• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2001.09a
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• pp.411-414
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• 2001

목표물 인식(Target Recognition)에 사용되는 대표적인 특징 정보에는 밝기 (Intensity) 정보와 윤곽선(Boundary) 등의 모양(Shape) 정보가 있다. 그러나, 일반적으로 영상에서 바로 추출한 밝기 정보나 윤곽선 정보는 환경 변화에 의한 많은 오차 요인들을 포함하고 있기 때문에, 이들 특징 정보를 개별적으로 인식에 사용하는 것은 높은 인식 성능을 기대하기 어렵다. 따라서, 밝기 정보와 모양 정보를 인식에 함께 사용하는 기법이 요구된다. 본 논문에서는 밝기 정보와 윤곽선 기반의 모양 정보를 합성하여 동시에 인식에 사용하는 3단계 기법을 제안한다. 제안하는 기법에서 밝기 정보 추출에 는 PCA (Principal Component Analysis)기법을 사용하고 , 윤곽선 정보 추출에는 PDM(Point Distribution Model) 에 기반한 영역 분할(Segmentation) 기법과 Algebraic Curve Fitting기법을 사용하였다 추출된 밝기 정보와 윤곽선 정보는 FLD(Fisher Linear Discriminant) 기법을 통해 결합(integration)되어 인식에 사용 된다. 제안한 기법을 적외선 자동차 영상을 인식하는 실험에 적용한 결과, 기존기법에 비해 인식 성능이 개선됨을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Pure and Applied Mathematics
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.81-90
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• 2002

The least informative (favorable) distributions, minimizing Fisher information for a multivariate location parameter, are derived in the parametric class of the exponential-power spherically symmetric distributions under the following characterizing restrictions; (i) a bounded variance, (ii) a bounded value of a density at the center of symmetry, and (iii) the intersection of these restrictions. In the first two cases, (i) and (ii) respectively, the least informative distributions are the Gaussian and Laplace, respectively. In the latter case (iii) the optimal solution has three branches, with relatively small variances it is the Gaussian, them with intermediate variances. The corresponding robust minimax M-estimators of location are given by the $L_2$-norm, the $L_1$-norm and the $L_{p}$ -norm methods. The properties of the proposed estimators and their adaptive versions ar studied in asymptotics and on finite samples by Monte Carlo.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.27-33
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• 2012

The Ethernet Passive Optical Network (EPON) has been considered to be one of the most promising solutions for the implementation of the Fiber To The Home (FTTH) technology designed to ameliorate the "last mile" bandwidth bottleneck. In the EPON network, an efficient and fair bandwidth allocation is a very important issue, since multiple optical network units (ONUs) share a common upstream channel for packet transmission. To increase bandwidth utilization, an EPON system must provide a way to adaptively allocate the upstream bandwidth among multiple ONUs in accordance to their bandwidth demands and requirements. We present a new hybrid method that satisfies these requirements. The advantage of our method comes from the consideration of application-specific bandwidth allocation and the minimization of the idle bandwidth. Our simulation results show that our proposed method outperforms existing dynamic bandwidth allocation methods in terms of bandwidth utilization.

• Journal of the Korean Statistical Society
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.415-433
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• 1999

This paper considers the design of step-stress accelerated life tests for the Weibull distribution with a nonconstant shape parameter under Type I censoring. It is assumed that scale and shape parameters are log-linear functions of (possibly transformed) stress and that a cumulative exposure model holds for the effect of changing stress. The asymptotic variance of the maximum likelihood estimator of a stated quantile at design stress is used as an optimality criterion. The optimum three step-stress plans are presented for selected values of design parameters and the effects of errors in pre- estimates of the design parameters are investigated.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.291-301
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• 2017

It is well known in a small sample that the maximum likelihood (ML) approach for variance components in the general linear model yields estimates that are biased downward. The ML estimate of residual variance tends to be downwardly biased. The underestimation of residual variance, which has implications for the estimation of marginal effects and asymptotic standard error of estimates, seems to be more serious in some limited dependent variable models, as shown by some researchers. An alternative frequentist's approach may be restricted or residual maximum likelihood (REML), which accounts for the loss in degrees of freedom and gives an unbiased estimate of residual variance. In this situation, the REML estimator is derived in a censored regression model. A small sample the REML is shown to provide proper inference on regression coefficients.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.357-366
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• 2001

The present paper develops a method to check the propriety of link functions for binary data. In order to parameterize a certain type of goodness of the link, a family of link functions indexed by a shape parameter is proposed. I first investigate the maximum likelihood estimation of the shape parameter as well as regression parameters and then derive their large sample behaviors of the estimators. A score test is considered to evaluate the goodness of the current link function. For illustration, I employ two families of power transformations, the modulus transformation by John and Draper (1980) and the extended power transformation by Yeo and Johnson (2000), which are appropriate to detect symmetric and asymmetric inadequacy of the selected link function. respectively.

• Speech Sciences
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.131-144
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• 2007

In an effort to improve the performance of mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC), we investigate the effects of varying the parameters for the filter banks and their associated windows on speech recognition rates. Specifically, the mel and bark scales are combined with various types of filter bank windows. Comparison and evaluation of the suggested methods are performed by two independent ways of speech recognition and the Fisher discriminant objective function. It is shown that the Hanning window based on the bark scale yields 28.1% relative performance improvements over the triangular window with the mel scale in speech recognition error rate. Further work on incorporating PCA and/or LDA would be desirable as a postprocessor to MFCC extraction.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.460-463
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• 1999

We present an efficient face recognition method that is robust to illumination changes. We named the proposed method as SKKUfaces. We first compute eigenfaces from training images and then apply fisher discriminant analysis using the obtained eigenfaces that exclude eigenfaces correponding to first few largest eigenvalues. This way, SKKUfaces can achieve the maximum class separability without considering eigenfaces that are responsible for illumination changes, facial expressions and eyewear. In addition, we have developed a method that efficiently computes beween-scatter and within-scatter matrices in terms of memory space and computation time. We have tested the performance of SKKUfaces on the YALE and the SKKU face databases. Initial Experimental results show that SKKUfaces performs greatly better over Fisherfaces on the input images of large variations in lighting and eyewear.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.29-41
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• 2017

The estimation problem of expected time to failure of units is studied in a discrete set up. A simple step-stress accelerated life testing is considered with a Type-I censored sample from geometric distribution that is a commonly used distribution to model the lifetime of a device in discrete case. Maximum likelihood estimators as well as the associated distributions are derived. Exact, approximate and bootstrap approaches construct confidence intervals that are compared via a simulation study. Optimal confidence intervals are suggested in view of the expected width and coverage probability criteria. An illustrative example is also presented to explain the results of the paper. Finally, some conclusions are stated.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.27 no.3E
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• pp.77-83
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• 2008

In the process of the sonar image textures produced, the orientation and scale factors are very significant. However, most of the related methods ignore the directional information and scale invariance or just pay attention to one of them. To overcome this problem, we apply Gabor wavelet to extract the features of sonar images, which combine the advantages of both the Gabor filter and traditional wavelet function. The mother wavelet is designed with constrained parameters and the optimal parameters will be selected at each orientation, with the help of bandwidth parameters based on the Fisher criterion. The Gabor wavelet can have the properties of both multi-scale and multi-orientation. Based on our experiment, this method is more appropriate than traditional wavelet or single Gabor filter as it provides the better discrimination of the textures and improves the recognition rate effectively. Meanwhile, comparing with other fusion methods, it can reduce the complexity and improve the calculation efficiency.