• 한국음향학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.240-246
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• 2015

본 논문은 시간 연속성을 갖는 비음수 행렬 분해(Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, NMF)를 이용하여 잡음에 열화된 음성 신호의 음질을 개선하는 문제를 다룬다. 음성과 잡음 신호는 포아송 분포로 모델되며, NMF의 기본 벡터와 이득 벡터는 감마 분포로 모델된다. 이득 벡터의 시간 연속성은 음질 개선에 중요한 영향을 미치는 것으로 알려져 있다. 본 논문에서 시간의 연속성은 이득 벡터를 감마-마르코프 연쇄(Gamma-Markov chain, GMC) 사전 분포로 모델함으로써 이루어진다. 실험 결과는 제안된 알고리즘이 잡음 신호의 시간 연속성을 효과적으로 모델하는 것을 보여준다.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.10-21
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• 2016

Images taken from outdoor are degraded quality by fog or haze, etc. In this paper, we propose a method that provides the visibility improved images through fog or haze removal. We proposed haze removal method that uses brightness transform based on atmospheric scatter coefficient rate with local histogram equalization. To calculate the transmission rate that indicate fog rate in original image, we use atmospheric scatter coefficient rate based on quadratic equations about haze model. And primary brightness transformed image can be obtained by using the obtained transmission rate. Also we use local histogram equalization with proposed brightness transform for effectively image visibility enhancement. Unlike existing methods, our method can process real-time with stable and effect image visibility enhancement. Proposed method use only the luminance images processed by good performance surveillance systems because it represents the real-time processing is required, black-box, digital camera and multimedia equipment is applicable. Also because it shows good performance only with the luminance images processed, Surveillance systems, black boxes, digital cameras, and multimedia devices etc, that require real-time processing can be applied.

• Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
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• 제35권3호
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• pp.725-730
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• 2014

The effect the diameter of silver nanorod arrays whose distance between the nanorods was uniform at 65 nm have on Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) has been studied by varying the diameter from 28 to 51 nm. Nanorod length was fixed at approximately 62 nm, which is the optimum length for SERS by excitation with a 632.8 nm laser line. The transverse and longitudinal modes of the surface plasmon of these silver nanorods were near 400 and 630 nm, respectively. The extinction of the longitudinal mode increased with increasing nanorod diameter, while the transverse mode did not change significantly. High-quality SERS spectra of p-aminothiophenol and benzenethiol adsorbed on the tips of the silver nanorods were observed by excitation with a 632.8 nm laser line. The SERS enhancement increased with increasing nanorod diameter. We concluded that the SERS enhancement increases when the diameter of silver nanorods is increased mainly by increasing the excitation efficiency of the longitudinal mode. The enhancement factor for the silver nanorods with a 51 nm diameter was approximately $2{\times}10^7$.

• Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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• 제53권6호
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• pp.1083-1104
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• 2015

This paper provides the results of an experimental investigation into the flexural behavior of continuous two-span unbonded post-tensioned high strength concrete (HSC) beams, strengthened by end-anchored CFRP laminates of different configurations in the hogging region. Implementing two different configurations of end-anchorage systems consisting of steel plates and bolts and carefully monitoring the development of strains throughout the load history using sufficiently large number of strain gauges, the response of beams including the observed crack propagations, beam deflection, modes of failure, capacity enhancement at service and ultimate and the amount of moment redistribution are measured, presented and discussed. The study is appropriate in the sense that it covers the more commonly occurring two span beams instead of the simply supported beams investigated by others. The experiments reconfirmed the finding of others that proper installation of composite strengthening system is most important in the quality of the bond which is essential for the internal transfer of forces. It was also found that for the tested two span continuous beams, the capacity enhancement is more pronounced at the serviceability level than the ultimate. This is an important finding as the design of these beams is mostly governed by the serviceability limit state signifying the appropriateness of the suggested strengthening method. The paper provides quantitative data on the amount of this capacity enhancement.

