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Blurred Image Enhancement Techniques Using Stack-Attention (Stack-Attention을 이용한 흐릿한 영상 강화 기법)

  • Park Chae Rim;Lee Kwang Ill;Cho Seok Je
    • KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.83-90
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    • 2023
  • Blurred image is an important factor in lowering image recognition rates in Computer vision. This mainly occurs when the camera is unstablely out of focus or the object in the scene moves quickly during the exposure time. Blurred images greatly degrade visual quality, weakening visibility, and this phenomenon occurs frequently despite the continuous development digital camera technology. In this paper, it replace the modified building module based on the Deep multi-patch neural network designed with convolution neural networks to capture details of input images and Attention techniques to focus on objects in blurred images in many ways and strengthen the image. It measures and assigns each weight at different scales to differentiate the blurring of change and restores from rough to fine levels of the image to adjust both global and local region sequentially. Through this method, it show excellent results that recover degraded image quality, extract efficient object detection and features, and complement color constancy.

Affective Factors That Contribute to the Quality of Life of Juvenile Inmates with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Focus on Items from the Korean Youth Self Report

  • Kim, Hyesoon;Kim, Bongseog
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.30 no.4
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    • pp.161-167
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    • 2019
  • Objectives: This study investigated quality of life in Korean juvenile inmates with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and the impact of behavioral and emotional problems on quality of life. Methods: In total, 200 inmates were evaluated using the Korean version of the Mini-International Neuropsychiatric Interview (K-MINI) and the Korean version of the Kiddie-Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia-Present and Lifetime (K-SADS-PL-K). We extracted the inmates with ADHD and evaluated their quality of life, behavioral problems, and emotional problems with the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) and the Korean Youth Self Report (K-YSR) scale. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were conducted. Results: Among the 200 total inmates, 68 were diagnosed with ADHD by the K-SADS-PL-K. Most of the correlations between PedsQL scores and K-YSR items were significant. Multiple regression analysis showed that PedsQL could be predicted by affective problems (among the DSM-oriented scales of the K-YSR) and attention problems (among the syndrome scales of the K-YSR). Conclusion: Our results demonstrate that, among juvenile inmates with ADHD, quality of life was negatively correlated with most behavioral and emotional problems. Meanwhile, the significant influence of affective and attention problems on inmates' quality of life suggests the necessity of comprehensive treatments for this group.

A Novel Feature Map Generation and Integration Method for Attention Based Visual Information Processing System using Disparity of a Stereo Pair of Images (주의 기반 시각정보처리체계 시스템 구현을 위한 스테레오 영상의 변위도를 이용한 새로운 특징맵 구성 및 통합 방법)

  • Park, Min-Chul;Cheoi, Kyung-Joo
    • The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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    • v.17B no.1
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    • pp.55-62
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    • 2010
  • Human visual attention system has a remarkable ability to interpret complex scenes with the ease and simplicity by selecting or focusing on a small region of visual field without scanning the whole images. In this paper, a novel feature map generation and integration method for attention based visual information processing system is proposed. The depth information obtained from a stereo pair of images is exploited as one of spatial visual features to form a set of topographic feature maps in our approach. Comparative experiments show that correct detection rate of visual attention regions improves by utilizing depth feature compared to the case of not using depth feature.

A Study of Machining Optimization of Parts for Semiconductor Plasma Etcher (반도체 플라즈마 식각 장치의 부품 가공 연구)

