• Archives of Pharmacal Research
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 1988

The use of blue cotton for detecting polycyclic aromatic mutagens in environmental samples (foods, human excretions, river water, etc) is reviewed. Since the invention of blue cotton has its origin in studies of mutagen modulators, these studies are also briefly reviewed.

• 제어로봇시스템학회논문지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.178-183
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• 2008

Human motion analysis is researched as a new method for human-robot interaction (HRI) because it concerns with the key techniques of HRI such as motion tracking and pose recognition. To analysis human motion, extracting features of human body from sequential images plays an important role. After finding the silhouette of human body from the sequential images obtained by CCD color camera, the skeleton model is frequently used in order to represent the human motion. In this paper, using the silhouette of human body, we propose the feature extraction method based on hybrid skeleton for detecting human motion. Finally, we show the effectiveness and feasibility of the proposed method through some experiments.

• 한국항해항만학회지
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.233-238
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• 2004

코너 점(Corner point)은 영상 신호 처리의 패턴 인식에 있어 아주 중요한 정보이다 그래서 지금도 여러 가지 코너 점을 추출하는 연구가 진행되고 있다. 코너 점은 에지 영상에서 8 방향 체인 코드(Chain code)를 적용하여 찾는다. 그런데 에지 선분 기울기가 45도의 정수 배가 되지 않을 때, 8 방향 알고리듬을 그대로 적용하면 문제가 발생된다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이러한 단점을 보완하면서 최적의 코너 점을 찾기 위해서 수리 형태학과 시각적 개념을 접목하여 코너 점을 처리하는 새로운 알고리듬을 제안한다. 제안한 방법으로 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션 하여 좋은 결과를 보이고 있다. 그래서 제안된 논문의 알고리듬은 공장 자동화 및 선박 레이더 영상의 해안의 영역 파악에도 적용되리라 생각된다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제11권11호
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• pp.5436-5458
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• 2017

Automatic Video Surveillance System (AVSS) has become important to computer vision researchers as crime has increased in the twenty-first century. As a new branch of AVSS, baggage detection has a wide area of security applications. Some of them are, detecting baggage in baggage restricted super shop, detecting unclaimed baggage in public space etc. However, in this paper, a detection & classification framework of baggage is proposed. Initially, background subtraction is performed instead of sliding window approach to speed up the system and HSI model is used to deal with different illumination conditions. Then, a model is introduced to overcome shadow effect. Then, occlusion of objects is detected using proposed mirroring algorithm to track individual objects. Extraction of rotational signal descriptor (SP-RSD-HOG) with support plane from Region of Interest (ROI) add rotation invariance nature in HOG. Finally, dynamic human body parameter setting approach enables the system to detect & classify single or multiple pieces of carried baggage even if some portions of human are absent. In baggage detection, a strong classifier is generated by boosting similarity measure based multi layer Support Vector Machine (SVM)s into HOG based SVM. This boosting technique has been used to deal with various texture patterns of baggage. Experimental results have discovered the system satisfactorily accurate and faster comparative to other alternatives.

• 한국생산제조학회지
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.103-109
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• 2015

This paper introduces a multi-purpose smart fusion sensor. Normally, this type of sensor can contribute to energy savings specifically related to lighting and heating/air conditioning systems by detecting individuals in an office building. If a fire occurs, the sensor can provide information regarding the presence and location of residents in the building to a management center. The system consists of four sensors: a thermopile sensor for detecting heat energy, an ultrasonic sensor for measuring the distance of objects from the sensor, a fire detection sensor, and a passive infrared sensor for detecting temperature change. The system has a wireless communication module to provide the management center with control information for lighting and heating/air conditioning systems. We have also demonstrated the usefulness of the proposed system by applying it to a real environment.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2006년 학술대회 논문집 정보 및 제어부문
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• pp.214-216
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• 2006

Expressive face and human body gestures are among the main non-verbal communication channels in human-human interaction. Understanding human emotions through body gesture is one of the necessary skills both for humans and also for the computers to interact with their human counterparts. Gesture analysis is consisted of several processes such as detecting of hand, extracting feature, and recognizing emotions. Skin color information for tracking hand gesture is obtained from face detection region. We have revealed relationships between paricular body movements and specific emotions by using HMM(Hidden Markov Model) classifier. Performance evaluation of emotional human body recognition has experimented.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제47권2호
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• pp.99-107
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• 2017

