• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제32권4호
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• pp.316-327
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• 2000

The Emergency Core Cooling System in current nuclear power plants typically has a considerable number of complex functions and largely cumbersome operator interfaces. Functions for initiation, switch-over between various phases of operation, interlocks, monitoring, and alarming are usually performed by relays and analog comparator logic which are difficult to maintain and test. To improve problems of an analog based ECC (Emergency Core Cooling) System, the trip computer for ECCS based on Dynamic Safety System (DSS) is implemented. The DSS is a computer based reactor protection system that has fail-safe nature and performs a dynamic self-testing. The most important feature of the DSS is the introduction of test signal that send the system into a tripped state. The test signals are interleaved with the plant signals to produce an output which switches between a tripped and health state. The dynamic operation is a key feature of the failsafe design of the system. In this work, a possible implementation of the DSS using PLC is presented for a CANDU Reactor. ECC System of the CANDU Reactor is selected as the reference system.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제16권10호
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• pp.957-962
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• 2010

If we want to recognize the human's emotion via the facial image, first of all, we need to extract the emotional features from the facial image by using a feature extraction algorithm. And we need to classify the emotional status by using pattern classification method. The AAM (Active Appearance Model) is a well-known method that can represent a non-rigid object, such as face, facial expression. The Bayesian Network is a probability based classifier that can represent the probabilistic relationships between a set of facial features. In this paper, our approach to facial feature extraction lies in the proposed feature extraction method based on combining AAM with FACS (Facial Action Coding System) for automatically modeling and extracting the facial emotional features. To recognize the facial emotion, we use the DBNs (Dynamic Bayesian Networks) for modeling and understanding the temporal phases of facial expressions in image sequences. The result of emotion recognition can be used to rehabilitate based on biofeedback for emotional disabled.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제3권4호
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• pp.416-423
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• 2000

기존 Kohonen의 자기조직화 지도(self-organizing feature map)는 학습시 많은 입력 패턴이 필요하며 이에 따른 학습 시간 역시 증가하는 단점이 있다. 이러한 단점을 보완하기 위해 B. Bavarian은 위상학적 위치에 따라 각기 다른 학습률(learning rate)을 갖도록 하였으나 자기조직화가 정밀하게 되지 않는 단점을 갖고 있다. 본 논문에서는 자기조직화 지도의 학습시 계산량이 많은 가우시안 함수를 근사곡선(approximate curve)으로 변형하여 수렴속도를 향상시켰고 학습 횟수에 따라 근사곡선의 폭을 동적으로 변화시킴으로써 자기조직화지도의 수렴도를 개선하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.302-320
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• 2017

In this paper, an innovative robust feature detection and matching strategy for visual odometry based on stereo image sequence is proposed. First, a sparse multiscale 2D local invariant feature detection and description algorithm AKAZE is adopted to extract the interest points. A robust feature matching strategy is introduced to match AKAZE descriptors. In order to remove the outliers which are mismatched features or on dynamic objects, an improved random sample consensus outlier rejection scheme is presented. Thus the proposed method can be applied to dynamic environment. Then, geometric constraints are incorporated into the motion estimation without time-consuming 3-dimensional scene reconstruction. Last, an iterated sigma point Kalman Filter is adopted to refine the motion results. The presented ego-motion scheme is applied to benchmark datasets and compared with state-of-the-art approaches with data captured on campus in a considerably cluttered environment, where the superiorities are proved.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.5419-5435
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• 2017

The construction of panoramic images on smartphones and low-powered devices is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a new approach for smoothly stitching images on mobile phones in the presence of moving objects in the scene. Our main contributions include handling moving object problems, reducing processing time, and generating rectangular panoramic images. First, unique and robust feature points are extracted using fast ORB method and a feature matching technique is applied to match the extracted feature points. After obtaining good matched feature points, we employ the non-deterministic RANSAC algorithm to discard wrong matches, and the hommography transformation matrix parameters are estimated with the algorithm. Afterward, we determine precise overlap regions of neighboring images and calculate their absolute differences. Then, thresholding operation and noise removal filtering are applied to create a mask of possible moving object regions. Sequentially, an optimal seam is estimated using dynamic programming algorithm, and a combination of linear blending with the mask information is applied to avoid seam transition and ghosting artifacts. Finally, image-cropping operation is utilized to obtain a rectangular boundary image from the stitched image. Experiments demonstrate that our method is able to produce panoramic images quickly despite the existence of moving objects.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제1권2호
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• pp.141-158
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• 2005

