• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.14B no.6
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• pp.407-412
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• 2007

The performance of ultrasonic testing systems for industrial or medical purpose largely depends on the performance of ultrasonic transducers. Generally, the information about an ultrasonic transducer performance characteristics are expressed by the ultrasonic R/F signal back from a reflector and its frequency characteristics in the data sheet provided by manufacturers. In case of focused ultrasonic transducers, the two pieces of information can, however, hardly assure that the focused ultrasonic transducer would produce well-focused C-scan images. Therefore, we propose the measured size of focal spot and the reconstructed shape of effective focal zone in the focused sound field as novel measures for the performance evaluation of the focused ultrasonic transducers. The process of getting the both measures of the transducers is conducted by the implemented software including sound field scanning and virtual 3D reconstruction functions which requires the echo of a point reflector. The proposed method could, otherwise impossible in the existing method, effectively and simply distinguish superior ones among many transducers made in the same specification and be also used to detect the performance degradation due to the aging of the transducers. Eventually, the quality of performance of the ultrasonic testing systems for industrial or medical purpose is secured.

• The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.104-109
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• 2014

Purpose: Conventional pinhole scintigraphy offers a high resolution and generally use for thyroid scan or bone scintigraphy. the aim of this study is to evaluate performance of each aperture according to the diameter size. Materials and Methods: In this study 2 mm, 4 mm, 6 mm, 8 mm diameter pinhole collimators were mounted on Siemens E.CAM systems. In order to evaluate performance evaluation of each aperture, we acquired projection image by using SPECT for evaluating FWHM, resolution test and static image for evaluating thyroid phantom test. Results: As a result of FWHM showed 2.2 mm FWHM, 3.2 mm FWHM, 5.4 mm FWHM, 7.5 mm FWHM per each aperture in the resolution test. SNR, uniformity, contrast were acquired result from thyroid phantom test comparing general image and delayed image. as a result of SNR showed 6.55, 8.47, 6.2, 5.23 in case of general image and 5.25, 5.01, 5.38, 5.82 in case of delayed image per each aperture. as a result of uniformity showed 0.152, 0.118, 0.161, 0.19 in case of general image and 0.19, 0.199, 0.185, 0.171 in case of delayed image per each aperture. as a result of contrast showed 1.31, 1.19, 1.15, 1.01 in case of general image and 1.09, 1.08, 1.04, 1 in case of delayed image per each aperture. Conclusion: Resolution and sensitivity were heavily influenced by aperture size. and also we found advantage of delayed image as a result of thyroid phantom test.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.25 no.8
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• pp.1067-1073
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• 2021

Participants in the virtual environment will have an immersive and memorable perceived experience through interacting with virtual objects. Recently, commercial virtual reality technologies have released simple and cost-effective smartphone-based head-mounted displays (HMD) and high-quality wide field-of-view (FOV) HMDs. However, due to the vergence-accommodation conflict structure of HMD and the learned cognition mechanism in real, side effects such as dizziness and nausea remain challenging to overcome. This study focuses on consistent size perception among various cognitive difference factors, which are essential for interaction with virtual objects. We verified whether the visual angle, which affects the size perception of an object in real, is also the main factor in the virtual environment. Our experiments derived the relation between the visual angle and the environmental components, shadow, and grid, which help perceive a virtual object. As a result of the regression analysis, we presented that in the small FOV HMD environment, the visual angle affects size perception, and the relation between the shadow and the grid is statistically significant.

• Journal of the Korean Data Analysis Society
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.3169-3183
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• 2018

Based on the affective event theory, the purpose of the study is to examine the effect of the individual difference regulatory focus on the process in which the work events affect job engagement under organizational circumstances. To this end, 232 financial workers were surveyed on positive events, positive affects, regulatory focus and job engagement. The results of the analysis are as follows. First, the positive events generated positive affects and showed positive influence on job engagement. Second, the effect of positive affects on job engagement has been shown to be discriminatory depending on the level of regulatory focus. The higher the level of promotion focus, the stronger the effect on job engagement of positive affects, and the higher the level of prevention focus, the weaker the effect on job engagement of positive affects. Third, the moderated mediated effect was found to be significant only in the prevention focus. The magnitude of indirect effects on job engagement by positive events was found to be weakened when the prevention focus was high. Finally, the implications and future research issues were discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Radiological Science
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.29.2-30
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• 2002

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.132.1-132.1
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• 2011

