• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제55권2호
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• pp.195-206
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• 2022

The separation of spectrally overlapped broadband echo signals from free-swimming Japanese needlefish Hypohamphus sajori using the fractional Fourier transform (FrFT) was investigated. The broadband echo signals were measured over frequency ranges of 40-80 and 110-220 kHz. The overlapped echo signals were separated after eliminating noise signals in the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution domain. The echo signal from a 40 mm WC sphere suspended just below a chirp transducer was used to calibrate the broadband of the chirp echo sounder and estimate the frequency dependence of target strength for the separated echo signals. The experimental results show that the proposed FrFT method can analyze the time-frequency image of broadband echo signals from free-swimming individual fish effectively and can be used as a quantitative tool for extracting the acoustic features used for fish species identification.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제48권2호
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• pp.221-232
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• 2015

Broadband echoes measured in live chub mackerel Scomber japonicus, goldeye rockfish Sebastes thompsoni, and fat greenling Hexagrammos otakii with different morphologies and internal characteristics were analyzed in time and frequency domains to understand the species-specific echo feature characteristics for classifying fish species. The mean echo image for each time-frequency representation dataset obtained as a function of orientation angle was extracted to mitigate the effect of fish orientation on acoustic scattering. The joint time-frequency content of the broadband echo signals was obtained using the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution (SPWVD). The SPWVDs were analyzed for each echo signature of the three fish species. The results show that the time-frequency analysis provided species-specific echo structure patterns and metrics of the broadband acoustic signals to facilitate fish species classification.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제49권2호
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• pp.214-223
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• 2016

Joint time-frequency images of the broadband acoustic echoes of six fish species were obtained using the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution (SPWVD). The acoustic features were extracted by changing the sliced window widths and dividing the time window by a 0.02-ms interval and the frequency window by a 20-kHz bandwidth. The 22 spectrum amplitudes obtained in the time and frequency domains of the SPWVD images were fed as input parameters into an artificial neural network (ANN) to verify the effectiveness for species-dependent features related to fish species identification. The results showed that the time-frequency approach improves the extraction of species-specific features for species identification from broadband echoes, compare with time-only or frequency-only features. The ANN classifier based on these acoustic feature components was correct in approximately 74.5% of the test cases. In the future, the identification rate will be improved using time-frequency images with reduced dimensions of the broadband acoustic echoes as input for the ANN classifier.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제51권2호
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• pp.178-186
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• 2018

A chirp-echo data acquisition and processing system was developed for use as a simplified, PC-based chirp echo-sounder with some data processing software modules. The design of the software and hardware system was implemented via a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). Digital signal processing algorithms for driving a single-channel chirp transmitter and dual-channel receivers with independent TVG (time varied gain) amplifier modules were incorporated into the FPGA for better real-time performance. The chirp-echo data acquisition and processing system consisted of a notebook PC, an FPGA board, and chirp sonar transmitter and receiver modules, which were constructed using three chirp transducers operating over a frequency range of 35-210 kHz. The functionality of this PC-based chirp echo-sounder was tested in various field experiments. The results of these experiments showed that the developed PC-based chirp echo-sounder could be used in the acquisition, processing and analysis of broadband acoustic echoes related to fish species identification.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제53권2호
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• pp.218-230
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• 2020

The single anatomical attribute that has the greatest influence on acoustic scattering from fish is the presence or absence of a swimbladder. This study examined the effect of removing the gas from the swimbladder on the broadband backscattering characteristics of six species of swimbladdered fish: striped beakperch Oplegnathus fasciatus, black scraper Thamnaconus modestus, dark-banded rockfish Sebastes inermis, goldeye rockfish Sebastes thompsoni, black rockfish Sebastes schlegeli and panther puffer Takifugu pardalis. Before and after removing the gas from the swimbladder, the species-specific, frequency-dependent backscattered echo signals from anaesthetized individuals of each fish species were measured at approximately 1° intervals spanning a 90° aspect angle range from -45° (head down) to +45° (head up) using a broadband echo sounder operating at 100-200 kHz. The relationship between the wavelength-normalized backscattering cross section (σ/λ²) and fish length (L/λ) was calculated for each species. The average σ/λ² value for the six fish species at a L/λ range of 19.79-25.85, with a mean of 22.89, was reduced by approximately 52.3% when the gas was removed.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제50권2호
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• pp.195-206
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• 2017

Joint time-frequency images of the broadband echo signals of six fish species were obtained using the smoothed pseudo-Wigner-Ville distribution in controlled environments. Affine transformation and principal component analysis were used to obtain eigenimages that provided species-specific acoustic features for each of the six fish species. The echo images of an unknown fish species, acquired in real time and in a fully automated fashion, were identified by finding the smallest Euclidean or Mahalanobis distance between each combination of weight matrices of the test image of the fish species to be identified and of the eigenimage classes of each of six fish species in the training set. The experimental results showed that the Mahalanobis classifier performed better than the Euclidean classifier in identifying both single- and mixed-species groups of all species assessed.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제65권11호
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• pp.1887-1893
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• 2016

