• Journal of Radiation Protection and Research
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.1-7
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• 2021

Background: The use of computed tomography (CT) device has increased in the past few decades in Japan. Dose optimization is strongly required in pediatric CT examinations, since there is concern that an unreasonably excessive medical radiation exposure might increase the risk of brain cancer and leukemia. To accelerate the process of dose optimization, continual assessment of the dose levels in actual hospitals and medical facilities is necessary. This study presents organ dose estimation using pediatric cerebral CT scans in the Kyushu region, Japan in 2012 and the web-based calculator, WAZA-ARI (https://waza-ari.nirs.qst.go.jp). Materials and Methods: We collected actual patient information and CT scan parameters from hospitals and medical facilities with more than 200 beds that perform pediatric CT in the Kyushu region, Japan through a questionnaire survey. To estimate the actual organ dose (brain dose, bone marrow dose, thyroid dose, lens dose), we divided the pediatric population into five age groups (0, 1, 5, 10, 15) based on body size, and inputted CT scan parameters into WAZA-ARI. Results and Discussion: Organ doses for each age group were obtained using WAZA-ARI. The brain dose, thyroid dose, and lens dose were the highest in the Age 0 group among the age groups, and the bone marrow and thyroid doses tended to decrease with increasing age groups. All organ doses showed differences among facilities, and this tendency was remarkable in the young group, especially in the Age 0 group. This study confirmed a difference of more than 10-fold in organ doses depending on the facility and CT scan parameters, even when the same CT device was used in the same age group. Conclusion: This study indicated that organ doses varied widely by age group, and also suggested that CT scan parameters are not optimized for children in some hospitals and medical facilities.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.1923-1932
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• 2013

본 논문에서는 광각 카메라로 촬영한 영상에서 생기는 영상의 왜곡 문제를 해결하기 위하여, 카메라 모델의 추정과 검증을 통하여 광각 카메라 영상에서의 방사형 왜곡을 보정하는 방법을 제안한다. 먼저, 교정 패턴으로부터 렌즈의 초점 거리와 주점의 위치 등으로 구성된 내부 파라미터와 회전과 위치 정보로 구성된 외부 파라미터를 찾음으로써 카메라의 왜곡 모델을 추정한다. 다음으로, 추정된 카메라 모델로부터 역으로 코너점을 다시 추출하여 검증하고, 마지막으로, 검증된 카메라 모델을 이용하여 영상의 왜곡을 보정한다. 일반 웹 카메라와 광각 카메라로부터 격자 모양의 교정 패턴을 촬영한 영상을 이용하여 방사형 왜곡을 보정하는 실험을 수행한 결과, 제안된 방법이 80% 이상의 개선 성능을 보임을 확인하였다.

• 한국농공학회논문집
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• 제52권1호
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• pp.1-11
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• 2010

Generation and transportation of runoff and pollutant loads within watershed generated eutrophication at Daecheong reservoir. To improve water quality at Daecheong reservoir, the best management practices should be developed and applied at upper watersheds for water quality improvement at downstream areas. In this study, two small watersheds of upper Daecheong reservoir were selected. The Long-Term Hydrologic Impact Assessment (L-THIA) model has been widely used for the estimation of the direct runoff worldwide. To apply the L-THIA ArcView GIS model was evaluated for direct runoff and water quality estimation at small watershed. And the Web-based Hydrograph Analysis Tool (WHAT) was used for direct runoff separating from total flow. As a result, the $R^2$ (Coefficient of determination) value and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient value for direct runoff comparison at An-nae watershed were 0.81 and 0.71, respectively. And the $R^2$ value and Nash-Sutcliffe coefficient value at Wol-oe were 0.95 and 0.93. The $R^2$ value of BOD, TOC, T-N and T-P at An-nae watershed were BOD 0.94, TOC 0.81, T-N 0.94 and T-P 0.89. And the $R^2$ value of BOD, TOC, T-N and T-P at Wol-oe watershed were BOD 0.80, TOC 0.93, T-N 0.86 and T-P 0.65. The result that estimated pollutant loadings using the L-THIA ArcView GIS model reflected well the measured pollutant loadings except for T-P in Wol-oe watershed. With L-THIA ArcView GIS model, the direct runoff and non-point pollutant (NPS) loadings in the watershed could be analyzed through simple input data such as daily rainfall, land uses, and hydrologic soil group.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.467-473
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• 2020

