• Journal of Aerospace System Engineering
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.41-47
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• 2024

Recently, as the practical application and commercialization of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is pursued, interest in ensuring the safety of the UAV is increasing. Because UAV accidents can result in property damage and loss of life, it is important to develop technology to prevent accidents. For this reason, a technique to detect the abnormal flight state of UAVs has been developed based on the AutoEncoder model. However, the existing detection technique is limited in terms of performance and real-time processing. In this paper, we propose a U-Net based abnormal flight detection technique. In the proposed technique, abnormal flight is detected based on the increasing rate of Mahalanobis distance for the reconstruction error obtained from the U-Net model. Through simulation experiments, it can be shown that the proposed detection technique has superior detection performance compared to the existing detection technique, and can operate in real-time in an on-board environment.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.409-418
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• 2021

The land cover map is a very important data that is used as a basis for decision-making for land policy and environmental policy. The land cover map is mapped using remote sensing data, and the classification results may vary depending on the acquisition time of the data used even for the same area. In this study, to overcome the classification accuracy limit of single-period data, multi-series satellite images were used to learn the difference in the spectral reflectance characteristics of the land surface according to seasons on a U-Net model, one of the deep learning algorithms, to improve classification accuracy. In addition, the degree of improvement in classification accuracy is compared by comparing the accuracy of single-period data. Seoul, which consists of various land covers including 30% of green space and the Han River within the area, was set as the research target and quarterly Sentinel-2 satellite images for 2020 were aquired. The U-Net model was trained using the sub-class land cover map mapped by the Korean Ministry of Environment. As a result of learning and classifying the model into single-period, double-series, triple-series, and quadruple-series through the learned U-Net model, it showed an accuracy of 81%, 82% and 79%, which exceeds the standard for securing land cover classification accuracy of 75%, except for a single-period. Through this, it was confirmed that classification accuracy can be improved through multi-series classification.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.36 no.6_2
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• pp.1579-1590
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• 2020

In this paper, spatially-adaptive denormalization (SPADE) based U-Net is proposed to detect changes by using high-resolution satellite images. The proposed network is to preserve spatial information using SPADE. Change detection methods using high-resolution satellite images can be used to resolve various urban problems such as city planning and forecasting. For using pixel-based change detection, which is a conventional method such as Iteratively Reweighted-Multivariate Alteration Detection (IR-MAD), unchanged areas will be detected as changing areas because changes in pixels are sensitive to the state of the environment such as seasonal changes between images. Therefore, in this paper, to precisely detect the changes of the objects that consist of the city in time-series satellite images, the semantic spatial objects that consist of the city are defined, extracted through deep learning based image segmentation, and then analyzed the changes between areas to carry out change detection. The semantic objects for analyzing changes were defined as six classes: building, road, farmland, vinyl house, forest area, and waterside area. Each network model learned with KOMPSAT-3A satellite images performs a change detection for the time-series KOMPSAT-3 satellite images. For objective assessments for change detection, we use F1-score, kappa. We found that the proposed method gives a better performance compared to U-Net and UNet++ by achieving an average F1-score of 0.77, kappa of 77.29.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.269-282
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to construct land cover maps using a deep learning model and to select the optimal deep learning model for land cover classification by adjusting the dataset such as input image size and Stride application. Two types of deep learning models, the U-net model and the DeeplabV3+ model with an Encoder-Decoder network, were utilized. Also, the combination of the two deep learning models, which is an Ensemble model, was used in this study. The dataset utilized RapidEye satellite images as input images and the label images used Raster images based on the six categories of the land use of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as true value. This study focused on the problem of the quality improvement of the dataset to enhance the accuracy of deep learning model and constructed twelve land cover maps using the combination of three deep learning models (U-net, DeeplabV3+, and Ensemble), two input image sizes (64 × 64 pixel and 256 × 256 pixel), and two Stride application rates (50% and 100%). The evaluation of the accuracy of the label images and the deep learning-based land cover maps showed that the U-net and DeeplabV3+ models had high accuracy, with overall accuracy values of approximately 87.9% and 89.8%, and kappa coefficients of over 72%. In addition, applying the Ensemble and Stride to the deep learning models resulted in a maximum increase of approximately 3% in accuracy and an improvement in the issue of boundary inconsistency, which is a problem associated with Semantic Segmentation based deep learning models.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.120.2-120.2
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• 2011

최근 북반구 하늘에 대한 SDSS 관측으로부터 우리은하 주변에서 다수 발견된 Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (uFDs)는 우주의 차가운 암흑물질 (CDM) 이론에서 예측한 질량이 작은 위성은하의 후보로 알려져 있다. 특히 이 uFDs는 역학적 특성과 관련하여 특이한 특징을 갖는 것으로 알려져 있다. 그러나 아직 그 수가 충분하지 않아 더 많은 수의 uFDs의 발견이 기대되고 있다. 이 연구에서는 남반구에서 가동이 시작된 남반구 전천 탐사 망원경 SkyMapper와 향후 가동하게 될 KMT-Net를 이용하여 남반구 하늘에서 SDSS 보다 더 1~2 등급 깊은 관측을 수행하여 다수의 더 어두운 uFDs를 탐색하고, 그 은하와 CDM의 특성을 연구함으로써 우리은하뿐만 아니라 우주의 구조와 진화에서의 CDM의 역할을 규명하는 프로젝트를 제안하려한다. 이 연구에서는 SkyMapper와 KMT-Net의 상호 역할, 관측전략, 기대효과 등 제반사항을 논의하려 한다.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.1-16
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• 2022

