• 대한의용생체공학회:의공학회지
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• 제30권3호
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• pp.233-240
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• 2009

Using a spatial compound imaging technique in a medical ultrasound imaging system, the average speed of sound in a medium of interest is measured, and imaging of its distribution is implemented. When the brightness reaches the highest level in an ultrasonic image obtained as the speed of sound used in focusing is varied, it turns out that the focusing has been accomplished satisfactorily and that the speed of sound which has been adopted becomes the sought-after average speed of sound. Because spatial compound imaging provides many different views of the same object, the adverse effect of erroneous speed-of-sound estimation tends to be more severe in compound imaging than in plain B-mode imaging. Thus, in compound imaging, the average speed of sound even in the case of speckled images can be accurately estimated by observing the brightness change due to different speeds of sound employed. Using this new method that offers spatial diversity, we can construct an image of the speed of sound distribution in a phantom embedded with a 10-mm diameter plastic cylinder whose speed of sound is different from that of the background. The speed of sound in the cylinder is found to be different from that of the surrounding medium.

• 비파괴검사학회지
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• 제36권1호
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• pp.27-34
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• 2016

본 논문은 초음파를 이용한 단층촬영(ultrasound computed tomography, UCT)을 위해 사용되는 영상 복원 방식에서 실제 사용되는 초음파 트랜스듀서의 조합에 따른 영항을 다루었다. 촬영 대상의 속도 분포를 구하기 위해서 라돈 변환(radon transform)을 사용하였으며, 음향 임피던스의 영상화를 위하여, 시간지연(delay and sum)방식을 사용하였다. 음향 임피던스 영상의 경우 속도 분포 영상에 의해 보정하여 더 정확한 영상을 복원하였다. 매질의 특성에 따른 감쇠, 굴절 및 반사를 고려한 초음파 시뮬레이터로 128개의 환형 트랜스듀서 어레이를 구현하였으며, 5 MHz의 중심주파수로, 5 cm의 인체조직 영상을 구현하였다. 실제 구현을 위한 최적의 트랜스듀서 조합을 찾기 위해, 점 진원(point source), 평면 트랜스듀서(flat transducer), 집속 트랜스듀서(focused transducer)를 이용해서 속도 분포에 대한 영상과 음향 임피던스 영상을 구현하여 비교하였다. 또한 시뮬레이션 상에서는 송신 및 수신 트랜스듀서가 모두 점 트랜스듀서인 경우가 가장 좋은 결과를 보여주었으나, 실제 구현을 고려하면 송신은 평면 트랜스듀서가 수신은 점 트랜스듀서로 하는 조합이 가장 현실적으로 좋은 결과를 보여준다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제7권4호
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• pp.327-333
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• 2019

Wind speed data constitute important weather information for aircrafts flying at low altitudes, such as drones. Currently, the accuracy of low altitude wind predictions is much lower than that of high-altitude wind predictions. Deep neural networks are proposed in this study as a method to improve wind speed forecast information. Deep neural networks mimic the learning process of the interactions among neurons in the brain, and it is used in various fields, such as recognition of image, sound, and texts, image and natural language processing, and pattern recognition in time-series. In this study, the deep neural network model is constructed using the wind prediction values generated by the numerical model as an input to improve the wind speed forecasts. Using the ground wind speed forecast data collected at the Boseong Meteorological Observation Tower, wind speed forecast values obtained by the numerical model are compared with those obtained by the model proposed in this study for the verification of the validity and compatibility of the proposed model.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제37권5호
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• pp.276-283
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• 2018

이 연구는 헬름홀쯔 공명기 구조를 갖는 매미 소리의 중심주파수에 주요 영향을 주는 발음기관이 무엇인지를 최초로 초고속영상분석을 통해 규명하는 데 목적이 있다. 말매미와 참매미를 대상으로 소리를 녹음 후 분석하였고, 초고속카메라로 촬영한 진동막의 움직임을 분석하여 소리의 주파수와 진동막 운동 사이의 관계를 비교하였다. 연구결과, 말매미와 참매미 모두 유인음과 비명음의 주파수분포에는 차이가 거의 없었으며, 말매미의 진동막은 3개, 참매미의 진동막은 1개 모드로 진동하였다. 두 매미 모두 양쪽 진동막의 진동수에는 차이가 나타나지 않았으며, 말매미의 진동막의 3개 진동 모드는 서로 다른 진동수 대역의 소리가 발생하였다. 두 매미 모두 진동막의 진동수 대역과 유인음의 중심주파수 대역이 매우 유사하였다. 결론적으로, 헬름홀쯔 공명기 구조를 갖는 매미 소리의 주파수는 복부의 공명조건보다는 진동막의 모드별 진동수에 의해 결정되는 것으로 추정된다.

• 수산해양교육연구
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• 제16권2호
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• pp.163-170
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• 2004

The rapid exchanges of mobile computing environment and development of wireless communication are providing many effects for learning activity of students. Recently, PDA system developers which are studying memory capacity, communication speed and size of screen support techniques to be capable of learning from students in the wireless or moving environment. In this viewpoints, this paper has a purpose to design multimedia learning system to be able to do with sound lecture contents. The implemented system largely consists of two parts which have the teacher module and students module. The one manages learning progress of students, class management, bulletin board and etc. The other is capable of using studying and bulletin functions. The main idea of this research is focus to upgrade the effect of learning without almost treating the existing studies, which can be listening sound lecture and also seeing text and image at the same time.

