• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.47 no.2
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• pp.11-19
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• 2010

Most of deblocking filters assumes that the block boundaries are accurately known and the coding information like quantization parameters are available. In some applications such as commercial television, however, many external video inputs without known block boundary and coding information arc given. If a decompressed video sequence heavily degraded with blocking artifacts is given through the external video port, it is absolutely necessary to detect block boundaries and control the strength of deblocking filtering by analysing the given images. This paper presents an efficient method to find the block boundaries and estimate the strength of the blocking artifacts without the knowledge of coding information. In addition, the confidence of the estimated blocking artifact information is also evaluated to control the adaptive deblocking filter robustly. Experiment results show that the estimated block boundary locations and strength relative strength and confidence information are practically good enough to reduce the blocking artifacts without prior knowledge.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
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• v.25 no.1
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• pp.67-82
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• 2020

This study is based on the screen composition(shot size, split screen, candidate placement, lighting, stage) that fits the discussion process (round table, sitting, standing method) adopted from the 19th presidential candidates' TV joint discussion to analyze the adequacy and limitations of the methodology(design, candidate background, etc.). In addition, the progress and screen composition of the 45th US Presidential Candidates Debate in 2016 and the 25th Presidential Candidates of France TV Joint Debate in 2017 have been analyzed to compare and contrast the methods used in Korea. Through this, we apply the screening method to the 20th Presidential Candidate TV Joint Debate, which will be held in 2022, to fit the fixed discussion process that can fully identify candidates' qualities, policies, and vision.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.11-21
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• 2007

The main structure of Gunsan steam power station was demolished by the toppling method using high explosives. Height of a main building is 58m and a total floor area is $292,000m^2$. It is Rahmen(rigid-frame) structure consisted of almost columns and beams and slabs exist only in one part of the building for the electricity generators equipments. To improve the efficiency of blasting work, it is separated into 4 sectors. Blasting floors were 1, 2, 3, & 4 stories from first sector to third sector, while 1, 2, 5, & 7 of fourth sector were blasted because it had not slabs. About 102.675 kg of the MegaMITE were used with 225 electric detonator and 638 non-electric detonators to check detonator connection and confidence of detonation. The blasting noise and vibration were monitored to evaluate the environment effect and the damage of the nearby structures.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.627-634
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• 2016

In this paper, an augmented video generation method to evaluate the performance of lane departure warning system is proposed. In our system, the input is a video which have road scene with general clean lane, and the content of output video is the same but the lane is synthesized with contamination image. In order to synthesize the contamination lane image, two approaches were used. One is example-based image synthesis, and the other is background-based image synthesis. Example-based image synthesis is generated in the assumption of the situation that contamination is applied to the lane, and background-based image synthesis is for the situation that the lane is erased due to aging. In this paper, a new contamination pattern generation method using Gaussian function is also proposed in order to produce contamination with various shape and size. The contamination lane video can be generated by shifting synthesized image as lane movement amount obtained empirically. Our experiment showed that the similarity between the generated contamination lane image and real lane image is over 90 %. Futhermore, we can verify the reliability of the video generated from the proposed method through the analysis of the change of lane recognition rate. In other words, the recognition rate based on the video generated from the proposed method is very similar to that of the real contamination lane video.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.163-170
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• 2000

Accident statistics shows that the portion of fatal occupant injuries due to side impacts is considerably high. The side impact usually leads to a severe intrusion of side structure into the passenger compartment. Furthermore, the safety zone for the side impact is relatively small compared to the front impact. Those kinds of physics for side impact frequently result in a fatal injury for the occupant. Therefore, NHTSA and EEVC are trying to intensify the regulation for the occupant protection against side impact. Both the regulation and recent market trends are asking for an installation of side airbag. There are several types of system configuration for side impact sensing. In this paper, we adopt the acceleration-based remote sensing method for the side airbag control system. We mainly focus on the development of hardware and crash discrimination algorithm of remote sensing unit. The crash discrimination algorithm needs fast decision of airbag firing especially for high-speed side impact such as FMVSS 214 and EEVC tests. It is also required to distinguish between low-speed fire and no-fire events. The algorithm should have a sufficient safety margin against any misuse situation such as hammer blow, door slam, etc. This paper introduces several firing criteria such as acceleration. velocity and energy criteria that use physical value proportional to crash severity. We have made a simulation program by using Matlab/Simulink to implement the proposed algorithm. We have conducted an algorithm calibration by using real crash data for 2,500cc vehicle. The crash performance obtained by the simulation was verified through a pulse injection method. It turned out that the results satisfied the system requirements well.

