• Journal of Korean Society of Water and Wastewater
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.149-154
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• 2005

Conventionally used flocculation tanks require large space and high energy requirement for mixing. Static flocculators using gravel bed filter operate at a lower flow rate ($5-10m^3/m^2{\cdot}h$). Further, the cleaning of this system is difficult. A novel high rate static flocculator/filter developed at UTS packed with buoyant media such as polystyrene, polypropylene has been found to operate at higher filtration rates (30-45 $5-10m^3/m^2{\cdot}h$). They can easily be cleaned with minimal energy. Detailed experiments conducted with an artificial kaolin clay solution show that buoyant media is an excellent static flocculator in producing uniform filterable microflocs (12-15 m) even when it is operated at a high rate of 30-40 m/h. Detailed filtration experiments were conducted in a wastewater treatment plant to treat the biologically treated effluent with a floating media of depth of 120 cm. This filter was able to remove majority of phosphorus and remaining solids. It reduced significantly the fecal coliforms and fecal streptoccoci, thus requiring less amount of chlorine for disinfection. The advantage of this system is the low energy and water requirement for cleaning of filter bed. The periodic backwash adopted 30 seconds air and water and 30 seconds water cleaning every 90 minutes filter operation. Thisis equivalent to 1-2% of filtered water production. Mechanical cleaning system on the other hand, requires very low energy requirement (<1% of filtered water production).

• Proceedings of the Korea Air Pollution Research Association Conference
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• 2010.04a
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• pp.149-150
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• 2010

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.561-567
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• 1987

The purpose of this study was to find out the removal capacity of harmful ammonia by different filter media in the submerged biological filters in a given space of chamber. Four materials, pile cloth, corrugated skylight roofing plate, embossed plastic plate, and gravel, were used as the experimental filter media. Each filter medium was placed in two aquariums, each aquarium measuring $90cm\times60cm\times60cm\;(depth)$. Under the normal operating condition, the average of mean ammonia removal rates during the first and second functioning periods by each filter material which occupied tile space in the filter chamber (aquarium) was as follows: 1. Pile cloth: $8.381\;g{\cdot}m^{-3}.\;day^{-1}$ 2. Corrugated skylight roofing plate: $7.834\;g{\cdot}m^{-3}.\;day^{-1}$ 3. Embossed plastic plate: $7.797\;g{\cdot}m^{-3}.\;day^{-1}$ 4. Gravel: $7.051\;g{\cdot}m^{-3}.\;day^{-1}$ Thus, there were no significant differences between the media, but at the time of practical application of these materials, some other factors such as investment cost, easiness for the removal of excess detritus accumulated in tile interstices of filter media, etc. should be fallen into consideration. When large units are required, in particular, removal of excess detritus from tile gravel bed is extremely difficult, and in case of pile cloth filters the installation work is much complicated and a problem in supporting the structure when drained also exists. In these respects, corrugated skylight roofing plate and embossed plastic plate seem to be more optimal, but again in practice the local situation for the availability and the price of the materials should be rechecked and the fitness of tile materials in the particular filter chambers under use or under consideration for construction must be taken into account.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2012.11a
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• pp.37-39
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• 2012

최근 ToF(Time-of-Flight) 방식의 깊이 센서 카메라가 깊이 영상 획득에 많이 사용되고 있다. 그러나 ToF 깊이 카메라가 제공하는 깊이 영상은 센서의 물리적 한계로 인해 잡음이 존재한다. 따라서 고품질의 깊이 영상을 얻기 위해서는 깊이 영상의 잡음을 제거해 주는 것이 필수적이다. 일반적으로 깊이 영상의 잡음 제거에는 joint bilateral filter 를 사용한다. Joint bilateral filter 는 기준 화소와 그 주변 화소의 색상 영상의 밝기 차이값과 화소간 거리값에 각각 가우시안 함수를 적용하여 joint histogram 을 생성하고 그 평균값을 기준 화소의 깊이값으로 채운다. 하지만 이 과정에서 깊이 영상의 경계 영역에서 흐려짐 현상이 발생한다. 경계영역에 발생한 흐려짐 현상은 최종적인 3D 입체 콘텐츠의 품질을 저하시킨다. 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제점을 해결하기 위해 joint histogram 의 최고점을 찾아 기준 화소의 깊이값을 채우는 기법을 제안한다. 최고점 탐색을 통해 기존 기법의 평균값을 통해 생기는 흐려짐 현상을 줄이고 깊이 영상의 경계를 보존하면서 잡음을 제거하였다. 실험을 통하여 제안하는 기법의 우수성을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.414-420
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• 2015

The quality of depth images is important in the 3D video system to represent complete 3D contents. However, the original depth image from a depth camera has a low resolution and a flickering problem which shows vibrating depth values in terms of temporal meaning. This problem causes an uncomfortable feeling when we look 3D contents. In order to solve a low resolution problem, we employ 3D warping and a depth weighted joint bilateral filter. A temporal mean filter can be applied to solve the flickering problem while we encounter a residual spectrum problem in the depth image. Thus, after classifying foreground andbackground regions, we use an upsampled depth image for a foreground region and temporal mean image for background region.Test results shows that the proposed method generates a time consistent depth video with a high resolution.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.175-177
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 MPEG 의 3차원 비디오 시스템의 표준 깊이정보 맵에 대한 효율적인 부호화를 위하여 전처리 방법을 제안한다. 현재 3차원 비디오 부호화(3DVC)에 대한 표준화가 진행 중에 있지만 아직 깊이정보 맵의 부호화 방법에 대한 표준이 확정되지 않은 상태이다. 제안하는 기법에서는 우선, 입력된 깊이정보 맵에 대하여 원래의 히스토그램 분포를 가우시안 혼합모델(GMM)기반의 EM 군집화 기법에 의한 방법으로 분리 후, 분리된 히스토그램을 기반으로 깊이정보 맵을 여러 개의 영상으로 분리한다. 그 후 분리된 각각의 영상을 배경과 객체에 따라 다른 조건의 mean shift filter로 필터링한다. 결과적으로 영상내의 각 영역 경계는 최대한 살리면서 영역내의 화소 값에 대해서는 평균 연산을 취하여 부호화시 효율을 극대화 하고자 하였다. 실험조건은 $1024{\times}768$ 영상에 대해서 50 프레임으로 H.264/AVC base 프로파일로 부호화를 진행하였다. 최종 실험결과 bit rate는 대략 23% ~ 26% 정도 감소하고 부호화 시간도 다소 줄어드는 것을 확인 할 수 있었다.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.808-811
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• 2020

