• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2005.06a
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• pp.1435-1438
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• 2005

In hands-free telephone systems, the received speech signal is fed back to the microphone and constitutes the so-called echo. To cancel the effect of this time-varying echo path, it is necessary to device an adaptive filter between the receiving and the transmitting ends. For a typical FIR realization, the length of the fullband adaptive filter results in high computational complexity and low convergence rate. Consequently, subband adaptive filtering schemes have been proposed to improve the performance. In this work, we use deterministic approach to analyze the relationship between fullband and subband adaptive filtering structures. With block adaptive filtering structure as an intermediate stage, the analysis is divided into two parts. First, to avoid aliasing, it is found that the matrix of block adaptive filters is in the form of pseudocirculant, and the elements of this matrix are the polyphase components of the fullband adaptive filter. Second, to transmit the near-end voice signal faithfully, the analysis and the synthesis filter banks in the subband adaptive filtering structure must form a perfect reconstruction pair. Using polyphase representation, the relationship between the block and the subband adaptive filters is derived.

• ETRI Journal
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.366-375
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• 2016

This paper describes an algorithm to suppress composite noise in a two-microphone speech enhancement system for robust hands-free speech communication. The proposed algorithm has four stages. The first stage estimates the power spectral density of the residual stationary noise, which is based on the detection of nonstationary signal-dominant time-frequency bins (TFBs) at the generalized sidelobe canceller output. Second, speech-dominant TFBs are identified among the previously detected nonstationary signal-dominant TFBs, and power spectral densities of speech and residual nonstationary noise are estimated. In the final stage, the bin-wise output signal-to-noise ratio is obtained with these power estimates and a Wiener post-filter is constructed to attenuate the residual noise. Compared to the conventional beamforming and post-filter algorithms, the proposed speech enhancement algorithm shows significant performance improvement in terms of perceptual evaluation of speech quality.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.640-644
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• 2010

When we talk with hands-free in a car or noisy lobby, the performance of the echo canceller degrade because background noise added to echo caused by the distance from mouth to microphone is relatively long. It gives a reason for necessity of noise-robust and high convergence speed adaptive algorithm. And if acoustic echo canceller operated not perfectly, residual signal going through the echo canceller to far-end speaker remains residual echo, which degrade quality of talk. To solve this problem, post-processing needed to remove residual echo ones more. In this paper, we propose a new acoustic echo canceller, which has noise robust and high convergence speed, linked with linear predictor as a post-processor. By computer simulation, it is confirmed that the proposed algorithm shows better performance from acoustic interference cancellation (AIC) viewpoint.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.43-50
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• 2016

This paper is on an acoustic echo canceller solving the double-talk problem by using the blind signal separation technology. The acoustic echo canceller may be deteriorated or diverged during the double-talk period. So we use the blind signal separation to detect the double talking by separating the near-end speech signal from the mixed microphone signal. The blind signal separation extracts the near-end signal from dual microphones by the iterative computations using the 2nd order statistical character in the closed reverberation environment. By this method, the acoustic echo canceller operates irrespective of the double-talking. We verified performances of the proposed acoustic echo canceller in the computer simulations. The results show that the acoustic echo canceller with this algorithm detects the double-talk periods well, and then operates stably without diverging of the coefficients after ending the double-talking. The merits are in the simplicity and stability.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.26 no.6B
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• pp.760-766
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 차량내 핸즈프리 전화통신을 위한 음향 반향 및 배경 잡음 제거기를 제안한다. 제안한 시스템은 새로운 잔여 반향 제거 기법과 실시간 구현에 적합한 동시통화 검출기를 포함한다. 잔여 반향 제거에서는 근단화자가 없는 구간에 대하여 선형 예측기를 이용하여 잔여 반향 신호의 인접 샘플간의 상관도를 제거하여 잡음 제거기의 입력으로 사용한다. 잔여 반향 신호의 음성특성을 제거함으로써 잡음 제거기를 이용하여 배경 잡음과 더불어 잔여 반향의 전력을 효과적으로 줄일 수 있다. 제안된 시스템에서는 상용 저전송률 음성부호화기와의 결합을 고려하여 IS-127(EVRC)에 포함되어 있는 잡음 제거기를 사용하였다. 90 km/h로 정속 주행하는 차내의 핸즈프리 환경에서 제안된 시스템은 30 dB이상의 간섭신호 제거 성능을 보였다. 제안된 시스템은 16비트 고정 소수점 연산을 하는 저가의 DSP를 이용하여 실시간 구현되었다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2002.07c
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• pp.1917-1919
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• 2002

