• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.20 no.5
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• pp.13-20
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that can recognize not only the number of stretched fingers but also determination of attached fingers for extracting features required for hand gesture recognition. The proposed algorithm detects the hand area in the input image by the skin color range filter based on a color model and labeling, and then recognizes various hand gestures by extracting the number of stretched fingers and determination of attached fingers using curvature information extracted from outlines and feature points. Experiment results show that the recognition rate and the frame rate are similar to those of the conventional algorithm, but the number of gesture cases that can be defined by the extracted characteristics is about four times higher than the conventional algorithm, so that the proposed algorithm can recognize more various gestures.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.37 no.2
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• pp.229.2-229.2
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• 2012

지금까지 해외의 여러 달 궤도선에서 달의 영상을 다양한 방법으로 관측한 것에서 알 수 있듯이 영상 관측은 달 탐사에서 중요한 부분이다. 특히 그 중에서 입체 영사기(Stereo Imager)는 달의 3차원적 영상을 관측하여 달 표면의 구조를 파악할 수 있고 분광 카메라(Hyperspectral Camera)는 달 표면을 이루고 있는 물질을 분광 정보를 통해서 알아낼 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 우리나라가 2020년경 독자적인 달 궤도선을 계획하고 있는 것에 발맞추어 이 두 관측 장비를 설계해 보았다. 본 연구에서 설계한 탑재체는 하나의 광학계를 이용해 가시광 영역에서 동시에 입체 영상과 분광 영상을 얻을 수 있는 장치이며, 달 표면에서의 궤도선의 속도와 저장 가능한 정보의 양을 고려하여 100 km의 고도에서 속도를 1.6 km/s로 가정할 때 interline CCD가 17.5 m의 공간 분해능을 갖기 위해 92 frame/s 이상의 frame rate로 관측을 수행할 수 있게 하였다. 특히 분광 카메라는 wedge filter를 사용하여 광학계의 부담을 줄였으며 검출기로는 interline CCD를 사용하여 channel 수를 조절할 수 있도록 하였다. 또한 달 표면을 구성하는 입자의 크기에 대한 정보를 얻을 수 있는 편광판도 설치 하였다. 시험 모델의 문제점을 분석하여 새롭게 개선된 탑재체를 설계하여 개발하였다. 렌즈를 수정해 vignetting과 왜곡 현상을 보정하였고 전체 무게를 1.5 kg으로 줄여서 시험 모델보다 30% 이상 줄일 수 있었다. 파장 분해능은 20nm로 시험모델보다 더 개선된 분해능을 얻을 수 있었다. 출력 효율의 증대를 위해 power board의 수정을 수행하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.33 no.3A
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• pp.225-234
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• 2008

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) systems utilizing direct conversion receiver suffer from frequency selective (FS) and frequency independent (FI) phase and gain imbalances caused by imperfect local oscillator and low pass filter. In this paper, we analyze the impacts of the transmit/receive IQ imbalances on the system and propose the estimation and compensation schemes for those imbalances. The preamble signals coded by Alamouti scheme in the frequency domain could be used in the estimation of relatively large IQ imbalances with FS and FI characteristics and the estimation results are used for the compensation of distortions caused by the FI and FS IQ imbalances. The optimal maximum likelihood (ML) receiver or suboptimal ordered successive interference cancallation (OSIC) receiver utilizing the estimation results show symbol error rate (SER) performance improvement compared to zero-forcing (ZF) technique due to diversity gain inherent in the frequency domain IQ imbalances combined with the frequency selective channels.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.38C no.9
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• pp.813-821
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• 2013

In this paper, a vital signal sensor based on impedance variation of resonator is presented. Proposed vital signal sensor can detect the vital signal, such as respiration and heart-beat signal. System is composed of resonator, oscillator, surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter, and power detector. The cyclical movement of a dielectric such as a human body, causes the impedance variation of resonator within the near-field range. So oscillator's oscillation frequency variation is effected on resonator's resonant frequency. SAW filter's skirt characteristic of frequency response can be transformed a small amount of frequency deviation to a large variation. Aim to enhance the existing sensor detection range, proposed sensor operates in 870 MHz ISM band, and detect respiration and heart-beat signal at distance of 120 mm.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.365-373
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• 2002

Accurate localization of target lesion is required to protect normal peripheral tissue and irradiate exactly to tumors in stereotactic radiosurgery(SRS). Digital angiography is one of the most effective diagnostic tools to detect and identify the target tumors. However, it shows pincushion distortion due to the characteristics of the image intensifier. We have implemented a simulation study for the correction of distortion using the geometric transformation. Phantom images were produced transformation. In conclusion, the geometric transformation could effectively be used for the pincushion distortion of image intensifier and there was no significant different between two methods indicating 2% correction error from the ideal image in all cases.