최근 우리나라의 자동차 보급률이 증가함에 따라 교통사고 발생 건수 또한 증가하고 있다. 특히, 차량간 사고뿐만 아니라 횡단보도 근처에서의 인명 사고 또한 증가하고 있어 횡단보도 교통안전에 대한 주의가 더욱 요구되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 NVIDIA Jetson Nano급의 엣지 디바이스를 이용하여 횡단보도에 접근하는 차량을 인식하고 속도를 추정함으로써 횡단보도 주위 안전 상태를 예측하는 시스템을 제안한다. 딥러닝 기반 차량 위치 인식을 통하여 얻은 정보들을 바탕으로 다양한 기계 학습 기법을 학습시켜 차량 속도에 따른 위험 정도를 예측한다. 마지막으로, 실제 주행 영상을 이용한 실험 및 웹 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안하는 시스템의 성능과 활용 가능성을 검증하였다.

• 대한원격탐사학회지
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• 제37권5_3호
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• pp.1435-1446
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• 2021

태풍으로 인한 풍수해는 매년 한반도에 많은 피해를 주고 있다. 재난 발생 시 피해가 최소화 되도록 신속한 의사 결정을 위해서는 예상되는 피해정보와 대피방안 등에 대한 사전 분석이 요구된다. 본 연구에서는 재난단계에 따라 필요한 정보를 제공할 수 있는 분석 모듈을 개발하고자 하였다. 태풍 대비단계에서 활용할 수 있도록 북상 중인 태풍경로와 유사한 과거태풍경로 및 과거피해정보를 확인할 수 있는 기능, 고립 위험 지역을 추출하는 기능, 저수지 붕괴 지역을 추출하는 기능을 개발하였다. 대응 및 복구 초기단계에서 활용할 수 있도록 현 침수심을 고려한 예상침수범위 추출 기능, 인구, 건물, 농지 등에 예상되는 피해정보 분석 기능, 대피정보를 제공하는 기능도 포함하였다. 또한 분석결과 표출을 위해 자동화된 웹 지도 작성 방법을 제시하였다. 분석기능은 파이썬 오픈소스 기반으로 개발하여 모듈화했으며, 웹 표출 기능은 자바스크립트 기반으로 구현하였다. 본 연구에서 개발된 도구들은 풍수해 대비 모니터링과 초기대응 단계에서 신속한 의사결정을 위해 효율적으로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1071-1092
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• 2014

Annotating images with tags that describe the content of the images facilitates image retrieval. However, this task is challenging for both humans and computers. In response, a new approach has been proposed that converts the manual image annotation task into CAPTCHA challenges. However, this approach has not been widely used because of its weak security and the fact that it can be applied only to annotate for a specific type of attribute clearly separated into mutually exclusive categories (e.g., gender). In this paper, we propose a novel image annotation CAPTCHA scheme, which can successfully differentiate between humans and computers, annotate image content difficult to separate into mutually exclusive categories, and generate verified test images difficult for computers to identify but easy for humans. To test its feasibility, we applied our scheme to annotate images of human faces with their age groups and conducted user studies. The results showed that our proposed system, called AgeCAPTCHA, annotated images of human faces with high reliability, yet the process was completed by the subjects quickly and accurately enough for practical use. As a result, we have not only verified the effectiveness of our scheme but also increased the applicability of image annotation CAPTCHAs.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.755-760
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• 2013

