• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.716-721
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• 2003

This paper deals with the iris recognition as one of biometric techniques which are applied to identify a person using his/her behavior or congenital characteristics. The iris of a human eye has a texture that is unique and time invariant for each individual. First, we obtain the feature vector from the 2D iris pattern having a property of size invariant and divide it into 24 sectors which are further through three types of 2D Gabor filters. At the recognition process, we compute the similarity measure based on the correlation values. Here, since we use three different matching values obtained from three different directional Gabor filters and select the maximum value among them, it is possible to minimize the recognition error rate. To show the usefulness of the proposed algorithm, we applied it to a biometric database consisting of 50 iris patterns extracted from 10 subjects and finally get more higher than 90% recognition rate.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture
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• v.51 no.6
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• pp.1-11
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• 2023

By comparing and analyzing the effects of the 2013 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo and the 2023 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo, designated as Korea's first national garden, this study aims to present basic data for the future operation direction and sustainability strategy. First, in both fairs, satisfaction throughout the event was high, 4.0 or higher. In particular, the satisfaction level of the 2023 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo was higher than that of the 2013 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo. As the longest international event held since the COVID-19 pandemic, it reflected the citizens' demand for healing and recharging in natural spaces. Second, as a result of comparing the types of perceptions that affected satisfaction, it was found that economic, environmental, and ecological types commonly affected satisfaction at the 2013 and 2023 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo. The 2013 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo established the brand value as an "ecological city" by creating a garden in the city center along with an ecological resource called Suncheon Bay. In addition, the 2023 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo expanded the scope of the garden to the entire city center. It also attempted to create a city where humans and nature coexist by realizing values, such as responding to climate change and carbon neutrality. In other words, one of the ways to secure urban competitiveness is to attract corporate investment and tourists and build a differentiated brand in Suncheon by promoting the 2023 fair based on the potential ecological values of the region after the 2013 Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo. Therefore, if the Suncheon Bay International Garden Expo continues to develop environmental and ecological content and programs in line with changes in society and tries to establish itself in citizens' perception through cooperation with local governments and residents, it will be able to establish its identity and brand power.

• Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
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• v.29 no.2
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• pp.79-92
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• 2020

This study aimed at analyzing the current status and further needs of ecological information which is provided with the civil servants in the process of climate change adaptation planning in ecosystem sector and at providing suggestions for future development of ecological knowledge on climate change. Therefore, we conducted a questionary survey titled as "the knowledge-base and information needs for climate change adaptation in ecosystem sector" with the civil servants who are engaged with adaptation practices in the ecology related divisions in 17 regional local governments (RLG) and the affiliated basic local governments (BLG) in Korea. As a result, the characteristics of ecological information which is applied in public practices was analyzed and strategies for improved utilization was suggested. 75% of the respondents (RLG 85% and BLG 72%) were aware of the relativeness between the existence and utilization of ecological information and the execution of climate adaptation practices in ecosystem sector. They were agreed with the necessity of ecological information not only in adaptation practices but also overall affairs in the ecological related division in the local government (RLG 82% and BLG 72%). The current situation of utilizing ecological information which is produced from central orlocal government to civil affairs were only represented as 64 persons (28%) in RLG and 42 persons (18%) in BLG. One of the major obstacles that the respondents confront with when applying ecological information to public practices was deficit of prior knowledge on the ecological information itself, such as awareness of the characteristics of ecological information and the link with public affairs for adaptation plans. Therefore, delivering current knowledge and ecological information on climate change by educational and promotional method is an urgent priority to the civil servant. The future needs on ecological information for local government servants were deduced as basic information on local ecosystem and applied knowledge on local development to meet the biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services at the same time. The respondents expected not only the specific guidelines for using ecological information to apply on the adaptation plans in the relevant divisions of the local governments but also the institution where the usage activation of ecological information would be operated and managed to enhance the information utilizing structure in the local government. In the nation-wide, the capacity of local governments should be enhanced with adaptation knowledge and the application of appropriate information to the public practices by central government's aiding with the better quality of information, its public promotion, and the applicability to civil affairs.

• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.26 no.2
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• pp.167-207
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• 2015

This study focused on the awareness and coping methods of psychological trauma and human suffering in the contemporary era after the development of posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) including the situations in the Korean society, and proposed principles for an alternative paradigm of trauma recovery. Trauma is defined as an 'external' stress causing chronic suffering mediated by memory, and the American Psychiatric Association approved PTSD in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1980. The development of PTSD empowered moral legitimacy to the victims, opened a successful way to treatment, and accomplished explosive amount of research in the area of neurobiology and cognitive neuroscience. However, this also narrowed the understanding of human suffering, and the importance of an alternative coping method which overcomes the limitations of technical intervention became overlooked. Moreover, the Korean society has an underlying mechanism of replacing the matter of trauma to a problem of an individual. This is shown among the historical context of splitting and denial, and among medicalized bureaucracy. Trauma should be acknowledged as a social suffering, and searching for an alternative paradigm is in need. This study suggested the following principles; seeking for truth and justice, survivor as the agent of recovery emphasizing the responsibility of the community, ecological adaptations of recent bio-psychological achievements, and finally putting emphasis on continuous discussions about the definition of recovery.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2007.05a
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• pp.1038-1042
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• 2007

수변완충지대는 수역과 육역의 경계에 위치하면서 하도를 따라 선형으로 길게 연속적으로 이어지는 공간으로서 토양, 동식물 등 생태시스템을 이루는 자연공간이다. 수변완충지대의 기능은 일반적으로 수질정화, 생태통로 및 서식처, 강턱의 안정, 토양침식 방지, 경관 개선 등이며 하천의 일부로서 사회적 경제적으로 높은 가치를 지니고 있다. 특히 최근에는 비점오염 저감과 하천 생태서식처 조성분야에서의 적용이 활발히 검토되고 있다. 선진국에서는 1980년대 이후부터 수변완충지대의 중요성을 인식하고 환경 생태 치수 측면에서 효율적 조성 및 복원 방법에 관한 연구와 적용이 본격적으로 시작되었고 가이드라인이 제시되었다. 이 분야에서 기술적 정책적으로 가장 앞선 나라로 평가되고 있는 미국의 경우 정부에서는 농무부(USDA)를 비롯하여 환경처(EPA), 내무부(USDI), 공병단(US ARMY)의 관련 산하기관, 각 주정부의 담당부서에서 수변완충지대의 보전과 조성에 관련된 여러 가지 정책과 기준을 제시하고 있다. 이들 가이드라인에서는 수변완충지대가 필요로 하는 기능별 최소 폭, 식생 종별 구성, 식생배열 등을 제시하며 그 기준은 조성 목적이나 기능, 대상 지역별로 차이를 보인다. 기능별 최소 폭은 수질정화를 목적으로 하는 경우 $4m{\sim}61m$이상, 생태서식처 조성을 목적으로 하는 경우는 $30m{\sim}1,000m$ 이상을 권장하고 있다. 식생 종은 수변완충지대 폭을 상 중 하단부로 나누어 초본, 관목, 교목류로 식재하고 강우유출수의 유입부에서 초본을 통한 부유고형물 등을 여과하고, 목본류의 뿌리와 토양을 통해 질소, 인 등 영양물질을 저감하는 구조를 제시하고 있다. 미국의 경우는 이러한 가이드라인을 실제로 현장에 적용하고 있으며 조성효과가 정성적으로 검증되었고 정량적인 관계 도출을 위한 연구가 지속적으로 진행되고 있다. 국내의 경우 수질개선 및 생태서식처 조성, 하천환경을 개선하기 위한 관련 정책이 꾸준히 제시되고 있다. 한 예로 정부에서는 수변구역을 지정 고시하여 상수원으로 유입되는 비점오염물질을 저감하고 생태서식처를 조성함으로써 양질의 상수원과 건전한 생태계를 확보하기 위한 제도를 시행 중이다. 수변 구역의 범위는 한강수변구역의 경우 약 $500{\sim}1,000m$로 설정되어 있으나 아직까지는 관리적 성격이 강하며, 향후에는 구체적인 조성방안이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 한강 수변구역 내에 미국의 가이드라인에서 제시하는 수변완충지대의 물리적 조건과 국내 지역 토착식생을 적용하여 시험완충지대를 조성하였고, 실험조건 하에서 그 효과를 정량적으로 분석 검증한 결과와 외국사례를 분석하여 국내여건에 맞는 수변완충지대 조성 가이드라인(안)을 제시하였다.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.239-251
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• 1992

