• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• 제21권2E호
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• pp.98-104
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• 2002

The present study describes a combination method to recognize the human affective states such as anger, happiness, sadness, or surprise. For this, we extracted emotional features from voice signals and facial expressions, and then trained them to recognize emotional states using hidden Markov model (HMM) and neural network (NN). For voices, we used prosodic parameters such as pitch signals, energy, and their derivatives, which were then trained by HMM for recognition. For facial expressions, on the other hands, we used feature parameters extracted from thermal and visible images, and these feature parameters were then trained by NN for recognition. The recognition rates for the combined parameters obtained from voice and facial expressions showed better performance than any of two isolated sets of parameters. The simulation results were also compared with human questionnaire results.

• Industrial Engineering and Management Systems
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.148-155
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• 2016

Existing power plants may consume significant amounts of fuel and require high operating costs, partly because of poor electrical power output estimates. This paper suggests a continuous conditional random field (C-CRF) model to predict more precisely the full-load electrical power output of a base load operated combined cycle power plant. We introduce three feature functions to model association potential and one feature function to model interaction potential. Together, these functions compose the C-CRF model, and the model is transformed into a multivariate Gaussian distribution with which the operation parameters can be modeled more efficiently. The performance of our model in estimating power output was evaluated by means of a real dataset and our model outperformed existing methods. Moreover, our model can be used to estimate confidence intervals of the predicted output and calculate several probabilities.

• 로봇학회논문지
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2021

This study addresses a low-cost lidar sensor-based glass feature extraction method for an accurate map representation using statistical moments, i.e. the mean and variance. Since the low-cost lidar sensor produces range-only data without intensity and multi-echo data, there are some difficulties in detecting glass-like objects. In this study, a principle that an incidence angle of a ray emitted from the lidar with respect to a glass surface is close to zero degrees is concerned for glass detection. Besides, all sensor data are preprocessed and clustered, which is represented using statistical moments as glass feature candidates. Glass features are selected among the candidates according to several conditions based on the principle and geometric relation in the global coordinate system. The accumulated glass features are classified according to the distance, which is lastly represented on the map. Several experiments were conducted in glass environments. The results showed that the proposed method accurately extracted and represented glass windows using proper parameters. The parameters were empirically designed and carefully analyzed. In future work, we will implement and perform the conventional SLAM algorithms combined with our glass feature extraction method in glass environments.

• 전기학회논문지
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• 제58권4호
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• pp.694-699
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• 2009

Combined cycle plants which feature distinct advantages for power generation such as fast response, high efficiency, environmental friendliness, fuel flexiblity represent the majority of new generating plant installations across the globe. Combined cycle plants have different operating modes where the operating parameters can differ greatly depending which mode is operating at the time. This paper addresses the bidding strategy model of combined cycle plants in a competitive electricity market by using a characteristic of multiple operating modes of combined cycle plants. Simulation results of case studies show that an operating mode among multiple ones is selected strategically in generation bidding for more profit of generation company.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.839-844
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 염색체의 영상패턴을 인식하고 분류하는 방법을 개선하기 위해 패턴인식의 특징정보로 사용되는 비선형적인 염색체 영상을 선형적으로 재구성하는 영상 재구성 알고리즘을 사용하여 선형화된 특징정보를 추출하여 패턴분류기인 신경회로망의 입력정보로 사용한다. 중앙축 변환방법과, 영상 재구성방법을 사용하여 임상적으로 정상인으로 판명된 20명의 염색체 영상의 특징정보를 추출하였다. 중앙축 변환방법에 의하여 추출된 특징정보의 패턴조합과 영상 재구성방법에 의하여 추출된 특징정보의 패턴조합을 구성하였으며, 10명에 대하여 추출한 특징정보를 계층적인 신경회로망(Hierarchical Multilayer Neural Network : HMNN)의 학습입력으로 사용하여 염색체를 분류하기 위한 패턴인식기를 구현하였다. 그리고 나머지 10명에 대하여 학습입력과 동일하게 조합된 패턴조합을 HMNN의 분류입력으로 사용하여 수행한 결과 약 98.26%의 우수한 인식률을 나타내는 최적화된 패턴인식기를 구현할 수 있었다.

