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본 논문에서는 영상의 웨이브렛 변환계수의 양자화를 위하여 입력영상의 통계적 성질에 영향을 받지 않고 부호화 결과에 범용성을 갖는 새로운 벡터 양자화기의 설계법을 제안한다. 부호화 대상영상의 상관과 에지성분의 양 등이 웨이브렛 변환영역에서의 양자화기 설계에 중용한 요소인 것을 밝힌다. 기존의 벡터 양자화기의 가장 큰 문제점은 양자화대상 영상과 대표 벡터를 생성하기 위한 학습계열간의 통계적 성질의 불일치에 의한 부호화 성능의 열화이다. 그리하여, 본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 변환계수의 양자화에 적합한 벡터양자화기의 대표 벡터를 생성하기 위한 학습계열로, 독립난수에 영상의 상관과 에지성분을 첨가한 모사 영상을 사용하여 종래 방식의 문제점을 해결하는 방법에 대하여 검토하였다. 제안 방식에 의해 설계된 벡터양자화기와 대표 벡터 생성에 이용하는 학습계열에 부호화 대상이 되는 영상과 같은 실영상을 사용한 종래 방식에 의해 설계된 벡터양자화기와 부호화 성능을 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통하여 비교하여 종래 방식의 문제점을 명확하게 밝히고, 아울러 제안방식으로 설계한 벡터양자화기가 부호화 성능이 우수함을 입증한다.

In this paper, we propose a new design method for a robust vector quantizer that is independent of the statistical characteristics of input images in the wavelet transformed image coding. The conventional vector quantizers have failed to get quality coding results because of the different statistical properties between the image to be quantized and the training sequence for a codebook of the vector quantizer. Therefore, in order to solve this problem, we used a pseudo image as a training sequence to generate a codebook of the vector quantizer; the pseudo image is created by adding correlation coefficient and edge components to uniformly distributed random numbers. We will clearly define the problem of the conventional vector quantizers, which use real images as a training sequence to generate a codebook used, by comparing the conventional methods with the proposed through computer simulation. Also, we will show the proposed vector quantizer yields better coding results.

Hydraulic actuators are important in modern industry due to high power, fast response, and high stiffness. In recent years, hybrid actuation system, which combines electric and hydraulic technology in a compact unit, can be adapted to a wide variety of force, speed and torque requirements. Moreover, the hybrid actuation system has dealt with the energy consumption and noise problem existed in the conventional hydraulic system. Therefore, hybrid actuator has a wide range of application fields such as plastic injection-molding and metal forming technology, where force or pressure control is the most important technology. In this paper, the solution for force control of hybrid system is presented. However, some limitations still exist such as deterioration of the performance of transient response due to the variable environment stiffness. Therefore, intelligent switching control using Learning Vector Quantization Neural Network (LVQNN) is newly proposed in this paper in order to overcome these limitations. Experiments are carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with large variation of stiffness of external environment. In addition, it is understood that the new system has energy saving effect even though it has almost the same response as that of valve controlled system.

The development of a fast, accurate, and inexpensive position-controlled pneumatic actuator that may be applied to various practical positioning applications with various external loads is described in this paper. A novel modified pulse-width modulation (MPWM) valve pulsing algorithm allows on/off solenoid valves to be used in place of costly servo valves. A comparison between the system response of the standard PWM technique and that of the modified PWM technique shows that the performance of the proposed technique was significantly increased. A state-feedback controller with position, velocity and acceleration feedback was successfully implemented as a continuous controller. A switching algorithm for control parameters using a learning vector quantization neural network (LVQNN) has newly proposed, which classifies the external load of the pneumatic actuator. The effectiveness of this proposed control algorithm with smooth switching control has been demonstrated through experiments with various external loads.

Pneumatic cylinder is one of the low cost actuation sources which have been applied in industrial and prosthetic application since it has a high power/weight ratio, a high-tension force and a long durability However, the control problems of pneumatic systems, oscillatory motion and compliance, have prevented their widespread use in advanced robotics. To overcome these shortcomings, a number of newer pneumatic actuators have been developed such as McKibben Muscle, Rubber Actuator and Pneumatic Artificial Muscle (PAM) Manipulators. In this paper, one solution for position control of a robot arm, which is driven by two pneumatic artificial muscles, is presented. However, some limitations still exist, such as a deterioration of the performance of transient response due to the changes in the external load of the robot arm. To overcome this problem, a switching algorithm of the control parameter using a learning vector quantization neural network (LVQNN) is proposed in this paper. This estimates the external load of the pneumatic artificial muscle manipulator. The effectiveness of the proposed control algorithm is demonstrated through experiments with different external working loads.