There has been a great deal of controversy in the views on the impact of the pesticide pollution from the golf courses. The stream and reservoir associated with a existing golf course were investigated. The parameters include the ones related with eutrophication, heavy metals, pesticides. and aquatic ecological conditions. It was found that the impact on the aquatic ecosystem by the pollution from the golf course was not so serious. An aquatic ecological food chain was well established in the reservoir which belongs to the golf course. In contradiction to the general recognition, the livestock farming and agricultural farming gave much more adverse impacts on the stream than the golf course.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.5 no.2
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• pp.3-10
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• 2005

The purpose of this study was to identify environmental perception of eco-friendly apartment residents in the perspective of ecology. Questionnaire survey was adopted in this study, and 92 cases were used for data analysis. As an indicator of environmental perception, the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) instrument was used. The NEP instrument consists of five dimensions: the reality of limits to growth, anti-anthropocentrism, the fragility of nature's balance, the rejection of exemptionalism, and the possibility of an eco-crisis. The findings showed that the residents held ecological environmental perceptions. Various social characteristics(gender, age, income) of the respondents were related to acceptance of the NEP.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Interior Design Conference
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• 1999.04a
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• pp.57-60
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• 1999

The eyes are the first sensory organs to perceive the environment. We become accustomed to the environment with our eyes. When we contact the environment, we perceive the appearance of an object with our eyes. Then we recognize our position, and perceive the shape surrounding the object interacting with space. The perception of seeing constructs experiences which control most of our recognition, and the experiences are images of the environment surrounding it. So they are significantly expressed into sensitive and mental elements of material and non-material world. Gibson's ecological perception theory analyzes and information system, which helps man to move effectively, and its component stimulus'. The important thing is that we should understand the combination of systems gathering stimulus not as an individual system but as one whole system.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.1002-1005
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• 2014

아웃도어 열풍과 자연생태공원 조성 등으로 야외활동이 증가하고, 그에 따라 야생화를 접할 기회가 늘어나는 추세이다. 스마트 기기의 보유율이 증가하고 있는 현실을 반영하여, 스마트 기기를 이용한 등산 탐방로, 생태공원 등에 조성되어 있는 야생화를 판별해 줄 어플리케이션을 개발하고자 한다. 이 논문에서는 촬영한 야생화 이미지에서 배경과 대상을 분리하는 방법과 색상을 추출하는 방법을 분석하고 데이터베이스에서 검색하여 사용자에게 야생화 정보를 제공하는 방법을 제안한다.

• The Safety technology
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• no.189
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• pp.16-18
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• 2013

흔히 중소건설사는 대형건설사에 비해 안전관리 역량이 뒤처진다고 알려져 있다. 자금과 인력이 상대적으로 부족하다 보니 안전관리에 소홀하다는 것이 그 이유다. 그런데 최근 이런 인식이 한낱 편견에 불과함을 보여주는 현장이 있어 큰 주목을 받고 있다. 그 주인공은 바로 강원지역의 중견건설상인 (주)대건이 시공을 하고 있는 '평창군 오대천 생태하천 복원사업 현장'이다. 이곳은 현장소장을 필두로 모든 현장 구성원이 적극 재해예방활동에 참여하는 등 자율안전관리의 모범을 보여주고 있다. 게다가 최근 안전보건공단으로부터 '위험성평가 우수 사업장 인정'을 받았을 정도로 안전관리의 수준도 상당히 높다. 하고자 하는 열정과 굳건한 신념만 있다면 중소건설사도 대기업 못지않은 우수한 안전관리를 펼칠 수 있다는 것을 직접 보여주고 있는 이곳 현장을 찾아가 봤다.