 자동화를 위해 Wavelet 변환과 합성곱 신경망(CNN)을 결합한 새로운 접근 방법을 제안한다. MIT-BIH Arrhythmia Database 와 P-Wave Annotations 를 사용하여 ECG 신호에서 QRS complex 와 P-wave 를 동시에 검출하는 전처리 방법을 개발하였다. Wavelet 변환 기반 전처리와 다양한 ECG 특징 추출 기법 결합한 1 차원 CNN 모델을 적용한 결과, 93%의 전체 정확도와 평균 0.9906 의 AUC 점수를 달성하였으며, 특히 심실 부정맥에 대해 96.8%의 높은 재현율을 보였다. 이는 현재 임상에서 사용되는 많은 자동화된 ECG 분석 시스템들의 miss reading 확률(10-15%)보다 낮은 7%의 miss reading 확률을 나타낸다. 본 연구는 ECG 데이터의 효율적인 해석과 부정맥의 조기 진단 가능성을 입증하였으며, 임상 현장에서의 적용 가능성을 제시한다. 향후 연구에서는 다양한 데이터셋 검증과 실시간 처리 능력 평가를 통해 실제 임상 환경에서의 적용성을 높일 계획이다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.301-305
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a simple algorithm for detecting underwater transient signals on the fact that the frequency range of underwater transient signals is similar to audio frequency. For this, we use a preprocessing module of EVRC speech codec that is the standard speech codec of the mobile communications. If a signal is entered into EVRC noise suppression module, we can get some parameters such as the update flag, the energy of each channel, the noise suppressed signal, the energy of input signal, the energy of background noise, and the energy of enhanced signal. Therefore the energy of the enhanced signal that is normalized with the energy of the background noise is compared with the pre-defined detection threshold, and then we can detect the transient signal. And the detection threshold is updated using the previous value in the noisy period. The experimental result shows that the proposed algorithm has $0{\sim}4% error rate in the AWGN or the colored noise environment.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2008.10b
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• pp.478-479
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• 2008

본 연구에서는 비접촉 방식으로 심박과 호흡을 측정하기 위해 2.4GHz 대역에서 동작하는 도플러 레이더 센서와 베이스밴드 모듈로 구성된 도플러 레이더 시스템을 설계하고 그 성능을 평가하였다. 설계된 도플러 레이더 시스템은 심폐활동에 의한 흉부 표면의 움직임에 의해 반사되는 레이더의 위상변화를 이용하여 심폐 활동을 측정한다. 도플러 레이더 센서의 출력은 베이스 밴드 모듈의 전처리 필터부, 증폭부, 오프셋 조정부를 통과하여 호흡과 심박 신호로 분리된다. 분리된 생체신호는 기존의 생체신호와 상관성을 확인하기 위해 기준신호로 호흡과 심전도를 동시에 측정하여 그 결과를 비교 및 분석하였다. 설계된 도플러 레이더 시스템에서 분리된 호흡 및 심박 신호는 측정 대상의 움직임이 없는 상태에서는 높은 검출률을 보였으며, 도플러 레이더에서 심박과 호흡 신호를 검출한 결과 거리, 호흡과 심박의 변이량, 호흡과 심박대역에 따라 검출률이 영향을 받는다는 것을 알 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.54 no.3
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• pp.119-128
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• 2017

In this paper, the wideband direction finding algorithm and system design method for short duration signal such as frequency hopping or burst signal is presented. The polyphase filterbank that it is possible for the near perfect reconstruction was used as a pre-processing and in each subband power measurement was performed to determine whether the presence of a signal and finally general direction finding algorithm was performed. In addition, various experiments was performed using Matlab Simulink and collected data from wideband receiver to verification of the proposed algorithm.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.49 no.8
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• pp.12-18
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• 2012

In this paper, we propose an improved analysis of transmission power of BTHP applied into the downlink multi-user (MU) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system. On the contrary to the conventional analysis that adopts the strong interference assumption for every users in the system, the proposed analysis approximates the characteristics of the actual interference components so that provides more accurate approximation of the transmission power than that from the conventional analysis. By computer simulations, it is observed that the proposed approximation is more accurate than the conventional one, especially in the case of 4-QAM modulation.