• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.69-75
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• 2023

최근 동물 행동 분석 및 건강관리 분야를 중심으로 딥러닝 기반 동물 자세 추정 기법에 대한 관심이 높아지고 있다. 그러나 기존 동물 자세 추정 기법은 영상에서 신체 부위가 가려지거나 존재하지 않을 경우 좋은 성능을 보이지 않는다. 특히 꼬리나 귀가 가려진 경우, 반려견의 행동 및 감정 분석의 성능에도 심각한 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 다루기 힘든 문제를 해결하기 위해, 이미지 아웃페인팅 네트워크를 자세 추정 네트워크에 연결하여 이미지 외부에 존재하는 반려견의 신체를 복원한 확장된 이미지를 생성하여 반려견의 자세를 추정하는 단순하면서도 새로운 접근방법을 제안하였고, 제안된 방법의 실현가능성을 검토하는 예비 연구를 수행하였다. 이미지 아웃페인팅 모델로는 CE-GAN과 트랜스포머 기반의 BAT-Fill을 사용하였고, 자세 추정 모델로는 SimpleBaseline을 사용하였다. 실험 결과, 크롭된 입력 이미지에서 반려견의 자세를 추정하였을 때보다, BAT-Fill을 사용하여 아웃페인팅된 확장 이미지에서 반려견의 자세를 추정하였을 때 자세 추정의 성능이 향상되었다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.107-115
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• 1968

Number of aspects, not only nutritional but social as well as political involved in human starvation pose nowadays global problems. In order to help establish the minimum nutritional requirements in the daily life of a man and to free people as well from either undernourishment, malnutrition or even starvation many workers have devoted themselves so far on the research programs to know what and how number of metabolic events take place in animals in vivo. It is the purpose of the present paper to examine in effect to what extent both of the protein and nucleic acids (DNA & RNA) together with an enzyme, guanine deaminase, which converts guanine into xanthine and in turn ends up to uric acid as an end product, undergo changes, quantitatively during acute starvation, using the mouse as an experimental animal. The mouse was strictly inhibited from taking foods except drinking water ad libitum and was sacriflced 24, 48, and 72 hours following starvation thus acutely induced. The animals consisted of two experimental groups, one control and another starvation groups, each being consisted of 6-24 mice of whose body weights ranged in the vicinity of 10 g. The animals were sacriflced by a blow on the head, followed by immediate excision of their livers into ice-cold distilled water, washing adherent blood and other contaminant tissues. The liver was minced foramin, by an all-glass homogenizer immersing it in an ice-bath, followed by subsequent fractionatin of the homogenate (10% W/V in 0.25M sucrose solution made up with 0.05M phosphate buffer of pH 7.4). For the liver protein and guanine deaminase assay, the 10% homogenate was centrifuged at 600 x g for 10 minutes to eliminate the nuclear fraction; and for the estimation of DNA and RNA, the homogenate was prepared by the addition of 10% trichloroacetic acid in order to free the homogenate from the acid-soluble fraction, the remaining residue being delipidate by the addition of alcohol and dried in vacuo for later KOH (IN) hydrolysis. The changes in body and liver wegihts during acute starvation were checked gravimetrically. Protein contents in the liver were monitored by the method of Lowry et al; and guanine deaminase activities were followed by the assay of liberated ammonia from the substrate utilizing the Caraway's colorimetry. The extraction of both DNA and RNA was performed by the Schmidt-Thannhauser's method, which was followed by Marmur's method of purification for DNA and by Chargaff's method of purification for RNA. The determinations of both DNA and RNA were carried out by the diphenylamine reaction for the former and by the orcinol reaction for the latter. The following resume was the results of the present work. 1. It was observed that the body as well as liver weights fall abruptly during starvation, and that the loss of body weight showed no statistical correlation with the decreases in the content of liver protein. 2. The content of liver protein and activity of liver guanine deaminase activity as well decline dramatically, and the specific activities of the enzyme (activity/protein), however, decreased gradually as starvation proceeded. 3. Both of the nucleic acids, DNA and RNA, showed decrements in the liver of mouse during acute starvation; the latter, however, being more striking in the decline as compared to the former. 4. The decreases in the liver protein content as resulted from the acute starvation had no statistically significant correlation with the decrements of DNA in the same tissue, but had regressed with a significant statistical correlation with the fall of RNA in the tissue. 5. The decrease in the activity of guanine deaminase in the liver of mouse during acute starvation was functionally more proportional to the decrease in RNA than DNA, and moreover correlated with the changes in the content of the liver protein. 6. The possible mechanisms involved during in this acute starvation as bring the decreases in the contents of DNA, protein, and guanine deaminase were discussed briefly.