An adaptive algorithm for the acoustic echo canceller is presented. This paper proposes a modified LMS algorithm for the adaptive filter and applys the algorithm to he acoustic echo canceller, An objective of the proposed algorithm is to reduce the hardware complexity. In order to est the performances, a model of the echo path is established, and a program is described. The impulse reponses of the echo path have the length of 125msec or ore, and then the FIR filter with 1000 taps is required. he results from simulations show that the acoustic echo canceller adopting the proposed algorithm achieves the ERLE of 25dB or more within 1sec. If an echo canceller is implemented with this algorithm, its computation quantity s reduced to two times less than the one that is implemented with the normal LMS algorithm, without the degradation of performances.

• Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.99-105
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• 2010

In this paper, the uAPSS(u-APartment Service System) that is based on location-aware technology is designed and implemented for a luxury apartment. On the real luxury apartment the developed system has been employed and tested to provide convenient and secure living for residents. It provides services such as emergency call, intelligent elevator operation, and hands-free door access based on the location of the residents with personal device as called smart tag. It can also be applied to other service areas such as the location-aware u-Service for hospitals, high-rising complex buildings, silver towns, etc.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.107-110
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• 2000

최근 이동전화의 사용이 급격히 확산됨에 따라 편이성과 안정성의 문제로 핸즈프리 전화통신의 필요성이 대두되고 있다. 핸즈프리 통신상황의 경우 근거리에 위치한 스피커와 마이크로폰의 커플링에 의해 발생하는 음향반향과 차량내에 존재하는 배경잡음에 의하여 통화 품질이 크게 저하되는 문제가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 차량내에서 핸즈프리 전화통신에 적합한 음향반향과 잡음제거 시스템을 제안하였다. 특히, 안정적인 음향반향제거 성능을 얻기 위하여 두 개의 평균 상호상관도를 이용한 동시통화검출 알고리즘을 제안하였다. 음향반향제거를 위해서는 NLMS 알고리즘에 의해 구동되는 제한된 차수의 적응반향제거기법을 사용하였으며, 잔여 반향 및 배경 잡음제거를 위해 IS-127 EVRC음성 부호화기의 잡음제거 방식을 사용하였다. 제안된 시스템은 16비트 고정소수점 DSP인 OAK DSP를 이용하여 약23.17MIPS의 연산량으로 실시간 구현되었다.

• Journal of Power Electronics
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.842-850
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• 2012

Learning Power Electronics is essential in both electrical and electronic engineering fields and the introductory courses are similar in many universities. Taking this premise into account, an educational computer-aided platform for power electronics will be presented in this paper. This educational platform includes an e-book, a set of power electronics animations, Java simulations, as well as several hands-on training sessions. The main advantages of this platform are twofold. First, all necessary teaching tools are combined on a single platform. And secondly, access to this platform is available free of charge and with no complicated registration requirements. In addition to traditional teaching techniques, the use of this platform has demonstrated an increase in student participation and has consistently improved their academic performance. Data consist of surveys, which guarantee both reliability and validity through psychometric techniques.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.839-842
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• 2010

In this paper, we propose a residual echo and noise reduction scheme for hands-free telephony applications. The proposed algorithm uses a noise robust modified AP algorithm which estimate well echo path in noisy and whitens residual echo signal using linear prediction at non double-talk duration. It is confirmed that the proposed algorithm shows better performance from acoustic interference cancellation (AIC) viewpoint.