• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.158-166
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• 2002

In this paper, we proposed a contour shape description method which use the CFR(contour fluctuation ratio) feature. The CFR is the ratio of the line length to the curve length of a contour segment. The line length means the distance of two end points on a contour segment, and the curve length means the sum of distance of all adjacent two points on a contour segment. We should acquire rotation and scale invariant contour segments because each CFR is computed from contour segments. By using the interleaved contour segment of which length is proportion to the entire contour length and which is generated from all the points on contour, we could acquire rotation and scale invariant contour segments. The CFR can describes the local or global feature of contour shape according to the unit length of contour segment. Therefore we describe the shape of objects with the feature vector which represents the distribution of CFRs, and calculate the similarity by comparing the feature vector of corresponding unit length segments. We implemented the proposed method and experimented with rotated and scaled 165 fish images of fifteen types. The experimental result shows that the proposed method is not only invariant to rotation and scale but also superior to NCCH and TRP method in the clustering power.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.575-578
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• 2003

본 논문에서는 얼굴영역을 검출하기위해 얼굴 피부색을 보다 효과적으로 모델링하기 위한 방법으로 피부색 특성을 고려하여 자기 성분을 제거한 Red, Blue, Green 채널을 모두 사용하는 Hue, Cb, Cg의 Multi-Channel 피부색 모델을 사용한다. 얼굴영역을 분리한 영상에 Haar 웨이블릿을 이용한 에지영상 추출과 얼굴영역의 특징벡터를 구하기 위하여 26개의 특징벡터를 사용한 효율적인 고차 국소 자동 상관함수를 사용하였다. 계산된 특징벡터는 BP 신경망의 학습을 통하여 얼굴인식을 위한 데이터로 사용된다. 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 알고리즘에 의한 인식률향상과 속도 향상을 입증한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.759-762
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• 2002

생체 특징에 기초한 개인적인 및 인증 방법의 하나인 홍채의 패턴 인식에 있어서 전처리 기술은 사용자의 홍채 정보 손실로 인한 오인식을 최소로 하여야한다. 본 논문에서 전처리 기술 중 프리위트(Prewitt) 필터와 sobel 필터를 이용한 홍채의 인식률을 비교하고 전처리된 영상으로부터 추출된 특징값에 대해 저용량을 유지하면서 손실된 정보가 없고 실시간 처리가 요구되는 정보 보호를 위한 특징추출 방법 중 고차 국소 자동상관함수를 이용한 특징추출 방법을 제시하여 인식률을 향상시키는 방법을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Concrete Institute
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.655-664
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• 2007

The inherent characteristic of concrete tensile cracks, directional nonlocal crack damage, causes so-called rotating tensile crack damage and softening of compressive strength. In the present study, a plasticity model was developed to describe the behavior of reinforced concrete planar members In tension-compression. To describe the effect of directional nonlocal crack damage, the concept of microplane model was combined with the plasticity model. Unlike existing models, in the proposed model, softening of compressive strength as well as the tensile crack damage were defined by the directional nonlocal crack damage. Once a tensile cracking occurs, the microplanes of concrete are affected by the nonlocal crack damage. In the microplanes, microscopic tension and compression failure surfaces are calculated. By integrating the microscopic failure surfaces, the macroscopic failure surface is calculated. The proposed model was implemented to finite element analysis, and it was verified by comparisons with the results of existing shear panel tests.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.1141-1151
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• 1997

In this paper the Maximum Block Method is suggested for the Feature Extraction of stokes of off-line Chinese characters.The Maximum Block Method is a technique which enlarges the block from the first found pixel that wxtracts the skeleton and features of the input characters.The maximum Block mthod is an adequate technique for the correct extraction of the features since the exsting thining methods have shortcomings of making the feature extraction difficult from the distoritions generated from the effiects of the parial noises,inflection points and blemishes. The printed outputs and chinese books of the middle and high school students,and other materials are used for the test.It was found that the Maxthod is also an effective technique for the extraction of skeleton line and features,which is the preoprocessing of the pattern recognition,for the Korean chracters and English as well as chinese chracters.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.166-169
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• 2004

Change detection is widely used taxation, military fields, etc. In general, global change detection methods using image difference method, etc, are used in low resolution images and local change detection methods using floating windows, etc, are used in high resolution images. But, these methods have disadvantages in practical use and automatic method for changed area detection should be developed. In this research, characteristics of Kompsat images are reviewed in perspective of change detection and various change detection method applicable to are tested.

• Childhood Kidney Diseases
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.100-104
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• 2010

We report on two children with a high risk of recurrent focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) after renal transplantation that could be effectively prevented by prophylactic administration of cyclosporine combined with preemptive plasmapheresis prior to renal transplantation.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.53-58
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• 2000

This paper reconstructs local region of a facial expression image from extracted feature points of facial expression image using FCM(Fuzzy C-Meang) clustering algorithm with Gabor wavelets. The feature extraction in a face is two steps. In the first step, we accomplish the edge extraction of main components of face using average value of 2-D Gabor wavelets coefficient histogram of image and in the next step, extract final feature points from the extracted edge information using FCM clustering algorithm. This study presents that the principal components of facial expression images can be reconstructed with only a few feature points extracted from FCM clustering algorithm. It can also be applied to objects recognition as well as facial expressions recognition.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.57-65
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• 2003

When a vision chip for edge detection using CMOS process is designed, there is a necessity to implement local light adaptive-function for detecting distinctive features of an image at a wide range of light intensities. Local light adaptation is to achive the almost same output level by changing the size of receptive-fields of the local horizontal cell layers according to input light intensities, based on the lateral inhibitive-function of the horizontal cell. Thus, the almost same output level can be obtained whether input light intensities are much or less larger than background. In this paper, the horizontal cells using a resistive network which consists of p-MOSFETs were modeled and analyzed, and the local light adaptive-mechanism of the designed vision chip using the resistive network was verified.

• Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
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• v.46 no.4
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• pp.351-357
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• 2003

Purpose : To raise awareness of the clinical importance of, and the need for proper management of acute focal bacterial nephritis(AFBN), we analyzed 22 AFBN patients and 22 other upper urinary tract infection patients by use of comparative studies. Methods : From January 2000 to May 2002, 22 AFBN patients aged from 1 month to 12 months were selected. As a control group, 22 UTI patients with no radiologic abnormalities were selected and matched by age and sex. Results : The incidence of AFBN was more common in boys than in girls. Since both groups had similar symptoms, it was difficult to diagnose AFBN by clinical presentations alone. ESR and CRP were significantly higher in AFBN patients. The most common causative organism was E. coli in both groups. On the sonographic findings, the most lesions were seen on the upper lobe of the kidney; more frequently, on left kidney. The lesions showed globular or wedge-shaped increased echogenecity. $^{99m}Tc-DMSA$ scan showed the complete coincidence of the location, size and shape in all cases compared to the findings of renal sonography. Conclusion : The roles of renal sonography and DMSA scan were very important, and ultrasonography was an excellent initial tool in diagnosing AFBN. Since the degree of infection in AFBN is more severe than other urinary tract infections and evollution into a renal abscess is possible, early diagnosis and appropriate antibiotics therapy is essential.