• Proceedings of the Earthquake Engineering Society of Korea Conference
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.187-194
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• 2002

Bridge dynamic behaviors and the failure of the foundation are examined in this study under seismic excitations including the local scour effect. The simplified mechanical model, which can consider the effect of various influence elements, is proposed to simulate the bridge motions. The scour depths around the foundations are estimated by the CSU equation recommended by the HEC-18 and the local scour effect upon global bridge motions is then considered by applying various foundation stiffness based upon the reduced embedded depths. From the simulation results, it is found that seismic responses of a bridge with the same scour depth for both foundations increase due to the local scour effect. The bridge scour is found to be significant under weak and moderate seismic intensity. The recovery durations of the foundation stiffness after local scour are found to be critical in the estimation of the probability of foundation failure under earthquakes. Therefore, the safety of the whole bridge system should be conducted with the consideration of the scour effect upon the foundations and the recovery duration of stiffness should be determined rationally.

• IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing
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• v.2 no.2
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• pp.97-101
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• 2013

Bit-depth expansion is a process of enhancing the image quality by increasing the number of intensity levels. To solve this problem, a hybrid method is proposed, where the pixels are categorized into smooth and complex regions, and are processed using different methods. The pixels in the smooth region are reconstructed with a smooth prior, and a Bayesian estimator is used for the pixels in the complex region. The proposed method effectively removes the false contour artifacts while requiring less computation than conventional methods. In addition, the method shows good quantitative performance, and the PSNR gains over the best existing method are 1.45 dB and 0.26 dB for 4 bits and 3 bits expansion cases, respectively.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.15 no.2E
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• pp.85-91
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• 1996

New very low bit rate segmentation video image coding technique is proposed by segmenting image into textually homogeneous regions. Regions are classified into one of three perceptually distinct texture classes(perceived constant intensity, smooth texture, and rough texture) using the Human Visual System(HVS) and the fractals. To design very low bit rate video image coder, it is very important to determine the best block size for estimation the fractal dimension and the thresholding of the fractal dimension for each texture class. Good quality reconstructed images are obtained with about 0.10 to 0.21 bit per pixel(bpp) for many different types of imagery.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.21 no.4E
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• pp.178-182
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• 2002

In this paper, we propose an adaptive wavelet method for car interior noise cancellation. For this purpose, we use a node dependent threshold which minimizes the Bayesian risk. We propose a noise estimation method based on spectral entropy using histogram of intensity and a candidate best basis instead of Donoho's best bases. And we modify the hard threshold function. Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm is more efficient, especially to heavy noisy signal than conventional one.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• v.3 no.2
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• pp.14-17
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• 2014

Precision agriculture relies on information technology, whose precondition is providing real-time and accurate information. It depends on various kinds of advanced sensors, such as environmental temperature and humidity, wind speed, light intensity, and other types of sensors. Currently, it is a hot topic how to collect accurate information, the main raw data for agricultural experts, monitored by these sensors timely. Most existing work in WSNs addresses their fundamental challenges, including power supply, limited memory, processing power and communication bandwidth and focuses entirely on their operating system and networking protocol design and implementation. However, it is not easy to find the self-localization capability of wireless sensor networks. Because of constraints on the cost and size of sensors, energy consumption, implementation environment and the deployment of sensors, most sensors do not know their locations. This paper provides maximum likelihood estimators for sensor location estimation when observations are time-of arrival (TOA) range measurement.

• Proceedings of the Korea Concrete Institute Conference
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• 1999.10a
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• pp.791-794
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• 1999

Exact estimation of cement content in a hardened concrete can provide useful data to evaluate the quality and strength of the concrete and might be used to inspect the quality of precast concrete secondary products. Observation obtained in this research included : (1) the volume of coarse aggregate in the hardened concrete measured by the area comparison method has a high accuracy ; (2) the cement content in the mortar and the X-ray intensity of Ca-K$\alpha$ have a correlation factor of 0.96 ; (3) the cement content in the ready mixed concrete was estimated with high accuracy such as correlation factor of 0.99 and standard deviation of 0.64.

• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.6 no.3
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• pp.9-17
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• 2010

Decision problem called an optimal release policies, after testing a software system in development phase and transfer it to the user, is studied. The applied model of release time exploited infinite non-homogeneous Poisson process. This infinite non-homogeneous Poisson process is a model which reflects the possibility of introducing new faults when correcting or modifying the software. The failure life-cycle distribution used superposition which has various intensity, if the system is complicated. Thus, software release policies which minimize a total average software cost of development and maintenance under the constraint of satisfying a software reliability requirement becomes an optimal release policies. In a numerical example, after trend test applied and estimated the parameters using maximum likelihood estimation of inter-failure time data, estimated software optimal release time. Through this study, in terms of superposition model and simply model, the optimal time to using superposition model release the software developer to determine how much could count will help.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2000.11c
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• pp.749-756
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• 2000

Chemical application, one of the most important crop management processes happened to cause spray drift, that would threaten farmers in field as well as dwellers in rural region. Spray drift was affected by micro-meteorological parameters. In Korea, a boom sprayer was introduced but good effects of a boom sprayer was not evaluated. A study to evaluate short distance drift characteristics of a boom sprayer in paddy fields has been undergoing and determining wind characteristics in paddy field was the main purpose of this paper. Micro-meteorological information has been pre-requisite information for evaluating drift in both long and short distances or in both theoretical and experimental ways. Wind velocity, Reynolds stresses, turbulence intensity, skewness, kurtosis etc. were evaluated with height from the ground using a 2-dimensional probe and a hot wire anemometer system.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2014.06a
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• pp.133-134
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• 2014

Conventional stereo matching algorithms fail when they deal with anaglyph image as its input because anaglyph image does not have similar intensity on both view images. To ameliorate such problems, we propose a robust method to obtain accurate disparity maps. The novel Absolute Adaptive Normalized Cross Correlation (AANCC) for anaglyph data cost is introduced in this paper. Then, it is followed by occlusion detection and segmentation-based plane fitting to achieve accurate depth map acquisition. Experimental results confirm that the proposed anaglyph data cost is robust and gives accurate disparity maps.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.1511-1514
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 현재 건설교통부에서 설치 및 운영 중에 있는 소형강우레이더의 최적화를 위해서 지상의 강우관측소 자료와 레이더 측정 자료의 실시간 보정방법을 이용하여 강우강도를 추정하였다. 본 연구에서 이용된 실시간 Z-R 관계식 적용으로 인한 강우강도 개선 정도를 파악하기 위해서 통상 일률적으로 적용되고 있는 $Z=200R^{1.6}$에 의한 강우강도 결과와 비교.분석하였으며, 지상의 강우관측소 실측 강우량과 비교함으로써 적용성을 보였다. 본 연구에서 이용된 보정방법은 강우보정에 소요되는 시간이 짧아 실시간 적용이 가능하며, 레이더 강우량의 정확한 추정으로 유역에서의 향상된 면적강우량 산출이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.