The dynamics of the winder roller of a roll-to-roll printing system for printed electronics is a time-varying system because of the variation of the winder roller radius owing to rewinding or unwinding of the web. Therefore, an adaptive control method considering the time-variant characteristics is required for precise tension control. In this study, the variable PID gain method is applied to the actual roll-to-roll system and verified by experiments for unwinder tension control. The required value of the winder roller radius for the application of the variable PID gain is estimated from the measurement of the winder tension and winder motor torque. The simulation results as well as experimental results show that the fixed PID gain control cannot stabilize the tension of the winder roller with varying winder roller radius. On the other hand, the variable PID gain method can control the tension of the winder roller regardless of the winder roller radius.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제23권12호
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• pp.95-102
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• 2006

A product is designed through the collaboration among engineers in several fields such as design, analysis, and manufacturing. These series of functions are performed repeatedly during the design process. An easy access and exchange of the model data is one of the important elements that help to shorten production development time. Especially, the importance of data exchange between CAD and CAE applications is increasing in the field of verification and estimation of the products. However, information and knowledge of model which is generated by a CAD software cannot be transferred by a function of CAE software, as an exchange of product data between CAD and CAE applications. It causes a delay in design analysis and eventually discourages a designer's effort in improving his design. Therefore, we need to integrate a commercial CAD and CAE applications effectively and to use the same interface on a product model obtained in a distributed environment. This paper shows how to implement a model exchange between CAD and CAE by a web-service and how to provide a communication environment among engineers.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.69-76
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• 2009

Self healing systems are considered as cognation-enabled sub form of fault tolerance system. But our experiments that we report in this paper show that self healing systems can be used for performance optimization, configuration management, access control management and bunch of other functions. The exponential complexity that results from interaction between autonomic systems and users (software and human users) has hindered the deployment and user of intelligent systems for a while now. We show that if that exceptional complexity is converted into self-growing knowledge (policies in our case), can make up for initial development cost of building an intelligent system. In this paper, we report the application of AHSEN (Autonomic Healing-based Self management Engine) to in OKKAM Project infrastructure backbone cluster that mimics the web service based architecture of u-Zone gateway infrastructure. The 'blind' load division on per-request bases is not optimal for distributed and performance hungry infrastructure such as OKKAM. The approach adopted assesses the active threads on the virtual machine and does resource estimates for active processes. The availability of a certain server is represented through worker modules at load server. Our simulation results on the OKKAM infrastructure show that the self healing significantly improves the performance and clearly demarcates the logical ambiguities in contemporary designs of self healing infrastructures proposed for large scale computing infrastructures.

• 한국수자원학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국수자원학회 2008년도 학술발표회 논문집
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• pp.2276-2280
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• 2008

가뭄은 강우의 시기별 지역별 불균형으로 인해 발생하며 한 계절에서 1년, 길게는 수년 동안 지속되는 시간 특성을 가지면서 그 시작과 끝을 명확하게 정의하기가 힘들고 지속적으로 누적된 효과가 천천히 나타난다. 이러한 가뭄의 관리를 위해서는 시간적인 가뭄의 발생과 공간적인 가뭄의 분포를 파악하는 것이 중요하며, 가뭄의 진행상황이나 심도를 정의할 수 있는 객관적인 기준을 통해 수행할 수 있을 것이다. 토양수분가뭄지수(Soil Moisture Drought Index)는 식생에 영향을 주는 가뭄을 판단하기 위한 지표로서 강수량, 기온, 풍속, 습도, 토양물리 특성자료를 바탕으로 산정된다. 본 연구에서 사용한 토양수분가뭄지수는 가뭄 상태를 유효수분백분율의 50%이하일 때로 정의하고, 지속기간(duration), 크기(magnitude), 강도 (severity)의 세 가지 기준을 이용하여 가뭄을 분석하였다. 이 지수는 일별 모의가 가능하고 자연 상태의 가뭄표시, 선행적인 가뭄제시, 단기적인 가뭄평가 이라는 장점을 가진다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 웹 기반 GIS를 이용하여 실시간으로 표준유역 단위별 토양수분가뭄지수를 산정하고 이를 통해 가뭄을 평가할 수 있는 방안을 제시하고자 한다.