정확한 인식률을 보이고 있는 상업적인 음성인식 시스템은 화자종속 고립데이터로부터 학습 모델을 사용한다. 그러 나 잡음 환경에서 데이터양에 따라 음성인식의 성능이 저하되는 문제점이 있다. 본 논문에서는 가우시안 분포에서 Maximum Log Likelihood를 이용한 벡터 양자화 기반 음성 인식 성능 향상을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 음성에 대한 특징 을 가지고 벡터 양자화와 Maximum Log Likelihood 음성 특징 추출 방법을 이용하여 유사 음성에 대한 음성 인식의 정확성 을 높이는 최적 학습 모델 구성 방법이다. 이를 위해 HMM을 기반으로 음성 특징을 추출하는 방법을 사용한다. 제안하는 방법을 사용하여 기존 시스템에서 생성되어 사용되는 음성 모델에 대한 부정확한 음성 모델에 대한 정확성을 향상시킬 수 있으므로 음성 인식에 강인한 모델을 구성할 수 있다. 제안하는 방법은 음성 인식 시스템에서 향상된 인식의 정확도를 보인다.

Commercialized speech recognition systems that have an accuracy recognition rates are used a learning model from a type of speaker dependent isolated data. However, it has a problem that shows a decrease in the speech recognition performance according to the quantity of data in noise environments. In this paper, we proposed the vector quantization based speech recognition performance improvement using maximum log likelihood in Gaussian distribution. The proposed method is the best learning model configuration method for increasing the accuracy of speech recognition for similar speech using the vector quantization and Maximum Log Likelihood with speech characteristic extraction method. It is used a method of extracting a speech feature based on the hidden markov model. It can improve the accuracy of inaccurate speech model for speech models been produced at the existing system with the use of the proposed system may constitute a robust model for speech recognition. The proposed method shows the improved recognition accuracy in a speech recognition system.

A method for image compression, adaptive difference compensation vector quantization using dynamic image block adjustment is proposed in this paper. Before image coding, this proposed method analyzes the similarity values between the encoding image sub-block and its 8-neighbor sub-blocks, then determines the encoding rule according to the similarity value and the preset threshold. If the similarity value is approximate to the threshold, we use the same codeword to encode the neighbor block and the encoding image block; otherwise, the neighbor block is separately encode. When encoding, the difference between each image block and its matching codeword is first computed to obtain the difference image, and then the sign bits of the pixel difference is imposed the running length coding on and attached after the codeword index. When decoding, this proposed method restores the compressed image according to the codeword index, performs the running length encoding to deal with decode the attached information, uses the window of 33 size to tackle the adaptive difference compensation and derive the final decoding image. The experiment results reveal that this proposed method can improve the encoding speed and image restoration performance against the normal vector quantization.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of death among the women worldwide. Early detection and proper treatment may reduce the mortality rate and ultrasound imaging is used as a complimentary with the mammography to detect and diagnose the tumor. During the inspection of thick and dense breast tissue ultrasound imaging gives better tissue characterization than mammography. Detection and demarcation of tumor is acquired through segmentation process, but it is challenging due to some inherent artifacts (speckle, attenuation) of US image. Here in this paper, new segmentation algorithm has been proposed with three stages. It has also discarded the overhead of preprocessing (image enhancement, and noise removal techniques) used by traditional and other algorithms discussed in the literature. In the first stage of the proposed algorithm, probability image and its histogram equalized image are obtained from the original US image. In the second stage, clustering process is implemented on probability and histogram equalized image separately using KMCG, KFCG and augmented KMCG/KFCG codebook generation algorithms. Further, these clusters are merged sequentially one-by-one. In the third stage, post processing has been implemented on the selected merged cluster to obtain resultant segmented image. Complexity analysis is done for all codebook generation algorithms used for clustering and the results are compared. KFCG is found to be the fastest algorithm amongst all. Eventually in consultation with the expert radiologist all segmentation results are compared with each other and best results are displayed with red border.

