• 대한치과기공학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.65-69
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• 2008

Recently, zirconia is widely used in the field of dental ceramics thanks to the proliferation of CAD/CAM systems. Accordingly, different types of zirconia block are being solid in the market. However, there are no precise, objective standards for properties of zirconia. This study concerns the flexural strength of zirconia ceramic for CAD/CAM block. The test specimens used for this study were ZirBlank(Acucera), ZirBlank shade(Acucera), VITA, Cercon(Densply) and Cerasys. The test results suggest that ZirBlank shade block shows the highest flexural strength and density among the zirconia blocks tested. Its flexural strength was $971{\pm}58MPa$ and its density was 99.89%. On the other hand, Cerasys block shows the lowest flexural strength of $576{\pm}36MPa$ and the lowest density of 94.85%. Given all, the density of the specimens is found to be directly proportional to strength and inversely to grain size.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제20권8호
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• pp.1452-1459
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• 2016

압축 센싱은 샤논/나이퀴스트 표본화 정리를 만족하는 나이퀴스트 율 보다 더 적은 수의 표본화 주파수로 신호를 획득하더라도 그 신호가 성긴 신호라는 조건 하에 샘플링을 가능하게 하는 신호 처리 기술이다. 일반적으로 측정 예측방식은 작은 블록 크기에서 성능이 좋은 반면에 복원 이미지 품질은 큰 블록으로 복원하는 것이 좋다. 이러한 두 개의 상충하는 속성을 해결하기 위해 압축 센싱은 작은 블록에서 행해지고, 복원은 큰 블록에서 수행하게 되는 구조화된 측정 행렬을 사용하며, 이러한 방법으로 예측과 복원 모두 동시에 개선을 추구한다. 본 논문에서는 구조화된 측정 행렬을 확장함으로써 블록 크기에 따른 다양한 방식이 비교되어진다. 다양한 실험 결과를 통해 $4{\times}4$ 하다마드 행렬을 이용한 구조화된 측정 행렬이 블록 크기가 4의 크기에서 가장 좋은 성능을 보여주었다.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.1405-1409
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• 2004

본 논문은 H.264/AVC의 전체 부호화 과정의 큰 부분을 차지하는 블록 모드 결정의 연산량을 효율적으로 줄이면서도 영상의 화질을 감소시키지 않는 블록 모드 결정 알고리즘을 연구한다. 움직임 추정의 연산량 감소를 위해 매크로블록을 8$\times$8 보다 큰 블록 모드와 8$\times$8 보다 작은 블록 모드로 영역을 예측하여 모든 블록 모드 결정의 연산량을 줄인다. 여기서 8$\times$8 보다 작은 블록은 중요한 움직임 정보나 급격한 외각선의 경계를 포함 가능성이 높으므로 정확한 움직임 추정이 필요하다. 이를 위하여 8$\times$8 블록내 모든 블록 크기에 대해서 $RDC_{M\timesN}$를 구하고 가장 작은 $RDC_{M\timesN}$를 갖는 블록을 선택한다. 이때 $RDC_{M\timesN}$의 결정을 위하여 SATD와 이웃하는 탐색 블록의 화소값 평균의 차이를 이용한 움직임 강도를 사용하는 방식을 제안한다. 제안된 알고리즘은 매크로블록 내에서 블록 모드의 결정을 고속으로 수행하면서도 정확한 움직임 추정 및 보상을 가능하게 한다.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제33권3호
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• pp.299-309
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• 2011

Energy consumption is a key issue in body sensor networks (BSNs) since energy-constrained sensors monitor the vital signs of human beings in healthcare applications. In this paper, packet size optimization for BSNs has been analyzed to improve the efficiency of energy consumption. Existing studies on packet size optimization in wireless sensor networks cannot be applied to BSNs because the different operational characteristics of nodes and the channel effects of in-body and on-body propagation cannot be captured. In this paper, automatic repeat request (ARQ), forward error correction (FEC) block codes, and FEC convolutional codes have been analyzed regarding their energy efficiency. The hop-length extension technique has been applied to improve this metric with FEC block codes. The theoretical analysis and the numerical evaluations reveal that exploiting FEC schemes improves the energy efficiency, increases the optimal payload packet size, and extends the hop length for all scenarios for in-body and on-body propagation.

• Journal of Electrical Engineering and information Science
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• 제2권6호
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• pp.138-145
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• 1997

This paper proposes an adaptive algorithm for the quantization step size control of MPEG-2, using the information obtained from the previously encoded picture. Before quantizing the DCT coefficients, the properties of reconstruction error of each macro block (MB) is predicted from the previous frame. For the prediction of the error of current MB, a block with the size of MB in the previous frame are chosen by use of the motion vector. Since the original and reconstructed images of the previous frame are available in the encoder, we can calculate the reconstruction error of this block. This error is considered as the expected error of the current MB if it is quantized with the same step size and bit rate. Comparing the error of the MB with the average of overall MBs, if it is larger than the average, small step size is given for this MB, and vice versa. As a result, the error distribution of the MB is more concentrated to the average, giving low variance and improved image quality. Especially for the low bit application, the proposed algorithm gives much smaller error variance and higher PSNR compared to TM5 (test model 5).