Despite recent breakthroughs in deep learning and computer vision fields, the pixel-wise identification of tiny objects in high-resolution images with complex disturbances remains challenging. This study proposes a modified U-net for tiny crack segmentation in real-world steel-box-girder bridges. The modified U-net adopts the common U-net framework and a novel Self-Attention-Self-Adaption (SASA) neuron as the fundamental computing element. The Self-Attention module applies softmax and gate operations to obtain the attention vector. It enables the neuron to focus on the most significant receptive fields when processing large-scale feature maps. The Self-Adaption module consists of a multiplayer perceptron subnet and achieves deeper feature extraction inside a single neuron. For data augmentation, a grid-based crack random elastic deformation (CRED) algorithm is designed to enrich the diversities and irregular shapes of distributed cracks. Grid-based uniform control nodes are first set on both input images and binary labels, random offsets are then employed on these control nodes, and bilinear interpolation is performed for the rest pixels. The proposed SASA neuron and CRED algorithm are simultaneously deployed to train the modified U-net. 200 raw images with a high resolution of 4928 × 3264 are collected, 160 for training and the rest 40 for the test. 512 × 512 patches are generated from the original images by a sliding window with an overlap of 256 as inputs. Results show that the average IoU between the recognized and ground-truth cracks reaches 0.409, which is 29.8% higher than the regular U-net. A five-fold cross-validation study is performed to verify that the proposed method is robust to different training and test images. Ablation experiments further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SASA neuron and CRED algorithm. Promotions of the average IoU individually utilizing the SASA and CRED module add up to the final promotion of the full model, indicating that the SASA and CRED modules contribute to the different stages of model and data in the training process.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.24 no.7
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• pp.849-859
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• 2021

Prostate cancer (PCa) is a fatal disease that occurs in men. In general, PCa cells are found in the prostate gland. Early diagnosis is the key to prevent the spreading of cancers to other parts of the body. In this case, deep learning-based systems can detect and distinguish histological patterns in microscopy images. The histological grades used for the analysis were benign, grade 3, grade 4, and grade 5. In this study, we attempt to use transfer learning and fine-tuning methods as well as different model architectures to develop and compare the models. We implemented MobileNet, ResNet50, and DenseNet121 models and used three different strategies of freezing layers techniques of fine-tuning, to get various pre-trained weights to improve accuracy. Finally, transfer learning using MobileNet with the half-layer frozen showed the best results among the nine models, and 90% accuracy was obtained on the test data set.

• Smart Media Journal
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.59-70
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• 2020

This paper presents a fully automatic tool to recognize the liver region from CT images based on a deep learning model, namely Multiple Filter U-net, MFUnet. The advantages of both U-net and Multiple Filters were utilized to construct an autoencoder model, called MFUnet for segmenting the liver region from computed tomograph. The MFUnet architecture includes the autoencoding model which is used for regenerating the liver region, the backbone model for extracting features which is trained on ImageNet, and the predicting model used for liver segmentation. The LiTS dataset and Chaos dataset were used for the evaluation of our research. This result shows that the integration of Multiple Filter to U-net improves the performance of liver segmentation and it opens up many research directions in medical imaging processing field.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2019.05a
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• pp.522-524
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• 2019

In spite of a rapid development in the quality of built-in mobile cameras, their some physical restrictions hinder them to achieve the satisfactory results of digital single lens reflex (DSLR) cameras. In this work we propose an end-to-end deep learning method to translate ordinary images by mobile cameras into DSLR-quality photos. The method is based on the framework of generative adversarial networks (GANs) with several improvements. First, we combined the U-Net with DenseNet and connected dense block (DB) in terms of U-Net. The Dense U-Net acts as the generator in our GAN model. Then, we improved the perceptual loss by using the VGG features and pixel-wise content, which could provide stronger supervision for contrast enhancement and texture recovery.

• Korean Journal of Remote Sensing
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• v.39 no.6_3
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• pp.1693-1705
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• 2023

Rural areas, which account for about 90% of the country's land area, are increasing in importance and value as a space that performs various public functions. However, facilities that adversely affect residents' lives, such as livestock facilities, factories, and solar panels, are being built indiscriminately near residential areas, damaging the rural environment and landscape and lowering the quality of residents' lives. In order to prevent disorderly development in rural areas and manage rural space in a planned manner, detection and monitoring of hazardous facilities in rural areas is necessary. Data can be acquired through satellite imagery, which can be acquired periodically and provide information on the entire region. Effective detection is possible by utilizing image-based deep learning techniques using convolutional neural networks. Therefore, U-Net model, which shows high performance in semantic segmentation, was used to classify potentially hazardous facilities in rural areas. In this study, KOMPSAT ortho-mosaic optical imagery provided by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute in 2020 with a spatial resolution of 0.7 meters was used, and AI training data for livestock facilities, factories, and solar panels were produced by hand for training and inference. After training with U-Net, pixel accuracy of 0.9739 and mean Intersection over Union (mIoU) of 0.7025 were achieved. The results of this study can be used for monitoring hazardous facilities in rural areas and are expected to be used as basis for rural planning.