• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.21-30
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• 2018

A passive time-reversal technique can improve error performance of the underwater communication system by reducing influence of inter-symbol interferences, which is caused by a multipath channel response. The passive time-reversal communication system equipped with numerous receivers generally can obtain superior error performance since larger diversity gain can be obtained as the number of available received signal increased. In this paper, we analyze the optimal number and combination of receivers that can approximately achieve the best error performance when using the limited number of receivers. For this analysis, we use communication data collected during SAVEX15 (Shallow-water Acoustic Variability Experiment 2015) carried out in the south-western part of Jeju Island from May 14 to May 28, 2015. Analysis results show that there are depths of energy concentration due to the channel characteristics in which the underwater sound channel are present, and the passive time-reversal technique using the limited number of the receivers can derive near-optimal communication performance if the receivers for time-reversal processing are located at the depths where energy is concentrated.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2010

Noise removal methods for noisy images have been studied a lot in the domain of spatial and transform filtering. Low pass filtering was initially applied in the spatial domain. Recently, discrete wavelet transform has widely used for image denoising as well as image compression due to an excellent energy compaction and a property of multiresolution. In this paper, Gabor cosine and sine transform which is considered as human visual filter is applied to image denoising areas using soft thresholding technique. GCST is compared with excellent wavelet transform which uses existing soft thresholding methods from PSNR point of view. Resultant images removed noises are also visually compared. Experimental results with adding four different standard deviation levels of Gaussian distributed noises to real images show that the proposed transform has better PSNR performance of a maximum of 1.18 dB and visible perception than wavelet transform.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.177-185
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• 2008

Research on media access control (MAC) scheme for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has been mainly focused on energy efficiency improvement, while interest on latency is relatively weak. However, end-to-end latency could be a critical limitation specifically in the multi-hop network such as wireless multimedia sensor networks. In this paper we propose a media access control scheme with distributed transmission power control to Improve end-to-end transmission latency as well as reduce power consumption in multi-hop wireless sensor networks. According to the simulation results, the proposed scheme is turned out to be an energy efficient scheme with improved end-to-end transmission latency.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Electrical and Electronic Material Engineers Conference
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• 1999.05a
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• pp.582-588
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• 1999

정보화 사회의 발전과 함께 멀티미디어에 대한 관심이 집중되고 있으며, 점유 공간이 작고 가벼우며 대면적이 가능한 정보 표시 디스플레이에 대한 기술은 고부가가치 산업으로 인식되어 지고 있다. 이러한 정보 표시 디스플레이들 중, 전기 발광 소자 (Electroluminescence Display : ELD), 액정 표시 디스플레이 (Liquid Crystal Display LCD), 플라즈마 디스플레이 (Plasma Display Panel) 등의 대한 연구가 세계적으로 매우 활발하게 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 란탄 계열의 금속 착 화합물인 Tb(ACAC)$_3$(Phen)과 Tb(ACAC)$_3$(Phen-Cl)를 이용해 다비이스를 제작한후 광학적 및 전기적 특성을 조사하였다. 또한 luminous efficiency와 cyclic voltametric 방법을 이용해 에너지 밴드로 두 발광 물질인 Tb(ACAC)$_3$(Phen)과 Tb(ACAC)$_3$(Phen-Cl)을 비교.분석하였다. 본 연구의 디바이스 구조를 보면 anode/hole transporting layer (HTL)/emitting material layer (EML)/electron transporting layer (ETL)/cathode와 같고 ETL를 aluminum-tris- (8-hydroxyquinoline) (Alq$_3$)와 bis(10-hydroxybenzo(h)quinolinato)beryllium (Bebq$_2$)를 사용하였으며 HTL 로 N,N'-diphenyl-N,N'-bis(3-methylphenyl)-1,1'-biphenyl-4,4'-diamine (TPD)를 사용하였다.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.341-346
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• 1999

본 연구는 악교정 환자 중 9명의 골격성 3급 부정교합 환자를 대상으로 음향학적 분석을 통하여 술전, 술후에 나타나는 발음상의 차이를 살펴보았다. 술전, 술후간 모음 조음상의 차이는 술후 혀의 후방, 하방 이동과 동시에 목젖의 후상방 이동으로 인한 구강 내 조음 공간의 극대화로 요약할 수 있다. Long-term average 스펙트라 분석 결과, /ㅅ/의 조음상의 차이는 술전에서는 마찰소음 에너지가 전 주파수대에 걸쳐 고른 분포를 보이나 술후에는 정상인과 같이 고주파수대에 집중되는 경향을 보였다. 동시에 마찰소음의 peak frequency는 술후에서가 술전에 비해 높게 나타났다.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.164-173
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• 2011

In the present study, the stability of a compressed air energy storage cavern was numerically assessed by concrete plug shapes in order to investigate the optimal shape of concrete plug. The concrete plugs were cylindrical, embedded cylindrical, tapered, and wedged in shape. The stability assessment was carried out based on factor of safety through a strength reduction method and a volume ratio which refers to the ratio of the volume of yield regions in concrete induced by internal pressure to all concrete volume. The results from the present study indicated that the embedded cylindrical and taper shaped plugs were mechanically more stable than the cylindrical and wedge shaped plugs. However, from a comparison of stress distributions in rock mass between the embedded cylindrical and taper shaped plugs, the taper shaped plug was found to be more optimal than the embedded cylindrical plug, since the embedded cylindrical plug caused more stress concentration in the interface between the plug and rock mass than the taper shaped plug.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.628-628
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• 2015

