• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.5
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• pp.2253-2272
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• 2018

We propose a deep learning method for multi-focus image fusion. Unlike most existing pixel-level fusion methods, either in spatial domain or in transform domain, our method directly learns an end-to-end fully convolutional two-stream network. The framework maps a pair of different focus images to a clean version, with a chain of convolutional layers, fusion layer and deconvolutional layers. Our deep fusion model has advantages of efficiency and robustness, yet demonstrates state-of-art fusion quality. We explore different parameter settings to achieve trade-offs between performance and speed. Moreover, the experiment results on our training dataset show that our network can achieve good performance with subjective visual perception and objective assessment metrics.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.60-65
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• 2018

In this paper, a covariance matrix and modulogram are proposed for realizing amphibian sound classification using CNN (Convolutional Neural Network). First of all, a database is established by collecting amphibians sounds including endangered species in natural environment. In order to apply the database to CNN, it is necessary to standardize acoustic signals with different lengths. To standardize the acoustic signals, covariance matrix that gives distribution information and modulogram that contains the information about change over time are extracted and used as input to CNN. The experiment is conducted by varying the number of a convolutional layer and a fully-connected layer. For performance assessment, several conventional methods are considered representing various feature extraction and classification approaches. From the results, it is confirmed that convolutional layer has a greater impact on performance than the fully-connected layer. Also, the performance based on CNN shows attaining the highest recognition rate with 99.07 % among the considered methods.

• Journal of Integrative Natural Science
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.183-188
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• 2021

Collaborative filtering is one of the commonly used methods in the web recommendation system. Numerous researches on the collaborative filtering proposed the numbers of measures for enhancing the accuracy. This study suggests the movie recommendation system applied with Word2Vec and ensemble convolutional neural networks. First, user sentences and movie sentences are made from the user, movie, and rating information. Then, the user sentences and movie sentences are input into Word2Vec to figure out the user vector and movie vector. The user vector is input on the user convolutional model while the movie vector is input on the movie convolutional model. These user and movie convolutional models are connected to the fully-connected neural network model. Ultimately, the output layer of the fully-connected neural network model outputs the forecasts for user, movie, and rating. The test result showed that the system proposed in this study showed higher accuracy than the conventional cooperative filtering system and Word2Vec and deep neural network-based system suggested in the similar researches. The Word2Vec and deep neural network-based recommendation system is expected to help in enhancing the satisfaction while considering about the characteristics of users.

• Advances in robotics research
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.129-140
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• 2018

With the increasing demand for the development of human pose estimation, such as human-computer interaction and human activity recognition, there have been numerous approaches to detect the 2D poses of people in images more efficiently. Despite many years of human pose estimation research, the estimation of human poses with images remains difficult to produce satisfactory results. In this study, we propose a robust 2D human body pose estimation method using an RGB camera sensor. Our pose estimation method is efficient and cost-effective since the use of RGB camera sensor is economically beneficial compared to more commonly used high-priced sensors. For the estimation of upper-body joint positions, semantic segmentation with a fully convolutional network was exploited. From acquired RGB images, joint heatmaps accurately estimate the coordinates of the location of each joint. The network architecture was designed to learn and detect the locations of joints via the sequential prediction processing method. Our proposed method was tested and validated for efficient estimation of the human upper-body pose. The obtained results reveal the potential of a simple RGB camera sensor for human pose estimation applications.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.33 no.6
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• pp.861-868
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• 2023

