• Journal of Audiology & Otology
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2021

Background and Objectives: Non-linear frequency compression (NLFC) technology compresses and shifts higher frequencies into a lower frequency area that has better residual hearing. Because consonants are uttered in the high-frequency area, NLFC could provide better speech understanding. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical effectiveness of NLFC technology on the perception of speech and music in patients with high-frequency hearing loss. Subjects and Methods: Twelve participants with high-frequency hearing loss were tested in a counter-balanced order, and had two weeks of daily experience with NLFC set on/off prior to testing. Performance was repeatedly evaluated with consonant tests in quiet and noise environments, speech perception in noise, music perception and acceptableness of sound quality rating tasks. Additionally, two questionnaires (the Abbreviated Profile of Hearing Aid Benefit and the Korean version of the International Outcome Inventory-Hearing Aids) were administered. Results: Consonant and speech perception improved with hearing aids (NLFC on/off conditions), but there was no significant difference between NLFC on and off states. Music perception performances revealed no notable difference among unaided and NLFC on and off states. The benefits and satisfaction ratings between NLFC on and off conditions were also not significantly different, based on questionnaires, however great individual variability preferences were noted. Conclusions: Speech perception as well as music perception both in quiet and noise environments was similar between NLFC on and off states, indicating that real world benefits from NLFC technology may be limited in Korean adult hearing aid users.

• 기술사
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.19-25
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• 1989

Utilizing a cosine transform in image compression has several recognized performance benefits, resulting in the ability to attain large compression ratio with small quality loss. Also, various models incorporating Human Visual System (HVS) to Discrete Cosine Trans-form (DCT) scheme are considered. Using the exact frequency components of DCT basis function, the optimum modulation transfer function (MTF) is obtained analytically. The errors at a block boundary which is important factor in transform coder are criteria for error measurement. The HVS weight coding results in perceptually higher quality images compared with the unweighted scheme.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 1998년도 하계종합학술대회논문집
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• pp.655-658
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• 1998

This paper proposes a moving image compression algorithm using subband coding that divides and processes the differential image of each moving image frame into subband frequency. This method decomposes the original image with each subband and performs DCT. The moving blocks are detected from each of wubband using threshold value which is select from the variance of difference between frames. then they are performed SBDCT and huffman coding in order to reduce the data. As the result of simulation, we confirmed that this method improved the blocking effect of reconstructed image in low bit rate.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.16-21
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• 1985

Both shifiting the input signal's frequencies by a fixed frequency and compressing the input signal's bandwidth have been known to be effective in improving the stability margin of public adress systems operating in reverberant spaces. This paper describes the effect of an alternative approach of improving the acoustic-feedback stability and yet maintaining speech inteligibility by bandwidth compression and expansion. Conditions are derived for this technizue to be realized and an experimental system has been made - up. A series of experiments has been performed in small spaces and the results have shown that more than 5dB improvement can be obtained in the stability margin.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.153-163
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• 2006

움직임 보상을 적용한 시간 영역 필터링(MCTF)을 이용한 화질 보장형의 새로운 동영상 압축 방식을 제안한다. SPECK은 그 자체의 단순한 알고리즘으로 인하여 빠른 동작 속도를 가지면서도 동시에 고주파 성분이 많은 영상의 압축에 탁월한 성능을 보여주는 우수한 웨이블릿 변환 기반의 영상 압축기법이다. 또한 제안한 계층적 구조의 다중 크기 블록 움직임 예측은 비교적 낮은 연산량에도 불구하고 기존의 고정 블록 크기의 움직임 예측기보다 우수한 성능을 보인다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 낮은 복잡도의 기술을 MCTF 기반 동영상 압축에 적용하여, 다중 재생률까지 지원이 가능한 동영상 압축 방식을 구현하였으며 H.263 압축방식에 비해 우수한 압축 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신학회 2018년도 춘계학술대회
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• pp.107-110
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• 2018

