• Journal of Navigation and Port Research
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• v.47 no.6
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• pp.367-375
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• 2023

This study developed a new distance metric for vessel trajectories, applicable to marine traffic control services in the Korean coastal waters. The proposed metric is designed through the weighted summation of the traditional Hausdorff distance, which measures the similarity between spatiotemporal data and incorporates the differences in the average Speed Over Ground (SOG) and the variance in Course Over Ground (COG) between two trajectories. To validate the effectiveness of this new metric, a comparative analysis was conducted using the actual Automatic Identification System (AIS) trajectory data, in conjunction with an agglomerative clustering algorithm. Data visualizations were used to confirm that the results of trajectory clustering, with the new metric, reflect geographical distances and the distribution of vessel behavioral characteristics more accurately, than conventional metrics such as the Hausdorff distance and Dynamic Time Warping distance. Quantitatively, based on the Davies-Bouldin index, the clustering results were found to be superior or comparable and demonstrated exceptional efficiency in computational distance calculation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.85-98
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• 2002

인터넷 이용의 폭발적인 증가와 함께 웹사이트에 대한 개인적ㆍ사회적 관심이 증대되고 있다. 이렇게 인터넷에 대한 대중의 관심과 참여가 늘어남에 따라 정보의 무분별한 발생을 막고 검색을 보다 효과적으로 하기 위한 사용자 인터페이스는 가치가 더욱 증대되었다. 최근에는 개별적인 연구자들뿐 아니라 웹사이트 평가기관과 순위기관들이 각각의 평가영역과 평가모형에 따라 웹사이트, 그리고 사용자 인터페이스를 평가하고 있다. 이러한 평가기준들은 웹사이트의 품질을 평가하는데 있어 주로 일원적인 인식방법을 사용하고 있다. 즉, 웹사이트 품질이나 사용자 만족을 측정하는 데 있어 품질의 고저나 만족ㆍ불만족을 일직선상에서 평가하고 있는 것이다. 다시 말하면 어떤 물리적 상황이 충족되면 사용자가 만족을 느끼지만 충족되지 않을 경우에는 불만을 가지게 된다는 가정에서 평가모형들이 개발되고 있는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 Kano의 모형에 따라 품질을 물리적 충족상황을 횡축에, 고객의 만족감을 종축에 두고 품질개념을 이원적으로 해석하여 매력적, 당연적, 일원적 품질요소로 분류하고자 하였다. 웹사이트 평가와 웹사이트 인터페이스 평가를 위한 선행연구들을 종합하여 화면구성, 항해성, 검색성, 상호작용성, 사용자지원성의 5가지 영역에서 25개의 평가항목을 추출하였으며, 이를 Kano의 설문지조사법을 이용하여 설문을 수행하였다. 게임사이트, 커뮤니티 사이트, 쇼핑몰 사이트, 일간신문 사이트를 대상으로 290부의 설문을 수거하여 분석한 결과 각각의 사이트의 인터페이스 품질요소에서 매력적 품질요소, 일원적 품질요소, 당연적 품질요소를 분류했다. 종합적으로 볼 때, 인트로나 메인페이지의 포인트, 다양한 정렬방식, 개인화된 페이지, 개인장치로의 다운로드가 매력적 품질요소로 분류되었으며, 시각적 구성, 링크의 정확성, 링크분류의 체계성, 용어의 명료성, 컨텐츠 이용의 용이성, 적절한 강조의 사용, 고객피드백시스템은 일원적 품질요소로 분류되었다. 또한 당연적 품질요소는 사이트 설계의 일관성, 에러처리, 의견제시 공간, 이용설명서 또는 도움말, FAQ로 나타났다. 이러한 연구의 결과를 통해 웹사이트를 운영하는 기업에 새로운 웹사이트의 설계 및 운영에 있어 우선순위를 부여하는 데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.85-98
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• 2002

