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Wireless image processing based management system the driver of the vehicle (무선 영상처리 기반의 차량 운전자 관리 시스템)

  • Seo, Ji-Hwan;Lee, Jae-Hyun;Kang, Sung-In;Shin, Dong-Suk;Kim, Kwan-Hyung
    • Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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    • v.13 no.11
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    • pp.2349-2354
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    • 2009
  • Due to growth of electronics and control devices, automation and situational awareness systems have been applied by automobile. Vision systems with the introduction of unmanned system being actively developed, but are still high price and visual information is passed through the cable, because of cars are difficult to install. In this paper, can be installed inside the car at low-cost, simple image processing device through a wireless communication know the obstacles and the alarm system based on Zigbee wireless communication, infrared and ultrasonic sensors to monitor the situation through with easy parking cars outside the system design was implemented.

Overview of Seismic Loads and Application of Local Code Provisions for Tall Buildings in Baku, Azerbaijan

  • Choi, Hi Sun;Sze, James;Ihtiyar, Onur;Joseph, Leonard
    • International Journal of High-Rise Buildings
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.65-71
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    • 2014
  • Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, has seen a boom in construction in recent years. The old Baku city has been rapidly transforming into a new hub of high-rise buildings and lively cultural centers hosting the Euro Vision Song Contest in 2012 and European Games in 2015. A major population shift to Baku from its suburbs and the countryside has resulted in the doubling of Baku's population in the 4 years between 2009 and 2013. As of January 2013, Baku's population reached four million people, 43% of the citizens in Azerbaijan according to The State Statistical Committee of Azerbaijan. With this trend, the city needs more high-rise buildings to accommodate rapidly increasing demands for more housing and business space. Until the Azerbaijan Seismic Building Code was published in 2010 and became effective, many different seismic criteria, in terms of building codes and seismic intensities, were used for all new high-rise projects in Baku. Some designers used the SNIP (Russian) code with seismic level 9 or level 8 with 1 point penalty. Others used the Turkish code with Seismic Zone 1, UBC 97 with Zone 2 through 4, or IBC with Sa = 0.75 g through 1.0 g. The seismic intensity is now clarified with the Azerbaijan Seismic Building Code. However, the Azerbaijan Seismic Building Code is appropriate for low-rise buildings applications but may be inappropriate for high-rise project applications. This is because the code-defined response spectrum yields unrealistically conservative seismic forces for high-rise buildings with long periods, as compared to those determined by other internationally accepted building codes. This paper provides observations and recommendations for code-based seismic load assessment of high-rise buildings in the Baku area.

The Development of Maintenance Process in Long-Life Housing (장수명 공동주택 유지관리를 위한 프로세스 구축에 대한 연구)

  • Ji, Jang-Hun;Kim, Soo-Am;Yoon, Sang-Cho
    • Journal of the Korean housing association
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.115-124
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    • 2010
  • The environment which has been destroyed for the national growth since 1960's would seem to offer infinite resources to human, but now, the existence of human being is threatened by the development thoughtless for the environment. The World Powers have concentrated on green growth with eco-friendly resource since the end of 20th century. Korea suggested that the vision was the low carbon for green growth in 2008. It is necessary to supply Long-Life Housing in the green technology in terms of the sustainable housing development based on various life style, life cycle of the residences, the restrain remodeling and redevelopment in construction. This study is aim to establish the development of maintenance process to make continuous inhabitation of Long-Life Housing that has the separated SI for maintenance, durability, variability and remodeling. The maintenance for Long-Life Housing is very important to have more than 50~70 years the long term of life cycle in comparison with Housing. Also, the roles of manager and user are important parts in Long-Life Housing. The present maintenance for Housing is shift and repair works by the routine maintenance and demage. However, The maintenance for Long-Life Housing should consider movement and flexibility. In addition, Long-Life Housing requires the proper process of maintenance because it is different from Housing in housing concept, design and constructions stage. Therefore this study shows the efficient maintenance process for Long-Life Housing.