  • Lee, Eun Young;Kim, Moon Ki
    • Journal of the Semiconductor & Display Technology
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    • v.19 no.4
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    • pp.28-33
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    • 2020
  • Plasma etching process employs high density plasma to create surface chemistry and physical reactions, by which to remove material. Plasma chamber includes silicon-based materials such as a focus ring and gas distribution plate. Focus ring needs to be replaced after a short period. For this reason, there is a need to find materials resistant to erosion by plasma. The developed chemical vapor deposition processing to produce silicon carbide parts with high purity has also supported its widespread use in the plasma etch process. Silicon carbide maintains mechanical strength at high temperature, it have been use to chamber parts for plasma. Recently, besides the structural aspects of silicon carbide, its electrical conductivity and possibly its enhanced life time under high density plasma with less generation of contamination particles are drawing attention for use in applications such as upper electrode or focus rings, which have been made of silicon for a long time. However, especially for high purity silicon carbide focus ring, which has usually been made by the chemical vapor deposition method, there has been no study about quality improvement. The goal of this study is to reduce surface roughness and depth of damage by diamond tool grit size and tool dressing of diamond tools for precise dimensional assurance of focus rings.

Study on the Starting Time of Attention for Convergent Exploration of Visual Information (시각정보의 수렴적 탐색활동을 위한 주의집중 개시 시간에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Ha;Jung, Jae-Young
    • Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.51-59
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    • 2016
  • The technique for Eye-tracking is to trace the movements of pupils so that the eye's exploration response to be digitized. The procedure of Observation Experiment shows a mutual environmental characteristics between men and measuring devices. In order to improve the reliability and to secure the objectivity of the data acquired from eye-tracking, it is very important to analyze the procedures for the experiment to be prepared and the test data to be saved. Based on this viewpoint, the convergent exploration activities at the observation experiment with the objects of sport images were examined to find out what influences the context effect given by experimental environments have on this experiment. In addition, the starting time of attention affecting the reliability of observation data has been estimated. When the observation time is to be subdivided by the unit of second. The attention disperses for the individual characteristics to be appreciated. However, in case of analysis by the overall average, there was the problem that the section of attention dispersed to make it difficult to analyze the subjects' observation features. The study results made it possible to understand the physiological characteristics which were near unconsciousness, when there was an intensive attention for the first 3 seconds and the observation data were shown to be in ordinary range after 4 seconds. The analysis of observation with the focus of the intensive attention enabled the analysis with the first 3 seconds excepted so that it might approach the ordinary range of observation data. The distribution of attention for the first 3 seconds showed the intensive attention, which was on the center. The emergence of intensive attention and the overlapping of the centers can be considered as a context effect due to the correction for the preparing process of experiment. Accordingly, it is thought to be helpful to the security of objectivity and the construction of reliability of eye-tracking data to analyze the observation features shown after the deletion of the data for the first 3 seconds.

Environmental Risk Factors for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Implications for Clinical Practice (주의력결핍 과잉행동장애의 환경요인과 임상적 의미)

  • Kim, Jae-Won
    • Journal of the Korean Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
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    • v.22 no.1
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    • pp.10-15
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    • 2011
  • In this review, we have provided an overview of the environmental risk factors for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), focusing on the major environmental toxicants related to the disorder. Researchers have indicated that since the characteristics of ADHD are complex, the disorder’s etiology involves multiple genes of moderate effect interacting with environmental factors. The possible roles of prenatal and perinatal exposure have been the main focus of research on environmental risk factors for ADHD. Among environmental toxicants, we reviewed the potential effects on the development of ADHD of exposure to lead, nicotine, alcohol, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and dioxin. Further, for the each neurotoxicant, clinical prevention or intervention strategies aimed at reducing a child’s risk from environmental toxic insults have been presented.

