• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.24-32
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• 1997

This study aims to describe, at one aspect, the relativity between syntactic structure and prosodic phrasing, and at the other, to establish a suitable phrasing pattern to produce more natural synthetic speech. To get meaningful results, all the word boundaries in the prosodic database were statistically analyzed, and assigned by the proper boundary type. The resulting 10 types of prosodic boundaries were classified into 3 types according to the strength of the breaks, which are zero, minor, and major break respectively. We have found out that the durational information was a main cue to determine the major prosodic boundary. Using the bigram and trigram of syntactic information, we predicted major and minor classification of boundary types. With brigram model, we obtained the correct major break prediction rates of 4.60%, 38.2%, the insertion error rates of 22.8%, 8.4% on each Test-I and Test-II text database respectively. With trigram mode, we also obtained the correct major break prediction rates of 58.3%, 42.8%, the insertion error rates of 30.8%, 42.8%, the insertion error rates of 30.8%, 11.8% on Test-I and Test-II text database respectively.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06c
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• pp.99-102
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• 1998

본 연구에서는 연속음 인식과 합성을 위한 경계강도 예측 모델을 제안한다. 운율 경계 강도는 음성 합성에서는 운율구 사이의 휴지기의 길이 조절로 합성음의 자연도에 기여를 하고 연속음 인식에서는 인식과정에서 나타나는 후보문장의 선별 과정에 특징변수가 되어 인식률 향상에 큰 역할을 한다. 음성학적으로 발화된 문장은 큰 경계 단위로 볼 때 운율구 형태로 이루어졌다고 볼 수 있으며 구의 경계는 문장의 문법적인 특징과 관련을 지을 수 있게 된다. 본 논문에서는 운율 경계 강도 수준을 4로 하고 문법적인 특징으로는 트리구조 방법으로 결정된 오른쪽 가지의 수식의 깊이(rd)와 link grammar방법으로 결정된 음절수(syl), 연결거리(torig)를 bigram 모형과 결합하여 운율적 경계 강도를 예측한다. 예측 모형으로는 다중 회귀 모형과 Marcov 모형을 제안한다. 이들 모형으로 낭독체 200 문장에 대해 실험한 결과 76%로 경계 강도를 예측할 수 있었다.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.41-49
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• 2016

This paper evaluates the interface shear strength of HDPE textured geomembrane. The interface shear strength between textured geomembrane and marl, and textured geomembrane and woven geotextile were measured; and the smooth geomembrane was used to evaluate the effect of "texture" on the interface shear strength. The interface shear strength was measured using a large direct shear testing device under several conditions including the presence of water, and the normal stresses that were 12, 24, 45, 100, 500, and 1,000 kPa. From testing results, it was found that there was meaningful reduction in the interface shear strength in the presence of water, but the effect of normal stress was not clear. The interface shear strength was measured to be significantly different for smooth geomembrane, whose strength was measured to be as small as half that of the textured geomembrane.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.06e
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• pp.81-84
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• 1998

본 논문에서는 문장의 문법 구조로부터 운율 경계 강도를 효율적으로 예측하기 위해서, 문법 정보의 세밀함에 따라 품사셋을 3단계로 설정하였다. 그리고 운율 경계 강도를 예측하는데 있어서 어떠한 품사셋이 최적인가를 알아보기 위해 150문장의 코퍼스를 구축하였으며, 세 종류의 품사셋에 대해 코퍼스를 수작업으로 품사분석을 하였다. 청취실험으로 결정한 운율 경계 강도를 바탕으로 확률론적인 모델링 방법을 사용하여 예측하는 실험을 하였다. 이러한 예측결과를 평가 비교하여 최적의 품사셋을 정하였다.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.71-87
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• 2013

Companies as well as the Korean government show growing attention to the Smart Work which is enabled by the ongoing development of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Smart Work can be regarded as an extended version of telecommuting or distance work and defined as "working efficiently and conveniently regardless of time and place utilizing ICTs." Smart Work currently puts its emphasis on the work and life balance by changing the ways of working. Despite its emphasis on work and life balance, it is expected the boundaries between work and nonwork would blur, work and nonwork boundaries may become more permeable, and role conflicts would occur more times than before. To find ways to enhance work and life balance while escaping from expected conflicts in the context of Smart Work, we investigate the work and nonwork boundary strengths and the factors affecting them. In the course, we consider asymmetries between the work and nonwork boundary strengths and bidirectional nature of work and nonwork permeability. We develop two research models having work and nonwork boundary strengths as respective dependent variables. We empirically found that work role identification and nonwork-to-work permeability had influences on the boundary strength at work and that work-to-nonwork permeability affected the boundary strength at nonwork. However, nonwork role identification did not show any significant influence on the boundary strength at nonwork.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2001.11a
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• pp.165-169
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• 2001

