• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.421-436
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• 2023

This paper presents a vibration displacement measurement and damage identification method for a space truss structure from its vibration videos. Features from Accelerated Segment Test (FAST) algorithm is combined with adaptive threshold strategy to detect the feature points of high quality within the Region of Interest (ROI), around each node of the truss structure. Then these points are tracked by Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi (KLT) algorithm along the video frame sequences to obtain the vibration displacement time histories. For some cases with the image plane not parallel to the truss structural plane, the scale factors cannot be applied directly. Therefore, these videos are processed with homography transformation. After scale factor adaptation, tracking results are expressed in physical units and compared with ground truth data. The main operational frequencies and the corresponding mode shapes are identified by using Subspace Stochastic Identification (SSI) from the obtained vibration displacement responses and compared with ground truth data. Structural damages are quantified by elemental stiffness reductions. A Bayesian inference-based objective function is constructed based on natural frequencies to identify the damage by model updating. The Success-History based Adaptive Differential Evolution with Linear Population Size Reduction (L-SHADE) is applied to minimise the objective function by tuning the damage parameter of each element. The locations and severities of damage in each case are then identified. The accuracy and effectiveness are verified by comparison of the identified results with the ground truth data.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.325-334
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• 2023

Computer vision-based damage detection enables non-contact, efficient and low-cost bridge health monitoring, which reduces the need for labor-intensive manual inspection or that for a large number of on-site sensing instruments. By leveraging recent semantic segmentation approaches, we can detect regions of critical structural components and identify damages at pixel level on images. However, existing methods perform poorly when detecting small and thin damages (e.g., cracks); the problem is exacerbated by imbalanced samples. To this end, we incorporate domain knowledge to introduce a hierarchical semantic segmentation framework that imposes a hierarchical semantic relationship between component categories and damage types. For instance, certain types of concrete cracks are only present on bridge columns, and therefore the noncolumn region may be masked out when detecting such damages. In this way, the damage detection model focuses on extracting features from relevant structural components and avoid those from irrelevant regions. We also utilize multi-scale augmentation to preserve contextual information of each image, without losing the ability to handle small and/or thin damages. In addition, our framework employs an importance sampling, where images with rare components are sampled more often, to address sample imbalance. We evaluated our framework on a public synthetic dataset that consists of 2,000 railway bridges. Our framework achieves a 0.836 mean intersection over union (IoU) for structural component segmentation and a 0.483 mean IoU for damage segmentation. Our results have in total 5% and 18% improvements for the structural component segmentation and damage segmentation tasks, respectively, compared to the best-performing baseline model.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제12권7호
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• pp.9-17
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• 2023

작물의 병충해는 다양한 작물의 성장에 영향을 미치기 때문에 초기에 병충해를 식별하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 이미 많은 머신러닝(ML) 모델이 작물 병충해의 검사와 분류에 사용되었지만, 머신러닝의 부분 집합인 딥러닝(DL)이 발전을 이루면서 이 연구 분야에서 많은 진보가 있었다. 본 연구에서는 YOLOX 검출기와 MobileNet 분류기를 사용하여 비정상 작물의 병충해 검사 및 정상 작물에 대해서는 성숙도 분류를 진행하였다. 이 방법을 통해 다양한 작물 병충해 특징을 효과적으로 추출할 수 있으며, 실험을 위해 딸기, 고추, 토마토와 관련된 다양한 해상도의 이미지 데이터 셋을 준비하여 작물 병충해 분류에 사용하였다. 실험 결과에 따르면 복잡한 배경 조건을 가진 영상에서 평균 테스트 정확도가 84%, 성숙도 분류 정확도가 83.91% 임을 확인할 수 있었다. 이 모델은 자연 상태에서 3가지 작물에 대한 6가지 질병 검출 및 각 작물의 성숙도 분류를 효과적으로 진행할 수 있었다.

