• 한국군사과학기술학회지
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• 제25권3호
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• pp.219-230
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• 2022

In implementing a robust automatic target recognition(ATR) system with synthetic aperture radar(SAR) imagery, one of the most important issues is accurate classification of target variants, which are the same targets with different serial numbers, configurations and versions, etc. In this paper, a deep learning network with channel attention modules is proposed to cope with the recognition problem for target variants based on the previous research findings that the channel attention mechanism selectively emphasizes the useful features for target recognition. Different from other existing attention methods, this paper employs the channel attention modules without dimensionality reduction along the channel direction from which direct correspondence between feature map channels can be preserved and the features valuable for recognizing SAR target variants can be effectively derived. Experiments with the public benchmark dataset demonstrate that the proposed scheme is superior to the network with other existing channel attention modules.

• 한국융합학회논문지
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• 제11권12호
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• pp.15-22
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• 2020

본 논문은 채널 강조(Channel Attentin)와 공간 강조(Spatial Attention) 방법을 결합한 딥 러닝 기반의 초해상도 방법을 제안하였다. 초해상도 과정에서 질감, 특징과 같은 주변 픽셀의 변화량이 큰 고주파 성분의 복원이 중요하다. 채널 강조와 공간 강조를 결합한 특징 강조를 이용한 초해상도 방법을 제안하였다. 기존의 CNN(Convolutional Neural Network) 기반의 초해상도 방법은 깊은 네트워크의 학습이 어려우며, 고주파 성분의 강조가 부족하여 윤곽선이 흐려지거나 왜곡이 발생한다. 문제를 해결하기 위해 스킵-커넥션(Skip Connection)을 적용한 채널 강조와 공간 강조를 결합한 강조 블록과 잔차 블록(Residual Block)을 사용하였다. 방법으로 추출한 강조된 특징 맵을 부-픽셀 컨볼루션(Sub-pixel Convolution)을 통해 특징맵을 확장하여 초해상도를 진행하였다. 이를 통해 기존의 SRCNN과 비교하여 약 PSNR는 5%, SSIM은 3% 향상되었으며 VDSR과 비교를 통해 약 PSNR는 2%, SSIM은 1% 향상된 결과를 보였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제14권11호
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• pp.4426-4442
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• 2020

Since scene segmentation is becoming a hot topic in the field of autonomous driving and medical image analysis, researchers are actively trying new methods to improve segmentation accuracy. At present, the main issues in image semantic segmentation are intra-class inconsistency and inter-class indistinction. From our analysis, the lack of global information as well as macroscopic discrimination on the object are the two main reasons. In this paper, we propose a Densely connected residual Attention network (DA-Res2Net) which consists of a dense residual network and channel attention guidance module to deal with these problems and improve the accuracy of image segmentation. Specifically, in order to make the extracted features equipped with stronger multi-scale characteristics, a densely connected residual network is proposed as a feature extractor. Furthermore, to improve the representativeness of each channel feature, we design a Channel-Attention-Guide module to make the model focusing on the high-level semantic features and low-level location features simultaneously. Experimental results show that the method achieves significant performance on various datasets. Compared to other state-of-the-art methods, the proposed method reaches the mean IOU accuracy of 83.2% on PASCAL VOC 2012 and 79.7% on Cityscapes dataset, respectively.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제21권5호
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• pp.29-49
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• 2022

Consumers are now no longer satisfied with using a single channel to shop and then desire a smooth and consistent purchasing experience across channels. By integrating different channels and services, an omni-channel strategy allows consumers to choose their preferred channel to complete their shopping tasks. Therefore, large retailers in China have recently been transforming into omni-channel retail formats to secure their competitive advantage. To better implement this strategy and optimize its effectiveness, it is important to understand how consumers respond to the quality of channel integration. Based on social exchange theory (SET), the main purposes of this study are to explore the impact of channel integration quality on consumer engagement in the Chinese omni-channel retailing environment and to further examine whether there is a moderating effect of consumer empowerment on this relationship. To test this research model, we collected data from 330 respondents by conducting an online questionnaire in China. The results indicated that the two dimensions of channel integration (breadth of channel-service choice and transparency of channel-service configuration) positively affected two dimensions of customer engagement (conscious attention and enthusiastic participation), respectively. The findings also show that consumer empowerment only positively moderates the relationship between breadth of channel service choice and conscious attention, whereas it negatively moderates the relationship between transparency of channel-service configuration and conscious attention/enthusiastic participation. Given these results, this study deepens our understanding of the impact of the quality of channel integration on customer engagement in the context of omni-channel retailing in China and sheds light on how retailers can attract consumers with different levels of empowerment.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.544-564
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• 2022

Underwater images often suffer from color distortion, blurring and low contrast, which is caused by the propagation of light in the underwater environment being affected by the two processes: absorption and scattering. To cope with the poor quality of underwater images, this paper proposes a multiscale fusion underwater image enhancement method based on channel attention mechanism and local binary pattern (LBP). The network consists of three modules: feature aggregation, image reconstruction and LBP enhancement. The feature aggregation module aggregates feature information at different scales of the image, and the image reconstruction module restores the output features to high-quality underwater images. The network also introduces channel attention mechanism to make the network pay more attention to the channels containing important information. The detail information is protected by real-time superposition with feature information. Experimental results demonstrate that the method in this paper produces results with correct colors and complete details, and outperforms existing methods in quantitative metrics.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권6호
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• pp.2115-2127
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• 2021