• Imaging Science in Dentistry
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.265-274
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• 2000

Purpose: The aims of the present study are to determine the optimum compression rate in terms of file size reduction and diagnostic quality of the images after compression and evaluate the transmission speed of original or each compressed image. Materials and Methods: The material consisted of 24 extracted human premolars and molars. The occlusal surfaces and proximal surfaces of the teeth had a clinical disease spectrum that ranged from sound to varying degrees of fissure discoloration and cavitation. The images from Digora system were exported in TIFF and the images from conventional intraoral film were scanned and digitalized in TIFF by Nikon SF-200 scanner (Nikon, Japan). And six compression factors were chosen and applied on the basis of the results from a pilot study. The total number of images to be assessed were 336. Three radiologists assessed the occlusal and proximal surfaces of the teeth with 5-rank scale. Finally diagnosed as either sound or carious lesion by one expert oral pathologist. And sensitivity, specificity and k value for diagnostic agreement was calculated. Also the area (Az) values under the ROC curve were calculated and paired t-test and oneway ANOVA test was performed. Thereafter, transmission time of the image files of the each compression level was compared with that of the original image files. Results: No significant difference was found between original and the corresponding images up to 7% (1 : 14) compression ratio for both the occlusal and proximal caries (p<0.05). JPEG3 (1 : 14) image files are transmitted fast more than 10 times, maintained diagnostic information in image, compared with original image files. Conclusion: 1 : 14 compressed image file may be used instead of the original image and reduce storage needs and transmission time.

• 한국기계가공학회지
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• 제11권5호
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• pp.142-147
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• 2012

Machining tool conditions directly affect to quality of product and productivity of manufacturing. Many researches performed for tool condition monitoring in machining process to improve quality and productivity. Conventional methods use characteristics of signal for cutting force, motor current consumption, vibration of machine tools and machining sound. Recently, diameter of machining tool is become smaller for minimizing of mechanical parts. Tool condition monitoring using conventional methods are relatively difficult because micro machining using small diameter tool has low machining load and high cutting speed. These days, the direct monitoring for tool conditions using vision system is performed actively. But, vision system is affected by external conditions such as back ground of image and illumination. In this study, minimizing technology of external conditions using distribution analysis of image data are developed in micro machining using small diameter drill and tap. The image data is gathered from vision system. Several sets of experiment results are performed to verify the characteristics of the proposed machining technology.

• International Journal of Railway
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.106-112
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• 2010

Accidents at level crossing have large portion on train accidents, and causes economical loss by train delay and operational interruption. Various safety equipments are employed to reduce the accident at level crossing, but existing warning device, and crossing barrier are simple train-oriented protection equipments. In this paper, intelligent railway level crossing system is proposed to prevent and reduce accidents. For train driver's prompt action, image of level crossing and obstacle warning message are continuously provided to train driver through wireless communication in level crossing control zone. Obstacle warning messages, which are extracted by computer vision processing of captured image at level crossing, are recognized by train driver through message color, flickering and warning sound. It helps train driver to decide how to take an action. Meanwhile, for vehicle driver's attention, location and speed of approaching train are given to roadside equipments. We identified the effect of proposed system through test installation at Sea train and Airport level crossing of Yeong-dong line.

• 융합신호처리학회논문지
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• 제10권1호
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• pp.1-6
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• 2009

수중이나 지하에서는 매질의 전도성으로 인하여 전파를 이용한 무선 통신이 어렵다. 이러한 경우 초음파 등과 같은 음향신호를 이용하여 무선통신을 하는데 이 경우도 시변 다경로현상, 도플러효과, 각종 감쇄 등으로 인하여 코히어런트방식의 통신에서는 장거리 전송이 어렵다. 따라서 장거리 전송에서는 FSK 등과 같은 넌코히어런트방식의 데이터 전송방식을 사용하는데 이 경우 음향신호의 전송속도가 늦다는 특성 때문에 넓은 대역폭의 데이터 전송이 어렵다. 수중에서 다양한 통신 수요에 따라 음성통신 뿐만 아니라 화상 데이터 전송 등이 요구되는데 이와 같은 많은 데이터 전송시 넌코히어런트방식의 통신에서 그 요구조건을 만족시키기가 어렵다. 본 연구에서는 시간지연신호에 디지털 데이터를 실음으로써 동시에 8비트 또는 16비트 등과 같이 여러 비트의 데이터를 전송함으로써 전송속도를 개선할 수 있는 새로운 전송프로토콜을 제안한다.

• 한국음향학회지
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• 제23권4호
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• pp.268-273
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• 2004

본 연구에서는 원호의 내부벽면에 1열로 배열된 어레이 트랜스듀서를 이용한 반사-투과형 생체진단용 역산란 초음파 단층화상법을 제안하였다. 제안된 방법에서는 대상 물체의 배면에 반사판을 배치하여 경면효과를 이용하였고, 유한 대역을 갖는 펄스파를 송신파로 사용하여 다중 주파수 성분을 이용함으로써 데이터 관측 범위를 줄일 수 있었다. 제안된 방법의 성능 평가를 위하여 컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 이용한 모의 생체 조직에 대한 유효성을 검토한 격과, 트랜스듀서군의 송수신 각도 범위가 30도로 극히 좁은 범위로 제한되었음에도 불구하고 정량적인 화상재현이 가능함을 확인할 수 있다.