• Annual Conference of KIPS
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• 2004.05a
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• pp.101-104
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• 2004

R-Tree 색인은 기존의 공간 데이터베이스관리시스템에서 공간 데이터 검색을 위하여 많이 사용되고 있는 공간 색인기법이다. 하지만 R-Tree 색인에서 기존의 잠금(Lock) 기반 동시성 제어는 갱신연산의 잠금으로 인해 검색연산의 블록킹 오버헤드(blocking overhead)가 발생한다. 본 논문에서는 R-Tree 색인에서 검색연산의 블록킹 오버헤드의 주요 원인이 되는 노드 분할 연산과 MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle) 갱신연산에 대해 각각 노드단위와 노드엔트리 단위의 버전(Version)을 생성하고 유지하여 동시에 발생하는 검색연산이 갱신연산으로 인한 지연이 없이 자신에 알맞은 버전을 읽음으로써, 검색성능을 높일 수 있는 버전 기반의 동시성 제어 기법을 제안한다.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.133-142
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• 2009

Recently, with the advance of wireless internet and the frequent use of mobile devices, demand for LBS(Location Based Service) is increasing, and research is required on spatial indexes for the storage and maintenance of spatial data to provide efficient LBS in mobile device environments. In addition, the use of flash memory as an auxiliary storage device is increasing in order to store large spatial data in a mobile terminal with small storage space. However, the application of existing spatial indexes to flash-memory lowers index performance due to the frequent updates of nodes. To solve this problem, research is being conducted on flash-memory based spatial indexes, but the efficiency of such spatial indexes is lowered by low utilization of buffer and flash-memory space. Accordingly, in order to solve problems in existing flash-memory based spatial indexes, this paper proposed FR-Tree (Flash-Memory based R-Tree) that uses the node compression technique and the delayed write operation technique. The node compression technique of FR-Tree increased the utilization of flash-memory space by compressing MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle) of spatial data using relative coordinates and MBR size. And, the delayed write operation technique reduced the number of write operations in flash memory by storing spatial data in the buffer temporarily and reflecting them in flash memory at once instead of reflecting the insert, update and delete of spatial data in flash-memory for each operation. Especially, the utilization of buffer space was enhanced by preventing the redundant storage of the same spatial data in the buffer. Finally, we perform ed various performance evaluations and proved the superiority of FR-Tree to the existing spatial indexes.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.11
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• pp.809-817
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• 2002

This paper describes a new face detection method that is a pre-processing algorithm for on-line face recognition. To complement the weakness of using only edge or rotor features from previous face detection method, we propose the two types of face detection method. The one is a combined method with edge and color features and the other is a center area color sampling method. To prevent connecting the people's face area and the background area, which have same colors, we propose a new adaptive edge detection algorithm firstly. The adaptive edge detection algorithm is robust to illumination variance so that it extracts lots of edges and breakouts edges steadily in border between background and face areas. Because of strong edge detection, face area appears one or multi regions. We can merge these isolated regions using color information and get the final face area as a MBR (Minimum Bounding Rectangle) form. If the size of final face area is under or upper threshold, color sampling method in center area from input image is used to detect new face area. To evaluate the proposed method, we have experimented with 2,100 face images. A high face detection rate of 96.3% has been obtained.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Precision Engineering Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.595-598
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• 2002

Laser scanners are getting used more and more in reverse engineering and inspection. For CNC-driven laser scanners, it is important to automate the scanning operations to improve the accuracy of capture point data and to reduce scanning time in industry. However, there are few research works on laser scan planning system. In addition, it is difficult to directly analyze multi-patched freeform models. In this paper, we propose an STL (Stereolithography) mesh based laser scan planning system for complex freeform surfaces. The scan planning system consists of three steps and it is assumed that the CAD model of the part exists. Firstly, the surface model is approximated into STL meshes. From the mesh model, normal vector of each node point is estimated. Second, scan directions and regions are determined through the region growing method. Also, scan paths are generated by calculating the minimum-bounding rectangle of points that can be scanned in each scan direction. Finally, the generated scan directions and paths are validated by checking optical constraints and the collision between the laser probe and the part to be scanned.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2006.06c
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• pp.46-48
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• 2006

This paper addresses the problem of monitoring continuous k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) queries. Given a set of moving (or static) objects and a set of moving (or static) query points, monitoring continuous k-NN query retrieves and updates the closest k objects to a query point continually. In order to support location based services (LBSs) in highly dynamic environments, where objects and/or queries are frequently moving, monitoring continuous queries require real-time updated results when objects and/or queries change their locations. Thus, it is important to minimize time delay for maintaining up to date the results. In this paper, we present monitoring method to shorten time delay for updating continuous k-NN queries based on the notion of result region and the minimum bounding rectangle enclosing all objects in each cell, referred to as c-MBR, in the grid index structure. Simulations are conducted to show the efficiency of the proposed method.

