• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.10
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• pp.181-187
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• 2013

When there are background noises or some people speaking at the same time, a human's auditory sense has the ability to listen the target speech signal with a specific purpose through Auditory Scene Analysis. The CASA system with human's auditory faculty system is able to segregate the speech. However, the performance of CASA system is reduced when the CASA system fails to determine the correct position of the speech. In order to correct the error in locating the speech on the CASA system, voice activity detection algorithm is proposed in this paper, which is a combined auditory scene analysis with PAR(Periodic to Aperiodic component Ratio). The experiments have been conducted to evaluate the performance of voice activity detection in environments of white noise and car noise with the change of SNR 15~0dB. In this paper, by comparing the existing algorithms (Pitch and Guoning Hu) with the proposed algorithm, the accuracy of the voice activity detection performance has been improved as the following: improvement of maximum 4% at SNR 15dB and maximum 34% at SNR 0dB for white noise and car noise, respectively.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.1B
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• pp.56-61
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• 2000

The maximum number of nodes in WDM self healing ring network in limited by several factors including network architecture and ASE noise due to EDFAs at each optical ADM node. In this paper, the maximum node numbers for several protection architectures and bit rates limited by ASE are calculated and compared with the number limited by wavelength numbers. Appropriate design rules can be deduced from these results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.35-38
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 신호 공간 다이버시티 (Signal Space Diversity) 기법이 적용된 시스템에서 최대비 합성 (Maximal Ratio Combining) 수신시 성능 이득에 대해서 분석하였다. 먼저 심볼 오류율(Symbol Error Rate)을 수학적으로 유도하였다. 유도된 공식으로부터 상한(Upper Bound) 분석을 통해 공간 신호 다이버시티 기법이 결합될 경우 기존 대비 2배, 즉 '$2{\times}$수신안테나수' 만큼의 다이버시티 이득을 가짐을 증명하였다. 그리고 모의실험 결과와 유도된 공식 결과 값이 서로 일치함을 보여 정확성을 입증하였으며, 유도된 공식을 기반으로 신호 대 잡음비(SNR; Signal-to-Noise Ratio), 수신 안테나 개수 등 주어진 시스템 변수에 따른 최적 회전 각도를 정확히 도출할 수 있음을 보였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.7B
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• pp.1013-1020
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• 2001

채널 정보에 따른 다중 사용자 검파기를 생각한다. 채널 정보를 완벽하게 아는 경우에는 최대 신호 대 간섭 잡음비 성능 기준을 사용하여 다중 사용자 검파기를 얻을 수 있고, 이를 일반화하면 채널 정보가 부족한 경우에도 다중사용자 검파기를 얻을 수 있다.

• The Proceeding of the Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.5 no.3
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• pp.22-35
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• 1994

To improve the bandwidth efficiency in the environment of digital mobile communications, a correlative coded FM system is designed. The signal of this system has continuous phase and high power efficiency due to the constant envelope. But this signal also has a little loss of the SNR and some degradation of the BER. In this paper, a modified MLSE method which uses correlative coded signal is adopted to improve the performance of the receiver. The MLSE method improved the BER performance in the used channel. Without the decision feedback, the receiver performance was improved by 2dB and with it, by 4dB Particularly, the MLSE method and the decision feedback showed better performance in bad channels than in a stable telephone channel.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.157-164
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the usefulness of 3D reconstruction images in breast MRI by performing a quantitative comparative analysis in patients diagnosed with DCIS. On a 3.0T MR scanner, subtraction images and 3D reconstruction images were obtained from 20 patients histologically diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS). The findings from the quantitative image analysis are the following: The 3D reconstruction images showed higher SNR at the lesion area, ductal area, and fat area that of the subtraction image. In addition, the CNR were not significantly different in the lesion area itself between the subtraction images and 3D reconstruction images.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TC
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.45-53
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• 2003