2.1m Otto Struve 망원경은 미국 McDonald 천문대에 있는 광학망원경으로, 초기우주천체 연구단은 현재 카세그레인 초점에 CQUEAN(Camera for QUasars in EArly uNiverse) 시스템을 부착하여 장기 관측 과제를 수행 중이다. 향후 주 초점을 이용한 관측에 대비하여 본 연구에서는 2.1m Otto Struve 망원경의 파인더에 FLI 4K CCD를 부착하여 자동조준 시스템 테스트를 수행하였다. 파인더 망원경의 제원은 구경 254mm, 초점거리 3038mm이며, FLI 4K CCD의 제원은 해상도 $4096{\times}4096$ 화소, 화소 크기 $9{\mu}m{\times}9{\mu}m$로서, 파인더 망원경 초점면에서 픽셀스케일 0.61"/pixel, 시야 $41.6'{\times}41.6'$이다. 자동조준 소프트웨어는 McDonald 천문대의 agdr-1.14를 사용하였다. 자동조준 카메라(4K CCD)의 영상을 통해 파인더 망원경에서의 시야와 한계등급을 구하였다. 여러 방향으로 망원경을 조준하여 2.1m 망원경에 부착된 CQUEAN과 파인더 망원경에 부착된 4K CCD 각각에서 영상을 얻고, 이들의 중심좌표를 비교함으로써 중력에 의한 망원경의 휨 효과를 조사하였다. 더하여 자동조준 설정을 바꿔가며 CQUEAN으로 NGC 6633의 장기 노출 영상을 얻고, 이들 영상에서 별 모양 특성을 분석하여 각각의 조건에서 자동조준 시스템의 성능을 조사하였다. 이상의 연구결과를 토대로 2.1m Otto Struve 망원경의 주 초점 관측 시 파인더 망원경을 이용한 자동조준장치 시스템 활용에 대해 제언하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.1523-1526
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 커널 기반 객체 추적 방식을 이용하여 실시간으로 객체를 추적하는 기술에서 객체의 크기 추정에 대한 기존 연구를 비교 분석한다. 커널 기반 객체 추적은 추적하고자 하는 객체를 초기 프레임에서 타켓으로 설정한 후, 각 프레임마다 타켓 후보들을 제시하고 그 중 가장 객체와 유사한 후보에 초점을 맞춰가며 객체를 추적한다. 이때, 목표 객체와 객체 후보간 유사성을 기반으로 정의된 배경 영사 영상(back-projection image)을 이용하여 객체의 크기를 추정하는 방법들이 제시되고 있다. 안정적인 객체 크기 추정 방법의 설계를 위한 사전 연구로서 대표적인 객체 크기 추정 기존 연구를 비교, 분석하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.1677-1680
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• 2004

내장형 실시간 시스템에서는 메모리관리시스템의 구현에 있어 메모리 단편화와 시간 결정성의 문제를 해결하기 위한 방법 중의 하나로 고정크기의 메모리를 할당하는 기법이 사용된다. 내장형 자바가상기계에서도 객체를 관리하는 메모리 구조인 힙에 이를 적용하여 활용할 수 있으며 구현된 예로는 simpleRTJ가 있다. 고정크기 메모리 할당 기법은 구현이 간단하기 때문에 시스템이 단순해지고 실행 시 오버헤드의 발생이 줄어드는 장점이 있다. 하지만 실제 구현에 있어서 구현의 단순화에 초점을 맞추어 프리 리스트가 구성되지 않아 메모리할당에 있어 예상할 수 없는 시간 지연이 있을 수 있으며 이는 실시간성의 보장에 치명적인 결함이 될 수 있다. 또한 배열과 문자열의 구성에 있어 실제 크기를 그대로 사용함으로써 고정크기 할당방식의 장점을 완전히 이용되지 못하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 실질적인 고정크기 할당방식의 장점을 최대한으로 이용하기 위해 객체와 메소드의 구조, 그리고 힙을 재구성하였다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.5
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• pp.585-594
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• 2006

Due to the size limit, the voice coil motor (VCM) is adopted in most of the mobile phone camera to control auto-focus instead of step motor. The optical system using the VCM has the property that the focus values are varying even though the same current is induced. It means that an error of the lens position was taken placed due to the characteristics of the VCM. In this paper, a algorithm was proposed to compensate the lens position error using the step size and the search count of each stage. In the proposed algorithm -7 step middle searching stage is inserted the conventional searching algorithm for the fast auto-focus searching and the final searing step size was set to +1 for the precise focus control, respectively. In the experimental results, the focus values was found more fast in the proposed algorithm than the conventional. And more the image quality by the proposed algorithm was superior to that of the conventional.

• Korean Journal of Optics and Photonics
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.317-323
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• 2022

In this investigation, we describe a chromatic confocal sensor based on a geometric phase lens for measuring the thicknesses of transparent plates. In order to design a compact sensor, a geometric phase lens, which has diffractive and polarizing characteristics, is used as a device to generate chromatic aberration, and a fiber optic module is adopted. The systematic error of the sensor is reduced with wavelength peak detection by Gaussian curve fitting and the common error compensation obtained by the repeatedly consecutive experimental results. An approach to calculate the plate thickness is derived and verified with sapphire and BK7 plates. Because of the simple and compact design of the proposed sensor with rapid measurement capability, it is expected to be widely used in thickness measurements of transparent plates as an alternative to traditional approaches.