• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.393-401
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• 2002

Pipelines in power plants, nuclear facilities and chemical industries are often affected by corrosion effects. It is important to inspect the internal defects in pipelines in oder to guarantee safe operational condition. We have taken relatively much time, cost and manpower to use conventional NDT methods because these methods are contact measuring methods. In this paper, we used digital shearography, a laser-based optical method which allows full-field measurement of surface displacement derivatives. This method has many advantages in practical use, such as low sensitivity to environmental noise, simple optical configuration and real time measurement. The experiment was performed with pressure vessels which has different internal cracks and detected internal cracks in the pressure vessels at a real time using phase shifting method.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.62-66
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• 2024

A statistical approach to inspection of the 3-D shape of micro solder balls is proposed, where an optical method with spatially arranged LED and specular reflection is used. The reflected image captured by a vision system was analyzed to calculate the relative displacements of LED's in the image. Also, the statistics of displacements for the micro solder balls contained in a captured image are used to detect existing defects, and the usefulness of the proposed method is shown via experiments.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.26 no.3
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• pp.143-152
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• 2015

In this study, we aim to design the architecture of the kV imaging system for tumor tracking in the dual-head gantry system and analyze its accuracy by simulations. We established mathematical formulas and algorithms to track the tumor position with the two-pair kV imaging systems when they are in the non-orthogonal positions. The algorithms have been designed in the homogeneous coordinate framework and the position of the source and the detector coordinates are used to estimate the tumor position. 4D XCAT (4D extended cardiac-torso) software was used in the simulation to identify the influence of the angle between the two-pair kV imaging systems and the resolution of the detectors to the accuracy in the position estimation. A metal marker fiducial has been inserted in a numerical human phantom of XCAT and the kV projections were acquired at various angles and resolutions using CT projection software of the XCAT. As a result, a positional accuracy of less than about 1mm was achieved when the resolution of the detector is higher than 1.5 mm/pixel and the angle between the kV imaging systems is approximately between $90^{\circ}$ and $50^{\circ}$. When the resolution is lower than 1.5 mm/pixel, the positional errors were higher than 1mm and the error fluctuation by the angles was greater. The resolution of the detector was critical in the positional accuracy for the tumor tracking and determines the range for the acceptable angle range between the kV imaging systems. Also, we found that the positional accuracy analysis method using XCAT developed in this study is highly useful and will be a invaluable tool for further refined design of the kV imaging systems for tumor tracking systems.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.27-34
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• 2003

Digital image manipulation software is now readily available on personal computers. It is therefore very simple to tamper with any image and make it available to others. Therefore. copyright protection of digital contents and insurance of digital image integrity become major issues. In this paper, we propose a hybrid watermarking method to identify locations of tampered region as well as copyright. Our proposed algorithms embed the PN-sequence into low frequency sub-band of the wavelet transform domain and it doesn't need the original image in extraction procedure. The experimental results show good robustness against any signal processing with tamper detection on still image.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.37 no.10
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• pp.1201-1206
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• 2013

Defects that occur during the manufacturing process or operation of a wind turbine blade have a great influence on its life and safety. Typically, defects such as delamination, pore, wrinkle and matrix crack are found in a blade. In this study, the detectability of the pores, a type of defect that frequently occur during manufacturing, was examined from the full field strain distribution determined with the image correlation technique. Pore defects were artificially introduced in four-ply laminated GFRP composites with $0^{\circ}/{\pm}45^{\circ}$ fiber direction. The artificial pores were introduced in consideration of their size and location. Three different-sized pores with diameter of 1, 2 and 3 mm were located on the top and bottom surface and embedded. By applying static loads of 0-200 MPa, the strain distributions over the specimen with the pore defects were determined using image correlation technique. It was found the pores with diameter exceeding 2 mm can be detected in diameter.

• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.456-462
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• 2014

Scintillators were polished in four steps using polishing paper, to reduce the optical loss occurring at their cross section when radiation detectors are fabricated with plastic scintillators. We studied the correlation between the polishing steps and detection efficiency and assessed the detection characteristics that are dependent in the polishing steps. Our results showed that the detection efficiency increased by approximately 7.75 times for a detector that used a scintillator polished in four steps, compared to a detector that used an depolished scintillator. For detectors fabricated using scintillators polished in different steps, better detection characteristics were obtained in terms of the activity, distance, and location of radiation, compared to detectors fabricated with an depolished scintillator.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2009.11a
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• pp.259-262
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• 2009

본 논문에서는 정확한 비디오 객체 분할을 위한 글로벌 가우시안 모델 기반의 이동 외부 그림자영역 검출방법을 제안한다. 이 방법은 현재 픽셀과 배경 픽셀의 컬러 벡터간의 사이 각을 가중치 함수로 변환하고, 이를 그림자 모델의 확률 밀도에 곱하여 구한 값을 그림자 검출에 사용하고 이를 다시 그림자 모델의 입력으로 하여 검출된 픽셀 들의 분포가 자동으로 영상의 실제 그림자 분포에 근접하게 하였다. 또한, 잘못 검출된 그림자 영역을 제거하기 위해 영역의 위치 정보를 이용한다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안하는 방법은 적응적으로 그림자를 검출하면서도 높은 분할 정확도를 가지고 있음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2005.05a
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• pp.183-185
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• 2005

영산강 유역 생활하수처리장의 방류수의 분석 결과, 일일 처리량이 타지점들에 비해 다량이며 인구수가 많고 산업이 발달되어 있는 광주지역에 위치해 있는 광주 하수처리장과 송대 하수처리장에서 다종의 유기화합물이 검출되었다. 특히 polycyclic compounds, phenols, phthalates, pesticides는 여름철에 다종 고농도로 검출되어 여름철 영산강 유역 방류수의 주 오염물질로 판단된다. 이들 광주 하수처리장 방류수와 송대 하수처리장 방류수에서는 내분비계 장애물질인 diethylph thalate와 bis(2-ethyhexyl)phthalate가 4회 이상 검출되었다. 또한 송대, 장성 하수처리장에서 고농도로 검출된 물질이 대부분 산업용 화학물질이나 반응에 의해 2차로 생성되는 화학물질들이 다종으로 검출되었다. 따라서 이들 지점의 영향은 산업폐수에 의한 것으로 판단된다. 현재 각 하수처리장에서 실시하는 표준활성오니법, 회전원판접촉식 처리공정으로는 본 연구에서 검출된 물질과 같이 생태계나 인간의 건강에 유해한 유기화합물을 처리하기에는 역부족이라고 판단된다. 따라서 영산강 유역 수질 안정성을 확보하기 위해서는 polycycli compounds, phenols, phthalates, pesticides와 같은 난분해성 유기 화합물질을 처리할 수 있는 고도산화처리 시스템 도입이 필요하다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2015.07a
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• pp.1395-1396
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• 2015

본 연구의 목적은 광용적맥파 해석에 중요하게 사용되는 최대 상승기울기(maximum dV/dt) 지점 검출 알고리즘 개발로, 미분 및 필터링을 통한 전처리 과정, 극점 검출과정, 역탐색 등의 후처리 과정으로 구성되는 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능을 평가하기 위하여 총 74,225개의 맥박파형을 사용한 검증을 수행하였으며, 동시에 측정된 심전도 QRS지점을 기준으로 최대 dV/dt 측정 위치 정확성을 판정하였다. 시뮬레이션 결과, 적응형 임계치 극점 검출 방법과 함께 사용하였을 때, 제안된 알고리즘은 기존 광용적맥파 상단, 하단극점 검출 알고리즘과 유사한 성능인 98.57%, 99.98%의 민감도와 특이도, 0.02%의 오검출율을 가지는 것으로 나타났다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.9 no.3 s.32
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• pp.287-300
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• 1997

In this study, an effective application method of AE technique for the detection of fatigue crack in multi-girder steel bridges has been proposed. The applicability has been examined through the laboratory works with bridge model. The proposed analytical method which evaluates the remaining fatigue lives of structural members may improve the rational determination of the priority of inspection for structural members assuming to have fatigue cracks. Laboratory tests for the application of AE technique to steel girder bridges show that the frequency bands of traffic noise are in the range between 10 show that the frequency bands of traffic noise are in the range between 100~200 kHz and the AE signal raised from fatigue cracks is concentrated around 400~500 kHz. Therefore. R30 sensor is proved to be the most suitable for the detection of cracks in steel girder bridges. A linear proportionality between the crack propagation and the frequency of AE signals has been obtained. In addition, an economic and effective source location method for steel girder bridges was studied through experiments.