• Archives of Plastic Surgery
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• 제50권4호
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• pp.340-347
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• 2023

Background Though in facial plastic surgery, the ideal nasal characteristics are defined by average European-American facial features known as neoclassical cannons, many ethnicities do not perceive these characteristics as suitable. Methods To investigate the preferences for nasofrontal angle, nasolabial angle, dorsal height, alar width, and nasal tip projection, manipulated pictures of one male and one female model were shown to 203 volunteer patients from a tertiary university hospital's facial plastic clinic. Results The most aesthetically preferred nasofrontal angles were 137.64 ± 4.20 degrees for males and 133.55 ± 4.53 degrees for females. Acute nasofrontal angles were more desirable in participants aged 25 to 44. The most preferred nasolabial angles were 107.56 ± 5.20 degrees and 98.92 ± 4.88 degrees, respectively. Volunteers aged 19 to 24 preferred more acute male nasolabial angles. A straight dorsum was the most desirable in both genders (0.03 ± 0.78 and 0.26 ± 0.75 mm, respectively). The ideal male and female alar widths were -0.51 ± 2.26 and -1.09 ± 2.18 mm, respectively. More 45- to 64-year-old volunteers preferred alar widths equal to intercanthal distance. The ideal female and male tip projections were 0.57 ± 0.01 and 0.56 ± 0.01, respectively. Conclusion Results indicate that the general Iranian patients prefer thinner female noses with wider nasofrontal angles for both genders. However, the ideal nasolabial angles, dorsal heights, and tip projections were consistent with the neoclassical cannons. Besides ethnic differences, the trend of nasal beauty is also affected by gender, age, and prior history of aesthetic surgery.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제55권9호
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• pp.3268-3276
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• 2023

The practice of identifying the potential zones for mineral exploration in a speedy and low-cost method includes the use of satellite imagery analysis as a part of remote sensing techniques. It is challenging to explore the iron mineralization of a region through conventional methods which are a time-consuming process. The current study utilizes the Hyperion satellite imagery for mapping the iron mineralization and associated geological features in the Irikkur region, Kannur, Kerala. Along with the remote sensing results, the field study and laboratory-based analysis were conducted to retrieve the ground truth point and geochemical proportion to verify the iron ore mineralization. The MC simulation showed for shielding properties indicate an increase in the linear attenuation coefficient with raising the Fe₂O₃+SiO₂ concentrations in the investigated rocks where it is varied at 0.662 MeV in the range 0.190 cm^-1 - 0.222 cm^-1 with rising the Fe₂O₃+SiO₂ content from 57.86 wt% to 71.15 wt%. The analysis also revealed that when the γ-ray energy increased from 0.221 MeV to 2.506 MeV, sample 1 had the largest linear attenuation coefficient, ranging from 9.33 cm1 to 0.12 cm^-1. Charnockite rocks were found to have exceptional shielding qualities, making them an excellent natural choice for radiation shielding applications.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2009

플래시 메모리는 비휘발성이고 저전력으로 동작하며 가볍고 내구성이 강하다. 이러한 특성으로 휴대용 멀티미디어 재생기(PMP)와 같은 모바일 컴퓨팅 환경에서의 저장 장치로 많이 사용되고 있다. 대용량의 플래시 메모리를 저장 장치로 가진 모바일 기기들은 비디오/오디오/사진등과 같은 다양한 종류의 멀티미디어 데이터를 저장하고 재생한다. 모바일 컴퓨팅 장치를 위한 기존의 인덱스 시스템은 노래 가사와 같은 텍스트 형태의 정보 검색에 비효육적이다. 본 논문에서는 대용량 플래시 메모리 기반 임베디드 텍스트 인덱스(Embedded Text Index: EMTEX) 시스템을 제안한다. EMTEX는 먼저 임베디드 시스템을 고려한 압축 알고리즘을 사용하며, 텍스트 인덱스가 구성된 필드에 삽입 및 삭제시 인덱스에 즉시 반영된다. 뿐만 아니라, 플래시 메모리의 특성을 고려한 효율적인 삽입, 삭제, 재구성 기능을 수행하며, DBMS의 상위 계층에서 독립적으로 동작한다는 장점을 갖는다. 제안한 시스템의 성능 평가를 위해 다양한 환경에서 실험을 수행하였다. 그 결과 EMTEX는 임베디드 환경에서 Oracle Text나 FT3와 같은 기존의 인덱스 시스템보다 더 좋은 성능을 보여주었다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.1516-1529
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• 2023