인터넷 이용의 폭발적인 증가와 함께 웹사이트에 대한 개인적ㆍ사회적 관심이 증대되고 있다. 이렇게 인터넷에 대한 대중의 관심과 참여가 늘어남에 따라 정보의 무분별한 발생을 막고 검색을 보다 효과적으로 하기 위한 사용자 인터페이스는 가치가 더욱 증대되었다. 최근에는 개별적인 연구자들뿐 아니라 웹사이트 평가기관과 순위기관들이 각각의 평가영역과 평가모형에 따라 웹사이트, 그리고 사용자 인터페이스를 평가하고 있다. 이러한 평가기준들은 웹사이트의 품질을 평가하는데 있어 주로 일원적인 인식방법을 사용하고 있다. 즉, 웹사이트 품질이나 사용자 만족을 측정하는 데 있어 품질의 고저나 만족ㆍ불만족을 일직선상에서 평가하고 있는 것이다. 다시 말하면 어떤 물리적 상황이 충족되면 사용자가 만족을 느끼지만 충족되지 않을 경우에는 불만을 가지게 된다는 가정에서 평가모형들이 개발되고 있는 것이다. 본 연구에서는 Kano의 모형에 따라 품질을 물리적 충족상황을 횡축에, 고객의 만족감을 종축에 두고 품질개념을 이원적으로 해석하여 매력적, 당연적, 일원적 품질요소로 분류하고자 하였다. 웹사이트 평가와 웹사이트 인터페이스 평가를 위한 선행연구들을 종합하여 화면구성, 항해성, 검색성, 상호 작용성, 사용자지원성의 5가지 영역에서 25개의 평가항목을 추출하였으며, 이를 Kano의 설문지조사법을 이용하여 설문을 수행하였다. 게임사이트, 커뮤니티 사이트, 쇼핑몰 사이트, 일간신문 사이트를 대상으로 290부의 설문을 수거하여 분석한 결과 각각의 사이트의 인터페이스 품질요소에서 매력적 품질요소, 일원적 품질요소, 당연적 품질요소를 분류했다. 종합적으로 볼 때, 인트로나 메인페이지의 포인트, 다양한 정렬방식, 개인화 된 페이지, 개인장치로의 다운로드가 매력적 품질요소로 분류되었으며, 시각적 구성, 링크의 정확성, 링크분류의 체계성, 용어의 명료성, 컨텐츠 이용의 용이성, 적절한 강조의 사용, 고객피드백시스템은 일원적 품질요소로 분류되었다. 또한 당연적 품질요소는 사이트 설계의 일관성, 에러처리, 의견제시 공간, 이용설명서 또는 도움말, FAQ로 나타났다. 이러한 연구의 결과를 통해 웹사이트를 운영하는 기업에 새로운 웹사이트의 설계 및 운영에 있어 우선순위를 부여하는 데 도움이 될 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.51-58
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• 2008

In this paper, we propose a place modeling based on the distribution of scale-invariant features, and a place recognition method that recognizes places by comparing the place model in a database with the extracted features from input data. The proposed method is based on the assumption that every place can be represented by unique feature distributions that are distinguishable from others. The proposed method uses global information of each place where one place is represented by one distribution model. Therefore, the main contribution of the proposed method is that the time cost corresponding to the increase of the number of places grows linearly without increasing exponentially. For the performance evaluation of the proposed method, the different number of frames and the different number of features are used, respectively. Empirical results illustrate that our approach achieves better performance in space and time cost comparing to other approaches. We expect that the Proposed method is applicable to many ubiquitous systems such as robot navigation, vision system for blind people, wearable computing, and so on.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.39C no.9
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• pp.767-773
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• 2014

An economic ship routing means to sail a ship with a goal of minimizing the fuel consumption by utilizing weather forecast information, and there have been various systems which have been recently studied. For a successful economic ship routing system, it is needed to properly control an engine power or change a geographical path considering weather forecast. An optimal geographical path is difficult to be determined, though, because it is a minimal dynamic-cost path search problem where the actual fuel consumption is dynamically variable by the weather condition when the ship will pass the area. In this paper, we propose an geographical path-search algorithm based on evolutionary strategy to efficiently search a good quality solution out of tremendous candidate solutions. We tested our approach with the shortest path-based sailing method over seven testing routes and observed that the former reduced the estimated fuel consumption than the latter by 1.82% on average and the maximum 2.49% with little difference of estimated time of arrival. In particular, we observed that our method can find a path to avoid bad weather through a case analysis.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.3 s.35
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• pp.173-182
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• 2005

