• Clinical and Experimental Otorhinolaryngology
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.267-274
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• 2018

Objectives. Two main digital signal processing technologies inside the modern hearing aid to provide the best conditions for hearing aid users are directionality (DIR) and digital noise reduction (DNR) algorithms. There are various possible settings for these algorithms. The present study evaluates the effects of various DIR and DNR conditions (both separately and in combination) on listening comfort among hearing aid users. Methods. In 18 participants who received hearing aid fitting services from the Rehabilitation School of Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences regularly, we applied acceptable noise level (ANL) as our subjective measure of listening comfort. We evaluated both of these under six different hearing aid conditions: omnidirectional-baseline, omnidirectional-broadband DNR, omnidirectional-multichannel DNR, directional, directional-broadband DNR, and directional-multichannel DNR. Results. The ANL results ranged from -3 dB to 14 dB in all conditions. The results show, among all conditions, both the omnidirectional-baseline condition and the omnidirectional-broadband DNR condition are the worst conditions for listening in noise. The DIR always reduces the amount of noise that patients received during testing. The DNR algorithm does not improve listening in noise significantly when compared with the DIR algorithms. Although both DNR and DIR algorithms yielded a lower ANL, the DIR algorithm was more effective than the DNR. Conclusion. The DIR and DNR technologies provide listening comfort in the presence of noise. Thus, user benefit depends on how the digital signal processing settings inside the hearing aid are adjusted.

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제29권7호
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• pp.500-507
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 유 무인항공기 추적 등에 사용이 가능하며, 전송속도가 최대 274 Mbps에서도 추적이 가능한 3채널 RF 모노펄스 수신기에 대해 설계하였다. 통신용 신호를 이용한 모노펄스 수신기는 Ku-대역으로 설계되었으며, 하향 변환모듈, 신호 처리 모듈로 구성된다. 제안된 RF 모노펄스 수신기의 성능을 만족시키기 위해 전송속도에 따른 전송속도별 수신감도의 신호처리 기능이 구현되었고, 이를 위해 다양한 대역폭의 신호 수신 및 상호 주파수 간섭을 최소화하기 위하여 2종의 RF 필터로 구성된 수신기 구조를 적용하였다. 시스템 요구사항의 만족 여부를 확인하기 위해 AWR 시뮬레이션 툴을 이용하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제22권8호
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• pp.687-693
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 적응적인 방식으로 필터의 성능을 향상시킴으로써 잡음에 의해 열화된 오디오 신호의 음질을 개선하는 알고리즘을 제안한다. 주파수 영역으로 변환된 잡음에 의해 열화된 신호를 바크 대역으로 분할하여 청각 자극 에너지를 계산하고, 필터를 적응적으로 적용하여 잡음 에너지를 제거함으로써 본래의 신호를 획득하는 방식을 사용하였다. 기존의 방식에서는 묵음 구간에서 획득한 잡음 에너지를 사용하여 필터를 구성하여 사용하며, 이때 잡음의 에너지가 급격하게 변화한다면 음질의 개선률이 급격하게 감소함을 알 수 있다. 그러나 제안하는 방식에서는 잡음 에너지가 급격하게 변화하여도 음질 개선률에는 변화가 적음을 알 수 있었다. 기존 방식과의 비교를 위하여 신호대 잡음비와 잡음대 마스킹비를 비교하였고 청각 테스트를 수행하여 그 결과로부터 향상된 음질 개선을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제22권3E호
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• pp.133-140
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• 2003

A time series simulation is presented by a ray approach for the simulating the received waveform of a broadband acoustical signals interacting with the ocean boundaries. The environment is assumed to be horizontally stratified, and the seafloor is described in terms of homogeneous fluid half-space. The ray approach includes the effects of reflection from the air-water, water-sediment interface and phase shifts due to boundaries interaction. To generate time series, we assume that the acoustic energy propagates from source to receiver along eigenrays and represent the action of the bottom on the incident wave by a linear filter and characterized in the frequency domain by the transfer function. As example application, the time series for an explosive source in a shallow water environment is calculated and analyzed in terms of acoustical process. good agreement with measured time series is demonstrated.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권9호
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• pp.3559-3571
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• 2015

This paper addresses the problem of signal acquisition with a sparse representation in a given orthonormal basis using fewer noisy measurements. The authors formulate the problem statement for randomly measuring with strong signal noise. The impact of white Gaussian signals noise on the recovery performance is analyzed to provide a theoretical basis for the reasonable design of the measurement matrix. With the idea that the measurement matrix can be adapted for noise suppression in the adaptive CS system, an adapted selective compressive sensing (ASCS) scheme is proposed whose measurement matrix can be updated according to the noise information fed back by the processing center. In terms of objective recovery quality, failure rate and mean-square error (MSE), a comparison is made with some nonadaptive methods and existing CS measurement approaches. Extensive numerical experiments show that the proposed scheme has better noise suppression performance and improves the support recovery of sparse signal. The proposed scheme should have a great potential and bright prospect of broadband signals such as biological signal measurement and radar signal detection.

