• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.1-5
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• 2013

The two major problems related to the blood flow in replaced prosthetic heart valve are thrombus formation and hemolysis. Reliability of prosthetic valve is very important because its failure means the death of patient. There are many factors affecting the valvular failures and their representatives are mechanical failure and thrombosis, so early noninvasive detection is essentially required. The purpose of this study is to detect the various thromboses formation by using acoustic signal acquisition and its spectral analysis on the frequency domain. We made the thrombosis models using Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and they are thrombosis model on the disc, around the sewing ring and fibrous tissue growth across the orifice of valve. Using microphone and amplifier, we measured the acoustic signal from the prosthetic valve, which is attached to the pulsatile mock circulation system. A/D converter sampled the acoustic signal and the spectral analysis is the main algorithm for obtaining spectrum. Then the spectrum of normal and 5 different kinds of abnormal valve were obtained. Each spectrum waveform shows a primary and secondary peak. The secondary peak changes according to the thrombus model. To quantitatively distinguish the frequency peak of the normal valve from that of the thrombosed valves, analysis using a neural network was employed. Acoustic measurement has been used as a noninvasive diagnostic tool and is thought to be a good method for detecting possible mechanical failure or thrombus.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.158-167
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• 2017

Internet-based social and interactive video applications have become major constituents of the envisaged applications for next-generation multimedia networks. However, inherently dynamic network conditions, together with varying user expectations, pose many challenges for resource allocation mechanisms for such applications. Yet, in addition to addressing these challenges, service providers must also consider how to mitigate their operational costs (e.g., energy costs, equipment costs) while satisfying the end-user quality of service (QoS) expectations. This paper proposes a heuristic solution to the problem, where the energy incurred by the applications, and the monetary costs associated with the service infrastructure, are minimized while simultaneously maximizing the average end-user QoS. We evaluate the performance of the proposed solution in terms of serving probability, i.e., the likelihood of being able to allocate resources to groups of users, the computation time of the resource allocation process, and the adaptability and sensitivity to dynamic network conditions. The proposed method demonstrates improvements in serving probability of up to 27%, in comparison with greedy resource allocation schemes, and a several-orders-of-magnitude reduction in computation time, compared to the linear programming approach, which significantly reduces the service-interrupted user percentage when operating under variable network conditions.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.14 no.2
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• pp.105-109
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• 2013

There are the free space model, the direct-path and ground reflected model, Egli model, Okumura-Hata model in the representative propagational models. The measured results at the area of PNG area were used as the experimental data in this paper. The new proposed partial interval analysis method is applied on the measured propagation data in the cellular band. The interval for the analysis is divided from the entire 30 Km distance to 5 Km, and next to 1 Km. The best-fit propagation models are chosen on all partial intervals. The means and standard deviations are calculated for the differences between the measured data and all partial interval models. By using the 5 Km- or 1 Km- partial interval analysis, the standard deviation between the measured data and the partial propagation models was improved more than 1.7 dB.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.1033-1038
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• 2015

Complementary Filter is commonly used in signal processing method for real-time position measurement. Butterworth filter characteristic has a uniform gain in the pass band, the blocking band has a good blocking characteristics. Therefore, we propose a method of designing a complementary filter having a characteristic of Butterworth filter characteristic. By setting the appropriate filter coefficients in the simulation it appears to improve the performance of the filter. In the experiment it shows a real-time signal processing is possible by using the calculated filter coefficients in the simulation.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.1043-1044
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• 2008

In this study, a novel algorithm of the improvement residual non-uniformity (RNU) in thermal imaging system is proposed using correlated double sample signal processing. The proposed method attempts to eliminate offset variation of ROIC in IR detector causing the variation of FPA (focal plane array) temperature and suppling power. Experimental results show that the proposed method confirmed a better performance than the existing RNU system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.41-44
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• 2001

In the wide variety of radio propagation channel models, frequency selective fading which from multipath waves and diversity noises, electric and electronic devices ...etc in our environment, change characteristics of the sub channels in the wide bandwidth. so orthogonality among the OFDM subcarriers would be distorted and ICI(Inter Channel Interference), ISI(Inter Symbol Interference) be generated. This paper investigate BER characteristics of the OFDM System using Subband Grouping Method which adopted different channel modulation for each subband.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.269-272
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed the face recognition algorithm which can use a security system. The distance and angle of the face features are used in the conventional method, but the proposed method used the genetic algorithm which selects image to best fit the input image in the database images. The performance of proposed algorithm is verified through the simulation. The proposed one has good performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• 2001.06a
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• pp.177-180
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• 2001

This paper presents a new fast motion estimation algorithm for video coding. This method classifies blocks in a frame into moving blocks and background blocks, and then searches the best-matched blocks for only moving blocks. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.187-193
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• 2012

An image authentication scheme for gray scale image through embedding a digital watermark by quantization of Integer Wavelet Transform (IWT) coefficients of the image is proposed in this paper. Proposed method is designed to detect modification of an image and to identify tampered location of the image. To embed the watermark mid-frequency band of a second level IWT was used. An approximation of the original image based on LL band was stored in LSB bits of the pixel data as a recovery mark for restoration of the image. Watermarked image has achieved a good PSNR of 40 dB compared to original cover image. Restored image quality was also very good with a PSNR of more than 35 dB compared to unmodified watermarked image even when 25% of the received image is cropped. Thus, the proposed method ensures a proper balance between the fidelity of the watermarked image and the quality of the restored image.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.2 no.4
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• pp.38-45
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• 2001

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for moving object tracking from moving camera using histogram back program intersection(HI) and XY-projection The proposed method segments objects using histogram back projection, matches tracing objects using histogram intersection and extracts them using XY- projection. Through the simulation this paper shows that the proposed method segments. matches and tracks objects without significant error image sequences obtained by moving camera.