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Super-Resolution Algorithm by Motion Estimation with Sub-Pixel Accuracy using 6-Tap FIR Filter (6-Tap FIR 필터를 이용한 부화소 단위 움직임 추정을 통한 초해상도 기법)

  • Kwon, Soon-Chan;Yoo, Ji-Sang
    • The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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    • v.37 no.6A
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    • pp.464-472
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    • 2012
  • In this paper, we propose a new super-resolution algorithm that uses successive frames by applying the block matching motion estimation algorithm. Usually, single frame super-resolution algorithms are based on probability or discrete wavelet transform (DWT) approach to extract high-frequency components of the input image, but only limited information is available for these algorithms. To solve this problem, various multiple-frame based super-resolution algorithms are proposed. The accuracy of registration between frames is a very important factor for the good performance of an algorithm. We therefore propose an algorithm using 6-Tap FIR filter to increase the accuracy of the image registration with sub-pixel unit. Proposed algorithm shows better performance than other conventional interpolation based algorithms such as nearest neighborhood, bi-linear and bi-cubic methods and results in about the same image quality as DWT based super-resolution algorithm.

Design of Evolvable Hardware based on Genetic Algorithm Processor(GAP)

  • Sim Kwee-Bo;Harashiam Fumio
    • International Journal of Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Systems
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.206-215
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    • 2005
  • In this paper, we propose a new design method of Genetic Algorithm Processor(GAP) and Evolvable Hardware(EHW). All sorts of creature evolve its structure or shape in order to adapt itself to environments. Evolutionary Computation based on the process of natural selection not only searches the quasi-optimal solution through the evolution process, but also changes the structure to get best results. On the other hand, Genetic Algorithm(GA) is good fur finding solutions of complex optimization problems. However, it has a major drawback, which is its slow execution speed when is implemented in software of a conventional computer. Parallel processing has been one approach to overcome the speed problem of GA. In a point of view of GA, long bit string length caused the system of GA to spend much time that clear up the problem. Evolvable Hardware refers to the automation of electronic circuit design through artificial evolution, and is currently increased with the interested topic in a research domain and an engineering methodology. The studies of EHW generally use the XC6200 of Xilinx. The structure of XC6200 can configure with gate unit. Each unit has connected up, down, right and left cell. But the products can't use because had sterilized. So this paper uses Vertex-E (XCV2000E). The cell of FPGA is made up of Configuration Logic Block (CLB) and can't reconfigure with gate unit. This paper uses Vertex-E is composed of the component as cell of XC6200 cell in VertexE

Inhibitory Effect of Bodusan on $TNF-{\alpha}-induced$ Migration via Inhibition of Metalloproteinase Activity in Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cells (보두산의 금속분해효소 활성 저해를 통한 사람 대동맥 평활근세포의 유주능 억제 효과)

  • Yun, Hyun-Jeong;Park, Sun-Dong
    • The Korea Journal of Herbology
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    • v.23 no.3
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    • pp.155-162
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    • 2008
  • Objectives : This study was evaluated to elucidate the inhibitory potential of Bodusan (BDS) and its components, Strychnos ignatii semen (SIS) and Glycyrrhizae Radix (GR), on human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMC) migration and production of matrix metalloproteinase (MMP)-2 and MMP-9 by $TNF-{\alpha}$ treatment. Methods : Cytotoxic activity of BDS and its components on HASMC was using 5-(3-caroboxymeth- oxyphenyl)-2H-tetra-zolium inner salt (MTS) assay. Effect of BDS, SIS and GR on $TNF-{\alpha}-induced$ HASMC migration underside of matrigel filter was stained with hematoxylin-eosin. And total number of cells that migrated to the underside of the filter was counted. MMP-2 and MMP-9 activity was evaluated by gelatin zymography assay. Results : The matrigel migration assay showed that BDS effectively inhibited the $TNF-{\alpha}-induced$ migration of HASMC. Moreover, BDS significantly inhibited MMP-9 activity. Our present study demonstrates that BDS and its components inhibits $TNF-{\alpha}-induced$ HASMC migration and MMP-9 activity. The inhibitory effect of BDS extract is more potent than that of its component herb extracts. Conclusions : These results provide evidence that BDS has multiple effects in the inhibition of HASMC migration and may offer a therapeutic approach to block HASMC migration.

