• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.25-28
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• 2021

블록체인은 탈집중화, 위변조 방지, 추적 가능, 노드 간 공동 유지 및 보수가 가능한 데이터베이스로서 서로 신뢰하지 않은 노드 간 통신 신뢰 문제를 해결할 수 있는 점 대 점 통신 네트워크를 실현할 수 있다. 최근 몇 년 동안, 블록체인 기술은 지속적으로 발전하여 데이터 보안 문제를 해결하기 위한 중요한 기술로 주목받고 있다. 블록체인의 응용은 최초의 디지털 화폐 영역에서 금융·정무·공업 제조 영역으로 확대되고 있다. 블록체인의 특성에 따라 블록체인의 성능은 분산형 데이터 통신에 비해 크게 떨어지고 처리량이 제한되는 문제점이 존재한다. 본 논문에서는 최근 연구되고 있는 블록체인의 보안 구조 및 성능 분석에 대해 조사하고, 기존에 연구되었던 기술과 비교하여 블록체인의 안전성을 유지하며 성능을 향상시키는 방법에 대해 고찰한다. 이후 유향 비순환 그래프 (DAG: Directed Acyclic Graph) 및 샤딩 (Sharding)을 이용하여 안전성과 성능을 강화시키는 방법에 대해 제안한다. 제안하는 시스템은 DAG를 사용하여 위변조 방지 및 처리 속도 향상의 이점을 가지고 있으며, 샤딩을 사용함으로써 데이터 처리량을 향상시킨다. 마지막으로 제안하는 시스템은 기존 블록체인과 비교하여 안정성과 데이터 처리량 측면에서 비교 분석을 진행한다.

• Korean Journal of Environment and Ecology
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.17-30
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• 2011

This study has analyzed the vegetation composition in the areas using different slope revetment techniques of riverbanks, in a way to improve the vegetation induction in the future considering the ecological aspects of the induction in Garaeyoul Village, Gangdong-gu, Seoul. The result of the vegetation distribution in each different slope revetment technique was analyzed, that the naturalized herb was dominant in the pole block accounting for 70.7%, while native herb was dominant in the lawn block occupying 48.5% and in the crib block occupying 55.7%. The vegetation coverage measured by different slope revetment techniques was highest in the crib block(average 97.5%), followed by the lawn block(average 95.3%) and pole block(average 27.9%). The vegetation base area was the most wide in the crib block and the most narrowest in the pole block. The result of community analysis in areas using different slope revetment techniques, dry herbs and vine herbs were dominated and the coverage was very poor in the pole block. In the lawn block, the barb was fragmented into narrow areas due to the blocks, which prevented the creation of large-scale plant communities. In the crib block, Miscanthus sacchariflorus, Fescue arundinacea and Aster pilosus, which also consisted of large-scale communities. Average dry weight was also measured by each slope revetment technique. The weight was heaviest in the crib block with $187.63g/m^2$, followed by the lawn block($137.65g/m^2$) and pole block($6.75g/m^2$). The soil moisture contents in the crib block and lawn block was 16.3% and 15.2%, respectively, while that of the pole block was 4.7%, which revealed the highly dry condition of the pole block soil. The analysis result of soil chemical property showed that there was little difference in soil texture, soile acidity(pH), and exchangeable ion content, however, the soil organic matter(OM) content and available $P_2O_5$ were highest in the pole block. In the future, in order to induce more vegetation into river banks and walls, a proper construction method should be applied so that the vegetation area can be expanded as much as possible, considering the safety of the banks.

• Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.1563-1571
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose a new boundary matching method for the temporal error concealment and a post processing algorithm for perceptual quality improvement of the concealed frame. Temporal error concealment is a method that substitutes error blocks with similar blocks from the reference frame. In conventional H.264/AVC standard, it compares outside pixels of erroneous block with inside pixels of reference block to find the most similar block. However, it is very possible that the conventional method substitutes erroneous block with the wrong one because it compares only narrow spatial range of pixels. In this paper, for substituting erroneous blocks with more correct blocks, we propose enhanced boundary matching method by comparing inside and outside pixels of reference block with outside pixels of erroneous block and setting up additional candidate motion vector in the fixed search range based on maximum and minimum value of candidate motion vectors. Furthermore, we propose a post processing method to smooth edges between concealed and decoded blocks without error by using the modified deblocking filter. We identified that the proposed method shows quality improvement of about 0.9dB over the conventional boundary matching methods.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.10
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• pp.640-647
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• 2018

Many harbor structures have been constructed, and some structures are now under construction in Korea, which is a peninsular state and a logistics hub in Northeast Asia. Expansions and extensions of existing harbors are also being planned to meet increasing natural disaster threats. Wave-dissipation concrete blocks are recycled or discarded based on the personal experience of engineers only, and there are no safety checks or criteria. To check the safety of used blocks, material evaluations were done by visual inspection of blocks on the ground and under water and from 20 non-destructive measurements of the rebound hardness test and 3 concrete core samples. Wave-dissipation blocks are sometimes fully or partially damaged in the process of transferring and mounting them or during construction. Therefore, a safety check is essential for recycling blocks with an evaluation of materials while considering the construction phases. To do this, a block was modeled with a 3D finite element method using ADINA, and impact analyses were done according to the transfer, mounting, and construction phases. From the results of the impact analyses and material evaluation, the safety checks and reasonable evaluation of used blocks were examined, and detailed construction methods are proposed. The methods are expected to maximize the reuse of used wave-dissipation blocks from an economical point of view.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2009.05a
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• pp.112-115
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• 2009

