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Detecting the Prostate Contour in TRUS Image using Support Vector Machine and Rotation-invariant Textures (SVM과 회전 불변 텍스처 특징을 이용한 TRUS 영상의 전립선 윤곽선 검출)

  • Park, Jae Heung;Seo, Yeong Geon
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.675-682
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    • 2014
  • Prostate is only an organ of men. To diagnose the disease of the prostate, generally transrectal ultrasound(TRUS) images are used. Detecting its boundary is a challenging and difficult task due to weak prostate boundaries, speckle noise and the short range of gray levels. In this paper a method for automatic prostate segmentation in TRUS images using Support Vector Machine(SVM) is presented. This method involves preprocessing, extracting Gabor feature, training, and prostate segmentation. The speckle reduction for preprocessing step has been achieved by using stick filter and top-hat transform has been implemented for smoothing. Gabor filter bank for extraction of rotation-invariant texture features has been implemented. SVM for training step has been used to get each feature of prostate and nonprostate. Finally, the boundary of prostate is extracted. A number of experiments are conducted to validate this method and results shows that the proposed algorithm extracted the prostate boundary with less than 10% relative to boundary provided manually by doctors.

Landscape Color Plan based on Storytelling (스토리텔링 기반의 경관색채계획 울산광역시 동구 주전마을을 대상으로)

  • Lee, Jae-Hyun
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.12 no.11
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    • pp.110-118
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    • 2012
  • This study was performed based on "Basic plan of landscape forming project in Jujeon village" which was performed during January ~ August 2011 as a target of "Pilot project of landscape forming in coast village" held by the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs. The project target, Jujeon village, Dong-gu, Ulsan metropolitan city has unique scenery and cultural and historic features. However, its distinct landscape is getting fallen due to insufficient management and development done without considering local feature. Therefore, we need to plan to increase the distinctive place value of coast village, and the landscape color plan is an essential element upon ma king entire harmony of village unit. This study, therefore, aims to suggest authentic landscape color plan and improvement plan of Jujeon village through local color research, local history, geographical feature, and resident sense research of Jujeon village. Especially, for independent landscape color plan for a small village, this study is significant to develop authentic color plan of Jujeon village based on storytelling and to provide possibility in landscape color plan through storytelling in the future.

Awareness of Passengers Using Subway Stations About Environmental Sculptures Installed in Subway Stations (지하철 환경조형물에 대한 지역별 이용 승객 인식도 분석)

  • Choi, Chol-Heyong;Cho, Han-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.446-456
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    • 2010
  • Environmental sculptures not only play a part as various cultural facilities but also symbolize local unique culture beyond the limit of functional role. Therefore subway environmental sculptures not only should be approached in terms of public installations and beauty but also should be designed to meet the needs of subway users appropriately. In order to find out what subway users think about environment sculptures installed in subway stations, the factors that can evaluate awareness and preference for environment sculptures and visual image of environment sculptures were examined and analyzed. Positive elements have been shown with regard to environment sculptures but it was judged that visual quality of subway environment can be improved more if environment sculptures keep in harmony with the characteristics of stations.

Analysis and Prospect on the Terrorism in China: Focusing on the Xinjiang Uighur (중국의 테러리즘 분석과 그 전망: 신장 위구르족을 중심으로)