유역의 형상은 강우, 산사태 등과 같은 지배적인 침식작용과 더불어 지형 지질학적 요인들에 의해 결정되어 진다. 그러므로 유역형상에 대한 공간특성 분석을 위해서는 지형학적 요인과 다양한 침식작용에 대한 분석이 필요하다. 국내 외 많은 연구결과에 의하면 지형학적 인자에 의한 침식 형태는 국부경사와 집수면적의 크기에 의해 다양한 구간으로 나뉘며, 그 특성에 따라 지표침식, 세굴, 산사태 등으로 구분되는 것으로 연구된 바 있다. 일례로 유역 내 세굴과 관련된 지배인자는 집수면적보다는 국부경사에 반대로 지표침식, 산사태는 국부경사보다는 집수면적의 크기에 따라 영향을 받는다. 따라서 지형학적 인자(국부경사, 집수면적)의 임계치(threshold) 산출을 통해 침식특성(불안정지역)을 검토할 수 있으며, 이에 대한 물리적 검증은 여러 연구를 통해 물질플럭스(유량, 에너지)에 대한 Power Law로써 검증된바 있다. 본 연구에서는 이러한 지형학적 침식특성 분석을 위하여 2006년 집중호우에 의해 광역적 산사태가 발생한 강원도 평창군 진부면 일대의 $10m{\times}10m$ DEM로부터 국부경사, 집수면적을 산출하고 경사-면적한계곡선(Slope-Area Threshold Curve, SATC), 배수면적 확률분포곡선(Probability distribution of Drain Areas Curve, PDAC), 에너지지수 확률분포곡선(Probability distribution of Energy Index Curve, PEIC)를 실제 산사태지점과 중첩하여 도시하였다. 그 결과, 특정 임계구간(Threshold Area, Unstable area, 2~3권역)내에서 산사태 발생지점이 분포하는 것으로 분석되었다. 이를 통해 지형학적 인자만을 고려하여 미계측 유역에 대한 잠재적 불안정지역의 판별이 가능할 것으로 판단되며, 추후 광역적 사면안정해석에 적용 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Korea Spatial Information System Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.105-115
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• 2006

A sensor network which uses DCS(Data-Centric Storage) stores the same data into the same sensor node. Thus it has a hot spot problem when the sensor network grows and the same data arise frequently. In the past researches of the sensor network using DCS, the hot spot problem caused by growing the sensor network was ignored because they only concentrated on managing stored sensor data efficiently. In this paper, we proposed a non-equal region split method that supports efficient scalability on storing multi-dimensional sensor data. This method can reduce the storing cost, as the sensor network is growing, by dividing whole space into regions which have the same number of sensor nodes according to the distribution of sensor nodes, and storing and managing sensor data within each region. Moreover, this method can distribute the energy consumption of sensor nodes by increasing the number of regions according to the size of the sensor network, the number of sensor nodes within the sensor network, and the quantity of sensor data. Therefore it can help to increase the life time and the scalability of the sensor network.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.18 no.10
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• pp.777-784
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• 2017

Energy harvesting through a thermoelectric module normally makes use of the temperature gradient in the system's operational environment. Therefore, it is difficult to obtain the desired output power when the system is subjected to an environment in which a low temperature gradient is generated across the module, because the power generation efficiency of the thermoelectric device is not optimized. The utilization of solar energy, which is a form of renewable energy abundant in nature, has mostly been limited to photovoltaic solar cells and solar thermal energy generation. However, photovoltaic power generation is capable of utilizing only a narrow wavelength band from the sunlight and, thus, the power generation efficiency might be lowered by light scattering. In the case of solar thermal energy generation, the system usually requires large-scale facilities. In this study, a simple and small size thermoelectric power generation system with a solar concentrator was designed to create a large temperature gradient for enhanced performance. A solar tracking system was used to concentrate the solar thermal energy during the experiments and a liquid circulating chiller was installed to maintain a large temperature gradient in order to avoid heat transfer to the bottom of the thermoelectric module. Then, the setup was tested through a series of experiments and the performance of the system was analyzed for the purpose of evaluating its feasibility and validity.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.9 no.4
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• pp.253-260
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• 2008

Image denoising as one of image enhancement methods has been studied a lot in the spatial and transform domain filtering. Recently wavelet transform which has an excellent energy compaction and a property of multiresolution has widely used for image denoising. But a transform based on human visual system is visually useful if an end user is human beings. Therefore, Gabor cosine and sine transform which is considered as human visual filter is applied to image denoising areas in this paper. Denoising performance of the proposed transform is compared with those of the derivatives of Gaussian transform being another human visual filter and of discrete wavelet transform in terms of PSNR. With three levels of various noises, experimental results for real images show that the proposed transform has better PSNR performance of 0.41dB than DWT and 0.14dB than DGT.