• Smart Media Journal
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.64-71
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• 2019

The performance of an OMR (Optical Music Recognition) system is usually determined by the characterizing features of the input music score images. Low resolution is one of the main factors leading to degraded image quality. In this paper, we handle the low-resolution problem using the super-resolution technique. We propose the use of a deep neural network with instance normalization to improve the quality of music score images. We apply instance normalization which has proven to be beneficial in single image enhancement. It works better than batch normalization, which shows the effectiveness of shifting the mean and variance of deep features at the instance level. The proposed method provides an end-to-end mapping technique between the high and low-resolution images respectively. New images are then created, in which the resolution is four times higher than the resolution of the original images. Our model has been evaluated with the dataset "DeepScores" and shows that it outperforms other existing methods.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.729-738
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• 2019

Recently, we aim to improve the quality of virtual reality contents based on quantitative analysis results of emotions through combination of emotional recognition field and virtual reality field. Emotions are analyzed based on the participant's vital signs. Much research has been done in terms of signal analysis, but the methodology for quantifying emotions has not been fully discussed. In this paper, we propose a normalization function design and expression method to quantify the emotion between various bio - signals. Use the Brute force algorithm to find the optimal parameters of the normalization function and improve the confidence score of the parameters found using the true and false scores defined in this paper. As a result, it is possible to automate the parameter determination of the bio-signal normalization function depending on the experience, and the emotion can be analyzed quantitatively based on this.

• Journal of Korean Institute of Industrial Engineers
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• v.40 no.1
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• pp.140-150
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• 2014

University ranking models, though they consider multiple indicators to evaluate universities, determine the overall score of each university based on their own normalization and aggregation methods. Thus, the rankings provided by such models primarily depend on actual scores of evaluation indicators, but they are also significantly affected by the normalization and aggregation methods. We examine the normalization methods of four university ranking models used in South Korea, China, and United Kingdom. We discuss a possible unintended consequence of these methods, i.e., some universities who want to improve their rankings may focus on unnecessary indicators, contrary to the evaluator's intension, due to the normalization methods. We suggest a new normalization method based on the statistical characteristics of the distribution of each evaluation indicator so that the new method can motivate the universities to move into the desirable directions intended by the evaluator.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.45-60
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• 2018

Research performance evaluation in Korean universities follows strict guidelines that specify scoring systems for publication venue categories and formulas for co-authorship credit allocation. To find out how the standards differ across universities and how they differ from bibliometric research evaluation measures, this study analyzed 25 standards from major Korean universities and rankings produced by applying standards and bibliometric measures such as publication and citation counts, normalized impact score, and h-index to the publication data of 195 tenure-track professors of library and information science departments in 35 Korean universities. The study also introduced a novel impact score normalization method to refine the methodology from prior studies. The results showed the university standards to be mostly similar to one another but quite different from citation-driven measures, which suggests the standards are not quite successful in quantifying the quality of research as originally intended.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.34 no.5_6
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• pp.187-194
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• 2007

A local alignment algorithm does comparing two strings and finding a substring pair with size l and similarity s. To find a pair with both sufficient size and high similarity, existing normalization approaches maximize the ratio of the similarity to the size. In this paper, we introduce normalization by functions that maximizes f(s)/g(l), where f and g are non-decreasing functions. These functions, f and g, are determined by experiments comparing DNA sequences. In the experiments, our normalization by functions finds appropriate local alignments. For the previous algorithm, which evaluates the similarity by using the longest common subsequence, we show that the algorithm can also maximize the score normalized by functions, f(s)/g(l) without loss of time.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.36 no.2_1
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• pp.199-215
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• 2020

A seagrass that is marine vascular plants plays an important role in the marine ecosystem, so periodic monitoring ofseagrass habitatsis being performed. Recently, the use of dronesthat can easily acquire very high-resolution imagery is increasing to efficiently monitor seagrass habitats. And deep learning based on a convolutional neural network has shown excellent performance in semantic segmentation. So, studies applied to deep learning models have been actively conducted in remote sensing. However, the segmentation accuracy was different due to the hyperparameter, various deep learning models and imagery. And the normalization of the image and the tile and batch size are also not standardized. So,seagrass habitats were segmented from drone-borne imagery using a deep learning that shows excellent performance in this study. And it compared and analyzed the results focused on normalization and tile size. For comparison of the results according to the normalization, tile and batch size, a grayscale image and grayscale imagery converted to Z-score and Min-Max normalization methods were used. And the tile size isincreased at a specific interval while the batch size is allowed the memory size to be used as much as possible. As a result, IoU was 0.26 ~ 0.4 higher than that of Z-score normalized imagery than other imagery. Also, it wasfound that the difference to 0.09 depending on the tile and batch size. The results were different according to the normalization, tile and batch. Therefore, this experiment found that these factors should have a suitable decision process.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2011.05a
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• pp.460-460
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• 2011