  • Lee, Dae-Sung;Kim, Tae-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.14 no.9
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    • pp.218-226
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    • 2014
  • China has become a G-2 Superpower country as result of rapid economic growth through the reform and opening-up in these days. It expressed its confidence by helding a few big international events, such as Bejing Olympic Games. Shanghai Expo. Though most Chinese people give their agreement and support to the government, there are serious, ill-concealed political problems behind the curtain in China. As a multi-ethnic nation, China has repeated experience of fragmentation and integration of various ethnic groups through her long history. In spite of top-level political leaders of communist party always concern the issues of separatism very sensitively, China has suffered occasional bloodshed terrorism because of erupting ethnic and religious conflicts. Especially there are many disruption and fear due to the bloodshed and terrorism by a minority race-seperatists of Uighur tribe in Xinjiang province. The Uighur in Xinjiang province is very different from major Chinese Han ethnically and culturally. Although Chinese government has presented various policies in order to suppress the Uighus's desire for seperation, they have not been able to offer a fundamental, satisfying solution. Because we, Korean people face the expansion of possibility of conflicts, such as increasing of foreign workers, multi-cultural families and extremists. At this point, I believe we can learn valuable lessons from Chinese experiences for anti-terrorism.

Entrepreneurship and Market Leadership in Culture Industry (문화산업에서 기업가정신의 발현과 마켓리더십)

  • Han, Yoo-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.20 no.1
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    • pp.417-426
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    • 2020
  • The culture industry has been considered very important as firms utilize human creativity as the main source for providing high-value-added services. In this industry, the inspirations and ideas of individual creators have been stressed rather than the roles of entrepreneurs so far. However, in recent years, due to the influence of "Hallyu" or the Korean Wave, entrepreneurial firms have actively participated in producing a variety of products embracing cultural value. In this vein, the entrepreneurship-related elements such as the degree of leaders' innovativeness, risk-taking environment, first mover advantage, employee compensation, and tolerance to failure were selected to investigate their effects on market leadership. As a result, it was observed that risk-taking environment, first mover advantage, employee compensation, and tolerance to failure had a positive effect whereas leaders' innovativeness was not statistically meaningful. These findings show that the creation of an atmosphere where employees' creativity can be fully appreciated is more important than the leader' insight-driven innovativeness. The results of this study indicate that when companies formulate strategies and the government initiate policies in the culture industry, entrepreneurship should be incorporated as a crucial element.

Global Advertising by Product Standardization Degree Comparative -Focused on Ads. of United States, Britain, Germany, Russia, Brazil, Japan- (글로벌 광고의 국가별·제품군별 표준화 정도 비교연구 -미국·영국·독일·러시아·브라질·일본의 광고를 대상으로-)

  • Choi, Kyung-Jin
    • The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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    • v.18 no.1
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    • pp.143-153
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    • 2018
  • In this study, the difference in specific family of six countries for the representation of the elements of the global advertising through investigate the degree of standardization. National and cultural background, social and economic situation compared to the differences that appear here, would you want to see. Thereby global advertising on the message expressed in this and identify the limiting factor family By country looks for any difference illustrates. The analysis shows various contrasts and differences in products group and countries. But there is no need to pursue standardization of advertising in the global market. Why standardization is needed in terms of efficiency of communication in order to achieve cost savings, and the homogenization of preference. To do this, need to find a way to communicate in a global market of consumers can relate to. After all, this is simply not the standardization of advertising is determined that the communication environment and market conditions to build.

A Case Study of Afterlife Myths in Korean and Japanese Cultural Contents Industry : Focusing on the Game of Baridegi and Persona4 (한국 · 일본 저승신화의 문화콘텐츠 활용 사례 연구 : <바리공주의 전설>과 <페르소나4>게임을 중심으로)

  • Choi, Su-Yeong;Lee, Nam-Hee
    • Journal of Korea Game Society
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.45-56
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    • 2016
  • "The Legend of Princess Bari" mostly accepted the story and character of the Myth of Baridegi. Each player has their own storyline from the beginning. "The Legend of Princess Bari 2" was released less than a year after the release of "The Legend of Princess Bari 1," but it fell short of creating additional contents from its original version. However, "The Persona4" applied and transformed the Myth of Inajagi & Ijanami according to our present time. The protagonist's each have their own designated "Persona" skills and Ijanami is their ultimate enemy. Interestingly, each player starts with the same storyline but all have different endings. Based on the existing story elements of Persona series, various genres of games were produced through remakes and spinoffs.

