• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제53권7호
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• pp.2341-2347
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• 2021

Because single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) is one of the widely used nuclear medicine imaging systems, it is extremely important to acquire high-quality images for diagnosis. In this study, we designed a super-resolution (SR) technique using dense block-based deep convolutional neural network (CNN) and evaluated the algorithm on real SPECT phantom images. To acquire the phantom images, a real SPECT system using a^99mTc source and two physical phantoms was used. To confirm the image quality, the noise properties and visual quality metric evaluation parameters were calculated. The results demonstrate that our proposed method delivers a more valid SR improvement by using dense block-based deep CNNs as compared to conventional reconstruction techniques. In particular, when the proposed method was used, the quantitative performance was improved from 1.2 to 5.0 times compared to the result of using the conventional iterative reconstruction. Here, we confirmed the effects on the image quality of the resulting SR image, and our proposed technique was shown to be effective for nuclear medicine imaging.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.4005-4025
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• 2019

Copy-move forgery (CMF) in digital images is a detrimental tampering of artefacts that requires precise detection and analysis. CMF is performed by copying and pasting a part of an image into other portions of it. Despite several efforts to detect CMF, accurate identification of noise, blur and rotated region-mediated forged image areas is still difficult. A novel algorithm is developed on the basis of quaternion polar complex exponential transform (QPCET) to detect CMF and is conducted involving a few steps. Firstly, the suspicious image is divided into overlapping blocks. Secondly, invariant features for each block are extracted using QPCET. Thirdly, the duplicated image blocks are determined using k-dimensional tree (kd-tree) block matching. Lastly, a new technique is introduced to reduce the flat region-mediated false matches. Experiments are performed on numerous images selected from the CoMoFoD database. MATLAB 2017b is used to employ the proposed method. Metrics such as correct and false detection ratios are utilised to evaluate the performance of the proposed CMF detection method. Experimental results demonstrate the precise and efficient CMF detection capacity of the proposed approach even under image distortion including rotation, scaling, additive noise, blurring, brightness, colour reduction and JPEG compression. Furthermore, our method can solve the false match problem and outperform existing ones in terms of precision and false positive rate. The proposed approach may serve as a basis for accurate digital image forensic investigations.

• 전자공학회논문지CI
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• 제49권4호
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• pp.89-96
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• 2012

지능형 서비스 분야에 있어 3D맵은 유용하고 다양한 정보를 제공할 수 있다. 기존의 삼차원 공간에 대한 연구 방법들은 제공하는 데이터가 원초적이고 처리량이 방대하여 지능형 서비스의 실시간 처리에는 적절하지 못하다. 본 논문에서는 전방의 공간에 대하여 스테레오 정합 연산의 결과인 거리정보 이미지를 바탕으로 블록 기반의 맵을 구성하여 해당 공간의 다양한 정보를 제공할 수 있는 방안을 제안한다. 블록기반 3D맵은 객체율과 블록크기의 2개의 중요한 변수를 가진다. 객체율은 하나의 블록에서 공간대비 객체의 픽셀수의 비율로써 블록종류를 결정한다. 블록크기는 정육면체로 구성되는 개별 블록의 한 변의 픽셀수를 나타내며, 블록의 크기를 결정한다. 실험을 통하여 블록기반 3D맵은 기존의 거리정보 이미지에 비하여 노이즈와 데이터양을 효과적으로 감소시키는 것을 확인하였다. $320{\times}240$크기의 거리정보 이미지에 대하여 블록크기는 $40{\times}40$, 객체율은 30%에서 50%로 설정하였을 때 가장 정합율이 높은 블록기반 3D맵을 취득할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 블록기반 3D맵은 지능형 서비스분야에서 사용하기 용이하고 다양한 새로운 서비스를 도출할 수 있는 고부가가치를 갖는 정보를 제공할 수 있다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2004년도 하계학술대회 논문집 C
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• pp.2034-2036
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• 2004