A new smart antenna receiver which incorporates the spatial fourier Transform and the maximal ratio combining(MRC) is proposed. By adapting the spatial fourier transform, the proposed method could separate the received signal into several spatial frequency components which correspond to the arrival angles of signal components, which means the beam focusing. By using the MRC, the proposed method could achieve the maximum signal to noise ratio for the signal of interest. The proposed algorithm is integrated to the CDMA reverse link receiver and simulations are performed to confirm the performance. As a result, the beam focusing effect is confirmed and the performance gain with the proposed algorithm is comparable to ordinary smart antenna receivers. The simulations are performed over the additive white gaussian noise (AWGN) environments and the results are obtained for the beam focusing capability according to the angle of arrival of a signal and the bit error performance improvement according to the number of combining branches in the MRC.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.275-283
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• 2013

The patient radiation dose is different depending on selection of Ion chamber when taking Chest PA which using AEC. In this paper, we studied acquiring the best diagnostic images according to selection of Ion chamber on AEC mode as well as minimizing patient radiation dose. Experimental methods were selection of Ion chamber and change of sensitivity under the same conditions as Chest PA projection. At AEC mode, two upper ion chambers sensors and one lower ion chamber sensor were divided into 7 cases according to selection of on/off. after measuring five times respectively, we obtained average value and calculated exposure dose. Image assessment was done with measured Modulation Transfer Function, Peak Signal to Noise Ratio, Root Mean Square, Signal to Noise Ratio, Contrast to Noise Ratio, Mean to Standard deviation Ratio respectively. In exposure assessment results, selection of two upper chambers was the lowest. In resolution assessment results, image of two upper chambers had the second high spatial frequency at sensitivity at 625(High) was 1.343 lp/mm. RMS value of image selecting two upper chambers was low secondly. SNR, CNR, MSR were the high value secondly. As the sensitivity was increased, radiation dose was decreased but better image could be obtained on image quality. In order to obtain the best medical images while minimizing the dose, usage of two upper ion chambers is considered to be clinically useful at sensitivity 625(High).

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.406-413
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• 2019

This paper proposes a speech enhancement method through the process of combining the gain function with spectrum subtraction method in the two microphone array with close spacing. A speech enhancement method that uses a gain function estimated by the SNR (Signal-to Noise Ratio) based on the multi frequency band coherence function causes the performance degradation in high correlation between input noises of two channels. A new speech enhancement method is proposed where the weighted gain function is used by combining the gain function from the spectral subtraction. The performance evaluation of the proposed method was shown by comparison with PESQ (Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality) value which is an objective quality evaluation test provided by the ITU-T (International Telecommunications Union Telecommunication). In the PESQ tests, the maximum 0.217 of PESQ value is improved in the various background noise environments.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics S
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• v.36S no.5
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• pp.122-131
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• 1999

저주파의 아날로그 신호를 디지털 신호로 변환하기 위해 sigma-delta 아날로그-디지털 변환기의 이용이 용이하다. 이 변환기는 변조기와 디지털 필터로 구성되는데 본 논문에서는 변조기에 대해서만 언급한다. 모델링을 통해 14비트 분해능을 갖는 2차 sigma-delta 변조기를 설계하기 위한 변조기의 구성요소 즉 연산 증폭기, 적분기, 내부 ADC 및 DAC의 최대 허용 에러 범위를 규정하였으며, 이를 토대로 연산증폭기, 2비트 ADC 및 DAC 등을 설계·검증하고, 이들을 서로 연결하여 2차 sigma-delta 변조기를 구성하였다. 3비트 ADC의 기준전압을 조절하여 변조기 성능 향상을 도모하였으며, 내부 DAC를 축전기 및 간단한 제어회로로 구성하여 비선형성 에러를 최소화하였다. 설계된 각각의 구성요소들은 모델링에서 정의된 에러 범위를 모두 만족하였으며, 전체 변조기는87㏈의 입력범위와 87㏈의 최대 신호 대 잡음 비를 가졌다.