• 한국경영과학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.51-69
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• 1996

We consider a consumer self-selection model in which a regulated firm faces two market segments with differing valuation of quality of telecommunication services and examine some economic implications from the behaviors of the firm. In the context of a regulated monopolist, even though the results depend on the degree of privatization, the firm could lower the quality of the low-end model and reduce the price of the high-end in order to alleviate cannibalization. This justifies the provision of universal service policy in the telecommunications market. Based on this self-selection model, we also analyze an extended model of product introduction and show that the monopolist will introduce new product with the same introduction time of social planner. However, when we consider competition among firms, the market equilibrium may not guarantee the efficient time of product introduction.

• 대한전자공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전자공학회 2003년도 신호처리소사이어티 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.393-396
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• 2003

This paper proposes a method to speed up the document image binarization using a water flow model. The proposed method extracts the region of interest (ROI) around characters from a document image and restricts pouring water onto a 3-dimensional terrain surface of an image only within the ROI. The amount of water to be filled into a local valley is determined automatically depending on its depth and slope. Then, the proposed method accumulates weighted water not only on the locally lowest position but also on its neighbors. Finally, the depth of each pond is adaptively thresholded for robust character segmentation. Experimental results on real document images shows that the proposed method has attained good binarization performance as well as remarkably reduced processing time compared with that of the existing method based on a water flow model.

• 한국산업정보학회논문지
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• 제13권4호
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• pp.56-63
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• 2008

얼굴 인식률 향상을 위해서는 전처리 단계에서의 영상 보정이 매우 중요하며, 특히 배경 잡음 제거는 얼굴 인식의 정확도에 중대한 영향을 미친다. 본 논문에서는 얼굴 인식률 향상을 위하여 전처리 단계에서 타원 모델을 이용하여 배경 영역을 제거하는 방법을 제안하였다. 사람의 얼굴 윤곽은 타원의 형태를 나타내기 때문에 얼굴 영상에서 타원 모델을 이용할 경우 얼굴 영역을 용이하게 검출할 수 있다. ETRI, ORL, 및 XM2VTS 얼굴 데이터베이스에 대한 실험 분석을 통하여 제안된 방법이 얼굴 인식 성능을 뚜렷하게 개선시켰음을 알 수 있었다.

• Geomechanics and Engineering
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• 제14권3호
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• pp.293-299
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• 2018

This paper has the aim of estimating the applicability of a numerical approach to the Hyperstatic Reaction Method (HRM) for the analysis of segmental tunnel linings. For this purpose, a simplified three-dimensional (3D) numerical model, using the $FLAC^{3D}$ finite difference software, has been developed, which allows analysing in a rigorous way the effect of the lining segmentation on the overall behaviour of the lining. Comparisons between the results obtained with the HRM and those determined by means of the simplified 3D numerical model show that the proposed HRM method can be used to investigate the behaviour of a segmental tunnel lining.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.621-632
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• 2013

The most important things for a forest fire detection system are the exact extraction of the smoke from image and being able to clearly distinguish the smoke from those with similar qualities, such as clouds and fog. This research presents an intelligent forest fire detection algorithm via image processing by using the Gaussian Mixture model (GMM), which can be applied to detect smoke at the earliest time possible in a forest. GMMs are usually addressed by making the model adaptive so that its parameters can track changing illuminations and by making the model more complex so that it can represent multimodal backgrounds more accurately for smoke plume segmentation in the forest. Also, in this paper, we suggest a way to classify the smoke plumes via a feature extraction using HSL(Hue, Saturation and Lightness or Luminanace) color space analysis.

• 스마트미디어저널
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• 제5권3호
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• pp.30-34
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• 2016

Nowadays, there are a lot of Korean documents, which often need to be identified in one of printed or handwritten text. Early methods for the identification use structural features, which can be simple and easy to apply to text of a specific font, but its performance depends on the font type and characteristics of the text. Recently, the bag-of-words model has been used for the identification, which can be invariant to changes in font size, distortions or modifications to the text. The method based on bag-of-words model includes three steps: word segmentation using connected component grouping, feature extraction, and finally classification using SVM(Support Vector Machine). In this paper, bag-of-words model based method is proposed using SURF(Speeded Up Robust Feature) for the identification of machine printed and handwritten text in Korean documents. The experiment shows that the proposed method outperforms methods based on structural features.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제43권6호
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• pp.369-374
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• 2022

