• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.35 no.5
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• pp.358-367
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• 2016

SSL (Sound Source Localization) has been applied to several applications such as man-machine interface, video conference system, smart car and so on. But in the process of sound source localization, angle estimation error is occurred mainly due to the non-linear characteristics of the sine inverse function. So an approach was proposed to decrease the effect of this non-linear characteristics, which divides the microphone's covering space into narrow regions. In this paper, we proposed an optimal space dividing way according to the pattern of microphone array. In addition, sound source's 2-dimensional position is estimated in order to evaluate the performance of this dividing method. In the experiment, GCC-PHAT (Generalized Cross Correlation PHAse Transform) method that is known to be robust with noisy environments is adopted and triangular pattern of 3 microphones and rectangular pattern of 4 microphones are tested with 100 speech data respectively. The experimental results show that triangular pattern can't estimate the correct position due to the lower space area resolution, but performance of rectangular pattern is dramatically improved with correct estimation rate of 67 %.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.24 no.5 s.91
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• pp.109-121
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• 2006

The road should be designed in the consistent alignment which the driver can drive safely. Also, proper highway environments in order to maintain optimal operational speeds on highway sections should be provided In design stage, for highway environments, it is essential for an operational speed estimation model to different highway environments. If a method which could evaluate the status of the road safety is developed through this operational speed estimation model, it is possible to provide safe and more comfortable highways to road users. In the study factors to effect on operational speeds are classified into three groups horizontal & vertical alignments and traffic operation characteristic factors. Factors are chosen to effect on operational speeds by using collation analysis as classifications of tangent sections, horizontal curve sections and vertical curve sections. In order to develop operational speed estimation models in express highways, multi-regression analysis has been used in this study using the selected factors. This study has meaning that the developed estimation models for operational speeds and evaluation of degree of safety to horizontal and vortical alignments simultaneous. In order to represent whole area of the country with the developed models, the models should be re-analyzed with vast data related with road alignment factors in the near future.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2005.11b
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• pp.571-573
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• 2005

본 논문에서는 수동형 위치 판별 시스템의 대표적인 음원위치 판별 알고리즘을 제안한다. 제안하는 알고리즘은 무선 센서 네트워크에 최적화 되어있으며, 일반적인 무선 센서 네트워크에서 사용되는 노드와 마이크만 요구되며 추가적인 장비를 필요로 하지 않는다. 제안하는 시스템은 동일한 노드에 분산된 알고리즘을 이용하여 각 노드는 이벤트 발생시에 동적으로 추정 Grid를 생성한 후 이 Grid를 이용하여 추정치를 산정하고 이를 종합하여 최종적으로 2차원 평면에서의 음원의 위치를 판별한다. 제안하는 시스템의 위치판별 알고리즘은 Range-free방식으로 생성된 Grid를 각 노드가 음파를 감지한 시각을 바탕으로 영역별로 근사한다. 시스템은 실제 MicaZ 노드에 구현되었으며 제한된 하드웨어와 자원만을 바탕으로 높은 복잡도를 지니는 음원탐지시스템을 구축하였다.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.41-48
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• 2020

Recently, as the demand for the mobile platform market in the virtual/augmented/mixed reality field is increasing, experiential content that gives users a real-world felt through a virtual environment is drawing attention. In this paper, as a method of tracking a tracker for user location estimation in a virtual space movement platform for motion capture of trainees, we present a method of estimating 3D coordinates of the 3D cross covariance through the coordinates of the markers projected on the image. In addition, the validity of the proposed algorithm is verified through rigid body tracking experiments.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.22 no.3 s.74
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• pp.109-125
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• 2004

In recent decades, microscopic simulation models have become powerful tools to analyze traffic flow on highways and to assist the investigation of level of service. The existing microscopic simulation models simulate an individual vehicle's speed based on a constant free-flow speed dominantly specified by users and driver's behavior models reflecting vehicle interactions, such as car following and lane changing. They set a single free-flow speed for a single vehicle on a given link and neglect to consider the effects of highway design elements to it in their internal simulation. Due to this, the existing models are limitted to provide with identical simulation results on both curved and tangent sections of highways. This paper presents a model developed to estimate the change of free-flow speeds based on highway design elements. Nine neural network models were trained based on the field data collected from seven different freeway curve sections and three different locations at each section to capture the percent changes of free-flow speeds: 100 m upstream of the point of curve (PC) and the middle of the curve. The model employing seven highway design elements as its input variables was selected as the best : radius of curve, length of curve, superelevation, the number of lanes, grade variations, and the approaching free-flow speed on 100 m upstream of PC. Tests showed that the free-flow speeds estimated by the proposed model were statistically identical to the ones from the field at 95% confidence level at each three different locations described above. The root mean square errors at the starting and the middle of curve section were 6.68 and 10.06, and the R-squares at these points were 0.77 and 0.65, respectively. It was concluded from the study that the proposed model would be one of the potential tools introducing the effects of highway design elements to free-flow speeds in simulation.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.468-468
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• 2012

