• Journal of the Korean Geographical Society
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• v.49 no.5
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• pp.639-655
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• 2014

Uvala is one of the geographic features which have been discussed very actively in the field of Karst geomorphology, but most researches in Korea have been staying at the level which uvala were discussed from the viewpoint of the Karst cycle. In this study, the geomorphological characteristics of Kwangduck-ri Uvala will be identified on the basis of the various definitions, and the irrigation systems which have been developed during 250 years will be analysed using a number of data, such as interviews, statistical data, maps, air-photos, especially topographical analysis from GIS. It is concluded that the site of Kwangduck-ri Uvala would have shown the genuine history to adapt and overcome the obstacles of harsh karst environment and to make the stable agricultural and irrigation system in the high plateau karst area.

• Journal of the Korean Geotechnical Society
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.19-30
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• 2000

The major design parameters of the anchored sheet-pile wall include the determination of required penetration depth, the force acting on the anchor, and the maximum bending moment in the piling. Blum solved the fixed earth supported wall using the equivalent beam method, assuming that the wall can be separated into upper and lower parts of the point of contraflexure. Design charts help designer by simplifying the design procedure. But they have some difficulties under some Geotechnical and geometrical conditions. For example, the conventional design charts can compute design parameters only when the ground water table exists above the dredge line. In this paper, the design charts which can be used for the ground water table existing under the dredge line are presented. And simplified formulae are developed by regression analysis. It is found that simplified formulae are not only very useful for the practice of design but also they can evaluate the result of numerical methods or design charts.

• Journal of the Korea Computer Graphics Society
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.31-38
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• 1996

Many efforts for finding smooth curves and surfaces satisfying given constraints have been made, and interpolation and approximation theories with the help of computers have played an important role in this endeavour. Most research in curve and surface modeling has been largely dominated by the theory of parametric representations. While they have been successfully used in representing physical objects, parametric surfaces are confronted with some problems when objects are represented and manipulated in geometric modeling systems. In recent year, increasing attention has been paid to implicit algebraic surfaces since they are often more effective than parametric surfaces are. In this paper, we summarize the geometric properties and computational processes of objects represented using implicit algebraic functions and explain of the implementation of design tools which can design curves and surfaces of revolution. These surfaces of revolution are played an importance role in effective areas such as CAD and CAM.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.1564-1570
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• 2013

In this paper, we propose a robust pupil detection method using rank order filter and cross-correlation. Potential pupil candidates are detected using rank order filter. Eye region is binarized using variable threshold to find eyebrow, and pupil candidates at the eyebrow are removed. The positions of pupil candidates are corrected, the pupil candidates are grouped into pairs based on geometric constraints. A similarity measure is obtained for two eye of each pair using cross-correlation, we select a pair with the largest similarity measure as a final pupil. The experiments have been performed for 500 images of the BioID face database. The results show that it achieves the high detection rate of 96.8% and improves about 11.6% than existing method.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.153-163
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• 2004

The main objective of this study is to develop a multi-objective fuzzy optimum design program of steel structures and to verify that the multi-objective fuzzy optimum design is more reasonable than the single objective optimum design in real structural design. In the optimization formulation, the objective functions are both total weight and deflection. The design constraints are derived from the ultimate strength of service ability requirement of AISC-LRFD specification. The structural analysis was performed by the finite element method and also considered geometric non-linearity. The different importance of optimum criteria were reflected with two weighting methods ; membership weighting method and objective weighting method. Thus, designers could choose rational optimum solution of structures with application of two weighting methods.