Sex Differences and Gender Traits in the Geographic Learning (지리 수업에서 나타나는 성별 차이와 젠더 특성)

  • Kang Chang-Sook
    • Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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    • v.39 no.6 s.105
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    • pp.971-983
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    • 2004
  • It is increasingly clear that student mastery of concepts and skills in geographic education is based on a complex set of variables. Sex and gender are the key variables. Much has been written about biological sex differences in learning, but less attention has been paid to the impacts of socio-cultural gender on learning geography. As such, the aims of this paper are two-fold. First, to examine theories which seek to explain why males and females might differ in their geographic and spatial knowledge or skill. Second, to examine the extent of sex differences and gender traits in the geographic learning. The results of study illustrate clearly that there are more similarities than differences between the sexes. Therefore, there are significant gender differences between the preferences of regions, contents, activities in the secondary geographic learning. The results also provide insights into improving contents and method of geographic education.

Comparative research on urban image assets of Iksan by analysing bigdata (빅데이터 분석을 통한 익산의 도시 이미지 자산 비교 연구)

  • Yang, Ji-Yu
    • Journal of Digital Contents Society
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.385-392
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    • 2018
  • Iksan is one of medium city in Jellabukdo, South Korea. It has a favorable natural environment for the specialization potential of natural industries and development projects. In addition, it has various historical and cultural resources including Mireuksajji, and KTX Honam line which has been opened for a representative feature as transport city. However, it faces week connection with neighboring cities and large scale of development in neighboring areas, especially in Jeonju and Gunsan. In this paper, we try to classify the urban image assets of Iksan as 'Iksan Station' and 'ktx' on keywords and analyze the possibility of being a center of transportation and logistics through big data analysis extracted from SNS and website. In comparison with Gwangju Songjeong, KTX Honam line station, which has been developed with similar regional characteristics, it is aimed to establish the basis of improvement and establishment of urban image of Iksan city in the future.

Development on Native Local Food Contents through Literature (문학 작품을 통한 향토 음식 콘텐츠 개발 - 충무공 '현충(顯忠) 밥상', 추사 김정희 '추사(秋史) 밥상')

  • Kim, Mi-Hye;Chung, Hae-Kyung
    • Journal of the East Asian Society of Dietary Life
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    • v.20 no.5
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    • pp.639-654
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    • 2010
  • This study attempted to research the local food of various regions at a personal level by discovering how food has developed das part of a region's culture base. Discovery of the characteristic story behind the making of a region's characteristic food as local delicacies can inspire self-esteem in the culture, and enhance the real-life image as appropriate to a region, and thereby be made a part of local tourism and thus contributing to the local economy. For this reason, the native foods of the region of Chungcheongnam-do were researched in terms of the cultural sensibilities that inform the unique history of that region. The study was designed so as to aid in understanding food's characteristic value in Chungcheongnam-do and to give a historical representation of Chungcheongnam-do's image by means of storytelling techniques; thus, the local food's character can be presented alongside a story that appeals to the five senses. For this purpose, Chungcheongnam-do's representative native rice table was cast as the 'Hyunchoong rice meal table' - after the figure of admiral Yi Sun Shin of Asan area region, a representative image of Chungcheongnam-do - and 'Choosa rice meal table', after the figure of 'Choosa' Kim Jeong Hee of Yesan region, of which various literary works form a representative image of Chungcheongnam-do. 'Hyunchoong rice meal table' was composed of a health food centered menu which could supply sufficient nutrition as a food ration in times of war or winter shortage, thus providing an image of nutrition and power as appropriate to these situations. Also, to assess the health effectiveness of each rice table, the functionality of the ingredients were investigated as reported in 'Sik-ryo-chan-yo : a dietary treatment' which was published by Soon-Ui Cheon in the Chosun era and by which the foods of the early Chosun era won recognition as being both healthy profitable.