Although significant progress has been made in synthesizing visually realistic face images by Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), there still lacks effective approaches to provide fine-grained control over the generation process for semantic facial attribute editing. In this work, we propose a novel cross channel self-attention based generative adversarial network (CCA-GAN), which weights the importance of multiple channels of features and archives pixel-level feature alignment and conversion, to reduce the impact on irrelevant attributes while editing the target attributes. Evaluation results show that CCA-GAN outperforms state-of-the-art models on the CelebA dataset, reducing Fréchet Inception Distance (FID) and Kernel Inception Distance (KID) by 15~28% and 25~100%, respectively. Furthermore, visualization of generated samples confirms the effect of disentanglement of the proposed model.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제12권2호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2023

Influencer advertising, which has gained significant attention in academia and industry, is widely adopted as a digital marketing strategy. This study empirically analyzes the impact of perceived influencer channel attributes and ad attributes on the suitability of advertisements and their effects on consumers' positive and negative advertising behaviors. The research aims to identify various factors that can enhance the effectiveness of influencer advertising. The results reveal that among the influencer channel attributes, informativeness and intimacy have a positive impact on ad suitability, while ad clutter has a negative impact. Additionally, ad-influencer fit positively affect ad attention and negatively influences ad avoidance. Based on these findings, companies can enhance the effectiveness of influencer advertising by first selecting influencers who align well with the advertisement and emphasizing informativeness and emotional bonding to improve ad suitability. Moreover, the study suggests that influencer advertising strategies can be effective as long as they avoid excessive ad clutter, as it diminishes ad suitability. Marketing practitioners and advertising planners can utilize these insights to formulate more effective influencer advertising strategies.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송∙미디어공학회 2021년도 하계학술대회
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• pp.335-338
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• 2021

본 논문에서는 기존 AHDRNet에 channel attention 기법을 적용했을 때 성능에 어떠한 변화가 있는지를 평가하였다. 기존 모델의 병합 망에 존재하는 DRDB(Dilated Residual Dense Block) 사이, 그리고 DRDB 내의 확장된 합성곱 레이어 (dilated convolutional layer) 뒤에 또다른 합성곱 레이어를 추가하는 방식으로 channel attention 기법을 적용하였다. 데이터셋은 Kalantari의 데이터셋을 사용하였으며, PSNR(Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio)로 비교해본 결과 기존의 AHDRNet의 PSNR은 42.1656이며, 제안된 모델의 PSNR은 42.8135로 더 높아진 것을 확인하였다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.757-770
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• 2022

Palmprint recognition has drawn increasingly attentions in the past decade due to its uniqueness and reliability. Traditional palmprint recognition methods usually use high-resolution images as the identification basis so that they can achieve relatively high precision. However, high-resolution images mean more computation cost in the recognition process, which usually cannot be guaranteed in mobile computing. Therefore, this paper proposes an improved low-resolution palmprint image recognition method based on residual networks. The main contributions include: 1) We introduce a channel attention mechanism to refactor the extracted feature maps, which can pay more attention to the informative feature maps and suppress the useless ones. 2) The ResStage group structure proposed by us divides the original residual block into three stages, and we stabilize the signal characteristics before each stage by means of BN normalization operation to enhance the feature channel. Comparison experiments are conducted on a public dataset provided by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieve a rank-1 accuracy of 98.17% when tested on low-resolution images with the size of 12dpi, which outperforms all the compared methods obviously.

• 방송공학회논문지
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• 제25권6호
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• pp.898-910
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• 2020

컴퓨터 비전에서 단일 영상 기반의 초고해상도 영상 복원의 중요성과 확장성으로 관련 분야에서 많은 연구가 진행되어 왔으며, 최근 딥러닝에 대한 관심이 증가하면서 딥러닝을 활용한 단안 영상 기반 초고해상도 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 대부분의 딥러닝을 기반으로 하는 단안 영상 기반 초고해상도 복원 연구는 복원 성능을 향상시키기 위해 네트워크의 구조, 손실 함수, 학습 방법에 초점이 맞추어 연구가 진행되었다. 한편, 딥러닝 네트워크를 깊게 쌓지 않고 초고해상도 영상 복원 성능을 향상시키기 위해 추출된 특징 맵을 강조하는 Attention Module에 대한 연구가 다양한 분야에 적용되어 왔다. Attention Module은 다양한 관점에서 네트워크의 목적에 맞는 특징 정보를 강조 및 스케일링 한다. 본 논문에서는 초고해상도 복원 네트워크를 기반으로 다양한 구조의 Channel Attention과 Spatial Attention을 설계하고, 다양한 관점에서 특징 맵을 강조하기 위해 다중 Attention Module 구조를 설계하여 성능을 분석 및 비교한다.