• 전기학회논문지
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• 제64권12호
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• pp.1756-1760
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• 2015

This paper focuses on a priori signal to noise ratio (SNR) estimation method for the speech enhancement. There are many researches for speech enhancement with several ambient noise cancellation methods. The method based on spectral subtraction (SS) which is widely used in noise reduction has a trade-off between the performance and the distortion of the signals. So the need of adaptive method like an estimated a priori SNR being able to making a high performance and low distortion is increasing. The decision directed (DD) approach is used to determine a priori SNR in noisy speech signals. A priori SNR is estimated by using only the magnitude components and consequently follows a posteriori SNR with one frame delay. We propose a modified a priori SNR estimator and the weighted rational transfer function for speech enhancement with wind noises. The experimental result shows the performance of our proposed estimator is better Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality scores (PESQ, ITU-T P.862) compare to the conventional DD approach-based systems and different noise reduction methods.

• 전기의세계
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.51-56
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• 1973

The comparative study of maximum likelihood estimation with Bayesian approach was made by statistical & computational methods in center of a priori information of static systems and the effect of a priori information on the accuracy of the estimatiion was also analyzed. Through the numerical computations of some examples by digital computer, we concluded that maximum likelihood method is better than Bayesian estimation except for almost certain a priori informations. The study may therefore contribute in identification problems of dynamical systems connected with a priori informations.

• 말소리와 음성과학
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.87-94
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• 2011

The decision directed (DD) approach is widely used to determine a priori SNR from noisy speech signals. In conventional speech enhancement systems with a DD approach, a priori SNR is estimated by using only the magnitude components and consequently follows a posteriori SNR with one frame delay. We propose a phase-dependent two-step a priori SNR estimator based on the minimum mean square error (MMSE) in the log-mel spectral domain so that we can consider both magnitude and phase information, and it can overcome the performance degradation caused by one frame delay. From the experimental results, the proposed estimator is shown to improve the output SNR of enhanced speech signals by 2.3 dB compared to the conventional DD approach-based system.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제36권5호
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• pp.721-729
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• 2014

We propose a novel phase-based method for single-channel speech enhancement to extract and enhance the desired signals in noisy environments by utilizing the phase information. In the method, a phase-dependent a priori signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is estimated in the log-mel spectral domain to utilize both the magnitude and phase information of input speech signals. The phase-dependent estimator is incorporated into the conventional magnitude-based decision-directed approach that recursively computes the a priori SNR from noisy speech. Additionally, we reduce the performance degradation owing to the one-frame delay of the estimated phase-dependent a priori SNR by using a minimum mean square error (MMSE)-based and maximum a posteriori (MAP)-based estimator. In our speech enhancement experiments, the proposed phase-dependent a priori SNR estimator is shown to improve the output SNR by 2.6 dB for both the MMSE-based and MAP-based estimator cases as compared to a conventional magnitude-based estimator.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2000년도 제15차 학술회의논문집
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• pp.276-276
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• 2000

This paper presents the efficient algorithms for the pose determination of a circular object with and without a priori knowledge of the object radius. The developed algorithms valid for a circular object are the result of the elaboration of Ma's work [2], which determines the pose of a conic object from two perspective views. First, the geometric constraint of a circular object and its projection on the image plane of a camera is described. The number of perspective views required for the object pose determination with and without a priori knowledge of the object radius is also discussed. Second, with a priori knowledge of the object radius, the pose of a circular object is determined from a single perspective view. The object pose information, expressed by two surface normal vectors and one position vector, is given in a closed form and with no ambiguity. Third, without a priori knowledge of the object radius, the pose of a circular object is determined from two perspective views. While the surface normal vectors are obtained from the first view, the position vector is obtained from the two views.