국내에서는 수자원 정보화 사업에 일환으로 국가수자원종합정보시스템(WAMIS)을 개발하여 수자원에 관련된 많은 기초 자료 정보를 일반에 공개 제공하고 있으나, 주 이용 계층은 수자원관련 종사자 또는 연구자들이 대부분이다. 국가수자원종합정보시스템에서 제공하는 양질의 수자원 정보를 일반 국민들이 보다 쉽게 이해하고, 이용할 수 있도록 국내에서는 이들 기초자료를 바탕으로 다양한 수자원 지표 및 지수를 개발하였다. 이러한 수자원 관련 지표 및 지수를 개발하기 위해서는 서로 다른 단위와 특성을 가진 자료들을 모아 하나의 지표로 정의하는 과정이 필요하며, 하나의 지표로 정의되기 위해서는 반드시 표준화(normalization)과정이 필요하다. 국내에서 가장 보편적으로 사용하고 있는 방법은 Z-score법이며, 이외에도 가장 단순하고 간단한 방법인 Ranking 법, 자료의 극값(최대값, 최소값)을 이용하는 Re-scaling법, 일정 지표를 기준으로 하는 Distance to a reference country법 등이 있다. 표준화 방법은 각기 다른 장 단점을 가지고 있으며, 그 특성에 따라 정의되는 지표값은 다르게 나타날 수 있기에 지수값의 변화를 야기시킬 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 기 개발된 물이용안전성지수를 이용하여 기존 분석과 다양한 표준화 방법을 이용하여 지표를 산정하였을 때 표준화 방법에 따른 변화를 분석해 보고자 한다. 기존 연구에서 사용된 표준화 방법은 Z-score법이며, 다른 표준화 방법을 적용해 봄으로서 기존 산정 결과와의 차이를 비교 분석하였다. 지수를 구성하는 세부지표에 따라 수집되는 기초자료의 단위 및 특성은 다양하기 때문에 적합한 표준화 방법을 찾는 과정은 매우 중요하며, 이는 지표를 보다 정확하게 산정할 수 있도록 한다. 합리적인 표준화 방법을 통해 올바른 지수를 도출할 수 있고 객관적으로 수자원 환경을 평가할 수 있으며, 또한 수자원 계획 및 정책 개발에 있어 중요한 기준으로서 적용 할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.1007-1017
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• 2019

Currently, most biometrics system authenticates users by using single biometric information. This method has many problems such as noise problem, sensitivity to data, spoofing, a limitation of recognition rate. One method to solve this problems is to use multi biometric information. The multi biometric authentication system performs information fusion for each biometric information to generate new information, and then uses the new information to authenticate the user. Among information fusion methods, a score-level fusion method is widely used. However, there is a problem that a normalization operation is required, and even if data is same, the recognition rate varies depending on the normalization method. A rank-level fusion method that does not require normalization is proposed. However, a existing rank-level fusion methods have lower recognition rate than score-level fusion methods. To solve this problem, we propose a rank-level fusion method with higher recognition rate than a score-level fusion method using correlation coefficient. The experiment compares recognition rate of a existing rank-level fusion methods with the recognition rate of proposed method using iris information(CASIA V3) and face information(FERET V1). We also compare with score-level fusion methods. As a result, the recognition rate improve from about 0.3% to 3.3%.

• Korean Journal of Mathematics
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.943-953
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• 2020

A university grades input system requires for professors to enter the normalized total scores for the letter grades and to input the scores from six fields such as Midterm, Final, Quiz which sum up to the total. All six fields have specified bounds which add up to 100. Professors should scale in the total scores to match up the letter grades and scale in every field of each student's original scores within the bounds to sum up to the scaled total score. We solve this problem by a novel design of simple shallow neural network.

• IE interfaces
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.314-322
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• 2011

This study analyzes a relationship between Data Envelopment Analysis(DEA) efficiency scores and a normalization index in order to examine the validity of DEA models. A normalization index concerned in this study is 'sales per R&D project fund' which is regarded as a crucial R&D project performance evaluation index in practice. For this correlation analysis, three distinct DEA models are selected such as DEA basic model, DEA/AR-I revised model(i.e. DEA basic model with Acceptance Region Type I constraints) and Super-Efficiency(SE) model. Especially, SE model is adopted where efficient R&D projects(i.e. Decision Making Units, DMU's) with DEA efficiency score of unity from DEA basic model can be further differentiated in ranks. Considering the non-normality and outliers, two rank correlation coefficients such as Spearman's ${\rho}_s$ and Kendall's ${\tau}_B$ are investigated in addition to Pearson's ${\gamma}$. With an up-to-date empirical massive dataset of n = 482 R&D projects associated with R&D Loan Program of Korea Information Communication Promotion Fund in the year of 2011, statistically significant (+) correlations are verified between the normalization index and every model's DEA efficiency scores with all three correlation coefficients. Especially, the congruence verified in this empirical analysis can be a useful reference for enhancing the practitioner's acceptability onto DEA efficiency scores as a real-world R&D project performance evaluation index.