Recent investigations illustrate that view-based methods, with pose normalization pre-processing get better performances in retrieving rigid models than other approaches and still the most popular and practical methods in the field of 3D shape retrieval [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]. In this paper we present an improvement of 3D shape retrieval methods based on bag-of features approach. These methods use this approach to integrate a set of features extracted from 2D views of the 3D objects using the SIFT (Scale Invariant Feature Transform [6]) algorithm into histograms using vector quantization which is based on a global visual codebook. In order to improve the retrieval performances, we propose to associate to each 3D object its local visual codebook instead of a unique global codebook. The experimental results obtained on the Princeton Shape Benchmark database [6], for the BF-SIFT method proposed by Ohbuchi, et al., [2] and CM-BOF proposed by Zhouhui, et al., [3], show that the proposed approach performs better than the original approach.

Automatic vectorization in the field of image processing and recognition is one of development direction. This paper does some relevant researches on satellite cloud image preprocessing, image segmentation, image vector quantization. To improve the effect of noise reduction and preserving image details, this paper puts forward an improved adaptive median filter algorithm; For increasing the speed of image segmentation, this paper puts forward automatic layering algorithm combined with color information. Finally, this paper puts forward automatic vector quantization algorithm based on satellite cloud images and we developed an automatic vector quantization prototype system of satellite cloud images. The research results suggest that our automatic vector quantization algorithm has satellite cloud information automatic extraction function, identification function and vector quantization function.

The mean-removed vector quantization (MRVQ) scheme achieves good reconstructed image quality, but it requires a high number of bit rates. In this paper, we propose an improved MRVQ scheme. The compressed codes of MRVQ for an image block contain the block mean and the index recording the closest residual vector in the codebook. In the proposed scheme, the block mean values are encoded by the linear prediction technique followed by the Huffman coding technique. The MRVQ indices of the residual vectors are further compressed by the Huffman coding technique. From the experimental results, it is shown that a great deal of bit rate reduction is achieved by using the proposed scheme with acceptable image quality loss.

As the digital information must be stored and recovered in an effective ways, it is necessary to compress data in image coding, wavelet transform and lattice vector quantization are adopted in this paper to improve the compression effective of image coding. We first propose the two dimensional spatial wavelet decomposition of image, and then we present lattice Vector Quantization coding scheme for each image subband, lattice vector quantization can make full use of the correlation between the image wavelet coefficients to remove the information redundancy, and the coding method of lattice quantization can be effective because of applying the symmetries of the lattice. The establishment of rate distortion (RD) model suitable for lattice vector quantization of wavelet image coder is also important for image compression, study shows that the RD performance for the spatial subbands are fitted by an exponential form theoretical model, this yields an analytical solution to the bit rate distribution issue, we explore an effective rate control scheme by using the lagrangian optimization method to distribute the bit rate for the spatial subbands. The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can achieve better compressing effect with minimum loss.

In this paper, an image compression scheme is proposed, based on discrete cosine transform (DCT). This scheme is a hybrid method, which combines vector quantization (VQ) and differential pulse code modulation (DPCM). This scheme begins with transforming image from spatial domain to frequency domain using DCT. Then the block data is transformed into a vector according to zigzag order, and then truncated. After that, the vector is split into DC coefficient and AC coefficients. After scale quantization, DC coefficient is coded using DPCM. AC coefficients are coded using multistage vector quantization (MSVQ). Then, entropy encoding is performed on index-tables and DC part, separately. The experimental results show that, compared to conventional VQ and DCT-VQ schemes, proposed scheme has a better performance.

The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is the main protocol behind Voice over IP (VoIP). However, it does not provide authentication, which may lead to possible impersonation and eavesdropping threats. Negotiating keys using digital certificates may help secure the channel, but this method incurs extra maintenance cost. Verbal authentication utilizes the real-time nature of VoIP but it requires users to read and manually compare the authentication code. This study proposes a session identifier framework based on the Modified Vector Quantization (MVQ) method on real-time video frames for video communication in VoIP. After the selected image frames are averaged and quantized, the output of the MVQ process is a set of image metrics that serves as pre-shared keys for key agreement. The framework is certificate-less and users do not need to read the authentication code to the other user. The implementation is evaluated for accuracy and robustness towards network noise and frame conditions.