In this paper, we propose a landmark recognition method which is irrelevant to the camera viewpoint on the navigation for localization. Features in previous research is variable to camera viewpoint, therefore due to the wealth of information, extraction of visual landmarks for positioning is not an easy task. The proposed method in this paper, has the three following stages; first, extraction of features, second, learning and recognition, third, matching. In the feature extraction stage, we set the interest areas of the image. where we extract the corner points. And then, we extract features more accurate and resistant to noise through statistical analysis of a small eigenvalue. In learning and recognition stage, we form robust feature models by testing whether the feature model consisted of five corner points is an invariant feature irrelevant to viewpoint. In the matching stage, we reduce time complexity and find correspondence accurately by matching method using similarity evaluation function and Graham search method. In the experiments, we compare and analyse the proposed method with existing methods by using various indoor images to demonstrate the superiority of the proposed methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.499-506
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• 2022

For autonomous ships to be commercialized and be able to navigate in coastal water, they must be able to detect maritime obstacles. One of the most common obstacles seen in coastal area are the farm buoys. In this study, a maritime object detection system was developed that detects buoys using the YOLO algorithm and visualizes the distance and bearing between buoys and the ship through geometric interpretation of camera images. After training the maritime object detection model with 1,224 pictures of buoys, the precision of the model was 89.0%, the recall was 95.0%, and the F1-score was 92.0%. Camera calibration had been conducted to calculate the distance and bearing of an object away from the camera using the obtained image coordinates and Experiment A and B were designed to verify the performance of the maritime object detection system. As a result of verifying the performance of the maritime object detection system, it can be seen that the maritime object detection system is superior to radar in its short-distance detection capability, so that it can be used as a navigational aid along with the radar.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.1195-1202
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• 2016

Recently, a lot of studies that applying the big data technology to various fields, are progressing actively. In the maritime domain, the big data is the meaningful information which makes and gathers by the navigation and communication equipment from the many ships on the ocean. Also, importance of the maritime safety is emphasized, because maritime accidents are rising with increasing of maritime traffic. To support prevention of maritime accidents, in this paper, we developed a vessel traffic display and statistic system based on AIS messages from the many vessels of maritime. Also, to verify the developed system, we conducted tests for vessel track display function and vessel traffic statistic function based on two test scenarios. Therefore, we verified the effectiveness of the developed system for vessel tracks display, abnormal navigation patterns, checking failure of AIS equipments and maritime traffic statistic analyses.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.34 no.2_2
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• pp.393-406
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• 2018

Every year in the ocean, various accidents occur frequently and illegal fishing is rampant. Moreover, their size and frequency are also increasing. In order to reduce losses of life or property caused by these, it is necessary to have a means to perform remote monitoring quickly. As an effective platform of such monitoring means, an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is receiving the spotlight. In these situations where marine accidents or illegal fishing occur, main targets of monitoring are ships. In this study, we propose a UAV based ship monitoring system and suggest a method of determining ship positions using UAV multi-sensory data. In the proposed method, firstly, the position and attitude of individual images are determined by using the pre-performed system calibration results and GPS/INS data obtained at the time when images were acquired. In addition, after the ship being detected automatically or semi-automatically from the individual images, the absolute coordinates of the detected ships are determined. The proposed method was applied to actual data measured at 200 m, 350 m, and 500 m altitude, the ship position can be determined with accuracy of 4.068 m, 8.916 m, and 13.734 m, respectively. According to the minimum standard of a hydrographical survey, the ship positioning results of 200 m and 350 m data satisfy grade S and the results of 500 m data do grade 1a, where the accuracy is required for positioning the coastline and topography less significant to navigation order. Therefore, it is expected that the proposed method can be effectively used for various purposes of marine monitoring or surveying.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.36
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• pp.7-41
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• 2006

This study criticizes the wave of liberalization, privatization, thoughtless and uncontrolled over-competition in the electronic communication networks area. This criticism is based on the 'transport economics' on one side, the 'network neutrality debate' on the other side. Through these standpoints, this study insists that it needs to deal with a social agenda related to the problems such as unplanned and unbalanced development of electronic communication networks, double/tripple-investment in the communication industry, conflicts among network companies and the decline of public values. Also does this study stress on the new ideas in the electronic communication network policy and planning to manage these problems. Electronic communication networks are converging and their borders are blurred. As a result of these flows, the field of information technology, media and contents is faced with radical changes. These changes could be so critical and complicated that nobody can diagnose their multi-level implications. However, the one thing sure is that we should start from the communication networks to think and control a communication system. Therefore, we should discuss and plan the now-and-future of communication infrastructure and its management. we need not only a market mentality but also a socio-cultural mentality. In this respect, this study does insist that it requires the vision of digital democracy and democratic communication ecology to put the steps toward social communication system.