• 전자공학회논문지
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• 제51권12호
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• pp.140-149
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• 2014

최근 초고해상도 디스플레이의 개발로 영상의 화질 향상에 관한 연구가 활발히 이루어지고 있다. 기존의 화질 향상 방법은 대비와 디테일을 동시에 향상시키는 과정에서 경계 영역을 중심으로 대비의 역전현상이 발생하는 문제가 있다. 본 논문은 영상의 화질 향상을 향상하는 과정에서 계층적 정보와 경계 영역의 밝기편차를 고려함으로써 이를 해결하고자 하였다. 먼저 크기가 다른 계층들에 대하여 블록의 크기별로 대비를 향상한다. 다음으로 각 블록별 경계영역을 계산하고 해당 영역의 밝기 변화율을 기반으로 가중치를 결정한다. 결정된 가중치를 이용하여 디테일 향상을 수행한다. 다양한 영상에 대하여 실험한 결과 제안한 알고리즘의 대비 및 디테일이 우수함을 확인하였다.

• 방사선산업학회지
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.313-316
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• 2011

[$^{18}F$]FDG (2-[$^{18}F$] Fluoro-2-deoxy-D-Glucose), which is required Automated Synthetic Module for production, is most often used Radiopharmaceuticals in nuclear medicine. In this study, an Automated Synthesis Module was developed to produce FDG in two consecutive time when F-18 feds continuously by modifying a domestic FDG Automated Synthetic Module on structural geometry and control system. The results were showed that the Average Synthesis Yields on the developed Automated Synthetic Module were $45{\pm}3%$ (n=20), $50{\pm}3%$ (n=20) respectively. The Quality Control results, such as Radio TLC, Radiochemical purity, Gamma-counter, pH, LAL Test, Micro bacteria test, showed in same level with domestic [$^{18}F$]FDG Auto-Synthetic modules. Therefore, if some features were improved by considering the components life time and appearance, commercial sales can be expected because of low price and easy maintenance compared with foreign products.

• 한국통신학회논문지
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• 제31권12C호
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• pp.1173-1183
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• 2006

본 논문에서는 H.264의 확장형(scalable extension) 부호화 기법인 SVC(Scalable Video Coding)에서 채택하고 있는 AR-FGS(Adaptive Reference FGS) 기법의 재생화면 화질 향상을 위한 효과적인 방법을 제안한다. 표준 FGS(Fine Granularity Scalability) 기법에서는 FGS 계층의 부호화 성능 향상을 위하여 기본계층(base layer) 재생화면과 향상계층(enhancement layer) 참조화면에 대해 가중평균(weighted average)을 적용하여 FGS 부호화를 수행하는 AR-FGS 기법을 채택하고 있다. 그러나, 향상계층 부호화 정보가 비트스트림 절삭(bitstream truncation)에 의하여 FGS 복호기에 전달이 되지 못 할 경우 FGS 부호기와 복호기에 이용이 되는 참조화면의 차이로 인하여 움직임 보상 과정에서 오류의 전파(error drift)가 발생하여 FGS 계층에서 화질 저하를 초래하게 된다. 이를 해결하기 위하여 본 논문에서는 FGS 계층에서 움직임 보상에 이용될 예측신호를 구하기 위해 활용이 되는 향상계층 참조화면을 효과적으로 생성하기 위하여 사이클 블록 부호화(cyclical block coding)의 원리를 이용한다. 사이클 블록 부호화에서는 FGS 계층의 복호화 화질에 큰 영향을 미치는 중요 양자화 변환계수(quantized transform coefficient)를 초기 부호화 사이클에 포함시킴으로써 우선적으로 부호화 및 전송이 되게 하는 부호화 기술이다. 양자화 변환계수가 사이클 블록 부호화에 포함되는 순서가 앞설 경우 대역폭 감소로 인한 비트스트림 절삭이 적용될 때에도 복호기에 우선적으로 전달될 확률이 상대적으로 높다. 이러한 원리를 바탕으로 사이클 블록 부호화에 서 각 사이클 별로 생성되는 비트스트림이 향상계층 참조화면의 생성에 기여하는 중요도에 따라 그 가중치를 다르게 조절함으로써 특정 부호화 사이클에서 생성된 비트스트림 정보가 절삭에 의해 FGS 복호기에 전달되지 못하더라도 복호화 시 그 영향을 최소화하여 화질 저하를 줄이는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법을 이용하여 개선된 AR-FGS 기법을 구현할 경우 기존의 표준 방법에 비하여 재생화면의 화질이 최대 1dB 안팎으로 개선이 됨을 실험을 통해 확인하였다.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.66-78
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• 2002