본 논문에서는 기계학습의 하나인 Learning Vector Quantization 알고리즘을 이용하여 컨트롤러 순서를 정하는 모델을 제안하였다. 제안한 모델은 모든 컨트롤러 정보를 수집하여 Learning Vector Quantization의 LVQ1와 LVQ2 기법을 이용하여 컨트롤러의 순서를 정한다. 이를 통해, 효율적인 컨트롤러 동기화가 이뤄질 것으로 기대된다.

본 논문에서는 LVQ를 퍼지화한 새로운 퍼지 학습 법칙들을 제안하였다. 퍼지 LVQ 학습법칙 1은 기존의 학습률 대신에 퍼지 학습률을 사용하였는데 이는 조건 확률의 퍼지화에 기반을 두고 있다. 퍼지 LVQ 학습법칙 2는 클래스들 사이에 존재하는 입력벡터가 결정 경계선에 대한 정보를 더 가지고 있는 것을 반영한 것이다. 이 새로운 퍼지 학습 법칙들을 improved IAFC(Integrted Adaptive Fuzzy Clustering)신경회로망에 적용하였다. improved IAFC신경회로망은 ART-1 (Adaptive Resonance Theory)신경회로망과 Kohonen의 Self-Organizing Feature Map의 장점을 취합한 퍼지 신경회로망이다. 제안한 supervised IAFC 신경회로망 1과 supervised IAFC neural 신경회로망 2의 성능을 오류 역전파 신경회로망의 성능과 비교하기 위하여 iris 데이터를 사용하였는데 Supervised IAFC neural network 2가 오류 역전파 신경회로망보다 성능이 우수함을 보여주었다.

In the compression methods widely used today, the image compression by VQ is the most popular and shows a good data compression ratio. Almost all the methods by VQ use the LBG algorithm that reads the entire image several times and moves code vectors into optimal position in each step. This complexity of algorithm requires considerable amount of time to execute. To overcome this time consuming constraint, we propose an enhanced self-organizing neural network for color images. VQ is an image coding technique that shows high data compression ratio. In this study, we improved the competitive learning method by employing three methods for the generation of codebook. The results demonstrated that compression ratio by the proposed method was improved to a greater degree compared to the SOM in neural networks.

본 연구에서는 퍼지사상화(fuzzy mapping)에 의한 사상된(mapped) 코드북을 사용하는 화자적은 음성합성 알고리즘을 제안한다. 입력화자와 기준화자의 코드북은 신경망 클러스터링 알고리즘인 자율경쟁 학습을 사용하여 작성된다. 사상된 코드북은 입력 음성벡터에 대한 두 화자의 대응 코드벡터의 소속갑(membership value)으로 퍼지 히스토그랩을 작성하여 이들을 1차 결합함으로써 얻어지는 퍼지사상화에 의하여 작성된다. 음성합성시에는 사상된 코드북을 사용하여 입력화자의 음것을 퍼지 벡터양자화한 다음, CFM 연산으로 합성함으로써 입력화자에 적응된 합성음을 얻는다. 실험에서 여러 입력화자로 30대의 남성, 20대의 여성음을 사용하였고 기준음석으로 입력음성과는 다른 20대의 여성음성을 사용하였다.실험에 사용된 음성데이타는 문장/안녕하십니까/와/굿모닝/이다. 실험결과는 각각의 입력화자에 기준화자 음성이 적응된 합성음을 얻었다.

In this paper, block constrained trellis coded vector quantization (BC-TCVQ) is presented for quantizing the line spectrum frequency parameters of the wideband speech codec. Both a predictive structure and a safety-net concept are combined into BC-TCVQ to develop the predictive BC-TCVQ. The performance of this quantization is compared with that of the linear predictive coding vector quantizer used in the AMRWB codec, demonstrating reductions in spectral distortion.

In this paper, we propose an effective method for music summarization which automatically extracts a representative part of the music by using signal processing technology. Proposed method uses a vector quantization technique to extract several segments which can be regarded as the most important contents in the music. In general, there is a repetitive pattern in music, and human usually recognizes the most important or catchy tune from the repetitive pattern. Thus the repetition which is extracted using segment similarity is considered to express a music summary. The segments extracted are again combined to generate a complete music summary. Experiments show the proposed method captures the main theme of the music more effectively than conventional methods. The experimental results also show that the proposed method could be used for real-time application since the processing time in generating music summary is much faster than other methods.