• Journal of Korean Tunnelling and Underground Space Association
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.185-191
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• 2008

Today, Large and bigger underground construction are increased. In this study, Blating used electronic detonation (OBM Method) and non-electric detonation are carried out. Through comparison with two method, reduction of vibration and noise and efficiency of construction are investigated. As a result of this study, using electronic detonation is shown that it can control lower vibration and noise level, and better HCF, mucfile, advance rate and fragmentation.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.31 no.1C
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• pp.87-92
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• 2006

An $AB^2$ modular operation is an efficient basic operation for the public key cryptosystems and various systolic architectures for $AB^2$ modular operation have been proposed. However, these architectures have a shortcoming for cryptographic applications due to their high area complexity. Accordingly, this paper presents an partitioned $AB^2$ systolic modular multiplier over GF($2^m$). A dependency graph from the MSB $AB^2$ modular multiplication algorithm is partitioned into 1/3 to get an partitioned $AB^2$ systolic multiplier. The multiplier reduces the area complexity about 2/3 compared with the previous multiplier. The multiplier could be used as a basic building block to implement the modular exponentiation for the public key cryptosystems based on smartcard which has a restricted hardware requirements.

• Journal of Korean Society for Geospatial Information Science
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.49-55
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• 2008

The face extraction is very important to provide the images of the roads and road sides without the problem of privacy. For face extraction form roadside images, we detected the skin color area by using HSI and YCrCb color models. Efficient skin color detection was achieved by using these two models. We used a connectivity and intensity difference for grouping, skin color regions further we applied shape conditions (rate, area, number and oval condition) and determined face candidate regions. We applied thresholds to region, and determined the region as the face if black part was over 5% of the whole regions. As the result of the experiment 28 faces has been extracted among 38 faces had problem of privacy. The reasons which the face was not extracted were the effect of shadow of the face, and the background objects. Also objects with the color similar to the face were falsely extracted. For improvement, we need to adjust the threshold.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.40 no.5
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• pp.303-311
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• 2003

Since the MPEG-4 visual standard enables content-based functionalities, it is necessary to extract video object from natural video sequences. Segmentation algorithms can largely be classified into automatic segmentation and user-assisted segmentation. In this paper, we propose a user-assisted VOP generation method based on the geometric active contour. Since the geometric active contour, unlike the parametric active contour, employs the level set method to evolve the curve, we can draw the initial curve independent of the shape of the object. In order to generate the edge function from a smoothed image, we propose a vector-valued diffusion process in the LUV color space. We also present a discrete 3-D diffusion model for easy implementation. By combining the curve shrinkage in the vector field space with the curve expansion in the empty vector space, we can make accurate extraction of visual objects from video sequences.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.28 no.5
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• pp.409-415
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• 2009

The head-related transfer function (HRTF), which has an important role in virtual sound localization has different characteristics across the subjects. Measuring HRTF is very time-consuming and requires a set of specific apparatus. Accordingly, HRTF customization is often employed. In this paper, we propose a method to search an adequate HRTF from a set of the HRTFs. To achieve rapid and reliable customization of HRTF, all HRTFs in the database are partitioned, where a binary search tree was employed. The distortion measurement adopted in HRTF partitioning was determined in a heuristic way, which predicts the differences in perceived sound location well. The DC-Davis CIPIC HRTF database set was used to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method. In the listening test, where 10 subjects were participated, the stimuli filtered by the HRTF obtained by the proposed method were closer to those by the personalized HRTF in terms of sound localization. Moreover, performance of the proposed method was shown to be superior to the previous customization method, where the HRFT is selected by using anthropometric data.

