• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.49-57
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• 2008

The performance of crash cushion systems is certified through the full scale crash tests by the standard for installation and maintenance guidelines for roadside safety appurtenance. The impact severities of impacting vehicles in collision with crash cushion systems are rated by indices THIV and PHD. Crash test results are considered to study the performance of three crash cushion systems. In case of the frontal impact or the offset frontal impact, the results show that THIV values of three systems are very close to the threshold limit for the occupant protection. Also, the results show that PHD would be improper for the occupant protection performance index. In order to improve the occupant protection performance of crash cushions, ASI needs to be included in the impact severity index.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 1999.11a
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• pp.464-467
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• 1999

Usually, more reference signatures result in better performance in signature verification. However, registering .many signatures may be a tedious work for users, so algorithms that use less signatures for the registration without increasing error rate is needed. In this paper, we find the features such as pen-down duration, the number of locally minimum velocity points, and the number of locally maximum curvature points. Then we find the relationship between these features and the optimal decision boundary. We apply this relationship in deciding threshold for signature verification. Experimental results show that the method using three reference signatures has almost same error rate as algorithms with many references.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.29 no.5
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• pp.348-354
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• 2008

Segmenting vessels in lower extremity CT images is very difficult because of gray level variation, connection to bones, and their small sizes. Instead of segmenting vessels, we propose an approach that segments bones and subtracts them from the original CT images. The subtracted images can contain not only connected vessel structures but also isolated vessels, which are very difficult to detect using conventional vessel segmentation methods. The proposed method initially grows a 3-dimensional (3D) volume with a seeded region growing (SRG) using an adaptive threshold and then detects junctions and forked branches. The forked branches are classified into either bone branches or vessel branches based on appearance, shape, size change, and moving velocity of the branch. The final volume is re-grown by collecting connected bone branches. The algorithm has produced promising results for segmenting bone structures in several tens of vessel-enhanced CT image data sets of lower extremities.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.9
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• pp.4355-4374
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• 2018

Crowd escape event detection has become one of the hottest problems in intelligent surveillance filed. When the 'escape event' occurs, pedestrians will escape in a disordered way with different velocities and directions. Based on these characteristics, this paper proposes a Direction-Collectiveness Model to detect escape event in crowd scenes. First, we extract a set of trajectories from video sequences by using generalized Kanade-Lucas-Tomasi key point tracker (gKLT). Second, a Direction-Collectiveness Model is built based on the randomness of velocity and orientation calculated from the trajectories to express the movement of the crowd. This model can describe the movement of the crowd adequately. To obtain a generalized crowd escape event detector, we adopt an adaptive threshold according to the Direction-Collectiveness index. Experiments conducted on two widely used datasets demonstrate that the proposed model can detect the escape events more effectively from dense crowd.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.23-28
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• 1985

In this paper, the the duration of horizontall saccadic eye movement is studied alls measurement system is designed using microprocessor to obtain the quantitized data The duration is measured using the beginning and ending points of the saccadic velocity threshold. The results obtained are as follows. 1. The average duration of the saccade for angle displacement of 0$^{\circ}$ to 20$^{\circ}$ lies between 25 and 60 msec, and represents the increasing curve except 9$^{\circ}$ and 12$^{\circ}$ 2. The average duration lfor angle displacement of 5$^{\circ}$,10$^{\circ}$,15$^{\circ}$, and 20$^{\circ}$ is 40, 48, 57.5, and 62 msec, respectively. 3. Nasal movement has a little longer duration than temporeal movement. 4. The duration is not concerned with subject's will.

• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.37-44
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• 1999

Spectral characteristic of Kyeongju earthquake occurred on the June 2, 1999 with magnitude 3,4 is analyzed. It is guessed that the stress energy release of source within relatively short period caused the ground near the epicenter to vibrate with large amplitude for the magnitude and predominantly high frequency. The cumulative absolute velocity and average spectrum acceleration are 0.034 gsec and 0.118g, respectively lower than threshold values of potential earthquake damage which is consistent with the investigation of damage in field. The analysis of the acceleration records of Kyeongju earthquake shows the need to develop the ration criterion for the determining the operating basis earthquake of nuclear power plant.

• Journal of computational fluids engineering
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.20-27
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• 2007

Two-dimensional stagnation flow toward a plane wall coated with magnetic fluid of uniform thickness is investigated. The flow field is represented as a similarity solution of the Navier-Stokes equation for this incompressible laminar flow. The resulting third order ordinary differential equation is solved numerically by using the shooting method and by determining two shooting parameters so as to satisfy the boundary and interface conditions. Features of the flow including streamline patterns are investigated for the varying values of density ratio, viscosity ratio, and Reynolds number. An adverse flow with double eddy pair in magnetic fluid region is found to emerge as the Reynolds number becomes higher than a threshold value. The results for the interface velocity, interface and wall shear stress, and boundary layer and displacement thickness are also presented.

• Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.199-206
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• 2013

An emergency monitoring system for the elderly, which uses acceleration data measured with an accelerometer, angular velocity data measured with a gyroscope, and heart rate measured with an electrocardiogram, is proposed. The proposed fall detection algorithm uses multiple parameter combinations in which all parameters, calculated using tri-axial accelerations and bi-axial angular velocities, are above a certain threshold within a time period. Further, we propose an emergency detection algorithm that monitors the movements of the fallen elderly person, after a fall is detected. The results show that the proposed algorithms can distinguish various types of falls from activities of daily living with 100% sensitivity and 98.75% specificity. In addition, when falls are detected, the emergency detection rate is 100%. This suggests that the presented fall and emergency detection method provides an effective automatic fall detection and emergency alarm system. The proposed algorithms are simple enough to be implemented into an embedded system such as 8051-based microcontroller with 128 kbyte ROM.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Surface Engineering Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.63-63
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• 2001

As a new approach to substitute for a hard alloy of stellite 6B containing Co which is radioactive in nuclear system, a hard-phase coating of CrN will be applicable to protect 12Cr steel from erosion at leading edge on steam turbine blade. The CrN coating was prepared by arc ion plating on 12 Cr steel and was undertaken in liquid impact test at the velocity of 35Om/sec, which simulate the environment in the last stage of blade. The erosion resistance of coating was evaluated by optical observation on damaged surface. The threshold number of impact was closely related with surface hardness. And thus, it was confirmed that surface hardening improves the life time of steam turbine blade.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Visualization
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.31-39
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• 2023

Sloshing of the fluid having a free surface produces an impact force on a tank wall subjected to external excitation. This paper investigates the effect of cylindrical structures in a rectangular sloshing tank under translational harmonic excitations. By varying the number of installed cylinders in the tank, the characteristics of the free-surface deformation is experimentally observed, and the peak pressure on the tank wall is extracted by threshold values. To predict the peak pressure, the numerical simulation is also conducted using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), and the peak values are compared with the experimental results. Furthermore, pressure and velocity fields in the tank and free-surface shape are analyzed at the moment of impact.