• The Journal of Engineering Geology
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.405-419
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• 2002

Fracture roughness of rock specimens is observed by a new confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM; Olympus OLS1100). The wave length of laser is 488 nm, and the laser scanning is managed by a light polarization method using two galvano-meter scanner mirrors. The function of laser reflection auto-focusing enables us to measure line data fast and precisely. The system improves resolution in the light axis (namely z) direction because of the confocal optics. Using the CLSM, it is Possible to measure a specimen of the size up to $10{\;}{\times}{\;}10{\;}cm$ which is fixed on a specially designed stage. A sampling is managed in a spacing $2.5{\;}\mu\textrm{m}$ along x and y directions. The highest measurement resolution of z direction is $10{\;}\mu\textrm{m}$, which is more accurate than other methods. Core specimens of coarse and fine grained granite are provided. Fractures are artificially maneuvered by a Brazilian test method. Measurements are performed along three scan lines on each fracture surface. The measured data are represented as 2-D and 3-D digital images showing detailed features of roughness. Line profiles of the coarse granites represent more frequent change of undulation than those of the fine granite. Spectral analyses by the fast Fourier transform (FFT) are performed to characterize the roughness data quantitatively and to identify influential frequency of roughness. The FFT results suggest that a specimen loaded by large and low frequency energy tends to have high values of undulation change and large wave length of fracture roughness.

• Proceedings of the KSMRM Conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.75-75
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• 2002

목적： 고자장 자기공명영상 시스템 등으로 신호대잡음비가 향상됨에 따라 데이터 측정에서 analog-to-digital converter (ADC)의 quantization noise 가 중요한 시스템 사양으로 부각되고 있다. 특히 자기공명영상은 공간주파수 영역에서 데이터를 측정하기 때문에 dc와 ac간의 신호 차이가 매우 크며, 이러한 dynmic range는 3-D 영상에서 더욱 커진다. 본 연구에서는 다양한 자기총명 영상기법 및 실험 파라미터에 따른 신호의 dynamic range와 ADC의 bit 수에 따른 quantization noise를 살펴봄으로써, 주어진 시스템에 적합한 ADC의 bit 수를 분석하고자 한다. 대상 및 방법： 펄스 시퀀스의 종류, 파라미터, 2D/3D 등에 따른 각 신호의 크기를 수학적으로 모델링하여 신호의 크기를 예측하였다. 또한 whole body MRI 시스템에서 실험을 통하여 신호의 크기를 비교하였다. ADC의 quantization noise를 실험과 시뮬레이션을 통하여 살펴보았다. 시뮬레이션은 test 영상을 Inverse FFT 하여 spatial frequency domain data를 만든 후, 다양한 bit 수의 ADC로 quantization을 한 후 다시 영상을 재구성하였다. 재구성된 영상과 원영상 간의 error가 quantization noise가 된다. 또한 이러한 error가 주파수 영역에서의 error 값과 일치하는지를 확인하였다.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.2 no.11
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• pp.789-794
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• 2013

A vehicle tracking system makes it possible to induce the vehicle movement path for avoiding traffic congestion and to prevent traffic accidents in advance by recognizing traffic flow, monitoring vehicles, and detecting road accidents. To track the vehicles effectively, those which appear in a sequence of video frames need to identified by extracting the features of each object in the frames. Next, the identical vehicles over the continuous frames need to be recognized through the matching among the objects' feature values. In this paper, we identify objects by binarizing the difference image between a target and a referential image, and the labelling technique. As feature values, we use the center coordinate of the minimum bounding rectangle(MBR) of the identified object and the averages of 1D FFT(fast Fourier transform) coefficients with respect to the horizontal and vertical direction of the MBR. A vehicle is tracked in such a way that the pair of objects that have the highest similarity among objects in two continuous images are regarded as an identical object. The experimental result shows that the proposed method outperforms the existing methods that use geometrical features in tracking accuracy.