Multi-level Cross-attention Siamese Network For Visual Object Tracking

  • Zhang, Jianwei;Wang, Jingchao;Zhang, Huanlong;Miao, Mengen;Cai, Zengyu;Chen, Fuguo
    • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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    • v.16 no.12
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    • pp.3976-3990
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    • 2022
  • Currently, cross-attention is widely used in Siamese trackers to replace traditional correlation operations for feature fusion between template and search region. The former can establish a similar relationship between the target and the search region better than the latter for robust visual object tracking. But existing trackers using cross-attention only focus on rich semantic information of high-level features, while ignoring the appearance information contained in low-level features, which makes trackers vulnerable to interference from similar objects. In this paper, we propose a Multi-level Cross-attention Siamese network(MCSiam) to aggregate the semantic information and appearance information at the same time. Specifically, a multi-level cross-attention module is designed to fuse the multi-layer features extracted from the backbone, which integrate different levels of the template and search region features, so that the rich appearance information and semantic information can be used to carry out the tracking task simultaneously. In addition, before cross-attention, a target-aware module is introduced to enhance the target feature and alleviate interference, which makes the multi-level cross-attention module more efficient to fuse the information of the target and the search region. We test the MCSiam on four tracking benchmarks and the result show that the proposed tracker achieves comparable performance to the state-of-the-art trackers.

Double-attention mechanism of sequence-to-sequence deep neural networks for automatic speech recognition (음성 인식을 위한 sequence-to-sequence 심층 신경망의 이중 attention 기법)

  • Yook, Dongsuk;Lim, Dan;Yoo, In-Chul
    • The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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    • v.39 no.5
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    • pp.476-482
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    • 2020
  • Sequence-to-sequence deep neural networks with attention mechanisms have shown superior performance across various domains, where the sizes of the input and the output sequences may differ. However, if the input sequences are much longer than the output sequences, and the characteristic of the input sequence changes within a single output token, the conventional attention mechanisms are inappropriate, because only a single context vector is used for each output token. In this paper, we propose a double-attention mechanism to handle this problem by using two context vectors that cover the left and the right parts of the input focus separately. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated using speech recognition experiments on the TIMIT corpus.

Design, Manufacture and Maintenance of Wheelset at SNCF

  • Cocheteux, F.;Pouillart, T.
    • International Journal of Railway
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.8-17
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    • 2009
  • The wheelset, its functions and position under the train is the prime safety-critical component. Whether in design, qualification, manufacturing or maintenance, the wheels and axles have been the focus of special attention at SNCF for over 25 years and the French Railways are actively involved in various Research and Development work towards interoperability between the railways, railway reliability and running safety.

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The Effect of Influencer Information Source, Message Sidedness, Consumer Regulatory Focus on E-WOM Intentions about the Cosmetics Advertisements of Instagram (인플루언서 정보원천, 메시지 측면성, 소비자 조절초점이 인스타그램 화장품광고 온라인 구전의도에 미치는 효과)

  • Lim, Se-Won;Han, Sang-In;Hwang, Sun-Jin
    • Journal of Fashion Business
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    • v.25 no.5
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    • pp.149-162
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    • 2021
  • Nowadays, the cosmetic and fashion industries are paying attention to influencer marketing on Instagram. In this study, we determined whether electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) communications were affected by the following parameters: the influencer's information source, message sidedness, and consumer's regulatory focus. The experimental design of this study is a three-way mixed ANOVA, which comprises of 2 (influencer information source: expert vs general consumer) × 2 (message sidedness: two-sided message vs one-sided message) × 2 (consumer regulatory focus: promotion focus vs prevention focus) structure. The data for this research study was obtained by distributing a questionnaire to 410 subjects. The participants were aged between 20 and 39 years and lived in Seoul and Gyeonggi areas. In total, the data of 396 subjects was analyzed with the help of SPSS 25.0 statistical program: frequency analysis, reliability analysis, t-test, three-way ANOVA, and simple main effect analysis were performed. The analysis results were as follows: First, influencer information sources and consumer regulatory focus exhibited a significant interaction with consumers' e-WOM intentions. Second, message sidedness and consumer's regulatory focus exhibited a significant interaction with e-WOM intentions. Third, influencer information source and message sidedness exhibited a significant interaction with consumers' e-WOM intentions. Based on these findings, the type of influencer's information source and the consumer's regulatory focus was taken into consideration while marketing cosmetics on Instagram. Moreover, influencer marketing strategies must be used to evaluate message sidedness. This would help us gauge the consumer's attitude towards advertisements.