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A Study of Network Forensics related to Internet Criminal at UCC (UCC와 관련된 인터넷 범죄에 대한 네트워크 포렌식 연구)

  • Lee, Gyu-An;Park, Dea-Woo;Shin, Young-Tae
    • Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.143-151
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    • 2008
  • 74% of Internet users use the UCC, and You Tube using firearms in a crime occurred. Internet crime occurred in the online, non-face transaction, anonymous, encapsulation. In this paper, we are studied a Network Forensic Way and a technique analyze an aspect criminal the Internet haying appeared at Internet UCC, and to chase. Study ID, IP back-tracking and position chase through corroborative facts collections of the UCC which used UCC search way study of the police and a public prosecutor and storage way and network forensic related to crimes of Internet UCC. Proof data encrypt, and store, and study through approach control and user authentication so that they are adopted to legal proof data through integrity verification after transmission and storages. This research via the Internet and criminal conspiracy to block the advance promotion, and for the criminal investigative agencies of the Internet will contribute to the advancement forensics research.

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A Study on the Air Flow Characteristics in an Apartment Complex and Ventilation Performance of an Individual Unit for Improving IAQ (주동형태 변화에 따른 아파트 단지내 기류분석 및 단위주호의 환기성능에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Jung-Hyun;Lee, Seung-Hee;Kim, Taeyeon
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.5 no.3
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    • pp.11-16
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    • 2005
  • The recent trends of high-density and high-rise in apartment housing have caused the problems of decrease in ventilation rates and increase of indoor pollutant contaminants. SHS(Sick House Syndrome) has now become a major issue and threats the health of residents. To solve these indoor air problems, increase in ventilation rate is considered as one of the most efficient approach. Thus, the recent housing development is pursuing improvement in the site design and the layout of apartment building blocks to promote natural ventilation is now investigated as one of the fundamental solutions. This study was focused on the air flow characteristics of outdoor environment in an apartment complex to keep the pollutants out of the site. Age of air and pressure difference have been used as indices of the outdoor air quality. Four different types of apartment building layouts have been analyzed by CFD simulation. This study again selected a real apartment housing complex as a case study model. By analyzing the pressure differences between the front and rear of an apartment building block, the ventilation performance in each individual unit was evaluated, and its impact on ventilation performance is investigated by analyzing the stagnant air around the apartment building blocks. During this process, existing patterns of apartment housing layout have been evaluated, and the most appropriate site layout has been chosen to analyze the outdoor airflow patterns. Based on the analysis of airflow patterns of site layout, the possibilities of improving ventilation performance of an individual apartment housing is proposed.

3X Serial GF($2^m$) Multiplier Architecture on Polynomial Basis Finite Field (Polynomial basis 방식의 3배속 직렬 유한체 곱셈기)

  • Moon, Sang-Ook
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.328-332
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    • 2006
  • Efficient finite field operation in the elliptic curve (EC) public key cryptography algorithm, which attracts much of latest issues in the applications in information security, is very important. Traditional serial finite multipliers root from Mastrovito's serial multiplication architecture. In this paper, we adopt the polynomial basis and propose a new finite field multiplier, inducing numerical expressions which can be applied to exhibit 3 times as much performance as the Mastrovito's. We described the proposed multiplier with HDL to verify and evaluate as a proper hardware IP. HDL-implemented serial GF (Galois field) multiplier showed 3 times as fast speed as the traditional serial multiplier's adding only partial-sum block in the hardware. So far, there have been grossly 3 types of studies on GF($2^m$) multiplier architecture, such as serial multiplication, array multiplication, and hybrid multiplication. In this paper, we propose a novel approach on developing serial multiplier architecture based on Mastrovito's, by modifying the numerical formula of the polynomial-basis serial multiplication. The proposed multiplier architecture was described and implemented in HDL so that the novel architecture was simulated and verified in the level of hardware as well as software.

A Side Information Generation Using Adaptive Estimation and Its Performance Comparison in PDWZ CODEC (화소 영역 Wyner-Ziv코덱에서 적응적 예측을 통한 보조정보 생성 방식과 성능 비교)

  • Kim, Jin-Soo;Kim, Jae-Gon;Seo, Kwang-Deok
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.383-393
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    • 2010
  • DVC (Distributed Video Coding) allows us to explore the video statistics at the decoder side, resulting in a less complex encoder and more complex decoder. In this approach, it is important to generate a good prediction to the current Wyner-Ziv frame, called side information, which plays a crucial role in the overall performance of a DVC system. Conventional MCFI (motion compensated frame interpolation) techniques, which explore temporal correlations between neighbor frames of the current frame, preform the block-based or object-based motion estimation, but, they do not include the basis frame for the Wyner-Ziv frame. This paper proposes an efficient way to get better side information, by finding the average frame between neighbor frames and by comparing adaptively the candidate blocks. Through computer simulations, it is shown that the proposed method can improve the performance up to 0.4dB and provide better subjective and objective visual qualities in Wyner-Ziv CODEC.