Purpose: Erosions and osteophytes are radiographic characteristics that are found in different stages of temporomandibular joint (TMJ) osteoarthritis. This study assessed the effectiveness of digital subtraction radiography (DSR) in diagnosing simulated osteophytes and erosions in the TMJ. Materials and Methods: Five intact, dry human skulls were used to assess the effectiveness of DSR in detecting osteophytes. Four cortical bone chips of varying thicknesses (0.5 mm, 1.0 mm, 1.5 mm, and 2.0 mm) were placed at the medial, central, and lateral aspects of the condyle anterior surface. Two defects of varying depth (1.0 mm and 1.5 mm) were created on the lateral, central, and medial poles of the condyles of 2 skulls to simulate erosions. Panoramic images of the condyles were acquired before and after artificially creating the changes. Digital subtraction was performed with Emago dental image archiving software. Five observers familiar with the interpretation of TMJ radiographs evaluated the images. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis was used to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of the imaging methods. Results: The area under the ROC curve (Az) value for the overall diagnostic accuracy of DSR in detecting osteophytic changes was 0.931. The Az value for the overall diagnostic accuracy of panoramic imaging was 0.695. The accuracy of DSR in detecting erosive changes was 0.854 and 0.696 for panoramic imaging. DSR was remarkably more accurate than panoramic imaging in detecting simulated osteophytic and erosive changes. Conclusion: The accuracy of panoramic imaging in detecting degenerative changes was significantly lower than the accuracy of DSR (P<.05). DSR improved the accuracy of detection using panoramic images.

• 한국전자통신학회논문지
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• 제10권3호
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• pp.333-340
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• 2015

본 논문에서는 마이크로파 라디오미터의 기술을 응용한 수동형 마이크로파 인체 감지 센서를 제안한다. 제안된 센서는 고정된 배경 물체로부터 수신되는 복사전력의 인체에 의한 미약한 변화를 측정하여 감시 공간내의 인체를 감지한다. C-band 마이크로파 라디오미터를 설계 제작하여 인체에 의한 수신 복사전력의 변화를 측정하고 그 결과를 분석하여 제안한 센서의 유효성을 평가한다.

• Journal of Nutrition and Health
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• 제35권2호
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• pp.213-222
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• 2002

The alkaline comet assay has been used with increasing popularity to investigate the level of DNA damage in biomonitoring studies within the last decade in Western countries. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the alkaline comet assay as a biomarker of oxidative DNA damage for monitoring in the Korean population, and also to evaluate the effect of nutritional status and lifestyle factors on H2O2 induced oxidative DNA damage measured by the alkaline comet assay in human lymphocytes. The study population consisted of 61 healthy Korean male volunteers, aged 20-28. Epidemiological background data including dietary habits, smoking habits and anthropometrical measurements were collected through personal interviews. After blood collection, the comet assay in peripheral lymphocytes and plasma lipids analysis was carried out and the results analyzed. Tail moment (TM) and tail length (TL) of the comet assay were use\ulcorner to measure DNA damage in the lymphocytes of the subjects. Statistically significant (p < 0.05) positive correlations were observed between DNA damage (TM or TL) and smoking habits expressed as cigarettes smoked per day and pack years (r = 0.311 and 0.382 for TM, r = 0.294 and 0.350 for TL, respectively). There were also significant positive correlations between DNA damage parameter and waist-hip ratio. Higher plasma triglyceride levels were associated with increased damage to DNA. There were no correlations between the consumption frequencies of vegetables and DNA damage to the subjects. However, consumption frequencies of fruit and fruit juice intake were inversely associated with the TM and TL. The results indicate that die comet assay is a simple, rapid and sensitive method for detecting lymphocyte DNA damage induced by cigarette smoking. Consumption of fruit or fruit juices could potentiall modify the damaged DNA in the human peripheral lymphocytes of young Korean men.

• 전자공학회논문지SC
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• 제47권5호
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• pp.18-23
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• 2010

본 논문은 유발전위(evoked potential) 뇌파인 P300에 기반한 뇌-기계 인터페이스의 실시간 구현을 위한 효율적인 알고리즘을 제안한다. P300 뇌파는 외부 시각 자극이 인간의 의지와 일치할 경우, 100-300ms 부근에서 negative pick를 갖는 특성이 있다. 이러한 특성에 기초하여 P300 뇌파의 포텐셜(potential) 감소를 감지하여 인간의 의도를 역으로 추론할 수 있으며, 이를 뇌-기계 인터페이스에 활용할 수 있다. 연구에서 P300 뇌파는 인간의 두개골 외부에 부착된 전극을 통해 얻어졌으며, 시각적 자극으로는 2차원 알파벳 신호를 사용하였다. P300 뇌파의 포텐셜 감소 검출을 위하여 뇌파 포텐셜을 자극과 연계하여 확률적으로 모델링하였다. 확률적 모델은 피실험자가 의도하는 신호의 모델(target model)과 의도하지 않는 신호의 모델(non-target model)로 구성된다. 이러한 확률적 모델에 기반하여 피실험자의 의도를 추론하기 위해서 최우추정법(maximum likelihood estimation)을 사용하였다. 실험에는 신체 건강한 성인 남자 3명이 참가하였으며, 'A'와 'E' 실험에 대한 피실험자 k의 평균 성공률은 98%, 피실험자 j의 평균 성공률 90%, 그리고 피실험자 h의 성공률은 79.8%였다.