• Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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• 제41권5호
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• pp.1115-1128
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• 2023

In this paper, a novel hybrid method for multi-focus image fusion is proposed. The method combines the advantages of wavelet transform-based methods and focus-measure-based methods to achieve an improved fusion result. The input images are first decomposed into different frequency sub-bands using the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). The focus measure of each sub-band is then calculated using the Laplacian of Gaussian (LoG) operator, and the sub-band with the highest focus measure is selected as the focused sub-band. The focused sub-band is sharpened using an unsharp masking filter to preserve the details in the focused part of the image.Finally, the sharpened focused sub-bands from all input images are fused using the maximum intensity fusion method to preserve the important information from all focus images. The proposed method has been evaluated using standard multi focus image fusion datasets and has shown promising results compared to existing methods.

• 한국인쇄학회지
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.67-74
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• 1988

Absorption rates of oxygen in water soluble inks on the printing rollers were measured. As a results of experiments, could be obtained the data of rates of absorption of oxygen in 4 kinds of water soluble inks, and found the difference of absorption rate of oxygen on the parallel plates and rotating rolles.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.156-165
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• 2014

This paper is the first investigation on the effect of flow control methods on the part load performance in a spark ignition engine. For comparison of the methods, two control devices, port throttling and masking, were applied to a conventional engine without any design change of the intake port. Steady flow evaluation shows that steady flow rates per unit opening area and swirl ratio are very low compared with the port throttling and saturated from mid-stage valve lift, however, swirl increases slightly as the lift is higher in case of 1/4 masking control. In the part load performance, the effect of simple port throttling on lean misfire limit expansion is limited and insufficient; on the other hand a masking improves the limit considerably without any port modification for increasing swirl. Also the results show that the intake flow control improves the combustion with following two mechanisms: stratification induced by the combination of the flow pattern and the fuel injection timing attribute to ignition ability and the intensified flow ensure fast burn. In addition fuel consumption reduces under the flow controls and the reduction rate is different according to the operation conditions and control methods. At the Stoichiometric and/or low speed and low load the throttling method is more advantageous; however vice versa at lean and high load condition. Finally, the throttling is more efficient for HC reduction than masking, on the other side the NOx emissions increase under the masking and decrease under the port throttling compared with conventional port scheme.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2002년도 정기총회 및 학술대회
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• pp.163-168
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 워터마크의 기본적인 요구사항인 비가시성(invisibility)을 유지하면서 강인함(robustness)을 최대로 하기 위해 워터마크를 삽입할 때 인간시각 특성(Human Visual System, HVS)을 이용한다. 특히, 주파수 마스킹(frequency masking), 공간 마스킹(spatial masking), 그리고 움직임 마스킹(motion masking)을 결합한 전역마스킹(global masking) 기법을 제안한다. 주파수 마스킹은 프레임을 DCT 변환한 후 주파수 민감도 표(frequency sensitivity table)를 이용해 위치 정보를 구한다. 공간 마스킹은 밝기(luminance) 및 윤곽선(edge) 정보를 이용해서 구하며. 움직임 마스킹은 이웃하는 프레임간의 움직임 변화를 이용하여 프레임간의 상관성을 고려한다. 본 논문에서는 키(key) 값에 의해 발생된 랜덤시퀀스와 로고의 배타적 논리합(exclusive OR)에 의해 결합된 워터마크를 전역 마스킹 결과에 따라 압축되지 않은 비디오 프레임에 직접 적용했으며, 실험을 통해 MPEG 부호화 및 재부호화 공격에 대해서 제안한 방법이 강인함을 확인했다.

• 한국음향학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국음향학회 2000년도 하계학술발표대회 논문집 제19권 1호
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• pp.335-336
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• 2000

A psychoacoustic model based noise shaping method is proposed, where noise's presence with a host signal will not be perceptually noticeable. The derivation of imperceptible noise levels from the masking thresholds of the signal involves a deconvolution associated with the spreading function in the psychoacoustic model, which results in an ill-conditioned problem. In this paper, the problem is formulated as a constrained optimization, and it is demonstrated that the solution provides noise shaping where the noise excitation level conforms to the masking thresholds of the signal.

• 응용통계연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.127-136
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• 2011

본 연구에서는 통계기관에서 마이크로자료를 제공할 때, 연속형 변수를 마스킹하는 기법으로 잘 알려진 승법잡음모형을 적용하는 경우 원자료의 평균과 분산을 유지할 수 있는 변수 변환 방안을 제시하고, 제시된 방법의 적절성과 다양한 잡음생성 분포에 따른 마스킹자료의 유용성을 검토하였다. 아울러 여러 변수들을 대상으로 승법잡음모형을 적용하는 경우 변수들 간의 상관관계를 유지하기 위해서는 잡음생성과정에서 어떤 측면이 고려되어야 하는지 살펴보았다. 본 연구에서는 제시된 변수 변환 방법의 적절성과 자료의 유용성 등을 평가하기 위해 우리나라 가계조사자료를 이용한 모의실험을 수행하였다.