이미지 압축은 디지털 이미지를 데이터 압축을 적용하는 과정이다. 이산여현변환은 시간 도메인에서 주파수 도메인으로 변환하는 기술이며, 이미지 압축에 널리 사용된다. 먼저, 이미지는 $8{\times}8$ 픽셀 블록으로 분리한다. 위에서 아래로 왼쪽에서 오른쪽으로 처리하면서 DCT 각 블록에 적용한다. 각각의 블록은 양자화를 통해 압축된다. 이미지를 구성하는 압축된 블록 배열의 공간은 크게 줄어든다. IDCT를 통해 이미지를 재구성 한다. 본 연구에서는 이산여현변환 기법을 이용하여 이미지 압축/복원의 전처리 과정을 조망하는 것이 목적이다.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 2003년도 춘계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.1131-1134
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• 2003

Unknown parameters of a nonlinear system were estimated using a signal compression method. The estimated parameters were natural frequency and tile damping coefficient. This study applied a algorithm using tile comparison of the cross-correlation coefficient between the impulse response from a model and it from the signal compression method. The impulse through linear element included in a nonlinear system could be obtained by the signal compression method. The unknown parameters of the linear element could be estimated by comparing the Bode plots of system's impulse response with them of model's response. In this study, a LSCM(LabVIEW-Signal-Compression-Method) was developed to identify a nonlinear system. The LSCM consisted of National Instrument's (NI) Data Acquisition (DAQ) Board (Model PCI-1200), a monitoring program using LabVIEW software package, DAQ Signal Accessory Board, and 2nd-order electric circuits. The designed electric circuits consisted of resistors, inductors and capacitors. To evaluate the performance of the LSCM, the response from model with known parameters is compared with the response from the real system using the monitoring program. The results from simulation of experiment showed that the developed LSCM provided a reliable estimation performance.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제29권3C호
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• pp.387-397
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• 2004

영상의 주파수 정보와 공간 정보를 동시에 제공하는 웨이브렛 변환(Wavelet transform)은 영상압축에 매우 효과적임이 밝혀졌고, 최근 들어 웨이브렛 변환 방법으로 다해상도 분해된 영상에 여러 가지 부호화 알고리즘을 적용하는 것에 대해 많은 연구가 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는, 웨이브렛 변환으로 다해상도 분해된 적외선 영상에 픽셀간의 상관도와 '0' 정보를 모아 효과적으로 압축할 수 있는 양자화 기법인 쿼드트리 기반 블록 양자화(Quadtree based block quantization)를 적용하여 영상을 압축하는 방법을 제안한파. 웨이브렛 변환된 계수는 스케일간 상잔도가 놀고, 집중도가 높기 때문에 쿼드트리를 적용할 경우 효과적으로 데이터량을 줄일 수 있다. 실험영상으로 256${\times}$256 크기의 8〔bit〕 적외선영상을 이용하고, DCT 압축기법과 제안한 기법을 비교 평가한다.

• 한국응급구조학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.61-71
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• 2022

Purpose: This experimental study compared the chest compression quality, muscle activity, and subjective fatigue of paramedic students who did or did not wear a mask. Methods: The subjects of this study were 13 paramedic students at college D located in B city. Frequency percentages, mean standard deviations, and paired sample t-tests were conducted using the SPSS/WIN 23.0 program. Results: This study revealed that chest compression depths (t=-2.151, p=.053) and compression rates (t=-2.714, p=.019) were higher in mask-wearers, while muscle activity and subjective fatigue (t=2.382, p=.035) of the erector spinae (t=7.082, p=.001), rectus abdominis (t=4.776, p=.001), and pectoralis major muscles (t=3.193, p=.008) were lower in mask-wearers. Conclusion: The results of this study can be used as a basis to increase the resuscitation rates of cardiac arrest patients and provision of high-quality chest compressors to rescuers when infectious diseases recur in the future.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.1784-1786
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• 2004

PD(Partial Discharge) signal emitted from PD sources has their intrinsic features in the region of time and frequency. STFT(Short Time Fourier Transform) shows time-frequency distribution at the same time. 2-Dimensional matrices(33${\times}$77) from STFT for PD pulse signals are a good feature vectors and can be decreased in dimension by wavelet 2D data compression technique. Decreased feature vectors(13${\times}$24) were used as inputs of Back-propagation ANN(Artificial Neural Network) for discrimination of Multi-PD sources(air discharge sources(3), surface discharge(1)). They are a good feature vectors for discriminating Multi-PD sources.