• Journal of muscle and joint health
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.50-59
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• 2022

Purpose: This qualitative study aimed to explore the experiences of patients with diabetes provided with medication monitoring using an artificial intelligence-based smartwatch. Methods: Giorgi's descriptive phenomenological methodology was applied to collect and analyze data from November 9 to December 23, 2021. The study samples were recruited by convenience sampling, and even patients with diabetes participated in in-depth interviews via video conference and telephone calls or face-to-face visits. Results: Ten sub-themes and four themes were finally revealed. The four themes were as follows: journey with unfamiliar devices, a less-than-acceptable smartwatch, insufficient functions and content for patients with diabetes to use, and efforts for regular medication behaviors and daily monitoring of patient's health conditions. Conclusion: To effectively manage diabetic conditions using digital healthcare technologies, nursing interventions were needed to identify personal needs and consider technological, psychological, aesthetic, and socioeconomic aspects of wearable devices.

• Journal of Arbitration Studies
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• v.32 no.2
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• pp.115-133
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• 2022

This article examines the Practical Suggestions for Promoting of Virtual Hearings in International Arbitration. COVID-19 had an prompt and meaningful impact on the practice of international arbitration. Nevertheless arbitral institutions, arbitral tribunals, and other participants learned quickly how to deal with this new challenge. The use of virtual or online hearings has been gaining popularity during the COVID-19 pandemic. Either with the help of arbitral institutions or by themselves, the parties realized that the only way to safeguard a hearing at all was to run it virtually. In fact, hearings by video conference or other technical means seemed to be the magic solution. One of the leading arbitration institutions, i.e. the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris has amended its Arbitration Rules to accept the subjects of recent international arbitration practice. Other arbitral institutions have similarly amended their respective rules. Many recent and adaptable institutional arbitration rules, either expressly or implicitly, allow for hearings to be conducted remotely. The trend has already been set by the leading institutions as ICC, LCIA, ICSID, SCC SIAC, and many more will follow. In short, enthusiasts of virtual hearings even believe that virtual hearings are "the new normal".

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.79-81
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• 2022

MPEG-VCM(Video Coding for Machines)에서는 머신비전(machine vision) 네트워크의 백본(backbone)에서 추출된 이미지/비디오 특징 압축을 위한 표준화를 진행하고 있다. 현재 VCM 표준기술 탐색 과정에서 가장 좋은 압축 성능을 보이는 MSFC(Multi-Scale Feature compression) 기반 압축 네트워크 모델은 추출된 멀티-스케일 특징을 단일-스케일 특징으로 변환하여 특징맵으로 구성하고 이를 VVC 로 압축한다. 본 논문에서는 MSFC 기반 압축 모델에서 Min-Max 값 시그널링을 제외한 최소-최대(Min-Max) 정규화를 포함한 개선된 특징맵 생성 기법을 제시한다. 즉, 제안기법은 VCM 디코더에서의 특징맵 복원을 위한 Min-Max 값을 학습 기반으로 생성함으로써 Min-Max 시그널링의 비트 오버헤드 절감뿐만 아니라 별도의 시그널링 기제를 생략한 보다 단순한 전송 비트스트림 구성을 가능하게 한다. 실험결과 제안기법은 이미지 앵커(Anchor) 대비 BPP-mAP 성능에서 83.24% BD-rate 이득을 보이며, 이는 기존 MSFC 보다 1.74%정도 다소 떨어지지만 별도의 Min-Max 시그널링 없이도 기존의 성능을 유지할 수 있음을 보인다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.1784-1787
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• 2010

General Purpose Graphic Processing Unit (GPGPU) computing is a technique that utilizes the high-performance many-core processors of high-end graphic cards for general-purpose computations such as 3D graphics, video/image processing, computer vision, scientific computing, HPC and many more. GPGPUs offer a vast amount of raw computing power, but programming is extremely challenging because of hardware idiosyncrasies. The open computing language (OpenCL) has been proposed as a vendor-independent GPGPU programming interface. OpenCL is very close to the hardware and thus does little to increase GPGPU programmability. In this paper we present how a set of digital camera image signal processing (ISP) filters can be realized efficiently on GPGPUs using OpenCL. Although we found ISP filters to be memory-bound computations, our GPGPU implementations achieve speedups of up to a factor of 64.8 over their sequential counterparts. On GPGPUs, our proposed optimizations achieved speedups between 145% and 275% over their baseline GPGPU implementations. Our experiments have been conducted on a Geforce GTX 275; because of OpenCL we expect our optimizations to be applicable to other architectures as well.