• Journal of the Microelectronics and Packaging Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.21-25
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• 2009

By using Si CMOS process, small RFID tag antenna were fabricated on Si substrate and their electrical properties were evaluated. Firstly, tag antenna pattern and the electromagnetic properties were simulated with HFSS. The frequency was 13.56 MHz, the line-width and line-gap were modeled in the range of $50{\sim}200{\mu}m$. S parameters, SRF, and Q value were calculated from geometry. When the line-width and line-gap were $100{\mu}m$ and $100 {\mu}m$, respectively and the loop-turn was 10, the SRF was 80 MHZ and the Q value was ca. 9. When the microstrip antenna pattern of aluminum $2{\mu}m$ was fabricated by using DC sputtering, Vpp of ca. 4.3 V was obtained when the reader and tag were closely contacted.

• The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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• v.58 no.5
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• pp.1025-1034
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• 2009

In steel making production line, steel slabs are given a unique identification number. This identification number, Slab management number(SMN), gives information about the use of the slab. Identification of SMN has been done by humans for several years, but this is expensive and not accurate and it has been a heavy burden on the workers. Consequently, to improve efficiency, automatic recognition system is desirable. Generally, a recognition system consists of text localization, text extraction, character segmentation, and character recognition. For exact SMN identification, all the stage of the recognition system must be successful. In particular, the text localization is great important stage and difficult to process. However, because of many text-like patterns in a complex background and high fuzziness between the slab and background, directly extracting text region is difficult to process. If the slab region including SMN can be detected precisely, text localization algorithm will be able to be developed on the more simple method and the processing time of the overall recognition system will be reduced. This paper describes about the slab region localization using SIFT(Scale Invariant Feature Transform) features in the image. First, SIFT algorithm is applied the captured background and slab image, then features of two images are matched by Nearest Neighbor(NN) algorithm. However, correct matching rate can be low when two images are matched. Thus, to remove incorrect match between the features of two images, geometric locations of the matched two feature points are used. Finally, search rectangle method is performed in correct matching features, and then the top boundary and side boundaries of the slab region are determined. For this processes, we can reduce search region for extraction of SMN from the slab image. Most cases, to extract text region, search region is heuristically fixed [1][2]. However, the proposed algorithm is more analytic than other algorithms, because the search region is not fixed and the slab region is searched in the whole image. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm has a good performance.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2625-2632
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• 2009

Recently, a speed control method of induction motor by vector control theory is applied to highly efficient industrial field. The speed sensors attached to motor are used for detection of rotating speed. In the case using speed sensor, the installation of cable for minimization of electric noise, weaken maintenance, increase of price are demerit. Therefore the study of speed sensorless vector control theory performed activity. The design of sensorless vector controller for induction motor using tabu search is studied. The proposed sensorless vector control for Induction Motor is composed of two parts. The first part is for optimizing the speed estimation with initial PI parameters. The second part is for optimizing the speed control with initial PI parameters using tabu search. Proposed tabu search is improved by neighbor solution creation using Triangular random distribution. In order to show the usefulness of the proposed method, we apply the proposed controller to the sensorless speed control of an actual AC induction Motor System. The performance of this approach is verified through simulation and the experiment.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers
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• v.30 no.8
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• pp.525-529
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• 2017

Molybdenum oxide ($MoO_3$) offers pivotal advantages for high optical transparency and low light reflection. Considering device fabrication, n-type $MoO_3$ semiconductor can spontaneously establish a junction with p-type Si. Since the energy bandgap of Si is 1.12 eV, a maximum photon wavelength of around 1,100 nm is required to initiate effective photoelectric reaction. However, the utilization of infrared photons is very limited for Si photonics. Hence, to enhance the Si photoelectric devices, we applied the wide energy bandgap $MoO_3$ (3.7 eV) top-layer onto Si. Using a large-scale production method, a wafer-scale $MoO_3$ device was fabricated with a highly crystalline structure. The $MoO_3/p-Si$ heterojunction device provides distinct photoresponses for long wavelength photons at 900 nm and 1,100 nm with extremely fast response times: rise time of 65.69 ms and fall time of 71.82 ms. We demonstrate the high-performing $MoO_3/p-Si$ infrared photodetector and provide a design scheme for the extension of Si for the utilization of long-wavelength light.

• Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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• v.5 no.5
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• pp.11-20
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• 1996

In this paper, the characteristics of therapy radiation diode sensors have been studied by using therapy radiation from the MM22 microtron accelerator. The linearity, reproducibility and error ratio were measured for feasibility as a radiation detector. Energy dependence, sensitivity change after a amount of irradiation and output value according to a number of diodes were also measured for same purpose. We have formed pulse shaping of diode signal with nuclear instruments for portal image reconstruction. The percent depth dose ratio according to field size and depth was compared with that of the detector of a ion chamber. Using thirteen silicon diodes, we can directly read diode outputs on a computer monitor after A/D conversion with 16 channels analog to digital conversion board with 12 bit resolution. The possibility for portal image with diodes has been suggested from output comparison between output value with a human phantom and that without a human phantom.