• ETRI Journal
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.17-34
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• 1994

In this paper, we present an architecture of the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector called the generalized order statistics (GOS) CFAR detector, which covers various order statistics (OS) and cell-averaging (CA) CFAR detectors as special cases. For the proposed GOS CFAR detector, we obtain unified formulas for the false alarm and detection probabilities. By properly choosing coefficients of the GOS CFAR detector, one can utilize any combination of ordered samples to estimate the background noise level. Thus, if we use a reference window of size N, we can realize $(2^N-1)$ kinds of CFAR processors and obtain their performances from the unified formulas. Some examples are the CA, the OS, the censored mean level, and the trimmed mean CFAR detectors. As an application of the GOS CFAR detector to multiple target detection, we propose an algorithm called the adaptive mean level detector, which censors adaptively the interfering target returns in a reference window.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.1-9
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• 1993

Nitzberg has analyzed the detection performance of the clutter map constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector using single pulse. In this paper, we extend the detection analysis to the clutter map CFAR detector that employs M-pulse noncoherent integration. Detection and false alarm probabilities for Swerling target models are derived. The analytical results show that the larger the number of integrated pulses M, the higher the detection probability. On the other hand, the analytical results for Swerling target models show that the detection performance of the completely decorrelated target signal is better than that of the completely correlated target.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology
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• 제11권6호
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• pp.1839-1845
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• 2016

Detecting remote targets is important to active protection system (APS) or infrared search and track (IRST) applications. In normal situation, the well-known constant false alarm rate (CFAR) detector works properly. However, decoys in APS or closely spaced targets in IRST degrade the detection capability by increasing background noise level in the CFAR detector. This paper presents a context aware CFAR detector by the intensity sorting and selection of background region to reduce the effect of neighboring targets that lead to incorrect estimation of background statistics. The existence of neighboring targets can be recognized by intensity sorting where neighboring targets usually show highest ranks. The proposed background statistics (mean, standard deviation) estimation method from median local pixels can be aware of the background context and reduce the effects of the neighboring targets, which increase the signal-to-clutter ratio. The experimental results on the synthetic APS sequence, real adjacent target sequence, and remote pedestrian sequence validated that the proposed method produced an enhanced detection rate with the same false alarm rate compared with the hysteresis-CFAR (H-CFAR) detection.

• International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.187-193
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• 2021

In order to solve the problem of false terrains caused by environmental interferences and tunneling effect in the conventional multi-beam seafloor terrain detection, this paper proposed a seafloor topography detection method based on fast two-dimensional (2D) Censored Mean Level Detector-statistics Constant False Alarm Rate (CMLD-CFAR) method. The proposed method uses s cross-sliding window. The target occlusion phenomenon that occurs in multi-target environments can be eliminated by censoring some of the large cells of the reference cells, while the remaining reference cells are used to calculate the local threshold. The conventional 2D CMLD-CFAR methods need to estimate the background clutter power level for every pixel, thus increasing the computational burden significantly. In order to overcome this limitation, the proposed method uses a fast algorithm to select the Regions of Interest (ROI) based on a global threshold, while the rest pixels are distinguished as clutter directly. The proposed method is verified by experiments with real multi-beam data. The results show that the proposed method can effectively solve the problem of false terrain in a multi-beam terrain survey and achieve a high detection accuracy.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제41권2호
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• pp.176-183
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• 2019

Spectrum sensing plays an important role in spectrum sharing. Energy detection is generally used because it does not require a priori knowledge of primary user (PU) signals; however, it is sensitive to noise uncertainty. An order statistics (OS) detector provides inherent protection against nonhomogeneous background signals. However, no analysis has been conducted yet to apply OS detection to spectrum sensing in a wireless channel to solve noise uncertainty. In this paper, we propose a robust spectrum sensing scheme based on generalized order statistics (GOS) and analyze the exact false alarm and detection probabilities under noise uncertainty. From the equation of the exact false alarm probability, the threshold value is calculated to maintain a constant false alarm rate. The detection probability is obtained from the calculated threshold under noise uncertainty. As a fusion rule for cooperative spectrum sensing, we adopt an OR rule, that is, a 1-out-of-N rule, and we call the proposed scheme GOS-OR. The analytical results show that the GOS-OR scheme can achieve optimum performance and maintain the desired false alarm rates if the coefficients of the GOS-OR detector can be correctly selected.