This paper proposes a method to minimize the error of the Kinect camera sensor by using a random undirected Kalman filter. Kinect cameras, which provide RGB values and depth information, cause nonlinear errors in the sensor, causing problems in various applications such as skeleton detection. Conventional methods have tried to remove errors by using various filtering techniques. However, there is a limit to removing nonlinear noise effectively. Therefore, in this paper, a randomized unscented Kalman filter was applied to predict and update the nonlinear noise characteristics, we next tried to enhance a performance of skeleton detection. The experimental results confirmed that the proposed method is superior to the conventional method in quantitative results and reconstructed images on 3D space.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.84-95
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• 2014

Recently, as a variety of techniques of CMF (Compressed media filter) that has advantages of high porosity and compressibility have been developed in the U.S. and Japan. Therefore, the interest of intensive wastewater treatment using CMF has grown. This study examined the feasibility of CMF with varying sewage water quality to determine the optimum operating conditions. A preliminary tracer test that investigated the filtering process under various compression and flow rate conditions was performed. In a high compression condition, different porosities were applied to each depth of the column. Therefore, a distinct difference between a theoretical value and results of tracer test was observed. For the TSS (Total suspended solid) removal and particle size distribution of CMF for pre-treatment water under the various compression conditions, the compression ratio of 30 percent as the optimal condition showed greater than 70% removal efficiency. In addition, the compression ratio of >15% was required to remove small-sized particles. Also, an additional process such as coagulation is necessary to increase the removal efficiency for < $10{\mu}m$ particles, since these small particles significantly influence the effluent concentration. Modeling results showed that as the compression rate was increased, TSS removal efficiency in accordance with each particle size in the initial filtration was noticeably observed. The modeling results according to the depth of column targeting $10{\mu}m$ particles having the largest percentage in particle size distribution showed that 150-300 mm in filter media layer was the most active with respect to the filtering.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.200-202
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• 2014

본 논문은 High bit-depth 를 위한 SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) 명령어 기반 보간 필터 고속화 방법을 제안한다. 픽셀 연산을 기반으로 하는 보간 필터링은 HEVC 복호화기에서 높은 복잡도를 차지하고 있지만 반복적인 산술연산을 수행하기 때문에 SIMD 를 이용한 고속화에 적합한 구조를 가지고 있다. 이러한 이유로 본 논문에서는 보간 필터 연산에 대하여 SIMD 명령어를 이용하여 메모리를 효율적으로 사용하여 고속화하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기술은 HEVC 참조 소프트웨어 HM 12.0-RExt 4.1 에 기반을 둔 ANSI C 기반 자체 개발 HEVC RExt 복호화기 소프트웨어에서 평균 8.5%의 복호화 속도향상을 보였으며, 보간 필터의 수행 시간을 평균 24.8% 향상시켰다.

• Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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• v.27 no.1
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• pp.27-34
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• 2008

To effectively treat the domestic sewage that was produced on a small-scale in farming and fishing village in order to encourage an ecologically friendly environment, a small-scale sewage treatment apparatus using natural purification methods that consisted of an aerobic and an anaerobic plots were constructed. The efficiency of sewage treatment according to the sewage loading was investigated to obtain the optimum sewage loading in small-scale sewage treatment apparatus. Removal rate of pollutants according to the sewage loading were in the order of $150\;Lm^{-2}day^{-1}{\fallingdotseq}300\;Lm^{-2}day^{-1}>600\;Lm^{-2}day^{-1}$. Therefore, the optimum sewage loading was 300 L m-2 day-1. Under the optimum sewage loading, removal rate of BOD, $COD_{Mn}$, turbidity, T-N and T-P were 99, 94, 99, 49 and 89%, respectively. However, to satisfy the water quality standard in effluent in small-sclae sewage treatment apparatus for domestic sewage treatment, the low removal efficiency of T-N and T-P must be improved. So to improve the removal rate of T-N and T-P, the efficiency of sewage treatment according to the improved sewage treatment process such as, re-treatment at aerobic plot, anaerobic condition of aerobic plot, changing the filter media sizes and the depths in anaerobic plot, and also addition of oyster shells to filter media at anaerobic plot were investigated. In case of 150 cm depth in anaerobic plot with filter medium A (effectivity particle size 1.50 mm) and addition of oyster shells to filter media at anaerobic plot, removal rate of T-N and T-P in both plots were increased by 10 and 3%, and 14 and 7% in comparison with 100 cm depth in anaerobic plot with filter medium B(effectivity particle size 0.95 mm), respectively. The optimum improved sewage treatment process in small-scale sewage treatment apparatus were 150 cm depth in anaerobic plot with filter medium A and addition of oyster shells to filter media at anaerobic plot.