The VSA(Video Signal Analysis) method is the time-domain approach for estimating ultrasonic attenuation which utilizes the envelop signals from backscattered rf signals. The echogenicity of backscattered ultrasonic signals, however, from deeper depths are distorted when the broadband transmit pulse is used and it degrades the estimation accuracy of attenuation coefficients. We propose the modified VSA method using adaptive bandpass filters according to the centroid shift of echo signals as a pulse propagates. The technique of dual-reference diffraction compensation is also proposed to minimize the estimation errors because the difference of attenuation properties between the reference and sample aggravates the estimation accuracy when the differences are accumulated in deeper depth. The proposed techniques minimize the distortion of relative echogenicity and maximize the signal-to-noise ratio at the given depth. Simulation results for numerical tissue-mimicking phantoms show that the Rectangular-shaped filter with the appropriate center frequency exhibits the best estimation performance and the technique of the dual-reference diffraction compensation dramatically improves accuracy for the region after the beam focus.

• 한국수산과학회지
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• 제52권6호
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• pp.709-718
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• 2019

Cephalopods, such as the Japanese flying squid Todarodes pacificus and golden cuttlefish Sepia esculenta, are an important food source for all toothed whales, particularly bottlenose dolphins in costal and offshore waters around the Korean Peninsula. A controlled laboratory experiment was conducted to investigate the broadband acoustic backscattering from live individuals of these two cephalopod species using linear chirp signals (100-200 kHz). The backscattered echo signal was measured at about 1° intervals from -45° (head down) to +45° (head up) in the dorsal plane. The species-specific, frequency-dependent scattering characteristics were investigated by comparing the relationship between the wavelength-normalized backscattering cross-section (σ/λ²) and the wavelength-normalized fish length L/λ for each species. The estimated σ/λ² value for Japanese flying squid was 9.51 at an L/λ range of 12.79-30.27 (mean, 21.26). This was approximately 7% of the σ/λ² value (136.1) for golden cuttlefish at an L/λ range of 9.07-25.49 (mean, 15.77).

• 수산해양기술연구
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• 제34권1호
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• pp.85-95
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• 1998

어종의 식별을 위한 수중음향학적 정보를 수집하는 데 사용하기 위한 광대역 초음파 변환기를 개발할 목적으로 저주파용 Tonpilz형 초음파 변환기를 설계, 제작하고, 이 변환기의 음향 방사면에 $Al_2O_3$와 epoxy 수지를 서로 혼합하여 생성한 복합재료층과 폴리우레탄 수지로서 제작한 음향 정합층을 각각 직렬 접착시킨 복합구조 초음파 변환기의 광대역 주파수 특성에 대하여 분석, 고찰한 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 1) Tonpilz형 transducer (head mass : 알류미늄 / 두께 22.0 mm, tail mass : 황동 / 두께 15.0 mm )의 음향 방사면에 두께 7.0 mm의 $Al_2O_3$와 epoxy 수지로서 생성한 복합재료층의 두께 18.0 mm의 폴리우레탄 수지로서 제작한 정합층을 직열접착한 복합 구조 초음파 변환기의 - 3 dB점에 대한 하한 및 상한 주파수 범위는 35.0~42.3 kHz (${\Delta}f=7.3 kHz)$이었고, 이 주파수 구간에 있어서의 송파전압감도의 최대치는 135.7 dB re $1\;{\mu}Pa/V$ 이었다. 2) Tonpilz형 transducer (head mass : 알류미늄 / 두께 23.0 mm, tail mass : 황동 / 두께 15.0 mm )의 음향 방사면에 두께 11.0 mm의 $Al_2O_3$와 epoxy 수지로서 제작한 복합재료층과 두께 15.8.0 mm의 폴리우레탄 수지로서 제작한 정합층을 직열접착한 복합 구조 초음파 변환기의 - 3 dB점에 대한 하한 및 상한 주파수 범위는 35.5~41.73 kHz (${\Delta}f=6.2 kHz)$이었고, 이 주파수 구간에 있어서의 송파전압감도의 최대치는 136.3 dB re $1\;{\mu}Pa/V$ 이었다. 3) 본 연구에서 시작한 복합구조 초음파 변환기에 chirp 신호(펄스 폭 4 ms, 중심주파수 40 kHz, 대역폭 40 kHz)를 인가하고, 수중방사음역에 있어서의 시간응답특성을 조사한 결과, 그 응답특성은 송신전압감도의 주파수특성과 매우 잘 일치하는 경향을 나타내었다. 이상의 결과로부터 본 연구에서 설계, 제작한 이중정합층을 갖는 복합구조 초음파 변환기는 단순구조의 Tonpilz형 초음파 변환기와 비교하여 비록 송파전압감도에 있어서는 약 5 dB 정도의 음향출력의 손실이 불가피하지만, 그 대신 주파수 대역폭을 약 5 재 정도 확대시킬 수 있는 장점이 있기 때문에 이 넓은 주파수 대역을 효과적으로 활용하면 어종식별을 위한 음향산란신호를 정량적으로 수집 및 평가하는 것이 가능하다고 판단된다.