• 전자공학회논문지B
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• 제29B권1호
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• pp.50-57
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• 1992

This paper proposes and analyzes a new CFAR(Constant False Alarm Rate) detector called the EXGO(Excision Greatest Of)-CFAR. This is the combination of the EXCA(Excision Cell Averaging)-CFAR that shows a good performance under the influence of interferences and the GO(Greatest Of)-CFAR that fights well with clutter edges. For the performance analysis, the formulas for the detection probability and the false alarm probability are derived and computed, and the results are compared with other existing CFAR detectors. Our analysis shows that the proposed EXGO-CFAR considerably improves the false-alarm-rate performance of the EXCA-CFAR at clutter edges while maintaining the high detection probability performance of the EXCA-CFAR in the homogeneous and/or interference noise environment.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.15-25
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• 1994

In this paper we present a new formula which can predict the exact detection probability of a generalized order statistics (GOS) constant false alarm rate (DFAR) detector for a partially correlated Rayleigh target model (0 < $ \rho$< 1) in a closed form, where $\rho$ is the correlation coefficient between returned pulses. By simply substituting a set of specific coefficient into the derived formula, one can obtain the detection probability of any kind of CFAR detector. Detectors may include the order statistics CFAR detector, the censored mean level detector, and the trimmed mean CFAR detector, but are not necessarily restricted to them. The numerical result for the first order Markov correlation model as applied to some of the detectors shows that as $\rho$ increases from zero to one, higher signal-to-noise ratio is required to achieve the same detection probability.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.45-48
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• 1984

A serious degradation of blocking of the detection performance in a cell aeraging-logarithmic detector/constant false alarm rate(CA-LOG/CFAR) is known to be caused by the presence of a large interfering noise in the set of sample mean. A technique consisting of the logarithmic circuit and inverter has been proposed to alleviate this problem, by modifying the conventional CA-LOG/CFAR receiver. The detection performance of the proposed technique is linearly improbed over the normal output level and the blocking characteristics of the CA-LOG/CFAR can be changed to finite output level.

• 대한전자공학회논문지TC
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• 제39권2호
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• pp.69-80
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• 2002

이 논문에서는 주파수선택적 라이시안 감쇄 채널에서 부호순위를 바탕으로 한 비모수 검파기를 쓰는 직접 수열 부호분할다중접속시스템의 의사잡음 부호획득 방법을 다룬다. 먼저 국소 최적 순위 검파기를 얻고, 근사점수함수를 쓴 국소 준최적 순위 검파기와 k차 고친 부호순위 검파기를 제안한다. 직렬 두 우물기법과 혼합 병렬 두 우물기법에 평균 일정오경보확률 추정기를 쓴 제곱합 검파기, 고친 부호 검파기, 국소 준최적 순위 검파기, k차 고친 부호순위 검파기를 쓴 것을 견주어 본다. 국소 준최적 순위 검파기와 k차 고친 부호순위 검파기가 평균 일정오경보확률 추정기를 쓴 제곱합 검파기보다 성능이 더 낫다는 것을 모의 실험으로 보인다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.262-269
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• 2023

본 논문에서는 선형 예측 분석을 기반으로 한 딱총새우 잡음 검출을 위한 특징을 제안한다. 딱총새우는 천해에 서식하는 종으로, 높은 진폭의 신호를 생성하고 빈번하게 발생하기 때문에 수중 잡음의 주된 원인 중 하나이다. 제안된 특징은 딱총새우 잡음이 갑작스럽게 발생하고 빠르게 소멸하는 특징을 활용하기 위해 선형 예측 분석을 이용하여 정확한 잡음 구간을 검출하고 딱총새우 잡음의 영향을 줄인다. 선형 예측 분석으로 예측한 값과 실제 측정값 사이의 오차가 크기 때문에 이를 통해 효과적으로 딱총새우 구간 검출이 가능해진다. 추가적으로 제안된 특징에 일정 오경보 확률 탐지기를 결합하여 잡음 구간 검출 성능을 추가적으로 개선한다. 제안한 방법을 딱총새우 잡음 구간 검출 최신 방법으로 알려진 다층 웨이블릿 패킷 분해와 비교한 결과, 제안한 방법이 수신자 조작 특성 곡선과 곡선 아래의 면적 측면에서 성능이 평균적으로 0.12만큼 우수하였고 계산량 측면에서도 계산 복잡도가 더 낮았다.