Process capability indices are being used as indicators for measurements of process capability for SPC of quality assurance system in industries. In view of the enhancement of customer satisfaction, process capability indices in which loss functions are used to deal with the economic loss In the processes deviated from the target, are in an adequate representation of the customer's perception of quality In this connection, the loss function has become increasingly important in quality assurance. Taguchi uses a modified form of the quadratic loss function to demonstrate the need to consider the proximity to the target while assessing its quality. But this traditional quadratic loss function is inadequate to assessing the quality and quality improvement since different processes have different sets of economic consequences on the manufacturing, Thereby, a flexible approach to the development of the loss function needs to be desired. In this paper, we introduce an easily understood loss function, based on reflection of probability density function of the normal distribution. That is, the Reflected Normal Loss function can be adapted to an asymmetric loss as well as to a symmetric loss around the target. We propose that, instead of the process variation, a new capability index, CpI using the Reflected Normal Loss Function that can accurately reflect the losses associated with the process and a new capability index CpI Is compared with the classical indices as $C_{p}$ , $C_{pk}$, $C_{pm}$ and $C_{pm}$ $^{+}$.>.+/./.

• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제45권3호
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• pp.118-127
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• 2024

Commonly deep learning methods for enhancing the quality of medical images use unpaired dataset due to the impracticality of acquiring paired dataset through commercial imaging system. In this paper, we propose a supervised learning method to enhance the quality of ultrasound images. The U-net model is designed by incorporating a divide-and-conquer approach that divides and processes an image into four parts to overcome data shortage and shorten the learning time. The proposed model is trained using paired dataset consisting of 828 pairs of low-quality and high-quality images with a resolution of 512x512 pixels obtained by varying the number of channels for the same subject. Out of a total of 828 pairs of images, 684 pairs are used as the training dataset, while the remaining 144 pairs served as the test dataset. In the test results, the average Mean Squared Error (MSE) was reduced from 87.6884 in the low-quality images to 45.5108 in the restored images. Additionally, the average Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) was improved from 28.7550 to 31.8063, and the average Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) was increased from 0.4755 to 0.8511, demonstrating significant enhancements in image quality.

• 한국재료학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국재료학회 2002년도 춘계 학술발표강연 및 논문개요집
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• pp.132-132
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• 2002

Diamond is well known as the hardest material in nature. It also has other unique bulk physical and mechanical properties, such as very high thermal conductivity and broad optical transparency, which enable a number of new applications now that large areas of diamond can be fabricated by the new diamond plasma chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technologies. A study on the effects of growth kinetics and properties of diamond films obtained by addition of argon (~7 vol. %) into the methane/hydrogen mixture is carried out using HFCVD system. A negative bias was used as a nucleation enhancement method in addition to the argon dilution. The scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of surface morphology shows well faceted crystallites with a predominance of angular shapes corresponding to <100> and <110> crystalline surfaces. The nucleation density and growth rate with argon dilution is two orders of magnitude higher than without argon deposition. The Raman spectra show a good quality film whereas XPS spectra show existence of only diamond phase.