• 논리연구
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• 제7권1호
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• pp.1-22
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• 2004

The Kantian idea that some judgments are synthetic even in the area of a priori judgments cannot be accepted in its original version, but a modification of the notions 'analytic' and 'synthetic' discovers a rational core of that idea. The new definition of 'analytic' concerns concepts and makes it possible to distinguish between analytic concepts, which are effective ways of computing recursive functions, and synthetic concepts, which either define non-recursive functions, or define recursive functions in an ineffective way. To justify this claim we have to construe concepts as abstract procedures not reducible to set-theoretical entities.

• 대한기계학회논문집A
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• 제20권9호
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• pp.2887-2893
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• 1996

Governing equations infrictional contact problems are introduced using variational inequality formulations which are regularized to overcome the diffculties of non-differentiability of the friction functional. Also finite element approximations and a priori error estimations are derived based on those formulations. Numerical simulations are performed illustrating the theoretical results.

• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제31권3_4호
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• pp.479-490
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• 2013

In this paper, we investigate a priori error estimates and superconvergence of varitional discretization for nonlinear parabolic optimal control problems with control constraints. The time discretization is based on the backward Euler method. The state and the adjoint state are approximated by piecewise linear functions and the control is not directly discretized. We derive a priori error estimates for the control and superconvergence between the numerical solution and elliptic projection for the state and the adjoint state and present a numerical example for illustrating our theoretical results.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제19권5호
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• pp.20-26
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• 2000

화자 확인시스템에서 화자의 장기간 음성 변동에 대처하기 위해서는 작은 양의 데이터로써 화자 확인을 위한 HMM(hidden Markov model) 파라미터 갱신과 사전 문턱치 결정이 중요한 요소이다. 본 연구에서는 화자내 변이(mea-speaker variation)에 적응하는 모델 갱신방법과 이에 따른 문턱치 적응에 관한 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 분기간 화자내 변이로 발생할 수 있는 오인식율을 Baum-Welch re-estimation을 통해 현재 화자 모델 파라미터에 새로운 음성 데이터를 적응시킴으로써 감소시킨다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 사전 문턱치 결정 방법은 기존의 월드 모델(world model) 방법과 군중 모델(cohort model) 방법의 하이브리드 형태로써 실험적으로 결정된다. 실험에 의해 모델 갱신을 하지 않은 경우보다 제안하는 모델 갱신방법의 화자 인식율이 우수함을 확인하였다. 또한, 사후 문턱치 결정에 의한 인식율과 제안한 사전 문턱치 결정에 의한 인식율의 차이가 근소함을 확인하였다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제25권8호
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• pp.383-388
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경에서 단일 마이크로폰의 음성 향상에 대한 새로운 기법을 제시했다. 일반적으로 널리 알려진 스펙트럼 차감법에 근거한 음성 향상 기술은 신호 대 잡음비에 따른 스펙트럼 이득으로 표현된다. 대표적인 Ephraim과 Malah의 decision-directed (DD) 추정치는 잡음 구간에서 효율적으로 뮤지컬 잡음을 제거하지만 음성 구간에서는 이전 프레임의 음성 스펙트럼 성분에 더 큰 비중을 두기 때문에 a priori SNR의 프레임 지연이 발생한다. 따라서 DD에 의해 추정된 a priori SNR이 적용된 잡음 제거 이득은 현재 프레임보다 이전 프레임에 영향을 받으므로 음성 전이 구간에서 잡음 제거 성능을 저하시킨다. 본 논문은 DD의 가중치 파라미터에 Sigmoid Type의 함수를 적용하여 계산적으로는 간단하지만 효과적인 음성 향상 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안된 접근 방식은 DD의 주요 파라미터인 a priori SNR 지연의 문제점을 해결하면서 뮤지컬 잡음 제거에 우수한 DD의 이점은 유지한다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능은 다양한 잡음 환경에서 ITU-T P.862 Perceptual Evaluation of Speech Quality (PESQ) 와 Mean Opinion Score (MOS). 그리고 음성 스펙트로그램 (Spectrogram)에 의해 평가했고 기존의 DD의 고정된 가중치 파라미터를 사용했을 때 보다 향상된 결과를 나타내었다.