Abstract: A complex number quantization-based audio signal encoding method may comprise: estimating a scale factor for each subband of an input audio signal; performing complex magnitude scaling for each subband based on the scale factor; and performing polar quantization on a complex frequency coefficient for each subband, wherein the performing the polar quantization for each subband comprises applying two or more different magnitude quantization techniques based on the magnitude of the complex frequency coefficient scaled for each subband.

Abstract: A method for reducing power consumption of a terminal that communicates with a base station in a mobile communication system using a multi-carrier structure composed of a primary component carrier and at least one secondary component carrier comprises: receiving a discontinuous reception (DRX) parameter group for multi carriers from the base station; and setting the multi carriers to the same parameter value, by using the received parameter group. The method for reducing power consumption of the terminal further comprises: performing a downlink control channel receive operation on each carrier according to a DRX cycle. As the base station in the mobile communication system using the multi-carrier structure simplifies the DRX process for reducing power consumption of a terminal by reducing signaling load for the multi-carrier control of the terminal, it becomes possible to reduce power consumption of the terminal.

Abstract: A resource management method carried out by an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node in a communication system, according to one embodiment of the present invention, may comprise the steps of: receiving, from an upper-level node of an IAB node, a first upper layer signaling signal for resource configuration of the IAB node; receiving, from the upper-level node of the IAB node, a second upper layer signaling signal for resource configuration of the IAB node; and, on the basis of the first and second upper layer signaling signals, determining that an IAB-mobile terminal (IAB-MT) and an IAB-distributed unit (IAB-DU) constituting the IAB node carry out communication by being multiplexed by any one scheme among time division, frequency division and spatial division.

Abstract: A method of a communication node may comprise: assigning preambles to a plurality of FDOs, respectively; generating reconfiguration information including information on the preambles assigned to each of the plurality of FDOs; assigning a PDU to each preamble among the assigned preambles based on the reconfiguration information; generating a reference sequence for each of the assigned preambles based on information on the preambles assigned to each of the plurality of FDOs; generating matching information between each preamble index of the preambles assigned to each of the plurality of FDOs and a PDU index of a PDU assigned to each preamble corresponding to each preamble index, based on the reconfiguration information; and detecting a preamble assigned to each PDU from an FFT signal using the reference sequence and each PDU according to the matching information.

Abstract: A neuron circuit and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The neuron circuit may include an input unit to which an input pulse is applied, a bipolar memristor configured to have one end connected to one end of the input unit, a first capacitor configured to be connected between the one end of the bipolar memristor and a ground, a first diode configured to have an anode connected to the one end of the bipolar component, a second capacitor configured to have one end connected to a cathode of the first diode, a first switch configured to be connected between the one end of the second capacitor and the ground, and a second switch configured to be connected between the anode of the first diode and the other end of the second capacitor.

Abstract: The Zero User Interface (UI)-based automatic speech translation system and method can solve problems such as the procedural inconvenience of inputting speech signals and the malfunction of speech recognition due to crosstalk when users who speak difference languages have a face-to-face conversation. The system includes an automatic speech translation server, speaker terminals and a counterpart terminal. The automatic speech translation server selects a speech signal of a speaker among multiple speech signals received from speaker terminals connected to an automatic speech translation service and transmits a result of translating the speech signal of the speaker into a target language to a counterpart terminal.

Abstract: A method for generating data sets of a UAV, performed by a data set generation apparatus, may comprise obtaining flight environment information including a moving object; obtaining flight data including first physical information and first sensor information of the UAV in a flight environment based on the flight environment information; obtaining second physical information and second sensor information of the UAV when the moving object exists, based on the flight data, and generating a first data set based on the second physical information and the second sensor information; obtaining third physical information and third sensor information of the UAV when the moving object does not exist, based on the flight data, and generating a second data set based on the third physical information and the third sensor information; and combining the first data set and the second data set to generate a third data set.

Abstract: An operation method of a relay node may include: receiving, from a first communication node, first data composed of n bits; receiving, from a second communication node, second data composed of m bits; in response to determining that n is greater than m, generating first T-data of m bits excluding (n-m) bits from the n-bits of the first data and first R-data of (n-m) bits; generating third data by performing a network coding operation on the first T-data and the second data; transmitting the third data to the first communication node; and transmitting the third data and the first R-data to the second communication node.

Abstract: Provided is an atypical environment-based location recognition apparatus. The apparatus includes a sensing information acquisition unit configured to, from sensing data collected by sensor modules, detect object location information and semantic label information of a video image and detect an event in the video image; a walk navigation information provision unit configured to acquire user movement information; a metric map generation module configured to generate a video odometric map using sensing data collected through a sensing information acquisition unit and reflect the semantic label information; and a topology map generation module configured to generate a topology node using sensing data acquired through the sensing information acquisition unit and update the topology node through the collected user movement information.

Abstract: A method of generating a residual signal performed by an encoder includes identifying an input signal including an audio sample, generating a first residual signal from the input signal using linear predictive coding (LPC), generating a second residual signal having a less information amount than the first residual signal by transforming the first residual signal, transforming the second residual signal into a frequency domain, and generating a third residual signal having a less information amount than the second residual signal from the transformed second residual signal using frequency-domain prediction (FDP) coding.