• 한국정보과학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정보과학회 2001년도 봄 학술발표논문집 Vol.28 No.1 (A)
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• pp.82-84
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• 2001

Real-Time Linux는 기존의 Linux에 실시간 기능을 추가한 것으로서, 태스크 스케줄링 방법은 우선순위 기반의 스케줄링 방법을 사용한다. 그러나, 태스크의 개수가 많아지면 가장 높은 우선순위의 태스크를 찾는데 걸리는 시간이 태스크 개수에 비례해서 많이 걸린다. 이러한 이유로 태스크의 개수가 제한적일 수밖에 없다. 본 논문에서는 우선순위별로 서로 다른 목록을 유지하고, Bit Masking 기법을 사용함으로써 가장 높은 우선순위 태스크를 선택하는데 걸리는 시간을 상수시간으로 줄이고 각 태스크들의 시그널을 처리하는 부분을 좀더 효율적으로 처리하도록 함으로써 Real-Time Linux의 실시간 스케줄링 기능을 개선하였다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.2961-2967
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• 2014

최근 CCTV의 영상정보 공개시 타인의 영상에 대해서는 모자이크 처리하여 식별이 불가능하도록 하는 개인정보 보호법이 발표되었다. 반면에 CCTV를 통하여 획득된 영상 데이터를 활용한 범죄 수사는 점차 더 많이 활용되고 있는 추세이다. 이렇게 상반된 2가지의 요구사항에 의해 촬영된 CCTV 동영상을 수사기관 등의 기관에서 요청할 경우 개인정보(개인 얼굴 이미지 등)을 마스킹(Masking)해 배포함으로써 개인정보 유출을 차단하는 마스킹/ 언마스킹 솔루션에 대한 시장의 요구가 크게 성장할 것으로 예측된다. 정보주체가 정보열람 의뢰기관에 정보를 요구하기 전에 객체에 대한 선별 마스킹을 하기 위한 정보보호 솔루션에 있어서 가장 핵심되는 기술은 객체에 대한 추적기술이다. 본 논문에서는 CCTV영상에 대한 후처리로써의 정보보호 솔루션에 적합한 객체추적 알고리즘을 제안한다. 안정적인 추적이 가능하도록 하기 위해 움직임정보와 색상정보를 함께 사용하였다. 그러면서도 시간이 많이 걸리지 않는 컬러 중심점 이동(Color Centroid Shifting) 기반의 방법을 사용하여 추적의 속도 성능을 높였다.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.227-232
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• 2008

The masking effect of chlorine on algae-related taste and odor(T&O) compounds has long been an important issue for water suppliers. In this study, masking experiments with chlorine were performed on two kinds of treated water and one of raw water. After adding chlorine(0 to 0.8 mg/L) to water samples, odor intensity was evaluated by a newly developed sensory method(2-out-of-5 odor test) for three days along with the measurement of residual chlorine concentration. Even though the relationship between the residual chlorine concentration and odor reported by the sensory analysts was not always coincident, it was proved that residual chlorine more than a certain concentration could completely mask both added geosmin and naturally occurring T&O compounds. For the sand-filtered water spiked with 10 ng/L of geosmin, 0.12-0.18 mg/L of residual chlorine was necessary to achieve complete masking. In the case of GAC-filtered water, 10 ng/L of spiked geosmin was completely masked by 0.15-0.1 mg/L of residual chlorine. Combined ozone and GAC was not enough to treat raw water spiked with 300 ng/L of geosmin. In this experiment, sensory analysts were able to detect earthy or musty odors from the treated water. From a masking experiment with raw water taken from the Daechung Reservoir, it was found that fishy odor was more difficult to mask with chlorine than earthy odor. As the chlorine residual declined, the analysts began to notice the original odor and the fishy odor was noticed earlier than the earthy odor.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권7호
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• pp.2938-2956
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• 2020

Objective image quality assessment (IQA) models have been developed by effective features to imitate the characteristics of human visual system (HVS). Actually, HVS is extremely sensitive to color degradation and complex texture changes. In this paper, we firstly reveal that many existing full reference image quality assessment (FR-IQA) methods can hardly measure the image quality with contrast and masking texture changes. To solve this problem, considering texture masking effect, we proposed a novel FR-IQA method, called Texture and Color Quality Index (TCQI). The proposed method considers both in the masking effect texture and color visual perceptual threshold, which adopts three kinds of features to reflect masking texture, color difference and structural information. Furthermore, random forest (RF) is used to address the drawbacks of existing pooling technologies. Compared with other traditional learning-based tools (support vector regression and neural network), RF can achieve the better prediction performance. Experiments conducted on five large-scale databases demonstrate that our approach is highly consistent with subjective perception, outperforms twelve the state-of-the-art IQA models in terms of prediction accuracy and keeps a moderate computational complexity. The cross database validation also validates our approach achieves the ability to maintain high robustness.