• Journal of KIISE:Computer Systems and Theory
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• v.28 no.12
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• pp.620-631
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• 2001

In interactive environments including computer games and virtual reality applications, we have increased need for interactive control of articulated body motions. Recently, physically based methods including constrained dynamics techniques are introduced to this area, in order to produce more realistic animation sequences. However, they are hard to achieve real-time control of articulated bodies, due to their heavy computations. In this paper, we present a procedural method for interactive animation of articulated bodies. In our method, each object of the constrained body is first moved according to their physical properties and external forces, without considering any constraints. Then, the locations of objects are adjusted to satisfy given constraints. Through adapting this two-stage approach, we have avoided the solving of large linear systems of equations, to finally achieve the interactive animation of articulated bodies. We also present a few example sequences of animations, which are interactively generated on PC platforms. This method can be easily applied to character animations in virtual environments.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.7-13
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• 2002

Almost applications using fuzzy theory are based on the fuzzy inference. However fuzzy inference needs much time in calculation process for the fuzzy system with many input variables or many fuzzy labels defined on each variable. Inference time is dependent on the number of arithmetic Product in computation Process. Especially, the inference time is a primary constraint to fuzzy control applications using microprocessor or PC-based controller. In this paper, a simple fast fuzzy inference algorithm(FFIA), without loss of information, was proposed to reduce the inference time based on the fuzzy system with triangular membership functions in antecedent part of fuzzy rule. The proposed algorithm was induced by using partition of input state space and simple geometrical analysis. By using this scheme, we can take the same effect of the fuzzy rule reduction.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.10 no.2
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• pp.123-133
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• 2006

The main objective of this study is to develop an optimization algorithm of framed structures with rigid and various semi-rigid connections using the multilevel dynamic programming and the sequential unconstrained minimization techniques (SUMT). The second-order elastic analysis is performed for steel framed structures. The second order elastic analysis is developed based on nonlinear beam-column theory considering the bowing effect. The following semi-rigid connections are considered; double web angle, top-seat angle and top-seat angle with web angle. We considered the three connection models, such as modified exponential, polynomial and three parameter model. The total weight of the structural steel is used as the objective function in the optimization process. The dimensions of steel cross section are selected as the design variables. The design constraints consist of strength requirements for axial, shear and flexural resistance and serviceability requirements.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Surveying, Geodesy, Photogrammetry and Cartography
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 1994

The terrestrial phetogrammetry has the relative convenience of selecting the site of photo station in contrast with the aerial photogrammetry, and the flexibility in accuracy prediction of object point positioning. So it has the advantage in designing optimum photo taking system which can fulfill the required accuracy. For the convergent photos which are frequently used for the monitoring of cultural assets and ground facilities, almost all of the traditional studies for the optimum photo condition, both in theoretical or experimental, are basically depend on the symmetrical configuration at the normal direction to the center of the object. However, in many cases the surroundings of the object do not allow the normal photo direction or sufficient convergent angle, even more the object features are not always be seen as one panel like planar. In this paper, the accuracy variation of convergent photos for the multi-planar objects, which are composed by some orthogonal planes, are investigated to establish the optimum photo condition. The results of the accuracy analysis for the photo direction, convergent angle, as well as the object feature are expected to be utilized in system design of geometric configuration of convergent photos, which are adequate for the accurate monitoring of the objects, such as culural assets, facilities, precision instruments, deformation surveying, etc.

• Journal of the Society of Disaster Information
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.60-68
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• 2023

Purpose: In order to find out stability condition which governs design of drystone masonry retaining walls and changing patterns of installed width of blocks of the wall for each stability conditions, typical wall was assumed and designed. Method: For the purpose of this study, 10 m high drystone masonry retaining wall with general block size and soil properties were considered and dimensions of the wall were determined by applying stability conditions of sliding and overturning and the design results were compared with each other. Result: According to the design results, installed width of blocks determined by considering stability of sliding were greatly less than those determined by considering stability of overturning and these differences were not decreased noticeably even though same values of factors of safety for sliding and overturning were applied. Between the two methods of determining the installed width of blocks, it could be seen that the method of considering failure wedge of lower part of overturning parts of the wall governed the design instead of considering horizontal base of overturning parts of the wall. Conclusion: In case of considering failure wedge of lower part of overturning parts of the wall, it could be seen that the installed width of blocks increased as the inclination angle of failure wedge increased. In case of considering overturning at the lower part of the wall with certain assumed inclination angle of failure wedge, it could be seen that installed width of blocks decreased as the inclination angle of failure wedge decreased by geometric restrictions of the wall.