• The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.257-264
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• 2009

This paper proposes a novel face detection method that finds tiny faces located at a long range even with low-resolution input images captured by a mobile robot. The proposed approach can locate extremely small-sized face regions of $12{\times}12$ pixels. We solve a tiny face detection problem by organizing a system that consists of multiple detectors including a mean-shift color tracker, short- and long-rage face detectors, and an omega shape detector. The proposed method adopts the long-range face detector that is well trained enough to detect tiny faces at a long range, and limiting its operation to only within a search region that is automatically determined by the mean-shift color tracker and the omega shape detector. By focusing on limiting the face search region as much as possible, the proposed method can accurately detect tiny faces at a long distance even with a low-resolution image, and decrease false positives sharply. According to the experimental results on realistic databases, the performance of the proposed approach is at a sufficiently practical level for various robot applications such as face recognition of non-cooperative users, human-following, and gesture recognition for long-range interaction.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1987.07b
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• pp.1163-1165
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• 1987

A novel temperature difference-to-frequency converter using two resistance temperature detectors (RTDs) has been developed. The resistance difference of two RTDs is converted into its equivalent inductance to form the resonant circuit of the Colpitts oscillator. The conversion sensitivity of $16\;Hz/^{\circ}C$ and the residual nonlinearity less than 2.15% over the temperature difference range from $35^{\circ}C$ to $155^{\circ}C$ are obtained by the prototype converter. The frequency drift of oscillator itself is ${\pm}0.5\;Hz$. Thus, the minimum detectable temperature difference is estimated to be ${\pm}0.013^{\circ}C$. The proposed converter, except for two RTDs, can be fabricated in monolithic IC form.

• The Transactions of the Korean Institute of Electrical Engineers D
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• v.55 no.5
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• pp.205-215
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• 2006

In this paper an optical power meter using Hadamard transform, which can be used in multiple channel optical elements alignment system, is proposed. A traditional optical power meter in multiple channel optical elements alignment system is able to judge how well the elements are aligned each other by measuring optical power of the first and the last two channels with at least two detectors. It has critical drawback that the alignment accuracy per channel is dependent on the number of detectors. The proposed optical power meter can get noise reduction by the Hadamard transform based multiplexing technique. The Hadamard transform based multiplexing technique using spatial light modulators is distinguished by the best enhancement of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the reconstructed signals. Moreover, the noise reduction increases with increasing the order of multiplexing, namely the number of optical element channels. The proposed system is implemented by PDLC (Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal) mask which is operated by electric filed and generates optimal multiplexing patterns based on the Hadamard transform and single detector. It means that we obtain not only the each channel's optical power of multiple channel elements at once but also the best enhancement of SNR with single detector. Experimental results show that the proposed optical power meter is suitable for an active optical alignment system for multiple channel optical elements.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.817-820
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• 2002

Amorphous selenium based flat panel detectors convert incident x-ray to electric signal directly. Flat panel detectors gain more interest real time medical x-ray imaging. TFT array and electric readout circuits are used in this paper offered by LG.Philips.LCD. Detector is based on a $1536{\times}1280$ array of a-Si TFT pixels. X-ray conversion layer(a-Se) is deposited upper TFT array with a $400{\mu}m$ by thermal deposition technology. Thickness uniformity of this layer is made of thickness control system technology$({\leq}5%)$. Each $139{\mu}m{\times}139{\mu}m$ pixel is made of thin film transistor technology, a storage capacitor and collecting electrode having geometrical fill factor of 86%. This system show dynamic performance. Imaging performance is suited for digital radiography imaging substitute by conventional radiography film system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 2002.07b
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• pp.813-816
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• 2002

We investigate the junction between CdZnTe and a variety of metals with the aim of determining whether the choice of metal can improve the performance of X-ray image detectors, in particular minimizing the dark current. The samples consist of $5{\mu}m$ thick CdZnTe with top electrodes formed from In, Al, and Au. For each metal, current transients following application of valtages from -10V to 10V are measured for up to 1 hour. We find that dark currents depending on the metal used. The current is controlled by hole injection at the metal-CdZnTe junction and there is consistent trend with the metal's work function possibly and it seems that metal to CdZnTe layer junction is ohmic contact.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics
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• v.25 no.11
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• pp.1282-1285
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• 1988

A novel temperature difference-to-frequency converter using two resistance temperature detectors (RTD) has been developed. The resistance difference of two RTD is converted into its equivalent inductance to form the resonant circuit of the Colpitts oscillator. The conversion sensitivity of 16 Hz/$^{\circ}C$ and the residual nonlinearity less than 2.15% over the temperature difference range from 35$^{\circ}C$ to 155$^{\circ}C$ are obtained by the prototype converter. The frequency drift of oscillator itself is $\pm$ 0.5Hz. Thus, the minimum detectable temperature difference is estimated to be $\pm$ 0.013$^{\circ}C$. The proposed coverter, except for two RTD, can be fabricated in monolithic IC form.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.76-82
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• 2000

In this paper, we consider nonparametric signal detection problems under the presence of additive noise exhibiting weak dependence We derive the test statistics of the locally optimum rank detectors under a weakly dependent noise model for known and random signal cases The performance characteristic of the locally optimum rank detectors are analyzed in terms of asymptotic relative efficiency.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.9
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• pp.3-10
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• 2014

The synchronization signal in Long Term Evolution (LTE) systems contains the primary synchronization signal (PSS) and the secondary synchronization signal (SSS), and the overall synchronization performance is dominated by PSS detection. In this paper, we propose a PSS detection scheme employing three partial correlation based PSS detectors with different partial correlation lengths, in which calculated partial correlation values are reused in order to reduce computational complexity. A coherent selection scheme using tentative frequency offsets is also proposed to select one reliable result from outputs of partial correlation based PSS detectors. It is shown through computer simulation that the proposed scheme can have a robust detection performance in wide range of frequency offsets.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• v.52 no.6
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• pp.1271-1276
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• 2020

The geometrical efficiency of a source-to-detector configuration is considered to be necessary in the calculation of the full energy peak efficiency, especially for NaI(Tl) and HPGe gamma-ray spectroscopy detectors. The geometrical efficiency depends on the solid angle subtended by the radioactive sources and the detector surfaces. The present work is basically concerned to establish a new mathematical approach for calculating the solid angle and geometrical efficiency, based on conversion of the geometrical solid angle of a non-axial radioactive point source with respect to a circular surface of the detector to a new equivalent geometry. The equivalent geometry consists of an axial radioactive point source with respect to an arbitrary elliptical surface that lies between the radioactive point source and the circular surface of the detector. This expression was extended to include coaxial radioactive circular disk source. The results were compared with a number of published data to explain how significant this work is in the efficiency calibration procedure for the γ-ray detection systems, especially in case of using isotropic radiating γ-ray sources in the form of point and disk shapes.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.27 no.6A
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• pp.517-523
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• 2002

The closed from of sums and weighted sums of the score functions of the locally optimum rank detectors are obtained in this paper. When we consider the asymptotic performance characteristics of a detector based on rank and sign statistics, the sums and weighted sums of the score functions have to be prepared. The efficacy of a detector can be obtained from the sums and weighted sums of the score functions. Score functions based on rank statistics, as well as those based on magnitude rank and sign statistics, have also been considered, which includes most score functions presented in the literature.