One of the key technologies in providing data analysis in the deep learning while maintaining security is fully homomorphic encryption. Due to constraints in operations on fully homomorphically encrypted data, non-arithmetic functions used in deep learning must be approximated by polynomials. Until now, the degrees of approximation polynomials with composite minimax polynomials have been uniformly set across layers, which poses challenges for effective network designs on fully homomorphic encryption. This study theoretically proves that setting different degrees of approximation polynomials constructed by composite minimax polynomial in each layer does not pose any issues in the inference on convolutional neural networks.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.162-172
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose facial expression recognition using CNN (Convolutional Neural Network), one of the deep learning technologies. To overcome the disadvantages of existing facial expression databases, various databases are used. In the proposed technique, we construct six facial expression data sets such as 'expressionless', 'happiness', 'sadness', 'angry', 'surprise', and 'disgust'. Pre-processing and data augmentation techniques are also applied to improve efficient learning and classification performance. In the existing CNN structure, the optimal CNN structure that best expresses the features of six facial expressions is found by adjusting the number of feature maps of the convolutional layer and the number of fully-connected layer nodes. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves the highest classification performance of 96.88% while it takes the least time to pass through the CNN structure compared to other models.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2018.06a
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• pp.322-325
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• 2018

영상의 관심 영역 검출은 영상처리 및 컴퓨터 비전 응용 분야에서 꾸준하게 사용되고 있는 기법이다. 특히, 근래 심층신경망 연구의 급격한 발전에 힘입어 심층신경망을 이용한 관심 영역 검출 기법에 대한 연구가 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 한편 Fully Convolutional Network(이하 FCN)은 본래 심층 예측(Dense Prediction)을 통한 의미론적 영상 분할(Semantic Segmentation)을 수행하기 위해 제안된 심층신경망 구조이다. FCN을 영상의 관심 영역 검출에 활용하여도 기존 관심 영역 검출 기법과 비교하여 충분히 좋은 성능을 발휘할 수 있다. 그러나 FCN에 사용되는 convolution 층의 수가 많고, 이에 따른 가중치(weight)의 개수도 기하급수적으로 늘어나 검출에 필요한 시간 복잡도가 매우 크다는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 기존 FCN이 가진 검출 시간 복잡도의 문제점을 convolution 층의 가중치 관점에서 해결하고자 이를 조절하여 FCN의 관심 영역 검출 속도를 향상시키는 방법을 제안한다. 적절한 convolution 층의 가중치를 조절함으로써, MSRA10K 데이터셋 환경에서 검출 정확도를 크게 저하시키지 않고도 최대 약 20.5%만큼 검출 속도를 향상시킬 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.81-83
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• 2021

In this paper, we propose a method to segment a plant from a plant image using U-Net. The network is an end-to-end fully convolutional network that is mainly used for image segmentation. When training the network, we used a binary image that is acquired by the manual segmentation of a plant from the background. Experimental results show that the U-Net based segmentation network can extract a plant from a digital image accurately.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.1081-1088
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• 2020

In this paper, the method of detecting sea fog through CCTV image is proposed based on convolutional neural networks. The study data randomly extracted 1,0004 images, sea-fog and not sea-fog, from a total of 11 ports or beaches (Busan Port, Busan New Port, Pyeongtaek Port, Incheon Port, Gunsan Port, Daesan Port, Mokpo Port, Yeosu Gwangyang Port, Ulsan Port, Pohang Port, and Haeundae Beach) based on 1km of visibility. 80% of the total 1,0004 datasets were extracted and used for learning the convolutional neural network model. The model has 16 convolutional layers and 3 fully connected layers, and a convolutional neural network that performs Softmax classification in the last fully connected layer is used. Model accuracy evaluation was performed using the remaining 20%, and the accuracy evaluation result showed a classification accuracy of about 96%.

• KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.213-220
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• 2020

The convolutional neural network is composed of convolutional layers and fully connected layers. The nonlinear activation function is used in each layer of the convolutional layer and the fully connected layer. The activation function being used in a neural network is a function that simulates the method of transmitting information in a neuron that can transmit a signal and not send a signal if the input signal is above a certain criterion when transmitting a signal between neurons. The conventional activation function does not have a relationship with the loss function, so the process of finding the optimal solution is slow. In order to improve this, an agile activation function that generalizes the activation function is proposed. The agile activation function can improve the performance of the deep neural network in a way that selects the optimal agile parameter through the learning process using the primary differential coefficient of the loss function for the agile parameter in the backpropagation process. Through the MNIST classification problem, we have identified that agile activation functions have superior performance over conventional activation functions.