A Comparison of the Spread Level of the Cervical Epidural Block in Terms of Volume (경부 경막외 차단 시 약물의 용량에 따른 분포 양상 비교)

  • Jo, Dae hyun;Kim, Myoung hee;Ahn, Sun Yeon;Park, Sa Hyun;Lee, Kang Chang
    • The Korean Journal of Pain
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.46-49
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    • 2007
  • Background: Cervical epidural injection, performed via the interlaminar approach, represents a useful interventional pain management procedure indicated in patients with a cervical herniated disk. Due to thedecreased epidural space in the cervical region, cervical epidural injections may result in potentially serious complications, especially during a large volume injection. Methods: Thirty-four patients with neck pain due to a cervical herniated disk that were referred to the pain clinic for cervical epidural steroid injection were randomized into two groups. One group received a cervical epidural injection of 4 ml drug and the other group received 2 ml drug. The injected mixture included triamcinolon, ropivacaine and omnipaque. Spread levels of the drug after injection were estimated with the use of C-arm fluoroscopy. Results: Spread levels to the cephalad for patients in the two groups were $4.88{\pm}0.78segments$ and $4.53{\pm}0.49segments$, respectively. Spread levels to the caudad for patients in the two groups were $4.59{\pm}0.93segments$ and $4.47{\pm}0.51segments$, respectively. The results showed no significant difference in the spread level between the two groups. Conclusions: Use of a small volume of drug (2 ml) can provide a sufficient spread level of the injected drug that is desirable for patients with a cervical herniated disk.

Parallel Approximate String Matching with k-Mismatches for Multiple Fixed-Length Patterns in DNA Sequences on Graphics Processing Units (GPU을 이용한 다중 고정 길이 패턴을 갖는 DNA 시퀀스에 대한 k-Mismatches에 의한 근사적 병열 스트링 매칭)

  • Ho, ThienLuan;Kim, HyunJin;Oh, SeungRohk
    • The Transactions of The Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers
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    • v.66 no.6
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    • pp.955-961
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    • 2017
  • In this paper, we propose a parallel approximate string matching algorithm with k-mismatches for multiple fixed-length patterns (PMASM) in DNA sequences. PMASM is developed from parallel single pattern approximate string matching algorithms to effectively calculate the Hamming distances for multiple patterns with a fixed-length. In the preprocessing phase of PMASM, all target patterns are binary encoded and stored into a look-up memory. With each input character from the input string, the Hamming distances between a substring and all patterns can be updated at the same time based on the binary encoding information in the look-up memory. Moreover, PMASM adopts graphics processing units (GPUs) to process the data computations in parallel. This paper presents three kinds of PMASM implementation methods in GPUs: thread PMASM, block-thread PMASM, and shared-mem PMASM methods. The shared-mem PMASM method gives an example to effectively make use of the GPU parallel capacity. Moreover, it also exploits special features of the CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) memory structure to optimize the performance. In the experiments with DNA sequences, the proposed PMASM on GPU is 385, 77, and 64 times faster than the traditional naive algorithm, the shift-add algorithm and the single thread PMASM implementation on CPU. With the same NVIDIA GPU model, the performance of the proposed approach is enhanced up to 44% and 21%, compared with the naive, and the shift-add algorithms.

Performance Improvement of Space-Time OFDM System with Concatenated Codes (연접부호를 적용한 시공간 OFDM 시스템의 성능 개선)

  • 서완우;정연호
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.541-546
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    • 2004
  • Space-Time Coding(STC) is a technique that utilizes joint correlation of transmitted signals in both time and space domains. Through this approach, diversity and coding gains can be simultaneously obtained. In this paper, we use SPW simulation tool to implement the IEEE 802.11a system. Based on this system, OFDM system with STC and convolutional coder concatenated is implemented. The system performance is analyzed and compared with the performance of the IEEE 802.11a system. The simulation results show that the performance with concatenated codes at a data rate of 6Mbps shows approximately a 5dB gain over the system with the convolutional code only. At a data rate of 12Mbps, the performance with concatenated codes is further improved by approximately 6dB.