• Journal of the korean Society of Automotive Engineers
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.30-33
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• 2005

10년 후, 미래의 자동차는 더 이상 단순한 운송수단이 아닌 우리의 삶을 윤택하고 더욱 풍요롭게 만들어주는 일상의 공간(업무 휴식 정보)으로 진화 발전할 것이다. 이러한 자동차 패러다임 변화의 중심에는 지능형자동차 기술이 자리하고 있다. 지능형자동차 기술은 자동차산업뿐만 아니라 사회 경제 전반에 미치는 파급효과가 매우 크기 때문에 국가 경쟁력 강화를 위한 차원에서도 큰 가치를 지니고 있다. 또한 미래형자동차는 안전성 편의성 향상이라는 소비자들의 다양한 요구와 시장의 확대를 희망하는 기업의 요구가 잘 맞물려 있기 때문에 향후 기술개발에 대한 예산 확충 및 지원 확대가 절실히 필요하다. 지난 1990년대부터 지능형자동차 개발에 적극적으로 참여한 일본, 미국, 유럽 등 자동차선진국은 최근 각종 신기술을 개발해 시장에 내놓고 있다. 자동차 10대 강국 중하나인 한국은 21세기 세계 자동차시장 선점과 오는 2010년 세계 3위의 기술 강국으로 도약한다는 야심찬 계획을 세우고, 지난 2003년에 미래형자동차를 국가 '차세대 성장동력산업'으로 선정하였다. 이에 따라 국가연구개발사업인 '미래형자동차사업'을 출범시켰으며, 국내 자동차업계는 물론 대학 및 연구소 등과 연계하여 '지능형자동차' 등 3분야의 관련 핵심기술 개발에 박차를 가하고 있다. '지능형자동차 기술개발'이라는 비전과 목표를 달성하기 위해서는 IT기술과 자동차와의 융합기술 개발이 그 무엇보다 중요하다. 우리나라가 세계에 IT강국으로서 명성을 널리 자랑하고 있다는 점에서 지능형 자동차의 미래는 밝다고 할 수 있지만, 관련 분야의 인적자원 네트워크 구축이 보다 탄탄하게 다져지지 않는다면 이는 그저 '빛 좋은 개살구'에 지나지 않을 것이다. 끝으로 국내에서 진행되는 ITS 관련 프로젝트와 지능형자동차 개발 연구과제의 유기적 연계와 효율적 추진, 지능형 자동차 시험 평가방법 표준화, 국제 기술 표준화 및 안전규제에 적극 대응, 지능형자동차 신규제품 및 서비스의 도입을 위한 제도개선 및 정비 등에, 정부와 산 학 연이 지혜를 모아 중점 실행계획을 수립하고 행동으로 옮길 때 우리의 지능형 자동차 미래는 밝을 것이다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.9-17
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• 2014

In this study, in order to improve the ignitability of high energy aluminum powder, natural oxide films (alumina) were chemically removed, and instead nickel coat was applied. We used an electroless plating for nickel coating and confirmed quantitatively and qualitatively a time-dependent degree of nickel coating through analysis of surface by SEM/EDS. We also conducted element analysis by XRD and thermal properties by TGA/DSC in air oxidizer environment. There results explained the ignition enhancement mechanism of the nickel-coated aluminum powder in air. The difference between coated and un-coated aluminum powder, the effectiveness of coated powder has better ignitability.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.21 no.4
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• pp.365-373
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• 2008

Fiber Reinforced Polymer, FRP has a light weight, a high tensile strength based on design, non-electronic, non-magnetic, and rust-resistant feature, etc and many researches are being conducted recently on FRP in the construction area. Among them, GFRP (Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer) is excellent in price competitiveness and is widely being used. However, since GFRP has a relative low modulus of elasticity and causes excessive deflection, the section must be large to be used as a structural component and an investigative review must be carried out in design to set the limit for deflection by the use load. Therefore, in order to solve the mentioned technical problems, this study suggested a section of a module form such that application of a large-scale section is possible. Also, to secure the low rigidity of FRP, this study developed a new FRP+ concrete composite girder form that confined the concrete. To identify the structural movement of the developed FRP+ concrete composite girder, shear strength test was carried out.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.41 no.3
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• pp.103-114
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• 2004

This paper deals with a system that is capable of recognizing hand-signals in 3-dimensional space. The system uses 2 color cameras as input devices. Vision-based gesture recognition system is known to be user-friendly because of its contact-free characteristic. But as with other applications using a camera as an input device, there are difficulties under complex background and varying illumination. In order to detect hand region robustly from a input image under various conditions without any special gloves or markers, the paper uses previous position information and adaptive hand color model. The paper defines a hand-signal as a combination of two basic elements such as 'hand pose' and 'hand trajectory'. As an extensive classification method for hand pose, the paper proposes 2-stage classification method by using 'small group concept'. Also, the paper suggests a complementary feature selection method from images from two color cameras. We verified our method with a hand-signal application to our driving simulator.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SC
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• v.39 no.6
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• pp.49-58
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• 2002

Based on electrophysiological retina mechanism, a retina model is proposed, which has similar response characteristics compared with the real primate retina. Photoreceptors, horizontal cells, and bipolar cells are modeled based on the previously studied retina models. And amacrine cells known to have relation to movements detection, and bipolar cell terminals are newly modeled using 3 NDP mechanism. The proposed model verified by analyzing the spatial response characteristics to stationary and moving stimuli, and characteristics for different speeds. Through this retina model, human vision system could be applied to computer vision systems for movement detection, and it could be the basic research for the implantable artificial retina.