In this paper, a low noise amplifier (LNA) in receiver of Low Noise Block Down Converter (LNB) for direct broadcasting service (DBS) is implemented by using GaAs HEMT. The LNA is designed for operation between 10.7GHz-12.7GHz. The LNA consists of input, output matching circuits, DC-blocks and RF-chokes. Simulation result of the LNA shows that a noise figure is less than 1.4dB and a gain is greater than 9.2dB in the bandwidth of 10.7 to 12.7GHz with good flatness of 0.1dB.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2000년도 추계종합학술대회 논문집(1)
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• pp.137-140
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• 2000

In this paper. we analyzed the performance of a SFH (slow frequency hopping) system under partial-band jamming, multiple access interference and wide-band random noise. For the correction of burst errors due to channel hit, Reed-Solomon coding followed by block interleaving is employed. Errors-and-erasures decoding with side information is exploited to enhance the correctional capability. We derived a closed-form solution for the BER estimation. Errors resulting from random noise and erasures resulting from burst interference are separately analyzed and finally BER is computed due to these composite noise sources. Estimated BER performance is verified by computer simulation.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제14권4호
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• pp.501-508
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• 2009

본 논문은 H.264 동영상 부호기를 위한 효율적인 주파수 영역 잡음 제거 기법을 제안한다. 각 변환 블록과 잡음 제거를 위해 변형된 곱셈 팩터 행렬를 내적하는 방식으로 Wiener filtering이 이루어진다. 구현 시 look-up table을 이용하면 제안한 방법에서의 곱셈 연산을 간단히 대신할 수 있기 때문에 필터링에 의한 연산량은 무시할 만하다. 또한, 실험 결과를 통해 제안한 방법이 H.264 부호기에서 두드러진 잡음 제거 성능을 보임을 알 수 있다.

• 한국정보통신설비학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보통신설비학회 2004년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.369-372
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• 2004

In this paper, a low noise amplifier (LNA) in receiver of Low Noise Block Down Converter (LNB) for direct broadcasting service (DBS) is implemented by using GaAs HEMT The LNA is designed for operation between 10.7GHz-12.7GHz. The LNA consists of input, output matching circuits, DC-blocks and RF-chokes. The result of simulation of the LNA shows that a noise figure is less than 1.4dB and a gain is gloater than 9.2dB in the bandwidth of 10.7 to 12.7GHz with good flatness of 0. ldB

• 한국소음진동공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국소음진동공학회 2002년도 추계학술대회논문초록집
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• pp.386.1-386
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• 2002

It is necessary to determine the vibration source and its transmission paths in order to develop a low-noise compressor Through the use of multiple-input/single-output(MISO) model, the transmission paths of vibration within a reciprocating compressor have been investigated. In order to identify the transmission path, we measure the accelerations of the block and transverse vibrations of the line discharge tube. (omitted)

• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제31권3호
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• pp.217-224
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• 2007

A numerical analysis for a silencer with three baffles of 120mm tank gun has been performed. The Reynolds-Averaged Wavier-Stokes equations with Baldwin-Lomax turbulence model were employed to compute unsteady, compressible flow inside the tank gun and the silencer. An axisymmetric computational domain was constructed by using 12 multi block chimera grids. The resolution of flow field is observed by depicting calculated pressure and muzzle brake force. The peak blast pressure and noise through the silencer reduced approximately 99% and 41dB in comparison to the tank gun without the silencer at near filed.

• Journal of electromagnetic engineering and science
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• 제4권1호
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• pp.37-42
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• 2004

In this paper, LNB(low noise block) downconverter MMIC is designed for Ku-band satellite communication system using InGaP/GaAs HBT high linear process. Designed MMIC consists of low noise amplifier, double balanced mixer, and IF amplifier with a total chip area of 2.6${\times}$1.1 $\textrm{mm}^2$. Designed MMIC has the characteristics of over 37.5 ㏈ conversion gain, 14 ㏈ noise figure, ripple of 3 ㏈, and output-referred $P_{1dB}$TEX>(1 ㏈ compression power) of 2.5 ㏈m with total power dissipation of 3 V, 50 mA.