Inter-Prediction is always the main bottleneck in H.264/AVC Baseline Profile. This paper describes an efficient Inter-Prediction hardware architecture design. H.264/AVC decoder supports various block types such as $16{\times}16$, $16{\times}8$, $8{\times}16$, $8{\times}8$, $8{\times}4$, $4{\times}8$, $4{\times}4$ block types. Reference Software(JM) only considers the $4{\times}4$ block type when the reference block is being fetched. This causes duplicated pixels which needs extra fetch cycles. In order to eliminate some of the duplicated pixels, the $8{\times}8$ and $4{\times}4$ block types were considered in the previous design. If the block size is larger than or equal to the $8{\times}8$ block type, it will be separated into several $8{\times}8$ block types and if the block size is smaller than the $8{\times}8$ block type it will be separated into several $4{\times}4$ blocks. For further reduction of the fetch cycles, the various block types are considered in this paper. As a result, the maximum cycle reduction percentage is 18.6% comparing with the previous design.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.372-378
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• 2010

This paper propose the fast motion estimation algorithm with adaptive search range adjustment using motion activities of temporal and spatial neighbor blocks. The existing fast motion estimation algorithms with adaptive search range adjustment use the maximum motion vector of all blocks in the reference frame. So these algorithms may not control a optimum search range for slow moving block in current frame. The proposed algorithm use the maximum motion vector of neighbor blocks in the reference frame to control a optimum search range for slow moving block. So the proposed algorithm can reduce computation time for motion estimation. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm can reduce the number of search points about 15% more than Simple Dynamic Search Range(SDSR) algorithm while maintaining almost the same bit-rate and motion estimation error.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.442-452
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed a postprocessing algorithm for quantization effects reduction in block coded images using the block classification and adaptive filtering. The proposed method consists of classification, adaptive inter-block filtering, and intra-block filtering. First, each block is classified into one of seven classes based on the characteristics of 8$\times$8 DCT coefficients. Then each block boundary is filtered by adaptive inter-block fitters according to the block classification. finally for blocks which are classified into edge block, intra-block filtering is performed. Experimental results show that the proposed method gives better results than the conventional methods from both a subjective and an objective viewpoint.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.6 no.8
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• pp.2271-2280
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• 1999

In this paper, a variable motion estimation scheme based on HBMA(Hierarchical Block Matching Algorithm) to improve the performance and to reduce heavy computational and transmission load, is presented. The proposed algorithm is composed of four steps. First, block activity for each block is defined using the edge information of differential image between two sequential images, and then average block activity of the present image is found by taking the mean of block activity. Secondly, camera pan compensation is carried out, according to the average activity of the image, in the hierarchical pyramid structure constructed by wavelet transform. Next, the LUT classifying each block into one among Moving, No Moving, Semi-Moving Block according to the block activity compensated camera pan is obtained. Finally, as varying the block size and adaptively selecting the initial search layer and the search range referring to LUT, the proposed variable HBMA can effectively carries out fast motion estimation in the hierarchical pyramid structure. The cost function needed above-mentioned each step is only the block activity defined by the edge information of the differential image in the sequential images.

• Journal of KIISE:Information Networking
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• v.31 no.3
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• pp.298-304
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• 2004

In transmitting a compressed video bit-stream over Internet, a packet loss causes an error propagation in both spatial and temporal domain, which in turn leads to a severe degradation in image quality. In this paper, a new error concealment algorithm is proposed to repair damaged portions of the video frames in the receiver. Conventional BMA(Boundary Matching Algorithm) assumes that the pixels on the boundary of the missing block and its neighboring blocks are very similar, but has no consideration of edges t)r discontinuity across the boundary. In our approach, the edges are detected across the boundary of the lost or erroneous block. Once the edges are detected and the orientation of each edge is found, only the pixel difference along the expected edges across the boundary is measured instead of calculating differences between all adjacent pixels on the boundary. Therefore, the proposed approach needs very few computations and the experiment shows an improvement of the performance over the conventional BMA in terms of both subjective and objective quality of video sequences.

• Applied Chemistry for Engineering
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• v.4 no.2
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• pp.349-357
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• 1993

Polyarylate(PAR)-nylon 6 block copolymers of various block lengths were prepared by the anionic polymerization of ${\varepsilon}$-caprolactam using the polymeric activator from hydroxy-difuncrtional PAR and toluene diisocyanate. Phase separated morphology of PAR-nylon 6 block copolymer was suggerted from the thermal properties measured by differential scanning calorometry(d.s.c.). Partial miscbility between PAR block and nylon 6 block of the block copolymers was more evident at shorter length of constituent blocks. In binary blends of PAR-nylon 6 block copolymer with PAR or nylon 6 homopolymer, molecular-level mixing of homopolymers with corresponding blocks of block copolymer was supposed from the thermal properties measured by d.s.c..