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This paper presents an optimal implementation of a Daubechies-based pipelined discrete wavelet packet transform (DWPT) processor using finite impulse response (FIR) filter banks. The feed-forward pipelined (FFP) architecture is exploited for implementation of the DWPT on the field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The proposed DWPT is based on an efficient transpose form structure, thereby reducing its computational complexity by half of the system. Moreover, the efficiency of the design is further improved by using a canonical-signed digit-based binary expression (CSDBE) and advanced functional sharing (AFS) methods. In this work, the AFS technique is proposed to optimize the convolution of FIR filter banks for DWPT decomposition, which reduces the hardware resource utilization by not requiring any embedded digital signal processing (DSP) blocks. The proposed AFS and CSDBE-based DWPT system is embedded on the Virtex-7 FPGA board for testing. The proposed design is implemented as an intellectual property (IP) logic core that can easily be integrated into DSP systems for sub-band analysis. The achieved results conclude that the proposed method is very efficient in improving hardware resource utilization while maintaining accuracy of the result of DWPT.

본 논문은 초음파 거리계를 이용하는 쿼드로터 무인항공기의 고도 제어 성능 향상을 위한 웨이블릿 패킷 변환 기법을 제시하였다. 쿼드로터의 수직 이착륙 시 많이 사용되는 초음파 거리계를 이용하여 지상시험을 수행하였다. 초음파 거리계는 정반사율 (specular reflectance)과 음향 잡음 (acoustic noise)으로 인한 신호의 스파이크가 생긴다. 짧은 시간 간격으로 발생하는 스파이크는 시간과 주파수 영역에서의 동시 분석을 필요로 한다. 이에 초음파 거리계의 스파이크를 웨이블릿 패킷 변환을 이용하여 분석하였다. DWT (discrete wavelet transform)에 비해 웨이블릿 패킷 분해가 더 풍부한 시간-주파수 국소 정보를 얻을 수 있어 초음파 신호의 스파이크를 분석하고 처리하기에 더 효과적이다. 실험결과 초음파 거리계의 스파이크를 효과적으로 제거할 수 있음을 확인하였다.

In this paper, a wavelet packet transform method is proposed for improving the altitude control performance of quadrotor UAV using an ultrasonic rangefinder. A ground tests are conducted using an ultrasonic rangefinder that is much used for vertical takeoff and landing. An ultrasonic rangefinder suffers from signal's spike due to specular reflectance and acoustic noise. The occurred spikes in short time span need to be analyzed at both sides time and frequency domain. The analyzed spikes of the ultrasonic rangefinder using a wavelet packet transform. Compared with the discrete wavelet transform, the wavelet packet decomposition can obtain more abundant time-frequency localization information, so it is more suitable for analyzing and processing ultrasonic signals spike. Experimental results show that it can effectively remove the spikes of the ultrasonic rangefinder.

In this paper, a new watermark algorithm that based on wavelet packet transform and hybrid filter is proposed for watermark of digital images, which include many high frequency components. The proposed watermark algorithm is used in the high frequency component of image and applies watermark to the overall subband that include the lowest frequency band. And the watermark is embedded on input image and hybrid filtering concept has been adopted to remove the noise that was added to the original image in watermark embedding stage. The quality of the watermarked image has been analyzed with PSNR. From the simulation results, the proposed algorithm shows better invisibility and robustness performance compare with conventional watermark methods. Especially, it demonstrates better robustness for high image compression in the remote sensing images application.

Given the low accuracy of power quality disturbance (PQD) detection, a PQD detection method based on the wavelet packet transform (WPT) and improved complete ensemble empirical mode decomposition with adaptive noise (ICEEMDAN) is proposed in this paper. First, the wavelet packet transform is used to preprocess the signal to suppress noise interference. Then, ICEEMDAN technology is adopted to calculate the local mean value by adding adaptive noise. In addition, different intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) are obtained through residual subtraction. Furthermore, the effective IMFs are calculated by the permutation entropy method to reduce false modal components and to suppress residual noise. Finally, a Hilbert transform (HT) is performed to extract the detection signal parameters. The obtained results demonstrate that this method can improve the detection accuracy and PQD speed, which results in a strong anti-noise capability.

In this paper, we suggest a noise estimation method for speech enhancement in nonstationary noisy environments. The proposed method consists of the following two main processes. First, in order to receive fewer affect of variable signals, a best fitting regression line is used, which is obtained by applying a least squares method to coefficient magnitudes in a node with a uniform wavelet packet transform. Next, in order to update the noise estimation efficiently, a differential forgetting factor and a correlation coefficient per subband are used, where subband is employed for applying the weighted value according to the change of signals. In particular, this method has the ability to update the noise estimation by using the estimated noise at the previous frame only, without utilizing the statistical information of long past frames and explicit nonspeech frames by voice activity detector. In objective assessments, it was observed that the performance of the proposed method was better than that of the compared (minima controlled recursive averaging, weighted average) methods. Furthermore, the method showed a reliable result even at low SNR.