A new design of distributed crack sensors based on the topological change of transmission line cables is presented for the condition assessment of reinforced concrete (RC) structures during and immediately after an earthquake event. This study is primarily focused on the performance of cable sensors under dynamic loading, particularly a feature that allows for some "memory" of the crack history of an RC member. This feature enables the post-earthquake condition assessment of structural members such as RC columns, in which the earthquake-induced cracks are closed immediately after an earthquake event due to gravity loads, and are visually undetectable. Factors affecting the onset of the feature were investigated experimentally with small-scale RC beams under cyclic loading. Test results indicated that both crack width and the number of loading cycles were instrumental in the onset of the memory feature of cable sensors. Practical issues related to dynamic acquisition with the sensors are discussed. The sensors were proven to be fatigue resistant from shake table tests of RC columns. The sensors continued to show useful performance after the columns can no longer support additional loads.

• 대한용접접합학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한용접접합학회 2005년도 추계학술발표대회 개요집
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• pp.99-101
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• 2005

• 지능정보연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.95-108
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• 2010

본 연구에서는 동영상으로부터 동적 수신호 패턴을 효과적으로 인식하기 위한 방법론으로서 복합형 신경망 모델을 제안한다. 제안된 모델은 특징추출 모듈과 패턴분류 모듈로 구성되는데, 이들 각각을 위하여 수정된 구조의 CNN 모델과, WFMM 모델을 도입한다. 또한 목표물의 움직임 정보에 기초한 시공간적 템플릿 구조의 데이터표현을 소개한다. 본 논문에서는 우선 수신호 패턴 데이터에서 특징점의 시간적 변이 및 공간적 변이에 의한 영향을 보완하기 위하여 3차원 수용영역 구조로 확장된 CNN 모델을 제시한다. 이어서 패턴분류 단계를 위하여 가중치를 갖는 구조의 FMM 신경망 모델을 소개하고, 신경망의 구조와 동작특성에 관해 기술한다. 또한 제안된 모델이 기존의 FMM 신경망에서 중첩 하이퍼박스의 축소과정에서 발생하는 학습효과의 왜곡현상을 개선할 수 있음을 보인다. 응용으로 가전제품 원격제어 문제를 전제하여 간략화된 수신호패턴 인식 문제에 적용한 실험결과로부터 제안된 이론의 타당성을 고찰한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권8호
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• pp.3011-3024
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• 2021

Pose estimation of the sensor is important issue in many applications such as robotics, navigation, tracking, and Augmented Reality. This paper proposes visual-inertial integration system appropriate for dynamically moving condition of the sensor. The orientation estimated from Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor is used to calculate the essential matrix based on the intrinsic parameters of the camera. Using the epipolar geometry, the outliers of the feature point matching are eliminated in the image sequences. The pose of the sensor can be obtained from the feature point matching. The use of IMU sensor can help initially eliminate erroneous point matches in the image of dynamic scene. After the outliers are removed from the feature points, these selected feature points matching relations are used to calculate the precise fundamental matrix. Finally, with the feature point matching relation, the pose of the sensor is estimated. The proposed procedure was implemented and tested, comparing with the existing methods. Experimental results have shown the effectiveness of the technique proposed in this paper.

• 한국정보처리학회논문지
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• 제6권5호
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• pp.1393-1402
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 새로운 학습알고리즘의 3층 전향 신경망을 이용한 입력데이터의 주요 특징추출에 대해서 제안하였다. 제안된 학습알고리즘에서에서는 빠른 수렴속도의 최적화가 가능하도록 하기 위하여 기울기하강의 역전파 알고리즘을 이용하고, 국소최적해를 만났을 때 이를 벗어난 새로운 연결가중치의 설정을 위하여 동적터널링의 역전파 알고리즘을 이용함으로써 빠른 수렴속도로 전역최적해로에 수렴되도록 학습시킬 수 있다. 제안된 학습 알고리즘을 이용한 다층신경망을 $12{\times}12$ 픽셀의 영상 데이터들과 $128{\times}128$ 픽셀의 Lenna 영상데이터를 대상으로 시뮬레이션한 결과, 단층신경망을 이용하는 Sanger 방법이나 측면연결을 가지는 단충신경망을 이용하는 Foldiak 방법 및 기울기하강에 기초를 둔 기존의 역전파 알고리즘을 이용한 다층신경망에 의한 결과와 비교할 때 더욱 우수한 수렴성능과 추출성능이 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.