• International conference on construction engineering and project management
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• 2022.06a
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• pp.319-327
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• 2022

Robots for construction sites, although not deeply widespread, are finding applications in the duties of project monitoring, material movement, documentation, security, and simple repetitive construction-related tasks. A significant shortcoming in the use of robots is the complexity involved in programming and re-programming an automation routine. Robotic programming is not an expected skill set of the traditional construction industry professional. Therefore, this research seeks to deliver a low-cost approach toward re-programming that does not involve a programmer's skill set. The researchers in this study examined an approach toward programming a terrestrial-based drone so that it follows a taped path. By doing so, if an alternative path is required, programmers would not be needed to re-program any part of the automated routine. Changing the path of the drone simply requires removing the tape and placing a different path - ideally simplifying the process and quickly allowing practitioners to implement a new automated routine. Python programming scripts were used with a DJI Robomaster EP Core drone, and a terrain navigation assessment was conducted. The study examined the pass/fail rates for a series of trial run over different terrains. The analysis of this data along with video recording for each trial run allowed the researchers to conclude that the accuracy of the tape follow technique was predictable on each of the terrain surfaces. The accuracy and predictability inform a non-coding construction practitioner of the optimal placement of the taped path. This paper further presents limitations and suggestions for some possible extended research options for this study.

• Proceedings of the ESK Conference
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• 1997.10a
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• pp.303-309
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• 1997

This study is carried out to investigate performance differences between two alarm presentation methods from the viewpoint of human factors and to provide items to be improved. One of the alarm display methods considered in this study displays alarm lists on VDT combined with hardwired alarm panels. The other method displays alarms on plant mimic diagrams of VDT. This alarm display method has other features for operator aid with which operator can get detailed information on the activated alarm in the mimic diagrams, and the capability for alarm processing such as alarm reduction and prioritization. To compare the twodisplay methods, a human factor experiment was performed with a plant simulator in the ITF(Integrated Test Fcility) that plant operators run for 4 event scenarios. During the experiment, physiological measurements, system and operator action log, and audio/video recordings were collected. Operators' subjective opinion was collected as well after the experiment. Time, error rate and situation awareness were major human factor criteria used for the comparison during the analysis stage of the experiment. No statistical significance was found in the results of our statistical comparison analysis. Several findings were identified, however, through the analysis of subjective opinions.

• Proceedings of the KWS Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.314-319
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• 2002

The Automation and Control Group at the University of Brasilia is developing an automatic welding station based on an industrial robot and a controllable welding machine. Several techniques were applied in order to improve the quality of the welding joints. This paper deals with the implementation of a laser-based computer vision system to guide the robotic manipulator during the welding process. Currently the robot is taught to follow a prescribed trajectory which is recorded a repeated over and over relying on the repeatability specification from the robot manufacturer. The objective of the computer vision system is monitoring the actual trajectory followed by the welding torch and to evaluate deviations from the desired trajectory. The position errors then being transfer to a control algorithm in order to actuate the robotic manipulator and cancel the trajectory errors. The computer vision systems consists of a CCD camera attached to the welding torch, a laser emitting diode circuit, a PC computer-based frame grabber card, and a computer vision algorithm. The laser circuit establishes a sharp luminous reference line which images are captured through the video camera. The raw image data is then digitized and stored in the frame grabber card for further processing using specifically written algorithms. These image-processing algorithms give the actual welding path, the relative position between the pieces and the required corrections. Two case studies are considered: the first is the joining of two flat metal pieces; and the second is concerned with joining a cylindrical-shape piece to a flat surface. An implementation of this computer vision system using parallel computer processing is being studied.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.1188-1191
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• 2011