레이더 강우를 적극적으로 활용하기 위해서는 레이더 강우에 포함된 각 오차들에 대한 특성을 파악하고 정량화하는 것이 무엇보다 중요하다. 본 연구에서는 레이더 반사도의 오차구조를 파악하고 그러한 오차구조를 갖는 반사도로부터 표출한 CAPPI의 거리오차를 보정하였다. 이러한 거리오차 파악을 위해서는 참 값으로 가정할 수 있는 기준 반사도가 필요하며 본 연구에서는 VPR 모형으로부터 기준 반사도인 지상 반사도를 추정하였다. 그 결과 일정한 VPR 모형을 적용하게 되면 거리와 상관없이 오차는 일정하고 오직 고도에 의해서만 영향을 받는다. 그러나 일정 고도에서의 반사도 표출 방법인 CAPPI는 지구곡률효과로 인해 실제로 거리가 멀어 질수록 관측 고도가 높아진다. 이에 따라서 오차는 거리가 멀어질수록 커지게 된다. 이는 실제 호우사상에 적용한 결과에서도 유사하게 나타났다. 강릉 기상 레이더의 경우 1.5km CAPPI는 약 100km까지 1.5km 고도를 유지하다 그 이상부터 고도가 점점 높아진다. CAPPI의 오차를 거리에 따라 분포시킨 결과에서도 100km까지는 어느 정도 일정한 오차를 보이다 그 이상부터 오차가 점점 증가하는 것으로 나타났다. CAPPI의 오차를 2차원 평면으로 나타낸 결과에서도 호우가 전반적으로 퍼져있는 시점부터 원거리에서 큰 오차를 보이고 있다. 이는 오차의 평균에서 더욱 명확히 나타났다. 이와 같이 CAPPI는 원거리 자료에서 오차가 크게 나타나고 있다. 이에 CAPPI에 포함된 거리오차를 VPR 모형을 이용하여 보정하였다. 그 결과 원거리에서의 오차가 감소하였음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.21-40
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• 2003

A traffic accident analysis method was developed and tested based on the highway alignment risk indices using geographic information systems(GIS). Impacts of the highway alignment on traffic accidents have been identified by examining accidents occurred on different alignment conditions and by investigating traffic accident risk indices(TARI). Evaluative criteria are suggested using geometric design elements as an independent variable. Traffic accident rates were forecasted more realistically and objectively by considering the interaction between highway alignment factors and the design consistency. And traffic accident risk indices and risk ratings were suggested based on model estimation results and accident data. Finally, forecasting traffic accident rates, evaluating the level of risk and then visualizing information graphically were combined into one system called risk assessment system by means of GIS. This risk assessment system is expected to play a major role in designing four-lane highways and developing remedies for highway sections susceptible to traffic accidents.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2005.05b
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• pp.199-203
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• 2005

One of the most important hydrological response characteristics is the lag time. It is well known as being under the influence of the morphometric properties of the basin, which could be expressed by catchment shape descriptors. In this paper, the geometric characteristics of an equivalent ellipse proposed by Moussa(2003) is applied for the lag time analysis. The lag time is obtained from the rainfall-runoff observed data by the method of moments suggested by Nash(1960) and the relationships between the basin morphometric properties and the lag time are discussed as applied to 3 catchments in Korea. Additionally, the shapes of equivalent ellipse are examined how they are transformed from upstream area to downstream one. As a result, the relationship between descriptors based on a equivalent ellipse a+b and $a+b+{\epsilon}OM$, and the lag time is shown to be close and the shape of ellipse is presented to approach a circle along the river downwards. Also, the notion of compactness which is used to express the shape of an irregular plan-form is tried to apply.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.549-559
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• 2015

In this paper, an efficient dynamic reactive motion planning method for an autonomous vehicle in a dynamic environment is proposed. The purpose of the proposed method is to improve the robustness of autonomous robot motion planning capabilities within dynamic, uncertain environments by integrating a virtual plane-based reactive motion planning technique with a sensor fusion-based obstacle detection approach. The dynamic reactive motion planning method assumes a local observer in the virtual plane, which allows the effective transformation of complex dynamic planning problems into simple stationary ones proving the speed and orientation information between the robot and obstacles. In addition, the sensor fusion-based obstacle detection technique allows the pose estimation of moving obstacles using a Kinect sensor and sonar sensors, thus improving the accuracy and robustness of the reactive motion planning approach. The performance of the proposed method was demonstrated through not only simulation studies but also field experiments using multiple moving obstacles in hostile dynamic environments.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.49 no.4
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• pp.23-35
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• 2012

This paper presents a 3-D pose (position and orientation) estimation method for an elliptic object in 3-D space. It is difficult to resolve the problem of determining 3-D pose parameters with respect to an elliptic feature in 3-D space by interpretation of its projected feature onto an image plane. As an alternative, we propose a two points-based pose estimation algorithm to seek the 3-D information of an elliptic feature. The proposed algorithm determines a homogeneous transformation uniquely for a given correspondence set of an ellipse and two coplanar points that are defined on model and image plane, respectively. For each plane, two triangular features are extracted from an ellipse and two points based on the polarity in 2-D projection space. A planar homography is first estimated by the triangular feature correspondences, then decomposed into 3-D pose parameters. The proposed method is evaluated through a series of experiments for analyzing the errors of 3-D pose estimation and the sensitivity with respect to point locations.