• 인터넷정보학회논문지
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• 제7권5호
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• pp.71-79
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• 2006

GNUnet은 파일의 익명성 지원을 위해 파일을 1KB블록크기로 분리하는 인코딩 방법을 채택하였고, 인코딩된 블록을 비구조적인 분산기법을 통해 피어들에게 분산시키고 있다. 하지만 이러한 인코딩 및 블록 분산 방안은 약 600$\sim$700MB의 대용량 멀티미디어 파일을 처리할 경우 첫째, 추가적으로 R블럭과 I블럭을 과도하게 요구하게 되어 약 4%의 저장공간을 낭비하는 문제를 지니고 있다. 둘째, 비구조적 브로드캐스팅 분산방법 때문에 네트워크 부하가 과도한 단점을 내포하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 문제점 해결을 위하여 인코딩 블록의 크기를 가변적으로 결정하는 방법과 구조적 위상을 통해 블록을 분산시키는 방안을 제안하였다. 제안 인코딩 방법은 추가 블록 생성을 1%이내로 최소화하였고, 분리된 블록의 분산을 위해 지정된 피어로 질의를 보내는 구조적 위상을 채택하여 블록 요청에서 발생하는 네트워크 부하를 감소시켰다.

• 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 제어로봇시스템학회 2004년도 ICCAS
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• pp.678-681
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• 2004

In this paper, efficient tracking of a moving object using optimal representative blocks is implemented by a mobile robot with a pan-tilt camera. The key idea comes from the fact that when the image size of moving object is shrunk in an image frame according to the distance between the camera of mobile robot and the moving object, the tracking performance of a moving object can be improved by changing the size of representative blocks according to the object image size. Motion estimation using Edge Detection(ED) and Block-Matching Algorithm(BMA) is often used in the case of moving object tracking by vision sensors. However these methods often miss the real-time vision data since these schemes suffer from the heavy computational load. In this paper, the optimal representative block that can reduce a lot of data to be computed, is defined and optimized by changing the size of representative block according to the size of object in the image frame to improve the tracking performance. The proposed algorithm is verified experimentally by using a two degree-of-freedom active camera mounted on a mobile robot.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.41-57
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• 2006

The purpose of this study were to provide dress forms and men's jacket blocks based on the analysis of their somatotype. As the result of the previous research, based on 1290 males of 20 to 54 year-old, the shapes of adult male were 20 and each body shape was classified by size factor, height and chest girth and master size was selected considering appearance frequency. Somatotype YS(master size: height 170cm, chest girth 91cm) and HD1(master size: height 170cm, chest girth 94cm) were selected to develop dress forms and men's jacket block in the study. The procedure and results were follows; 1. The dress forms of somatotype YS and HD1 were provide base on means of 61 body measurements and cross sections of shoulder, chest, waist, hip of subjects belong to each somatotype. 2. New men's jacket blocks of somatotype YS and HD1 were developed based on the body surface extracted by draping and the result of comparative investigation on the conventional jacket patterns by wearing test. Also the drafting methods of new men's jacket blocks were provided. 3. Wearing test by the sensory evaluation showed that the developed jacket blocks were estimated more highly than existing patterns.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.288-301
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• 2017

In this paper, we propose an optimized algorithm for texture classification by computing a completed modeling of the local binary pattern (CLBP) instead of the traditional LBP of a scalable block size in an image. First, we show that the CLBP descriptor is a better representative than LBP by extracting more information from an image. Second, the CLBP features of scalable block size of an image has an adaptive capability in representing both gross and detailed features of an image and thus it is suitable for image texture classification. This paper successfully implements a machine learning scheme by applying the CLBP features of a scalable size to the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier. The proposed scheme has been evaluated on Outex and CUReT databases, and the evaluation result shows that the proposed approach achieves an improved recognition rate compared to the previous research results.

• 전자공학회논문지S
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• 제35S권2호
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• pp.97-105
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• 1998

Subband/DCT coding has been introduced in order to transmit images of various resultions using one given image-codec, for nowadays there are various grades of quality in visual communication services. However, subband/DCT results in the increawse of multiplication number and memory size. In order to resolve this problem, we propose block-based subband/DCT coding in this paper. In block-based subband/DCT, the number of multiplications is not only reduced because we combine subband decomposistion with DCT, but the size of memory is also reduced because images can be parallel-processed block by block. We show that the number of multiplications is reduced, by analyzing the property ofblock-based subband/DCT matrix mathematically, and examine the performance of proposed coder, which adopts JPEG as backhand-coder after block-based subband/DCT.