• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.4D
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• pp.539-543
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• 2008

The Directional sign system in Korean high speed railway stations has a lot of problems. For an example, It lacks of consistency in the shape or allocation. Also, the signs do not match with the actual directions sometimes. Last but not least, the view is blocked by the other signs such as advertisement or other barriers. We suggested the methods to standardize the sign systems that include visibility, accuracy, consistency, and simplicity. First, we categorized signs into directional signs, locational signs, and infomational signs. Then, we examined the actual high speed railway stations in Korea to learn the real situation. Finally, we suggested the methods to standardize the sign systems considering the factors that are visibility, accuracy, consistency, and simplicity.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.28 no.2D
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• pp.235-242
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• 2008

Due to the lack of judgement in an information processing on road sign, older drivers usually are having a hard time driving than young group. Furthermore, according to increasing in aging population, older drivers in Korea have been growing much faster. That means research for older drivers' characteristics and the number of guide name for road sign should be needed. In accordance with suggestions, this study was carried out the number of guide names for road sign with a variety of ages from the twenties to the seventies. For the sake of this study, statistical verification was conducted to confirm a change of speed, a reading time and a misreading rate with Driving Simulator and Electrooculogram tool. As the results of study, change of speed in the age range has shown that the higher the proportion of age, the lower the rate of velocity. Also reading time in the age range with regression analysis found that the higher the proportion of age, the higher the rate of reading time by 0.106sec. Finally, a binary logistic model was used to find the main factors. As the results, 4 number of guide names for road sign have been the best of them for older driver. The result of this study verified the importance of ideal guide numbers on road sign for older driver and proved itself to be an effective method to determine the road safety for the road signs.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.938-949
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose a robust speed-limit sign recognition system which is durable to any sign changes caused by exterior damage or color contrast due to light direction. For recognition of speed-limit sign, we apply CNN which is showing an outstanding performance in pattern recognition field. However, original CNN uses multiple hidden layers to extract features and uses fully-connected method with MLP(Multi-layer perceptron) on the result. Therefore, the major demerit of conventional CNN is to require a long time for training and testing. In this paper, we apply randomly-connected classifier instead of fully-connected classifier by combining random forest with output of 2 layers of CNN. We prove that the recognition results of CNN with random forest show best performance than recognition results of CNN with SVM (Support Vector Machine) or MLP classifier when we use eight speed-limit signs of GTSRB (German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark).

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.562-568
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• 2016

In this paper, we focus on recognition of speed-limit signs among a few types of traffic signs because speed-limit sign is closely related to safe driving of drivers. Although histogram of oriented gradient (HOG) and local binary patterns (LBP) are representative features for object recognition, these features have a weakness with respect to rotation, in that it does not consider the rotation of the target object when generating patterns. Therefore, this paper propose the fast rotation-invariant binary patterns (FRIBP) algorithm to generate a binary pattern that is robust against rotation. The proposed FRIBP algorithm deletes an unused layer of the histogram, and eliminates the shift and comparison operations in order to quickly extract the desired feature. The proposed FRIBP algorithm is successfully applied to German Traffic Sign Recognition Benchmark (GTSRB) datasets, and the results show that the recognition capabilities of the proposed method are similar to those of other methods. Moreover, its recognition speed is considerably enhanced than related works as approximately 0.47second for 12,630 test data.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.7-19
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• 2007

The purpose of posted speeds is to provide a speed that ensures the safety of vehicle flow according to given road situations. Because of this, posted speeds must be carefully examined, and posted speeds at freeway exits and entrances in particular should consider car characteristics. Posted speeds at freeway exits and entrances must take changing speeds due to curve radiuses into consideration and in this study, an 85th percentile speed becomes the most important element to consider. When it is considered that most traffic accidents occur because of variations in speed between cars, posted speeds should be set after considering car traveling characteristics. Within these dimensions, instead of putting significance on an upper direction regulation or lower direction regulation, speed distributions which fit to the characteristics of each road should be fully considered. Accordingly, this study evaluated appropriate posted speeds that will reduce the dangers of traffic accidents through posted speed regulations of roads now in operation by offering a posted speed setting method theory, using entries at Yangji, Yongin, and Cheongwon interchanges as subjects.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2002.03a
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• pp.65-70
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• 2002