Purpose: Focused ultrasound is an emerging technology for treating the brain locally in a noninvasive manner. In this study, we have investigated the influence of skull properties on simulating transcranial pressure field. Methods: A 3D computational model of transcranial focused ultrasound was constructed using female and male CT data to solve for intracranial pressure. For heterogeneous model, the acoustic properties were calculated from CT Hounsfield units based on a porosity. The homogeneous model assigned constant acoustic properties for the single-layered skull. Results: A computational model was validated against empirical data. The homogeneous models were then compared with the heterogeneous model, resulted in 10.87% and 7.19% differences in peak pressure for female and male models respectively. For the focal volume, homogeneous model demonstrated more than 94% overlap compared with the heterogeneous model. Conclusion: Homogeneous model can be constructed using MR images that are commonly used for the segmentation of the skull. We propose the possibility of the homogeneous model for the simulating transcranial pressure field owing to comparable focal volume between homogeneous model and heterogeneous model.

• 한국병원경영학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.21-33
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• 2012

Purpose : This study aims to suggest application of patients DB to hospital marketing by performing market segmentation and selecting target market. Consequently help to establish suited strategy of marketing. Method : 14,072 patients hospitalized in a University Medical Center were recruited into this study. In order to classify the customer groups, cluster analysis was used with RFM(Recency, Frequency, Monetary) model, and 1-way ANOVA verified the differences among groups. And then, sociodemographical status, healthcare utilization and diagnosis(ICD-10) of each group were compared to draw a marketing strategy. Results : Four groups were classified through clustering analysis, and'high use and high profit' and'low use and high profit' groups were selected as a target market. The features of target market were as follows, the female proportion was high; used a private room; hospitalized through the emergency room; had operation; length of stay was long; had many comorbidity and cooperative treatment. There was difference in each feature of target market: as for the'high use and high profit' group, many patients were diagnosed with 'certain infectious and parasitic diseases'; and as for the'low use and high profit'group, the proportion of patients who purchased'industrial accident compensation insurance'and'auto insurance'was relatively high; many patients were diagnosed with'Injury, poisoning and certain other consequences of external causes'. Conclusion : It is needed to establish'positioning' strategy by monitoring and communicating with'high use and high profit' group. And for the case of'low use and high profit' group, it is necessary to make a follow-up management and lead them to have a medical check-up.

• 정보처리학회논문지:컴퓨터 및 통신 시스템
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.37-44
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• 2020

본 논문에서는 딥 러닝 기반의 전-자동 심장 분할 알고리즘을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 딥 러닝 모델은 기존 U-Net에 residual recurrent convolutional block과 residual multi-dilated convolutional block을 삽입하여 성능을 개선한 모델이다. 모델의 성능은 테스트 데이터 세트를 전-자동 분할한 결과와 영상의학 전문가의 수동 분할 결과를 비교하여 분석하였다. CT 영상에서 평균 96.88%의 DSC, 95.60%의 precision과 97.00%의 recall 결과를 얻었다. 분할된 영상은 3차원 볼륨 렌더링 기법을 적용하여 시각화한 후 관찰하여 분석할 수 있었다. 실험 결과를 통해 제안된 알고리즘이 다양한 심장 하부 구조를 분할하기에 효과적인 것을 알 수 있었다. 본 논문에서 제안하는 알고리즘이 전문의 또는 방사선사의 임상적 보조역할을 수행할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제12권10호
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• pp.1418-1426
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• 2009

주어진 배경 이미지로부터 전경 객체를 분리하는 것을 목표로 하는 배경 차분화 기법에 관한 많은 연구가 있어 왔다. 최근에 발표된 몇 가지 통계 기반 배경 차분화 기법들은 동적인 환경에서 동작할 수 있을 정도로 안정된 성능을 보이는 것으로 보고되고 있다. 그러나 이들 기법은 일반적으로 매우 많은 계산 자원을 요구하며, 객체의 명확한 윤곽을 획득하는데 있어서는 아직 어려움이 있다. 본 논문에서는 점진적으로 변화하는 배경을 모델링하기 위해 복잡한 통계 기법을 적용하는 대신 간단한 이동-평균 기법을 사용한다. 또한 픽셀별로 할당되는 다중의 임계치 대신 유전자 학습에 의해 최적화되는 하나의 전역적 임계치를 사용한다. 유전자 학습을 위해 새로운 적합도 함수를 정의하여 학습하고 이를 이용하여 이미지의 분할 결과들을 평가한다. 본 논문의 시스템은 웹 카메라가 장착된 개인용 컴퓨터에서 구현하였으며, 실사 이미지들에 대한 실험 결과에 의하면 기존의 가우시안 믹스쳐 방식보다 우수한 성능을 보이는 것으로 나타났다.