• Journal of Advanced Marine Engineering and Technology
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.332-338
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• 2010

Annually, electrical fires caused by arcing phenomena in power system rapidly increase as the use of more electric appliances, but there is no established method for the prevention of the accidents. With this background, this paper dealt with the experimental results on a series arc detection technique and a device for air conditioners. Series arcing phenomena that is generated in incomplete connection of air conditioners was simulated, and the frequency spectrum was analyzed. The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the arc pulse showed that the dominant frequency components exist in ranges of 190 kHz~250 kHz and 900 kHz~1.6 MHz. An arc detection circuit with low cut off frequency of 170 kHz to attenuate 60 Hz by 170 dB and a signal discriminator were designed. Also, an algorithm which separate series arc signal from unwanted noises produced by switching operation, inverter, and surge was proposed. Application experiment was carried out on several types of air-conditioners by using the arc generator specified in UL1699, and the results showed the over 99 % accuracy.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.341-347
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• 2004

In order to inspect the piping effectively, one of the important components in the facility of power plants, the ultrasonic guided wave was generated by a tomb transducer and was received in a non-contact fashion by using an air-coupled transducer. The guided wave modes that ran be generated by the comb transducer in piping are predicted from the theoretical dispersion curves and the element spacing of a comb transducer. Moreover, to receive the specific modes, the receiving angle of the air-coupled transducer is calculated from Snell's law between the phase velocities of guided waves and the sound velocity of air. The guided wave modes obtained in experiments are identified from the result of time-frequency analysis such as wavelet transform and two-dimensional fast Fourier transform.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.389-392
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• 2000

This paper presents a performance Analysis of electrically exhaust gas recirculation valve using commercial electromagnetic simulation software, Flux2D. Under the assumption of 2D axi-symmetric magnetic field, the characteristics of EEGR valve by revising the design parameter, has ken investigated by estimating the variation of thrust force with respect to the pintle position. The mode shapes and the frequency response functions were computed by using three dimensional finite element modeling of the whole EEGR valve and their accuracies were verified with experimental FFT analysis technique.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.19 no.2E
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• pp.14-19
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• 2000

The forward propagated ultrasonic fields resulting from a circular plane or a concave transducer in layered fluid media as well as in homogeneous water are theoretically estimated by the angular spectrum method(ASMJ) combined with Rayleigh-Sommerfeld diffraction theory(RSDT), and measured by a precision 3-D scanning system with a needle-point hydrophone. To make the aliasing error negligible on the 2-D FFT in the theoretical estimation, the spatial discretization in the ASM are carefully considered for optimal selection of spatial sampling intervals and the size of discretization area. It is shown that the estimated fields agree reasonably with the measured ones.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.445-446
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• 2006

This paper is concerned with a substantial speed up of image processing methods and less power consumption on 2D images making use of modern FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) technology. We implemented 2D FFT and edge detection algorithms based on FPGA and examined processing time and power consumption compared with C/C++ and Alti-Vec technologies.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2006.06a
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• pp.507-508
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• 2006

High performance delta-sigma modulator is developed for audio-codec applications(i.e.. 16-bit resolution at a 20kHz signal bandwidth). The modulator is realized with fully-differential switched capacitor integrators. All stages employ a single-stage folded-cascode amplifier. The presented delta-sigma modulator when clocked at 3.2MHz achieves 85.2dB peak-SNDR and 94.8dB SNR. This modulator is designed in a SAMSUNG $0.18{\mu}m$ CMOS process. Finally, this paper shows the test setup and FFT result gained from delta-sigma modulator chip designed for audio applications.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.06c
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• pp.145-148
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• 2001

This paper presents a phase-based stereo matching algorithm in order to efficiently extract 3-dimensional objects from two 2D images. Conventional phase-based methods, especially using windowed Fourier phases, inherit good properties in the cage of hierarchical approaches, because they basically use a multi-resolution phase map. On the contrary, their computational cost is too heavy. Therefore, a fast hierarchical approach, using multi-resolution phase-based strategy and reducing redundancies of phase calculations based on FFT concept is proposed in this paper. In addition, a structural matching algorithm on the phase domain is presented to improve the matching quality. In experimental results. it is shown that the computation loads are considerably reduced about 8 times and stable outputs are obtained from various images.