A Comparison Study on the Importance and Problems of Assessment Items of the G-SEED System (G-SEED 평가항목별 중요도 및 문제점 비교연구)

  • Jang, Hyun-Sook;Lee, Sang-Ho
    • KIEAE Journal
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.113-120
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    • 2014
  • The Green growth has been demanded in all industrial sectors due to environmental destruction and exhaustion of natural resources. Buildings have consumed 1/3 of the total energy and 40% of natural resources and have accounted for 50% of $CO_2$ emissions and 30-50% of waste materials. In 1991, BREEAM(Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method) of the British BRE(Building Research Establishment) had begun reduction of $CO_2$ emissions and energy saving movements, in which all the countries around the world have participated. The Republic of Korea has taken part in this trend by declaring a "National Vision in the Green Growth" in 2008 and implementing regulations on "Low Carbon, Green Growth" in 2010. G-SEED(Green Standard for Energy and Environmental Design) based on GBCS(Green Building Certification System) has been actively promoted for its application. This study has limited its scope to G-SEED office buildings. It has conducted surveys of problems and assessment items of the G-SEED identified in the preceding study by the AHP(Analytic hierarchy process) method. The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparison analysis of problems and ranking of evaluation items recognized in the survey and to be presented as reference materials for G-SEED system improvements at its next amendments.

Development of Evaluation Factor of Certification System for Korean Green Road -Focused on Design/Construction Stage of Expressway and National Highway- (한국형 녹색도로인증시스템 평가요소 개발 - 고속도로 및 국도 건설단계 중심 -)

  • Park, Jae-Woo;Lee, Du-Heon;Koo, Jai-Dong;Noh, Kwan-Sub
    • Korean Journal of Construction Engineering and Management
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    • v.15 no.6
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    • pp.16-25
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    • 2014
  • Recent national policy agenda of 'Low-Carbon Green Growth' has been implemented as the important vision of the country. The government has set a target of entering the seven major world powers of Green Nation at 2020, and five major world powers at 2050. In order to achieve the goal, the reduction of greenhouse gases and the composition of green land and transportation has been promoted as an important policy. In a construction industry sector, policies and technologies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and energy have been actively developed. In the case of developed countries, research for green road infrastructure has been conducted, which is the basis for certification system of green highway. This paper benchmarks the policies and cases of developed countries, verifies the applicability in the domestic road sector, and suggests the introduction of the certification system of green highway.

User Authentication Method using EEG Signal in FIDO System (FIDO 시스템에서 EEG 신호를 이용한 사용자 인증 방법)

  • Kim, Yong-Ki;Chae, Cheol-Joo;Cho, Han-Jin
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.465-471
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    • 2018
  • Recently, biometric technology has begun to be used as a fusion of IT technology and financial system. Using this biometric technology, FIDO(Fast Identity Online) technology, Samsung and Apple started Samsung Pay and Apple Pay service. FIDO authentication technology replaces existing authentication methods such as passwords. Among the biometric technologies, fingerprint recognition technology is attracting attention because it can minimize the device and user rejection at a relatively low price. However, fingerprint information has a limited number of users and it can not be reused if fingerprint information is leaked by an external attacker. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method to authenticate a user using EEG signal which is one of biometrics technologies. W propose a method to use EEG signal measurement value in FIDO system by using convenience channel by using short channel EEG device. And propose a method to utilize EEG signal when the user recognizes a specific entity by measuring the EEG signal before and after recognizing a specific entity.

Real-time 3D Volumetric Model Generation using Multiview RGB-D Camera (다시점 RGB-D 카메라를 이용한 실시간 3차원 체적 모델의 생성)

  • Kim, Kyung-Jin;Park, Byung-Seo;Kim, Dong-Wook;Kwon, Soon-Chul;Seo, Young-Ho
    • Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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    • v.25 no.3
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    • pp.439-448
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    • 2020
  • In this paper, we propose a modified optimization algorithm for point cloud matching of multi-view RGB-D cameras. In general, in the computer vision field, it is very important to accurately estimate the position of the camera. The 3D model generation methods proposed in the previous research require a large number of cameras or expensive 3D cameras. Also, the methods of obtaining the external parameters of the camera through the 2D image have a large error. In this paper, we propose a matching technique for generating a 3D point cloud and mesh model that can provide omnidirectional free viewpoint using 8 low-cost RGB-D cameras. We propose a method that uses a depth map-based function optimization method with RGB images and obtains coordinate transformation parameters that can generate a high-quality 3D model without obtaining initial parameters.