• Spatial Information Research
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.113-127
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• 2008

This paper proposes an efficient spatial index, named $AR^*$-tree(Area $R^*$-tree) which is a variant of the $R^*$-tree, for mobile software. A MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle) structure of the $AR^*$-tree has additional min and max values of area axis as well as x and y axes. The value of area axis is used to determine the significance of a spatial data. If area of a spatial data is large, then it is significant when drawing a map. To reduce complexity of a map on a small screen of mobile device, only significant spatial data can be found by the $AR^*$-tree. The result of a series of tests indicates that the $AR^*$-tree provides a method for control of readability of a map and guarantees an efficient performance at the same time.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.6 no.2 s.12
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• pp.23-37
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• 2004

Location Based Services(LBSs) in mobile environments become very popular recently. For efficient LBSs, spatial database management systems must need a spatial indexing scheme such as R-trees in order to manage the huge spatial database. However, it may need unnecessary disk accesses since it needs to access objects which are not actually concerned to user's location-based queries. In this paper, to support the location-based queries efficiently, we propose a CLR-tree(Cell Leveling R-tree) in which a dynamic cell is built up within the minimum bounding rectangle of R-trees' node. The cell level of nodes is compared with the query's cell level in location-based query processing and determines the minimum search space. Also, we propose the insertion, split, deletion, and search algorithms for CRL-trees. From the experimental results, we see that a CLR-tree is able to decrease $5{\sim}20%$ of disk accesses from those of R-trees. So, a CLR-tree can be used for fast accessing spatial objects to user's location-based queries in LBSs.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.4 no.5
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• pp.939-955
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• 2010

With the progress of IT and mobile positioning technologies, various types of location-based services (LBS) have been proposed and implemented. Finding a shortest path between two nodes is one of the most fundamental tasks in many LBS related applications. So far, there have been many research efforts on the shortest path finding problem. For instance, $A^*$ algorithm estimates neighboring nodes using a heuristic function and selects minimum cost node as the closest one to the destination. Pruning method, which is known to outperform the A* algorithm, improves its routing performance by avoiding unnecessary exploration in the search space. For pruning, shortest paths for all node pairs in a map need to be pre-computed, from which a shortest path container is generated for each edge. The container for an edge consists of all the destination nodes whose shortest path passes through the edge and possibly some unnecessary nodes. These containers are used during routing to prune unnecessary node visits. However, this method shows poor performance as the number of unnecessary nodes included in the container increases. In this paper, we focus on this problem and propose a new border line-based pruning scheme for path routing which can reduce the number of unnecessary node visits significantly. Through extensive experiments on randomly-generated, various complexity of maps, we empirically find out optimal number of border lines for clipping containers and compare its performance with other methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2007.06c
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• pp.124-129
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• 2007

지금까지 질의 점을 중심으로 최근접 객체(Nearest Neighbor : NN)를 찾는 다양한 연구가 진행되었다. 하지만 이 방법은 질의 점과 객체의 거리만을 고려하기 때문에 질의 점을 둘러싸고 있는 객체들을 찾을 수 없다는 문제점이 있다. 이것을 해결하기 위해서 제안 된 것이 최근접 주변객체(Nearest Surrounder : NS) 질의 처리이다. 최근접 주변 객체는 질의 점을 둘러싸고 있으면서 가장 가까운 객체들을 찾는 것에 대한 연구이다. 기존의 NS를 찾는 방법은 객체 인덱싱을 위하여 R-tree를 사용하며, 질의 점과 최소경계사각형(minimum bounding rectangle : MBR)이 이루는 각의 범위를 계산한다. 계산 수행 결과 각 MBR들 이 이루는 각의 범위가 겹치는 부분이 발생하면 해당 각 범위 내에서 질의 점으로부터 최소거리에 있는 MBR을 선택해야 하므로 범위별 질의 점과 MBR들의 최대 최소 거리를 구해야 한다. 이러한 범위별 계산 과정은 계산 비용을 높이는 단점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 NS를 필요로 하는 영역에서 각 범위별 겹쳐지는 MBR들의 꼭지점 좌표만을 비교한다. 이것은 기존 연구에서 계산 비용을 높이는 공통 각 계산 절차를 개선하고, 최대 최소 거리 계산 수행은 생략하여 NS를 찾는다. 제안 기법을 위해 논문에서 사용하는 각 알고리즘은 이전 연구보다 나은 계산비용 절감 효과를 가져 올 수 있다.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.9 no.12
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• pp.1529-1541
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• 2006

Moving objects have been widely employed in traffic and logistic applications. Spatio-temporal aggregations mainly describe the moving object's behavior in the spatial data warehouse. The previous works usually express the object moving in some certain region, but ignore the object often moving along as the trajectory. Other researches focus on aggregation and comparison of trajectories. They divide the spatial region into units which records how many times the trajectories passed in the unit time. It not only makes the storage space quite ineffective, but also can not maintain spatial data property. In this paper, a spatio-temporal aggregation index structure for moving object trajectory in constrained network is proposed. An extended B-tree node contains the information of timestamp and the aggregation values of trajectories with two directions. The network is divided into segments and then the spatial index structure is constructed. There are the leaf node and the non leaf node. The leaf node contains the aggregation values of moving object's trajectory and the pointer to the extended B-tree. And the non leaf node contains the MBR(Minimum Bounding Rectangle), MSAV(Max Segment Aggregation Value) and its segment ID. The proposed technique overcomes previous problems efficiently and makes it practicable finding moving object trajectory in the time interval. It improves the shortcoming of R-tree, and makes some improvement to the spatio-temporal data in query processing and storage.