• 한국생물정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국생물정보시스템생물학회 2003년도 제2차 연례학술대회 발표논문집
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• pp.133-138
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• 2003

The prediction of protein secondary structure has been an important bioinformatics tool that is an essential component of the template-based protein tertiary structure prediction process. It has been known that the predicted secondary structure information improves both the fold recognition performance and the alignment accuracy. In this paper, we describe several novel ideas that may improve the prediction accuracy. The main idea is motivated by an observation that the protein's structural information, especially when it is combined with the evolutionary information, significantly improves the accuracy of the predicted tertiary structure. From the non-redundant set of protein structures, we derive the 'potential' parameters for the protein secondary structure prediction that contains the structural information of proteins, by following the procedure similar to the way to derive the directional information table of GOR method. Those potential parameters are combined with the frequency matrices obtained by running PSI-BLAST to construct the feature vectors that are used to train the support vector machines (SVM) to build the secondary structure classifiers. Moreover, the problem of huge model file size, which is one of the known shortcomings of SVM, is partially overcome by reducing the size of training data by filtering out the redundancy not only at the protein level but also at the feature vector level. A preliminary result measured by the average three-state prediction accuracy is encouraging.

• Smart Structures and Systems
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• 제16권5호
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• pp.937-960
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• 2015

Tuned mass dampers (TMDs) have been a prevalent vibration control device for suppressing excessive vibration because of environmental loadings in contemporary tall buildings since the mid-1970s. A TMD must be tuned to the natural frequency of the primary structure to be effective. In practice, a TMD may be assembled in situ, simultaneously with the building construction. In such a situation, the respective dynamic properties of the TMD device and building cannot be identified to determine the tuning status of the TMD. For this purpose, a methodology was developed to obtain the parameters of the TMD and primary building on the basis of the eigenparameters of any two complex modes of the combined building-TMD system. The theory was derived in state-space to characterize the nonclassical damping feature of the system, and combined with a system identification technique to obtain the system eigenparameters using the acceleration measurements. The proposed procedure was first demonstrated using a numerical verification and then applied to real, experimental data of a large-scale building-TMD system. The results showed that the procedure is capable of identifying the respective parameters of the TMD and primary structure and is applicable in real implementations by using only the acceleration response measurements of the TMD and its located floor.

• ETRI Journal
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.250-262
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• 2024

Air-writing recognition is relevant in areas such as natural human-computer interaction, augmented reality, and virtual reality. A trajectory is the most natural way to represent air writing. We analyze the recognition accuracy of words written in air considering five features, namely, writing direction, curvature, trajectory, orthocenter, and ellipsoid, as well as different parameters of a hidden Markov model classifier. Experiments were performed on two representative datasets, whose sample trajectories were collected using a Leap Motion Controller from a fingertip performing air writing. Dataset D₁ contains 840 English words from 21 classes, and dataset D₂ contains 1600 English words from 40 classes. A genetic algorithm was combined with a hidden Markov model classifier to obtain the best subset of features. Combination ftrajectory, orthocenter, writing direction, curvatureg provided the best feature set, achieving recognition accuracies on datasets D₁ and D₂ of 98.81% and 83.58%, respectively.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.58-68
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 잡음 환경에서 강인한 음성 인식을 위하여 특징 보상 기법의 성능을 향상시킬 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 음성 모델 기반의 특징 보상 기법에서 이용되는 오염 음성 모델 추정 방식은 입력 음성에 대한 변별력 있는 사후 확률 예측을 보장하지 못하며, 부정확하게 계산된 사후 확률은 복구된 음성에서 명료도 하락의 문제를 일으킨다. 제안하는 기법에서는 오염 음성 모델 추정 과정에 분별적 훈련 방식의 하나인 최소 분류 오류 (MCE) 훈련 기법을 도입한다. MCE 훈련 기법을 적용하기 위해 변별력 하락의 가능성을 가지는 '경쟁 요소' 를 결정하는 기법을 제안한다. 병렬결합된 혼합 모델 (PCMM) 기반의 특징 보상에 MCE 훈련 기법을 적용하는 과정을 제안하고 변별력 향상의 영향을 관찰한다. Aurora 2.0 데이터베이스와 실제 자동차 주행 환경에서 수집된 음성 데이터베이스에 대한 성능 평가를 실시한다. 실험 결과는 제안한 기법이 음성 인식 성능 향상에 도움이 되는 것을 입증한다.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.1939-1951
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• 1994

This study introduces a new tool breakage detecting technology comprised of an unsupervised neural network combined with adaptive time series autoregressive(AR) model where parameters are estimated recursively at each sampling instant using a parameter adaptation algorithm based on an RLS(Recursive Least Square). Experiment indicates that AR parameters are good features for tool breakage, therefore it can be detected by tracking the evolution of the AR parameters during milling process. an ART 2(Adaptive Resonance Theory 2) neural network is used for clustering of tool states using these parameters and the network is capable of self organizing without supervised learning. This system operates successfully under the wide range of cutting conditions without a priori knowledge of the process, with fast monitoring time.