Image Tracking Based Lane Departure Warning and Forward Collision Warning Methods for Commercial Automotive Vehicle (이미지 트래킹 기반 상용차용 차선 이탈 및 전방 추돌 경고 방법)

  • Kim, Kwang Soo;Lee, Ju Hyoung;Kim, Su Kwol;Bae, Myung Won;Lee, Deok Jin
    • Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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    • v.39 no.2
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    • pp.235-240
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    • 2015
  • Active Safety system is requested on the market of the medium and heavy duty commercial vehicle over 4.5ton beside the market of passenger car with advancement of the digital equipment proportionally. Unlike the passenger car, the mounting position of camera in case of the medium and heavy duty commercial vehicle is relatively high, it is disadvantaged conditions for lane recognition in contradiction to passenger car. In this work, we show the method of lane recognition through the Sobel edge, based on the spatial domain processing, Hough transform and color conversion correction. Also we suggest the low error method of front vehicles recognition in order to reduce the detection error through Haar-like, Adaboost, SVM and Template matching, etc., which are the object recognition methods by frontal camera vision. It is verified that the reliability over 98% on lane recognition is obtained through the vehicle test.

A Case Study on the Visually Impaired Elementary Students' Conception of Dissolution (시각장애 초등학생의 용해 개념에 대한 사례 연구)

  • Kim, Hak Bum;Baek, Sangsu;Cha, Jeongho
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.57 no.4
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    • pp.507-514
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    • 2013
  • In this study, the characteristics of visually impaired elementary students' conceptions on dissolution were investigated. The semi-structured interviews about phenomenon of dissolution, uniformity of solution, conservation of mass on dissolving and volume change during dissolving were conducted with 4 fifth-grade elementary students with visual impairments (three were blind, and one had low-vision). Interviews were recorded and the data were analyzed after transcription. As a result, students with visual impairments knew well about the phenomenon of dissolution, uniformity of solution, and conservation of mass on dissolving, while they couldn't explain volume change during dissolving. Although students with visual impairments were found to have similar level of understanding with students without visual impairments, they had sounder understanding about uniformity of solution. However, students with visual impairments had superficial understanding based on phenomenal experiences. Some of students with visual impairments tried to give micro-level explanation. Based on these results, educational implications were discussed.

A hardware architecture based on the NCC algorithm for fast disparity estimation in 3D shape measurement systems (고밀도 3D 형상 계측 시스템에서의 고속 시차 추정을 위한 NCC 알고리즘 기반 하드웨어 구조)

  • Bae, Kyeong-Ryeol;Kwon, Soon;Lee, Yong-Hwan;Lee, Jong-Hun;Moon, Byung-In
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.99-111
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    • 2010
  • This paper proposes an efficient hardware architecture to estimate disparities between 2D images for generating 3D depth images in a stereo vision system. Stereo matching methods are classified into global and local methods. The local matching method uses the cost functions based on pixel windows such as SAD(sum of absolute difference), SSD(sum of squared difference) and NCC(normalized cross correlation). The NCC-based cost function is less susceptible to differences in noise and lighting condition between left and right images than the subtraction-based functions such as SAD and SSD, and for this reason, the NCC is preferred to the other functions. However, software-based implementations are not adequate for the NCC-based real-time stereo matching, due to its numerous complex operations. Therefore, we propose a fast pipelined hardware architecture suitable for real-time operations of the NCC function. By adopting a block-based box-filtering scheme to perform NCC operations in parallel, the proposed architecture improves processing speed compared with the previous researches. In this architecture, it takes almost the same number of cycles to process all the pixels, irrespective of the window size. Also, the simulation results show that its disparity estimation has low error rate.