• 대한원격탐사학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한원격탐사학회 2002년도 Proceedings of International Symposium on Remote Sensing
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• pp.465-470
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• 2002

A novel phased array antenna system for space-borne polarimetric SAR is proposed and completed in this paper.The antenna system assures polarimetric and multi-mode capability of SAR. It has broadband, high polarization isolation and high port to port isolation. The antenna system is composed of broadband polarimetric microstrip antenna, T/R modules and multifunction beam controller nit. The polarimetric microstrip antenna has more than 100MHz bandwidth at L-band with -30dB polarization isolation and high port to port isolation. The microstrip element and T/R module's structure and characteristics, the subarray's performances measuring results are presented in detail in this paper. A design scheme on beam controller of the phased array antenna is also proposed and completed, which is based on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) chip -TMS320F206. This beam controller unit has small size and high reliability compared with general beam controller. In addition, the multifunction beam controller unit can acquire and then send the T/R module's working states to detection system in real time.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제30B권5호
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• pp.34-42
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• 1993

Due to the low loss, broadband and accurate short time delay properties of optical fiber, it has attracted as a delay medium for high speed and broad-band signal processing. In this paper, we consider the coherent optical fiber filter of lattice structure, which uses coherent light sources and consists of directional couplers and optical fiber delay elements.The differences between the optical fiber filter and the ordinary digital filter are 1) the coupling coefficients of directional couplers are restricted between 0 and 1. 2) the optical signal is divided into ${j\sqrt{a}}and\;{j\sqrt{1-a}}$ at the directional coupler. Considering these restrictions, the design formulae and condition of realibility for optical fiber filter of lattice structure which makes the optimal use of optical signal energy are derived.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제20권2호
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• pp.86-92
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• 2001

소음원 위치와 방위를 규명하기 위해 다양한 배열처리기술이 발전되어 왔다. 배열처리기술의 기본은 두 개의 수신센서에 수신된 신호의 시간차를 이용하여 소음원의 위치와 방위를 구하는 것으로 응용분야나 신호처리방법에 따라 고유의 특성을 갖는 빔형성기법, 상관함수기법 및 NAH (Near-Field Acoustic Holography) 등이 있다 본 연구에서는 이러한 기법들 중 광대역 소음원 탐지에 적용되는 상관함수기법을 채택하여 소음원의 대역폭과 측정 잡음원 간의 상관 관계가 위치나 방위 탐지 정확도에 미치는 영향을 분석하여 효과적인 소음원 탐지기법을 제안한다. 본 연구에서 채택한 배열의 기하학적 형상은 위치나 방위의 3차원적 모호성을 없애기 위한 3차원 비선형이며 제안된 기법의 타당성은 수치모의 실험 및 실제 실험으로 검증되었다.

• Journal of the Optical Society of Korea
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.312-316
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• 2013

A novel fiber-optic sensor system is suggested in which fiber Bragg grating sensors are demodulated by a wavelength-sweeping fiber laser source and a spectrometer. The spectrometer consists of a diffraction grating and a 512-pixel photo-diode array. The reflected Bragg wavelength information is transformed into spatial intensity distribution on the photo-diode array. The peak locations linearly correspond to the Bragg wavelengths, regardless of the nonlinearities in the wavelength tuning mechanism of the fiber laser. The high power density of the fiber laser enables obtaining high signal-to-noise ratio outputs. The improved demodulation characteristics were experimentally demonstrated with a fiber Bragg grating sensor array with 5 gratings. The sensor outputs were in much more linear fashion compared with the conventional tunable band-pass filter demodulation. Also it showed advantages in signal processing, due to the high level of photo-diode array signals, over the broadband light source system, especially in measurement of fast varying dynamic physical quantities.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제4권5호
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• pp.691-708
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• 2010

An important issue of supporting multi-users with diverse quality-of-service (QoS) requirements over wireless networks is how to optimize the systematic scheduling by intelligently utilizing the available network resource while, at the same time, to meet each communication service QoS requirement. In this work, we study the problem of a variety of communication services over multi-media heterogeneous cognitive OFDM system. We first divide the communication services into two parts. Multimedia applications such as broadband voice transmission and real-time video streaming are very delay-sensitive (DS) and need guaranteed throughput. On the other side, services like file transmission and email service are relatively delay tolerant (DT) so varying-rate transmission is acceptable. Then, we formulate the scheduling as a convex optimization problem, and propose low complexity distributed solutions by jointly considering channel assignment, bit allocation, and power allocation. Unlike prior works that do not care computational complexity. Furthermore, we propose the FAASA (Fairness Assured Adaptive Sub-carrier Allocation) algorithm for both DS and DT users, which is a dynamic sub-carrier allocation algorithm in order to maximize throughput while taking into account fairness. We provide extensive simulation results which demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed schemes.