본 논문에서는 이차전지의 특성비교/분석을 위해 이산 웨이블릿 변환(DWT;discrete wavelet transform)과 웨이블릿 패킷 변환(WPT;wavelet packet transform)을 적용한 연구를 소개한다. 다해상도 분석(MRA; multi resolution analysis)의 시간-주파수 분석을 통해 저주파 성분(approximation;$A_n$)과 고주파 성분(detail;$D_n$)로 분해되는 것은 두 방법 동일하다. 하지만, 이산 웨이블릿 변환이 단순히 저대역 부분만 계속 분해하는 것과 달리 웨이블릿 패킷 변환은 저대역과 고대역을 모두 분해하여 높은 분해성능을 가지는 웨이블릿의 일반화이다. 웨이블릿 패킷 변환을 자세히 소개하고 이를 이차전지에 적용하여 이산 웨이블릿 변환과의 상관성을 정리하였다.

In this research, the structural health monitoring method using wavelet packet analysis and artificial neural network (ANN) is developed. Wavelet packet Transform (WPT) is applied to the response acceleration of a 3 element-cantilever beam which is subjected to impulse load and Gaussian random load to decompose the response signal, then the energy of each component is calculated. The first ten largest components in magnitude among the decomposed components are selected as input to an ANN to identify the damage location and severity. This method successfully predicted the amount of damage in the structure when the structure is subjected to impulse load. However, when the beam is subjected to Gaussian random load which can be considered as ambient vibration it did not yield satisfactory results. This method is applicable to structures such as machinery gears that are subjected to repetitive loads.

A reliable streamflow forecasting is essential for flood disaster prevention, reservoir operation, water supply and water resources management. This study proposes a hybrid model for river stage forecasting and investigates its accuracy. The proposed model is the wavelet packet-based artificial neural network(WPANN). Wavelet packet transform(WPT) module in WPANN model is employed to decompose an input time series into approximation and detail components. The decomposed time series are then used as inputs of artificial neural network(ANN) module in WPANN model. Based on model performance indexes, WPANN models are found to produce better efficiency than ANN model. WPANN-sym10 model yields the best performance among all other models. It is found that WPT improves the accuracy of ANN model. The results obtained from this study indicate that the conjunction of WPT and ANN can improve the efficiency of ANN model and can be a potential tool for forecasting river stage more accurately.

In this paper, we propose the noise suppressor with the psychoacoustic model and wavelet packet transform. The objective of the scheme is to enhance speech corrupted by colored or non-stationary noise. If corrupted noise is colored, subband approach would be more efficient than whole band one. To avoid serious residual noise and speech distortion, we must adjust the Wavelet Coefficient threshold. In this paper, the subband is designed matching with the critical band. And WCT is adapted by noise masking threshold(NMT) and segmental signal to noise ratio(seg_SNR). Consequently this work improve the PESQ-MOS about 0.23 in the case of coded speech.

In this paper we address the problem of detecting and estimating an unknown narrow band signal in a noise interference environment A new practical band estimation method, yielding good performance even in case of finite-length data, is presented. More specifically, wavelet packet transform is utilized to detect the more accurate time-variant band, then we estimate the power from wavelet filter-coefficients of the respective band. Also, third-order cumulants, and projection cross-correlation (PCC) criterion are utilized to achieve an effective SNR improvement for the time-variant band estimation. In case of time variant band estimation, the PCC method yields better performance than the correlation method.

Encryption of digital images has been requested various fields. In the meantime, many algorithms based on a text - based encryption algorithm have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a method of encryption in wavelet transform domain to utilize the characteristics of digital image. In particular, wavelet transform is used to reduce the association between the encrypted image and the original image. Wavelet packet transformations can be decomposed into more subband images than wavelet transform, and various position permutation, numerical transformation, and visual transformation are performed on the coefficients of this subband image. As a result, this paper proposes a method that satisfies the characteristics of high encryption strength than the conventional wavelet transform and reversibility. This method also satisfies the lossless symmetric key encryption and decryption algorithm. The performance of the proposed method is confirmed by visual and quantitative. Experimental results show that the visually encrypted image is seen as a completely different signal from the original image. We also confirmed that the proposed method shows lower values of cross correlation than conventional wavelet transform. And PSNR has a sufficiently high value in terms of decoding performance of the proposed method. In this paper, we also proposed that the degree of correlation of the encrypted image can be controlled by adjusting the number of wavelet transform steps according to the characteristics of the image.

최근 들어 신호처리 분야에서 웨이브렛 변환을 이용한 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 웨이브렛 변환 영역에서의 적응 알고리듬을 구현하고 비 정제적 신호에 대한 성능을 평가하였다. 입력 신호를 웨이브렛 패킷 변환하여 다해상도 분해하고 NLMS알고리듬을 이용하여 부 밴드에서의 적응 알고리듬을 구현하였다. 제안한 방법을 화이트 가우시안 잡음이 섞인 도플러 신호의 잡음 제거에 적용하여 그 성능을 평가하였다.

The wavelet transform is widely used in signal processing application. In this paper, a wavelet domain adaptive algorithm(WPTNLMS) is derived and its performances are evaluated in non-stationary environment. Where the input signals are decomposed by the wavelet packet transform for the multi-resolution adaptive processing. And the NLMS is used as an adaptive algorithm in wavelet domain. The proposed technique is applied to noise cancellation of the Doppler signal which is added with white Gaussian noise.