• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.211-216
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• 2012

In the phase boundary estimation problem, the estimation performance depends on the initial guess. However, there is no information on the number of bubbles and those positions for the initial guess in real flows. Therefore, it is very important to set appropriate initial guesses from prior information. In this paper, in order to set initial guesses for estimating the phase boundaries in two-phase flows, first, unknown resistivity distribution was estimated using the difference reconstruction method. After that, an adaptive threshold value was automatically computed using intermodes method. Based on this value, the number of bubbles and the initial position were determined. The numerical experiments have been performed to evaluate the estimation performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.481-489
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• 2014

In this paper, the automatic standby power blocking socket outlet to reduce standby power by blocking power threshold is implemented. Where, the standby power means a flowing power when a disused power electronic is plugged into the socket outlet. The proposed socket outlet can cut off the standby power by establishing a proper block power threshold electronic device according to each electronic device because it can monitor the amount of power through the smart machines such as the real-time PC or mobile phone and directly control the blocking power threshold. The software is implemented by using Visual Studio software, code vision and SN8 C studio, and the hardware is embodied in ATmega128, SN8F27E93S, USB to UART, and relay etc. Through the simulation, we find that the standby power of the proposed method is similar to that of the conventional method in case of the cellular phone but the standby power of the proposed method is much less than that of the conventional method in case of the computer, air conditioning, and set-top box. Therefore, it is proved that the proposed socket outlet has a superior performance in terms of the standby power.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.437-444
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• 2016

Most methods for detecting arrhythmia require pp interval, diversity of P wave morphology, but it is difficult to detect the p wave signal because of various noise types. Therefore it is necessary to use noise-free R wave. In this paper, we propose algorithm for premature contraction arrhythmia classification through ECG pattern analysis and template threshold. For this purpose, we detected R wave through the preprocessing method using morphological filter, subtractive operation method. Also, we developed algorithm to classify premature contraction wave pattern using weighted average, premature ventricular contraction(PVC) and atrial premature contraction(APC) through template threshold for R wave amplitude. The performance of R wave detection, PVC classification is evaluated by using 6 record of MIT-BIH arrhythmia database that included over 30 PVC and APC. The achieved scores indicate the average of 99.77% in R wave detection and the rate of 94.91%, 95.76% in PVC and APC classification.

• Journal of Biomedical Engineering Research
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• v.25 no.3
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• pp.189-194
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• 2004

Pixel values of contrast enhanced computed tomography (CE-CT) images are randomly changed. Also, the middle liver part has a problem to segregate the liver structure because of similar gray-level values of a pancreas in the abdomen. In this paper, an automatic liver segmentation method using a partial histogram threshold (PHT) algorithm is proposed for overcoming randomness of CE-CT images and removing the pancreas. After histogram transformation, adaptive multi-modal threshold is used to find the range of gray-level values of the liver structure. Also, the PHT algorithm is performed for removing the pancreas. Then, morphological filtering is processed for removing of unnecessary objects and smoothing of the boundary. Four CE-CT slices of eight patients were selected to evaluate the proposed method. As the average of normalized average area of the automatic segmented method II (ASM II) using the PHT and manual segmented method (MSM) are 0.1671 and 0.1711, these two method shows very small differences. Also, the average area error rate between the ASM II and MSM is 6.8339 ％. From the results of experiments, the proposed method has similar performance as the MSM by medical Doctor.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.414-416
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 X-선 혈관 조영 영상 내 심혈관의 추출 방법을 제안한다. 본 방법은 불균일 조명 보정 필터를 사용함으로써 X-선 영상 내에서 나타나는 일정하지 않은 contrast, 낮은 명암도 및 불균일 조명 문제를 해결한다. 또한 영상의 지역적인 밝기 값의 변화의 특징을 고려하면서 분할 대상영역의 각 픽셀들의 2 차 미분((second partial derivation)을 행렬의 요소(element)로 갖는 Hessian 행렬의 고유치 (eigenvalue)를 영역확장의 문턱치 결정에 이용하여 전역적인 밝기값(intensity)만을 사용하는 분할의 단점을보완하였다.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.19 no.3
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• pp.591-596
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• 1994