In this paper, a motor gearbox fault-detection system based on a hierarchical flow-based model is proposed. The proposed system is used for the anomaly detection of a motion sound-based actuator module. The proposed flow-based model, which is a generative model, learns by directly modeling a data distribution function. As the objective function is the maximum likelihood value of the input data, the training is stable and simple to use for anomaly detection. The operation sound of a car's side-view mirror motor is converted into a Mel-spectrogram image, consisting of a folding signal and an unfolding signal, and used as training data in this experiment. The proposed system is composed of an encoder and a decoder. The data extracted from the layer of the pretrained feature extractor are used as the decoder input data in the encoder. This information is used in the decoder by performing an interlayer cross-scale convolution operation. The experimental results indicate that the context information of various dimensions extracted from the interlayer hierarchical data improves the defect detection accuracy. This paper is notable because it uses acoustic data and a normalizing flow model to detect outliers based on the features of experimental data.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국컴퓨터정보학회 2021년도 제64차 하계학술대회논문집 29권2호
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• pp.701-702
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• 2021

The purpose of the study was to identify fiber changes induced by electrical stimulation of a certain neural substrate in the rat brain. In the stimulation group, the peripheral nerve was injured and the brain area associated to inhibit sensory information was electrically stimulated. There were sham and sham stimulation groups as controls. Then high-field diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) was acquired. 35 features were taken from the DTI measures from 7 different brain pathways. To compare the efficacy of the classification for 3 animal groups, the linear regression analysis (LDA) and the machine learning technique (MLP) were applied. It was found that the testing accuracy by MLP was about 77%, but that of accuracy by LDA was much higher than MLP. In conclusion, machine learning algorithm could be used to identify and predict the changes of the brain white matter in some situations. The limits of this study will be discussed.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.152-161
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• 2023

Modern people live a life connected with the real world and the virtual world by relying on the new media of enterprises and social consumption led by innovative technologies. In this environment, virtual influencers actively communicate with consumers and build relationships through social media, which is a new marketing tool that has attracted widespread attention. From a business perspective, it is necessary to have a solid understanding of this phenomenon, and then explore communication strategies to effectively develop virtual influencers. To investigate followers' preference for virtual influencers, this study employs the Q-method, which studies human subjective attributes, an empirical research effort to uncover complex issues in human subjectivity. To determine the factors that trigger people's voluntary and active practice and the preference degree of virtual influencers, the Q method is implemented to examine human subjectivity, thoughts and attitudes. According to the results of this study, virtual influencers are a new group of idols full of vitality. The interviews found that there are still many virtual influencers who do not know about followers, but each type can be clearly understood through the intuitive understanding of the interviewees. Divided out, type 1 one egoideal virtual influencers aim to represent an idealized version of the creator or target audience. Embodies ideal physical characteristics, personality or lifestyle desired by the audience. Type 2 is charismatic and attractive, and has the characteristics of most virtual influencers. It is suggested that it can be developed into a potential type, doing brand cooperation, and content production on social media platforms. Type 3: Game animation, derived from the image of characters in games or comics, with stylized features and energetic personalities, which can be integrated into games or entertainment experiences. Type 4 development potential type is the most successful type among virtual imagers, and it is also the purpose of marketing virtual influencers. It is essential that brand endorsement on social media platforms, integrated marketing, and driving advertising traffic. It is recommended to improve production technology to reduce investment costs.

• 커뮤니케이션디자인학연구
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• 제38권
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• pp.312-320
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• 2012

본 연구는 아이폰을 선호하는 사용자의 감성경험디자인 요소의 주관적 관점을 밝히는데 초점을 두었으며 주관성 연구를 위해 Q 방법론을 통해 4개의 유형을 발견할 수 있었다. 제 1 유형은 사용편의성 추구 유형으로 아이폰에 대한 충분한 사용적 이해가 있는 개인의 사용행태에 따른 기능, 이해의 용이성, 물리적 느낌, 사용성 모두를 중요하게 생각하는 사람들로 구성되어 있음을 알 수 있었다. 제 2 유형은 심미성 추구 유형으로 제품의 시각적인 정보에 의한 직관적이고 주관적인 심미적 인상을 중요하시는 유형을 구분되었다. 제 3 유형은 차별적 감성 추구 유형으로 자기 이미지나 자기가 소유한 제품을 통해 다른 이에게 전달하고자 하는 메시지를 중요하게 여기는 유형이며 제 4 유형은 아이폰에 대한 적극적이며 절대적인 선호도를 가지고 있는 유형으로 파악되었다.