Abstract: An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise: performing a monitoring operation to receive BWP configuration information for common downlink communication; in response to receiving the BWP configuration information from the base station, configuring a common frequency region for the common downlink communication based on the BWP configuration information; receiving DCI including scheduling information of the common downlink communication from the base station; and performing the common downlink communication with the base station in the common frequency region by using a frequency resource indicated by the scheduling information, wherein the common downlink communication is communication between the base station and a plurality of terminals including the terminal.

Abstract: Provided is an optical system which may acquire a hyperspectral image by acquiring a spectral image of an object to be measured, which includes, to collect spectral data and train the neural network, an image forming part forming an image from an object to be measured and transmitting collimated light, a slit moving to scan the incident image and passing and outputting a part of the formed image, and a first optical part obtaining spectral data by splitting light of the image received through the slit by wavelength. Also, the system includes, to decompose overlapped spectral data and to infer hyperspectral image data through the trained neural network, an image forming part forming an image from an object to be measured and transmitting collimated light, and a first optical part obtaining spectral data by splitting light of the received image by wavelength.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method of decoding an image including deriving intra prediction mode of a current block using an intra prediction mode of a neighbor block adjacent to the current block, constructing a reference sample of the current block, and performing intra prediction with respect to the current block using the intra prediction mode of the current block and the reference sample. The deriving of the intra prediction mode of the current block includes constructing a most probable mode (MPM) list based on whether the intra prediction mode of the current block is a Planar mode.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are a high-speed synchronization apparatus and method based on a blockchain unit file. The high-speed synchronization apparatus includes memory configured to store at least one program, a database including unit files having a uniform size in which blocks are to be sequentially stored, and a processor configured to execute the program, wherein the program is configured to perform comparing a size of a block owned by a relevant peer node with a size of a block in use in a blockchain framework, wherein the size of the block owned by the relevant peer node is represented by a peer block size and the size of the block in use is represented by a channel block size, and when the peer block size is less than the channel block size, acquiring blocks from a peer node that owns a block having the channel block size and synchronizing the blocks.

Abstract: The method for transmitting control information in a mobile communication system includes: determining a control channel resource for transmitting control information by means of the data channel region; and transmitting the control information using the determined control channel resource. A capacity for control information, which increases for multiple user multiple-input multiple-out (MIMOs) in a heterogeneous network environment, for heterogeneous network interference control using carrier aggregation, for frequent use of a multicast-broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) subframe, and for a CoMP transmission control, may be satisfied. Further, an adaptive resource allocation based on a requested capacity for control information may be enabled, and the efficient utilization of resources may also be enabled.

Abstract: The present application relates to a method of generating a downlink frame. The method of generating the downlink frame includes: generating a first short sequence and a second short sequence indicating cell group information; generating a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence determined by the primary synchronization signal; generating a third scrambling sequence determined by the first short sequence and a fourth scrambling sequence determined by the second short sequence; scrambling the short sequences with the respective scrambling sequences; and mapping the secondary synchronization signal that includes the first short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the second scrambling sequence and the third scrambling sequence, the second short sequence scrambled with the first scrambling sequence and the first short sequence scrambled by the second scrambling sequence and the fourth scrambling sequence to a frequency domain.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a method for generating a texture map of a 3D mesh includes encoding a texture map of a 3D mesh, quantizing the encoded texture map, decoding the quantized texture map, performing rendering using the decoded texture map, and updating the texture map of the 3D mesh based on the value of a loss function.

Abstract: Disclosed are an image encoding method using a skip mode and a device using the method. The image encoding method may comprise the steps of: judging whether there is residual block data of a prediction target block on the basis of predetermined data indicating whether residual block data has been encoded; and, if there is residual block data, restoring the prediction target block on the basis of the residual block data and an intra-screen predictive value of the prediction target block. Consequently, encoding and decoding efficiency can be increased by carrying out the encoding and decoding of screen residual data only for prediction target blocks where there is a need for a residual data block in accordance with screen similarity.

Abstract: An audio signal encoding/decoding method and an apparatus for performing the same are disclosed. The audio signal encoding method includes obtaining a full-band input signal, extracting a first feature vector corresponding to a first sub-band signal and a second feature vector corresponding to a second sub-band signal using an encoder neural network including a plurality of encoding layers, generating a first code vector corresponding to the first feature vector and a second code vector corresponding to the second feature vector by compressing the first feature vector and the second feature vector, and generating a bitstream by quantizing the first code vector and the second code vector.

Abstract: A method of a terminal may comprise: receiving, from a CU of a base station, configuration information of one or more candidate cells and configuration information for measurement; performing L1 measurement on the candidate cells based on the configuration information for measurement; acquiring uplink synchronization for the candidate cells by performing an uplink synchronization management procedure for the candidate cells based on the configuration information of the candidate cells; reporting a result of the L1 measurement to a DU of the base station; receiving, from the DU of the base station, information on a target cell, being the target cell to switch among the candidate cells, based on the result of the L1 measurement; and applying the uplink synchronization acquired through the uplink synchronization management procedure to the target cell.