• The Journal of Korean Association of Computer Education
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.101-109
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• 2006

We propose an adaptive digital watermarking algorithm using HVS(human visual system) and SOM(Self-Organizing Map) among neural networks. This method adjusts adaptively the strength of the watermark which is embedded in different blocks according to block classification in DCT(Discrete Cosine Transform) domain. All blocks in 3 classes out of 4 are selected to embed a watermark. Watermark sequences are embedded in 6 lowest frequency coefficients of each block except the DC component. The experimental results are excellent.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.1137-1140
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• 2005

The work presented in this paper describes a Hidden Markov Model(HMM)-based framework for face recognition and face detection. The observation vectors used to characterize the statics of the HMM are obtained using the coefficients of the Karhuman-Loves Transform(KLT). The face recognition method presented in this paper reduces significantly the computational complexity of previous HMM-based face recognition systems, while slightly improving the recognition rate. In addition, the suggested method is more effective than the exiting ones in face extraction in terms of accuracy and others even under complex changes to the surroundings such as lighting.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06b
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• pp.304-306
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 GWT(Gabor Wavelet Transform) 계수 에너지와 원 영상간의 영상 결합을 수행한 영상을 주성분 분석법(Principal Component Analysis)에 적용하여 얼굴 인식을 하는 방법을 제안한다. GWT는 가버 함수의 크기 변화와 방향 변화에 의해 생성된다. 따라서 GWT는 다양한 크기 변화와 방향 변화를 가지는 변환으로 특정 주파수 성분과 방향성을 가지는 영상 구조가 어디에 있는지의 지역적 정보를 효과적으로 표현할 수 있는 변환으로 알려져 있다. GWT를 통해 나온 계수 에너지를 추출하고 원 영상에 더하여 지역적 특성을 크게 만든 후에 통계적 방법 중 가장 많이 사용되어지고 검증을 받은 PCA를 사용하여 인식한다. GWT 계수의 에너지는 얼굴 윤곽선, 눈과 입, 얼굴과 머리의 경계 등 색감의 급격한 변화를 나타내는 곳의 정보를 표현을 해주기 때문에 특징점 추출에 사용되고 있지만 이를 전역적으로 이용하여 인식하는 방법에 관한 연구가 이루어지지 않고 있다. 본 논문에서는 에너지 값만으로 전체 얼굴 영상의 세부적 표현을 할 수 없기 때문에 원 영상과의 l:l 비율의 영상 결항을 한 후 얼굴 인식 처리에 사용한다. 이 영상을 얼굴인식에 사용하였을 때원본 영상을 사용하였을 때보다 오인식이 줄었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.3 no.4
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• pp.1-6
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• 2002

Generally, most significant information of images is included in the object regions. Thus, this paper proposes the object regions prior transmission method using the bidirectional round filter. The proposed method extracts the object regions, and then transmits the wavelet coefficients of the object regions, prior to others, in the encoding procedure using SPIHT So, it makes significant image information be restored faster than others for a short time. Consequently, through the proposed method the significant information of images is able to be recognized at a low bit rate and the condition of the continuous transmission is decidable by recognizing significant information fast, so that the searching time and efficiency can be improved.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.17-24
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• 2008

The aim of this paper is to report our preliminary results of investigating the spatial focalization of Zen-meditation EEG (electroencephalograph) in alpha band (8-13 Hz). For comparison, the study involved two groups of subjects, practitioners (experimental group) and non-practitioners (control group). To extract EEG alpha rhythm, wavelet analysis was applied to multi-channel EEG signals. Normalized alpha-power vectors were then constructed from spatial distribution of alpha powers, that were classified by Fuzzy C-means based algorithm to explore various brain spatial characteristics during meditation (or, at rest). Optimal number of clusters was determined by correlation coefficients of the membership-value vectors of each cluster center. Our results show that, in the experimental group, the incidence of frontal alpha activity varied in accordance with the meditation stage. The results demonstrated three different spatiotemporal modules consisting with three distinctive meditation stages normally recognized by meditation practitioners. The frontal alpha activity in two groups decreased in different ways. Particularly, monotonic decline was observed in the control group, and the experimental group showed increasing results. The phenomenon might imply various mechanisms employed by meditation and relaxation in modulating parietal alpha.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.1245-1252
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• 2013

As the usage of digital image contents increase, a security problem for the payed image data or the ones requiring confidentiality is raised. This paper propose a depth-map image contents encryption methodology to hide the depth information. This method is performed on the frequency coefficients in the Wavelet domain. This method, by selecting the level and threshold value for the wavelet transform, encryption at various strengths are possible. The experimental results showed that encrypting only 0.048% of the entire data was enough to hide the constants of the depth-map. The encryption algorithm expected to be used effectively on the researches on encryption and others for image processing.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.33-38
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• 2005

Degradation is generated by several causes in the process of digitalization or transmission of data. And its essential cause is noise. Therefore, researches for wavelet-based methods which reconstruct signal degraded by noise have continued. In AWGN(addtive white gaussian noise) environment, the general trend for denoising is to use the thresholding method. Reconstructed signal includes a lot of noise because these methods only consider statistical characteristic regarding noise. In this paper, we present a new method which uses the cumulation of wavelet detail coefficients. As a result, reconstruction of edges and denoising performance are improved. Also we compare existing methods using SNR(signal-to-noise ratio) as the standard of judgement of improvemental effect.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Power Electronics
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.79-87
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• 2011

The fault detection technique of the grid-connected photovoltaic system using wavelet transform has been suggested in this paper. The additional hardware and sensors are required to detect the inverter failure in the conventional method, and it has the disadvantage of high cost and re-design problem if the inverter specification has been changed. The suggested method used the inverter voltage and current waveform to detect the failure and the location by the wavelet coefficients variations. The prompt and accurate diagnostic function is possible using the normalized standard deviation method. The merit of the proposed method is the simple calculation and precise diagnostic capabilities of the fault detection. The computer simulation is performed and the experimental result verifies the validity of the proposed method.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.8A
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• pp.814-821
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• 2002

The SPIHT(set partitioning in hierarchical tree) is efficient and well-known in the zerotree coding algorithm. However SPIHT's high memory requirement is a major difficulty for hardware implementation. In this paper we propose low-memory and fast zerotree algorithm. We present following three methods for reduced memory and fst coding speed. First, wavelet transform by lifting has a low memory requirement and reduced complexity than traditional filter bank implementation. The second method is to divide the wavelet coefficients into a block. Finally, we use NLS algorithm proposed by Wheeler and Pearlman in our codec. Performance of NLS is nearly same as SPIHT and reveals low and fixed memory and fast coding speed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.505-506
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• 2006

PD(partial discharge) occurred from variable PD sources in air may be the cause of breakdown in high voltage equipment which affect huge outage in power system. Identification and localization of PD sources is very important for engineer to cope with huge accident beforhand. PD phenomena can be detected by acoustic emission sensor or electromagnetic sensor like antenna. This paper has investigated the identification method using PCA(principal component analysis) for the PD signals from variable PD sources, for which the electric field distribution and PD inception voltages were simulated by using commercial FEM program. PD signals was detected by ultra wideband antenna. Their own features were extracted as the frequency coefficients transformed with FFT(fast fourier transform) and used to obtain independent pincipal components of each PD signals.