IPTV 방송에서 인터넷 기반 멀티캐스트는 일대다 또는 다대다 통신을 위한 차세대 중요한 서비스로 주목 받고 있다. 멀티캐스트는 네트워크 또는 애플리케이션 레벨에서 서비스할 수 있다. IP 멀티캐스트는 소스노드에서 라우터로 데이터그램을 보내면 라우터가 이를 복제하여 수신노드들에게 전달해 주는 네트워크레벨 서비스로 네트워크 자원을 효율적 사용할 수 있다. 그러나 네트워크에 IP 멀티캐스트 라우터가 설치되어야 하는 등 여러 문제로 인해 널리 사용되지 못하고 있다. 따라서 대안으로 애플리케이션 레벨에서의 오버레이 멀티캐스트가 주목 받고 있다. 오버레이 멀티캐스트는 종단호스트가 라우터처럼 동작하는 것으로 비록 IP 멀티캐스트에 비해서 링크 사용율과 지연 값이 높아질 수 있지만, IP 멀티캐스트의 현실적인 적용의 어려움을 해결할 수 있는 장점을 가지고 있다. 본 논문에서는 IP 멀티캐스트가 제공되지 않는 네트워크에서 효율적인 SVC(Scalable Video Coding) 멀티미디어 방송서비스와 SSENS(SVC Stream Exchange Network Server) 라우팅을 위한 MST(Minimum Spanning tree)를 목적으로 하는 오버레이 멀티캐스트 트리를 구현하는 알고리즘을 설계한다. 제안된 알고리즘의 성능 분석을 위해 시뮬레이션을 통해 패킷 손실 측면에서 Prim 알고리즘에 비해 평균 패킷 손실율이 40% 가까이 향상됨을 증명하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.27-29
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• 2021

인공지능 기반 머신 비전 응용이 증가함에 따라 사람이 아닌 기계에서 소비되는 영상 정보를 전송하는 요구가 발생하고 있다. 일반적으로 영상 정보를 전송할 때는 전송 비용을 고려하여 정보를 압축하며 기존 영상 압축 방법은 사람의 시각 인지적 특성을 반영하여 설계되었다. 따라서 기존 영상 압축 방법은 기계에서 소비되는 영상 정보를 압축하는 방법으로 적절하지 않다고 판단하여 2019년 7월, 기계를 위한 영상 부호화 기술의 표준화가 시작되었다. 본 논문에서는 머신 비전 태스크 중, 객체 탐지를 수행하는 네트워크의 피처 맵을 압축하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안하는 방법은 피처 맵의 채널 간 중복성을 제거하기 위해 PCA 기반의 변환을 적용하여 피처 맵의 차원을 축소하며 특히 해상도 계층 구조를 갖는 네트워크의 피처 맵을 압축하기 위해 각 해상도 계층간 변환 기저를 예측하여 추가로 압축률을 높인다. 제안하는 방법을 적용하여 객체 탐지 결과의 큰 성능 하락 없이 약 92.3%에 데이터양 감소를 달성하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• fall
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• pp.225-228
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• 2021

최근 모바일 비디오 스트리밍 서비스의 이용자 수가 증가하고 있다. 이에 따라 모바일 환경에 적합한 DASH 비디오 스트리밍 메커니즘이 연구되었고, 이것을 DQN 기법에 의해 개선한 알고리즘은 모바일 네트워크 환경에서 적절한 비디오 품질 선택을 통해 버퍼링을 크게 줄일 수 있었다. 그러나 이는 모바일 요금제로 비디오 스트리밍 서비스를 이용하는 사용자들에게 안정적인 서비스를 제공하기 어렵다. 이에 본 논문은 기존의 DQN 기법에 의한 알고리즘을 발전시켜 사용자의 모바일 요금제에 적합한 비디오 품질을 선택하는 알고리즘을 연구하고 성능 실험 결과를 분석한다. 또한 이 알고리즘을 전체 모바일 비디오 스트리밍 시스템과 통합하여 이용하도록 제안한다.