도로표지는 도로 이용자에게 목적지까지의 방향, 거리, 경로 안내 등 기타정보를 제공함으로써 안전하고 원활한 교통흐름을 제공하여 도로의 이용 효율을 극대화할 수 있는 중요한 도로 부속시설물이다. 이 시설물의 설치 기준인 도로표지규칙의 일부 기준이 미흡하고 운영 및 관리담당 기관이 일원화되지 않아, 전문적 도로표지 관리가 용이하지 않은 실정이다. 이에 도로표지의 통합적 전문적 관리와, 그에 따른 도로표지의 신속하고 정확한 조사가 필요하게 되었다. 본 연구에서는 최적의 조사시스템을 도출하기 위하여 도로시설물의 조사를 위한 여러 방법과 시스템을 비교하고 그 장단점을 분석하였다. 또한, 수치지도를 바탕으로 한 도로망도를 추출하고 DGPS 측량을 실시한 도로망도를 이용하여 현지조사를 실시하였다. 현지 조사 시스템을 공간정보, 속성정보로 구성된 데이터베이스, 표지판등록 및 GPS프로그램으로 구성된 응용프로그램, 소프트웨어와 경로탐색용 네비게이션, 노트북, 디지털카메라, GPS로 구성된 하드웨어로 구성하여 현지조사에 사용하였다. 현지조사 작업은 차량에 설치된 디지털카메라를 이용하여 원격조정으로 도로표지의 사진을 촬영하고, GPS를 이용하여 위치를 측정하였다. 현지조사 시스템은 지도의 축척에 맞는 정확도로 조정이 가능하며, 도로표지 조사뿐만 아니라 교통표지 및 그 외의 도로시설물의 조사에도 활용하고, 무선통신을 이용한다면 실시간 정보의 수정 및 입력이 가능할 것으로 판단된다.

• 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.329-332
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• 2007

현재 2D기반 내비게이션에서는 다양한 형태로 차량에 부착한 단말기나 핸드폰을 통하여 차량 주행 안내서비스를 제공하고 있으나, 이러한 주행 안내 서비스는 대부분 2차원 평면상에서 정보만을 지원해 줄 뿐 사람의 인식과 일치하는 실감형 정보를 제공하지 못하는 한계가 있다. 또한 차량이 도로를 주행하는 과정에서 다양한 돌발 상황이 발생할 수 있는데 이에 대한 정보의 제공이나, 또는 주행안내에 필수적인 직진, 회전 등 방향 정보와 차선 변경, 교통 표지판 정보 등 필요정보를 운전자에게 가장 효율적으로 제공할 수 있는 실감형 정보 제공의 필요성이 커지고 있는 실정이다. 본 논문에서는 안내 서브시스템, 차선 인식 서브시스템, 신호등/표지판 인식 서브시스템으로부터 정보를 취득하여, 취득된 정보를 표현 서브시스템이 안내 정보를 표현할 수 있도록 정보를 제공하는 주행상태 판단 모듈의 기능을 구현 한다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.95-104
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• 1999

With the increasing of cars, general studies of them for the traffic safety have been raised as important problems. Visual system to radio-controled driving is to sample road traffic information as reconstructing a model from lots of road traffic information which is successively input in order to drive on unknown road. This paper proposes a sampling process of the road traffic information board needed in automatic driving under automatic drive system using Hough Transform and Genetic Alorithm.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Industrial Safety Conference
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• 1999.06a
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• pp.277-280
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• 1999

신호단어는 잠재적 위험을 빠르게 알리는 데에 주로 사용하는데, 위험, 경고, 주의, 지시등의 용어가 여기에 해당된다. 각각의 단어는 위험의 성질, 따르지 않았을 때의 결과, 또 필요로 되는 행위를 포함하고 있다. 이러한 이유 때문에 이미 교통안전분야에 도로표지판의 정보전달이나, 자동차 번호판의 개선에 대하여 연구를 계속하여 오고 있으나, 산업안전분야에의 적용은 아직 미흡한 수준에 머물러 있다. (중략)

• Proceedings of the KOR-KST Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.397-403
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• 2007