본 논문에서는 텍스쳐가 포함된 칼라 영상으로부터 텍스쳐에 무관하게 영역을 분할할 수 있는 방법을 개발하였다. 빠른 처리를 위해 영상을 블록 단위로 쪼개고 블록의 경계 성분값(H)을 계산하여 영역 분할에 이용할 수 있도록 하였다. M값은 객체의 경계에서는 높은 경계 강도를 갖지만 영역 내부나 텍스쳐 경계에서는 상대적으로 낮은 경계 강도를 갖도록 정의되었다 영상 분할을 위해 M값으로 표현된 M영상으로부터 Watershed를 이용해 경계 위치를 결정하고 닫혀진 형태로 경계가 표현될 수 있도록 하였다. 그런데 Watershed 방법은 과잉 분할 결과를 초래하므로 인접 영역 사이의 공유 경계에 대한 강도와 영역 내부의 칼라 분포 특성을 이용하여 영역을 병합함으로써 객체 경계처럼 중요한 변화가 발생되는 영역 단위의 최종 영상 분할된 결과를 얻을 수 있도록 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 방법은 MPEG4나 내용기반검색을 위한 영역분할에 유용하게 적용될 수 있을 것이다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.191-198
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• 2013

The interests in alternative office systems and solutions (called smart work in Korea) are growing. With the lens of boundary theory, this paper tries to understand the nature of work/nonwork boundaries which smart work will be expected to blur. Boundary theory provides permeability, boundary strength, and interference as its key concepts and an empirical study is performed about the individual perception on those concepts. The result of the survey from telecommuters and/or smart work center users at the Company K shows that they perceive work/nonwork permeability, boundary strength, and interference are asymmetric. The result suggests that asymmetric nature of the work/nonwork boundaries should be taken into account when alternative office systems are brought into use.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 1999.10e
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• pp.184-190
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 Text-to-Speech 시스템에서 사용할 억양 모델을 위해 음성 DB에서 모델 파라미터와 피치 검색테이블(lookup-table)을 추출하여 미리 구성하고, 합성시에는 이를 추정하여 최종 F0 값을 생성하는 자료기반 접근방식(data-driven approach)을 사용한다. 어절 경계강도(break-index)는 경계강도의 특성에 따라 고정적 경계강도와 가변적 경계강도로 세분화하여 사용하였고, 예측된 경계강도를 기준으로 억양구(Intonation Phrase)와 액센트구(Accentual Phrase)를 설정하였다. 특히, 액센트구 모델은 인지적, 음향적으로 중요한 정점(peak)을 정확하게 모델링하는 것에 주안점을 두어 정점(peak)의 시간축, 주파수축 값과 이를 기준으로 한 앞뒤 기울기를 추정하여 4개의 파라미터로 설정하였고, 이 파라미터들은 CART(Classification and Regression Tree)를 이용하여 예측규칙을 만들었다. 경계음조가 나타나는 조사, 어미는 정규화된(normalized) 피치값과 key-index로 구성되는 검색테이블을 만들어 보다 정교하게 피치값을 예측하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 억양 모델을 본 연구실에서 제작한 음성합성기를 통해 합성하여 청취실험을 거친 결과, 기존의 상용 Text-to-Speech 시스템에 비해 자연스러운 합성음을 얻을 수 있었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.15 no.5 s.66
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• pp.509-518
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• 2003

In this study, we carried out nonlinear analysis according to various interface nonlinear models by interaction magnitude, and analyzed interface behavior such as distribution of tangential traction and relative slip in steel-concrete composite structure. As a result of this study, tangential traction and relative slip of interface is rapidly increased at the steel plate-concrete interface, especially at the neutral region, rather than tensile, as opposed to the T beam-concrete interface. In transverse direction, it has gradually reduced to go outside from loading position. In longitudinal direction, it was minimum at the central region near the loading point, maximum at 0.6-0.7L from support and gradually reduced as it nears support. Moreover, as the load is increased, the failure of interface gradually expands from the maximum tangential traction position to the entire region. It is expected to provide fundamentality for interface behavior and load-carrying mechanism, and for the design of bending and shear connection of steel-concrete composite structure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.2055-2061
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• 2006

The detection of geometric primitives from a digital image is one of the basic tasks in computer vision area and the Hough transform is a well-known method for detecting analytical shape represented by a number of free parameters. However the basic property of the Hough transform, the one-to-many mapping from an image space to a Hough space, causes the innate problem, the sensitivity to noise. In this paper, we proposed Edge Strength Hough Transform which uses edge strength to reduce the sensitivity to noise and proved the insensitivity using the ratio of peaks in a Mough space. We also experimented the proposed method on lines and got small number of peaks in a Hough space compared to traditional Hough transform, which supports the noise insensitivity of the proposed method.