• KIEAE Journal
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.95-100
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• 2011

Although Space Syntax is a well-known technique for spatial analysis, debates have taken place among some researchers because the Space Syntax discards geometric information as both shapes and sizes of spaces, and hence may cause some inconsistencies. Therefore, this study aims at developing methods to recognize and manage spatial shapes for more precise space syntax analysis. To reach this goal, this study employed both a graph theory and binary spatial partitioning (BSP) tree to recognize and manage spatial information. As a result, spatial shapes and sizes could be recognized by checking loops in graph converted from spatial shapes of built environment. Each spatial shape could be managed sequentially by BSP tree with hierarchical structure. Through such recognition and management processes, convex maps composed of the fattest and fewest convex spaces could be drawn. In conclusion, we hope that the methods developed here will be useful for urban planning to find appropriate purposes of spaces to satisfy the sustainability of built environment on the basis of the spatial and social relationships in urban spaces.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.11B no.1
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• pp.21-26
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• 2004

Color image quantization is a process of selecting a set of colors to display an image with some representative colors without noticeable perceived difference. It is very important in many applications to display a true color image in a low cost color monitor or printer. The basic problem is how to display 256 colors or less colors, called color palette, In this paper, we propose improved binary tree vector quantization based on spatial sensitivity which is one of the human visual properties. We combine the weights based on the responsibility of human visual system according to changes of three Primary colors in blocks of images with the process of splitting nodes using eigenvector in binary tree vector quantization. The test results show that the proposed method generates the quantized images with fine color and performs better than the conventional method in terms of clustering the similar regions. Also the proposed method can get the better result in subjective quality test and WSNR.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.104-107
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• 2007

인간은 초점정보를 이용하여 단안만으로도 공간의 깊이를 지각할 수 있다. 이것은 한 번에 하나의 대상물에만 초점을 맞출 수 있고 그 외의 부분은 흐림 현상을 유도함으로써 이루어진다. 이는 초점이 맞는 대상물체로부터 멀어지면 멀어질수록 흐림 현상이 강해지는 원리를 이용한 것으로 주파수 성분의 변화량에 대한 연산과 깊은 관련이 있다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 인간의 시각 시스템의 요소 중 하나인 초점정보를 모방하여 초점거리가 다른 각각의 이미지들에 각각의 가중치를 부여하였다. 그리고 각 이미지들을 일정 블록으로 각각 분할하여 초점이 가장 잘 맞는 블록을 찾아내어 하나의 이미지로 통합하였다. 이때 각 영역은 자신이 속했던 이미지의 가중치를 따르게 한다. 각 이미지에서 가장 포커스 수치가 높은 영역을 찾기 위한 방법으로 주파수 영역 기반 처리와 공간 영역 기반 처리를 결합 하였다. 주파수 기반으로는 FFT(Fast Fourier Transform)에서 고주파 부분의 영역을 뽑아내어 포커스수치를 계산하였으며, 공간 영역 처리 기반으로는 이웃픽셀과의 차이가 임계값이하인 것을 제외한 영역을 뽑아내어 저주파 영역의 연산을 제거하는 방법과 단순히 Laplacian measure만을 사용하여 저주파까지도 포함한 방법의 두 가지를 적용하였다. 최종적으로 3개의 포커스 측정값을 결합시켜 포커스 수치를 계산한 후 각 블록의 가중치에 맞게 하나의 이미지로 통합하여 상대적 깊이지도를 생성하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.10 no.7
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• pp.856-868
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• 2007

We propose an effective method for block classification in a document image. The gray level document image is converted to the binary image for a block segmentation. This binary image would be smoothed to find the locations and sizes of each block. And especially during this smoothing, the inner block heights of each block are obtained. The gray level image is divided to several blocks by these location informations. The SGLDM(spatial gray level dependence matrices) are made using the each gray-level document block and the seven second-order statistical texture features are extracted from the (0,1) direction's SGLDM which include the document attributes. Document image blocks are classified to two groups, text and non-text group, by the inner block height of the block at the nearest neighbor rule. The seven texture features(that were extracted from the SGLDM) are used for the five detail categories of small font, large font, table, graphic and photo blocks. These document blocks are available not only for structure analysis of document recognition but also the various applied area.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.1727-1737
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• 2018

In this paper, we propose a system to detect spatial structures in land cover maps and to detect time-series spatial structure changes. At first, the proposed system detects patches in a certain area at different times and calculates their measures to analyse spatial structure patterns of the area. Then the system conducts patch mapping among the detected time-series patches and decides 6 types of patch changes such as keeping, creating, disappearing, splitting, merging, and changing in a mixed way. Also, the system stores the patch-based spatial structure patterns of time-series land cover maps in binary form to extract changes. This demonstrated that the proposed change detection system can be used as a basis for planning the reconstruction of the urban spatial structure by measuring the degree of urban sprawl.