Threshold dependence on stripe width in gain-guided single quantum well lasers has been examined by complex domain effective index method. It is found, in narrow stripe regime, that the lateral optical confinement estimated by newly introduced parameters decreases very rapidly as the transverse optical confinement factor decreases. Thus, in a single quantum well laser with a usually very small, the optical confinement may become very poor depending on stripe width not only in the transverse but also in the lateral direction, further enhancing the gain saturation and often leading to an anomalously high threshold current. The understanding of rather anomalous threshold dependence on stripe width will be very important in optimization of quantum well laser diode structure.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.55-60
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• 2020

In this paper, we propose a fast block matching algorithm of motion estimation using early detection of optimal candidate with high priority and a threshold. Even though so many fast algorithms for motion estimation have been published to reduce computational reduction full search algorithm, still so many works to improve performance of motion estimation are being reported. The proposed algorithm calculates block matching error for each candidate with high priority from previous partial matching error. The proposed algorithm can be applied additionally to most of conventional fast block matching algorithms for more speed up. By doing that, we can find the minimum error point early and get speed up by reducing unnecessary computations of impossible candidates. The proposed algorithm uses smaller computation than conventional fast full search algorithms with the same prediction quality as the full search algorithm. Experimental results shows that the proposed algorithm reduces 30~70% compared with the computation of the PDE and full search algorithms without any degradation of prediction quality and further reduces it with other fast lossy algorithms.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Fisheries Technology Conference
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• 2002.10a
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• pp.51-52
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• 2002

어류의 가청주파수는 16 ∼ 5,000 Hz 범위이며 주파수 100 ∼ 1000Hz 범위에서 가장 예민한 반응을 보인다. 수중 가청음은 어군의 행동을 제어하는 방법과 바다목장에서 음향순치 기술로 많이 응용되고 있다. 수중가청음에 의한 어류의 반응을 해석하기 위해서는 물고기의 청각능력을 정확히 파악해야 한다. 어류의 청각 능력을 측정하는 방법에는 청각 문턱치, 청각 임계비, 청각 능력지수, 주파수 변별능력, 음압 강도 변별 능력, 음원 정위 능력 등이 있다(이, 2000). (중략)

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2010.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2010

무선 통신 환경에서 간섭과 잡음으로 인한 채널 추정 오류는 데이터 검출을 위한 등화 성능을 현저하게 저하시킨다. 포스트 프로세싱은 채널 추정 이후에 이러한 추정 오류를 줄이기 위한 작업이며, 여기서는 소수의 채널 계수만이 무선 채널의 다중 경로에 의한 신호 성분을 갖는 무선 채널의 특성을 이용하여 신호 성분을 포함하지 않은 계수를 선별하고 이를 제거함으로써 채널 추정 오류를 줄이는 방법을 위한 순환 알고리즘을 제안한다. 기존 알고리즘은 잡음 분산을 기준으로 문턱값을 결정하고, 그 문턱 값보다 작은 계수는 신호성분을 포함하지 않는다고 간주하여 이를 제거하였다. 제안된 순환 알고리즘은 잡음 분산의 추정치를 반복이 진행됨에 따라 갱신하여 이를 기준으로 구한 문턱값을 이용한 포스트 프로세싱을 반복함으로써 채널 추정 성능을 개선시킨다. 제안된 방법은 기존의 방법과 유사한 복잡도를 갖는 반복 횟수를 적용하는 경우에 월등히 성능이 개선되며, 특히 반복 횟수를 조절함으로써 처리 시간과 채널 추정 성능을 최적화할 수 있는 유연성을 갖고 있다.

• Journal of the Institute of Convergence Signal Processing
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.249-255
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• 2004

In fingerprint verification and identification, fingerprint and background region should be segmented. For this purpose, most systems obtain variance of brightness of X and Y direction using Sobel mask. To decide given local region is background or not, the variance is compared with a certain threshold. Although this method is simple, most fingerprint image does not separated with two region of fingerprint and background region. In this paper, we presented a new segmentation algorithm based on Run-Length Connectivity analysis. For a given binary image after thresholding, suggested algorithm calculates RL of X and Y direction. Until the given image is segmented to two regions, small run region is successively inverted. Experimental result show that this algorithm effectively separates fingerprint region and background region.