• 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.

• 한국ITS학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국ITS학회 2008년도 제7회 추계학술대회 및 정기총회
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• pp.367-370
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• 2008

• 한국전자파학회논문지
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• 제13권7호
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• pp.679-686
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 PSK 변조 신호에 대한 위상 잡음 성능 특성을 무한 급수로 전개하여 위상 잡음 분포 함수인 Tikhonov 함수와 Gaussian 함수에 대한 오율 특성을 평가하였으며, 위상 잡음에 의한 성능 손실 분석을 통하여 Tikhonov 함수와 Gaussian 함수에 의한 위상 잡음 영향이 일치하는 복원 반송파 신호대 잡음비 범위를 고찰하였다. 그리고, 주파수 변조 신호의 변조 지수와 위상 잡음의 상관 정의에 의해 1/f$^2$특성을 갖는 위상 잡음 신호를 발생하였으며, 발생된 위상 잡음 신호를 디지털 위성통신시스템 수신기에 적용하여 측정한 위상 잡음에 의한 성능 손실과 위상 잡음 분포 함수에 의해 분석된 성능 열화를 평가하였다

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제35권7호
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• pp.759-766
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• 2011

최근 가정용 에어컨은 냉방효율뿐 아니라 소음에 대한 중요성이 지속적으로 높아지고 있다. 로터리 압축기는 에어컨의 소음 중 매우 높은 영향도를 가지고 있으며, 압축기의 소음을 줄이기 위해 머플러 및 공명기에 관한 많은 연구들이 진행되어 왔다. 압축기의 부품 중 어큐뮬레이터는 큰 용적으로 인해 공명에 의한 추가 소음을 에어컨에 전달하는 소음 전달경로가 되며, 어큐뮬레이터의 내부구조는 소음저감을 위해 중요한 설계요소가 되나 지금까지는 연구결과가 미비한 수준이었다. 본 논문에서는 어큐뮬레이터의 소음 저감을 위해 목표주파수 대역에서의 투과손실이 최대가 되는 설계최적화를 수행하였다. 높은 비선형성을 가진 문제의 최적화를 위해 실험계획법과 반경기저신경망기법을 이용한 근사 모델을 사용하였으며, 유전알고리즘을 사용한 최적화를 수행하였다.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.331-335
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• 2011

Digital images are often corrupted by impulse noise, and it is very important to remove random-valued impulse noise. Cleaning such noise is far more difficult than cleaning salt and pepper impulse noise. In this paper, we proposed an efficient way to remove random-valued impulse noise from digital images. This novel method comprises two stages. The first stage is to detect the random-valued impulse noise in the image and the pixels are roughly divided into two classes, which are "noise-free pixel" and "noise pixel". Then, the second stage is to eliminate the random-valued impulse noise from the image. In this stage, only the "noise pixels" are processed. The "noise-free pixels" are copied directly to the output image. Simulation results indicated that our method provides a significant improvement over many other existing algorithms.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제34권4호
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• pp.204-211
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• 2013

In this paper, an algorithm for suppressing acoustic noises contained in stethoscope sound is proposed and implemented in real-time using an embedded DSP system. Sound collected by stethoscope is down-sampled and band-pass filtered, and later an NLMS adaptive filter is used to cancel the acoustic noise induced from external noise sources. Also, the unpredictable impulsive noises due to fabric friction and instantaneous tapping are detected using the SD-ROM algorithm, and suppressed using an algorithm approximating the morphology filter. The proposed algorithm was tested using signals collected with a digital stethoscope mockup, and implemented on an ARM920T-based DSP system.

• 소음진동
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.205-214
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• 1996

Active noise control(ANC) requires the full capability of a modern digital signal processing module. This paper describes the digital signal processing unit which is designed for ANC of noise fields in passenger car. System hardware is designed to allow software controlled versatility as well as fully qutomatic operation. The developed system is provided with the ability to be self-operated except the case of upload/download of data and program between the personal computer and the system memory. Experimental results are presented to demonstrate ANC performance of noise fields in lightly damped enclosure and passenger car.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.25-35
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• 2022

The SAP(salt-and-pepper) noise changes the pixel value to the maximum and minimum values of the dynamic region of the pixel. For this reason, unlike white Gaussian noise, SAP noise can predict the ratio of noise relatively easily. Because the condition of the neighboring pixels that can be referenced changes according to the noise ratio, it is necessary to apply different noise reduction methods according to the noise ratio. This paper proposes an adaptive switching filtering algorithm which can eliminates the SAP noise. It consists of two phases. It first detects the location of the SAP noise and calculates the noise ratio. After that, the image is reconstructed using different methods depending on which of the three sections the calculated noise ratio belongs to. As a result of the experiment, the proposed method showed superior objective and subjective image quality compared to the previous methods such as MF, AFSWMF, NAMF and RWMF.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제49권11호
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• pp.149-156
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• 2012

디지털 입력 D급 증폭기는 보청기에서 사용되고 있으며 D급 증폭기는 디지털 회로와 아날로그 회로로 구성되어진다. 아날로그 회로는 가청 주파수 대역에서 잡음을 억제하고 디지털 입력을 아날로그 신호로 변환한다. 본 논문에서 제안한 인터폴레이티드 디지털 델타-시그마 변조기는 디지털 신호 처리기의 출력 신호를 D/A 변조기 입력에 적합하도록 데이터를 변조시킨다. 디지털 필터는 16-bit, 25-kbps 펄스 코드 변조 신호를 16-bit, 50-kbps 신호로 보간 작업을 한다. 이 보간 필터 출력은 3차 디지털 델타-시그마 변조기를 통하여 노이즈 쉐이핑(noise shaping) 처리된다. 최종적으로, 1.5-bit, 3.2-Mbps 신호가 D/A 변조기 입력으로 인가된다.

• 새물리
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• 제68권12호
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• pp.1378-1383
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• 2018

Multi-wavelength holography has a better axial range than single-wavelength holography, thus allowing unambiguous phase imaging. Noise amplification is the limiting factor in multi-wavelength holography as noise is amplified by a factor equivalent to the magnification of the wavelengths. Here, we propose a new algorithm to remove noise amplification in multi-wavelength holography. The proposed method does not use phase unwrapping and removes $2{\pi}$ ambiguities. Experiments and numerical simulations indicated that the proposed method is fast, has low noise, and is useful for measuring samples with arbitrary step heights.