• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.233-247
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• 2023

Recently, research on detecting objects in hidden spaces beyond the direct line-of-sight of observers has received attention. Most studies use optical equipment that utilizes the directional of light, but sound that has both diffraction and directional is also suitable for non-line-of-sight(NLOS) research. In this paper, we propose a novel method of detecting objects in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) areas using acoustic signals in the audible frequency range. We developed a deep learning model that extracts information from the NLOS area by inputting only acoustic signals and predicts the properties and location of hidden objects. Additionally, for the training and evaluation of the deep learning model, we collected data by varying the signal transmission and reception location for a total of 11 objects. We show that the deep learning model demonstrates outstanding performance in detecting objects in the NLOS area using acoustic signals. We observed that the performance decreases as the distance between the signal collection location and the reflecting wall, and the performance improves through the combination of signals collected from multiple locations. Finally, we propose the optimal conditions for detecting objects in the NLOS area using acoustic signals.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.105-116
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to progress the limitations and disadvantages of existing safety clothing by applying high technology to current safety clothing that is produced and distributed only with fluorescent fabrics and retroreflective materials. Therefore, the industrial suspender-type safety belt and engineering technology are introduced, designed, and fabricated to help save a life in an emergency. First, the suspender-type safety belt to be developed is designed to emit light by LED attached to the film, and the body of the belt-wearer is recognized from a distance through retroreflection from the flashing LED. It aims to support people's safety by preventing accidents during roadside work, rescue activities, and sports activities at night. Second, with the development of advanced devices when the user is in an unconscious state due to distress or falls into an unconscious state due to distress or accident, the tilt sensor of the control unit attached to the belt automatically detects the angle of the human body and generates light and sound. It is intended to further enhance the utilization by mounting a sensing and signaling device that generates a distress signal and shaping it in the form of a belt attached to a vest that can be easily detached from the outside of the garment. When the wearer falls due to an accident, the tilt sensor of this belt detects the angle change and then the controller generates a high-frequency sound and repeated LED blinking signals at the same time. In the case of conventional safety vests, it is almost impossible to detect that the person is wearing a vest when there is no ambient light, but in case of the safety belts in this study, the sound and light signals of the safety belt enable us to find the wearer within 100 meters even when there is no ambient light.

• Phonetics and Speech Sciences
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.33-40
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• 2020

The purpose of this research was to find out the relation between Korean learners' English proficiency and the ratio of the length of the stressed vowel in a monosyllabic noun to that of the unstressed vowel in an article of the noun phrases (e.g., "a cup", "the bus", etcs.). Generally, the vowels in monosyllabic content words are phonetically more prominent than the ones in monosyllabic function words as the former have phrasal stress, making the vowels in content words longer in length, higher in pitch, and louder in amplitude. This study, based on the speech samples from Korean-Spoken English Corpus (K-SEC) and Rated Korean-Spoken English Corpus (Rated K-SEC), examined 879 English noun phrases, which are composed of an article and a monosyllabic noun, from sentences which are rated on 4 levels of proficiency. The lengths of the vowels in these 879 target NPs were measured and the ratio of the vowel lengths in nouns to those in articles was calculated. It turned out that the higher the proficiency level, the greater the mean ratio of the vowels in nouns to the vowels in articles, confirming the research's hypothesis. This research thus concluded that for the Korean English learners, the higher the English proficiency level, the better they could produce the stressed and unstressed vowels with more conspicuous length differences between them.

• Korean Journal of Plant Resources
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• v.24 no.5
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• pp.489-498
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• 2011

This study was carried out to investigate the distribution status and urbanization index of the naturalized plants. For this purpose, 7 cities and counties in the eastern area of Jeollanamdo were selected and investigations were conducted on a total of 14 sites, during the period of March 2006 to November 2008. The naturalized plants were identified as 123; 22 families, 75 genera, 118 species, and 5 varieties. As for the urbanization index, Suncheon city had the highest level of urbanization (33.45%) and Gurye county the lowest level of urbanization (20.21%). Classification families were as follows: Compositae 40 kinds (30.1%) Gramineae 17 kinds (12.8%) and Leguminosae 14 kinds (10.5%). Major communities of naturalized plants consisted of 20 communities including Erigeron annuus community, Erigeron canadensis community, Alnus firma community, Amorpha fruticosa community, Oenothera odorata community, Bidens frondosa community, Coreopsis tinctoria community, Ambrosia artemisiifolia var. elatior community etc. Invasive naturalized plants consisted of 5 taxa: Ambrosia artemisiifolia var. elatior, Ambrosia trifida, Eupatorium rugosum, Paspalum distichum var. indutum and Paspalum distichum. The distributional characteristics of naturalized plants were divided on the basis of six areas associated with ecological characteristics of a habitat.

• Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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• v.34 no.2
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• pp.145-150
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• 2001

A marine bacterium having a high oil-degrading activity was isolated from the coastal water of Yosu, Korea, identified as Pseudomonas sp. and named Pseudomonas sp. BCK-1. The optimal temperature, pH and NaCl concentration for cell growth was $30^{\circ}C$, 7.0 and $3\%$ (w/v), respectively. After cultivation at $30^{\circ}C$, 180 rpm in 250 mL erlenmeyer flask for 72 and 168 hours, $2\%$ (w/v) arabian light crude oil (ACO) and bunker C oil (BCO) which are considered to be hardly biodegradable compounds were degraded $92\%$ (w/w) and $72\%$ (w/w), respectively.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.42-50
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• 2011

This paper is to propose design and implementation methods of a pet dog management system that can effectively manage the pet dog in home through client such as a mobile terminal or a PC from remote location, in the absence of the owner in the house. Through this system, we can manage the dog efficiently via a series of monitoring and control functionalities of the dog such as observing of the dog's status, or feeding the dog, or taking the necessary measures on maintaining a healthy environment such as temperature/humidity sensing and turn on/off fans and lights, or sending SMS text to the owner from detection of the barking of the dog.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.269-280
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• 2008

This study was intended to reconsider the work song in the modem children's life and to search its utilization plan. For it, folk songs were collected from internet website("Search for Korean Forlk song") and books, then the proper work songs suitable for the purpose of the study were selected. Selected work songs were reformed in order to utilize in a daily life including infant daily life and play in the home with mother. That is, the work song was presented to be utilized while changing a diaper, massaging, taking a rest, letting children take a nap, whispering in the children's ears, taking a bath, exercising after the bath, doing a body play, and facing each other.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2011.07a
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• pp.204-207
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 3DTV 의 입체감 향상을 위한 3D 음향의 원근감 재현 기술을 제안한다. 먼저, 3D 영상 객체의 깊이를 추출하고 영상 객체의 깊이에 따라 오디오 객체의 거리감을 조절한다. 오디오 거리감 재현을 위해 필요한 오디오 깊이 인자는 3D 영상의 좌/우 이미지의 차이 정보로부터 오디오에 맞도록 비선형 변환을 통해 구해진다. 3D 오디오 재현 알고리즘은 기존의 서라운드 입체음향 기술과 원근감 재현 기술로 구성된다. 원근감 재현 기술은 추정된 오디오 깊이 인자에 따라 신호크기, 초기 반사음, 근거리 머리전달함수, 위상 제어를 통해서 구현된다. 특히, 3D 영상 객체가 화면 앞으로 튀어 나올 때 소리도 튀어나오도록 함으로써 3D 영상 객체와 연동되는 입체 음향을 효과를 통해 3D 방송 시청 시 오디오/비디오 입체감을 향상시켜준다. 상용화된 3DTV 를 활용하여 음질 평가 전문가들의 주관 청취 평가를 통해 제안한 원근감 재현 기술이 3D 방송 시청에 적합함을 검증한다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.07d
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• pp.2173-2174
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• 2006

심음은 심장이 수축, 확장 시에 심장의 움직임과 혈류의 흐름에 의해 발생하는 음향이다. 심음은 여러 신호원으로 이루어져 있고, 매우 복잡하고 비고정적인 신호이다. 심장의 질환에 따라 심음의 소리는 다르게 나타난다. 심음을 구분하여 심장 질환의 유무를 판단하는 가장 기초적인 기준이 될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 Support Vector Machine 기법을 이용하여 심음을 통한 심장 질환 판별 검출 알고리즘을 제안하였다. Support Vector Machine은 신경망의 한 종류이며 이진분류에서 좋은 성능을 보인다. 또한 Polynomial Radial Basis Function, Multi-Layer Perceptron Classifiers를 위한 대안적인 학습방법으로 사용된다. 이러한 특성을 사용하여 심음의 데이터들을 일정한 기준에 의하여 (+)데이터와 (-)데이터로 분리한 후, 각 데이터들을 학습시켜 최적의 데이터를 만든다. 이후 각 데이터들은 점층적인 추가 학습을 시킴으로써 적은 양의 학습 데이터만으로도 높은 분류 성능을 표현할 수 있다. 이 연구에서 제안된 SVM을 실제 심음 데이터에 적용한 실험에서 심장 질환의 유무 판별에 우수한 성능을 보임을 확인할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of the korean veterinary medical association
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• v.32 no.5
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• pp.317-327
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• 1996

소의 해면형 뇌증(Bovine Spongiform Encephalpathy; BSE)은 우리나라에서의 발생보고는 없으나, 우리에게 그리 생소한 질병만은 아니다. 저자중 한사람인 진 영 화 박사는 일찌기 소 해면형 뇌증의 발견 초창기인 1987년도에 UNDP 가축위생강화계획에 의하여 영국 중앙수의연구소(CVL)에 파견되어 소 해면형 뇌증의 진단병리 연구에 참여한 바 있으며, 강 영 배 박사는 전국 각 시도 가축위생시험소장을 인솔하여 영국 중앙수의연구소를 3차례 다녀온 바 있다. 본편에서는, 1991년 해외출장 기간 중 영국정부를 통하여 입수한, 새로운 질병 즉 소의 해면형 뇌증(Bovine Spongiform Encephalpathy)에 대한 Video tape 자료중, 'BSE 이야기 - 모든 합리적인 대책방안(MAFF V710)'과 'BSE 임상증예 5예 보고(MAFF V659)'를 기본으로하여 사진 또는 영문자료와 함께 소개하고자 한다. BSE의 잠복기는 2년 이상으로 매우 길며, 3-5세의 성우에서 다발한다. 주요 임상증상은, 정신상태, 정서 및 운동의 이상으로 특징지어 지는데, 광증과 침울 등 행동이상을 나타내며, 특히 후지파행, 비틀거림, 미끄러짐, 넘어짐 등의 보행이상을 나타낸다. 초기의 관찰사항으로는, 출입구 통과나 착유실 입실을 거부하는 등 불안 상태를 흔히 나타내는 것이다. 건드리거나 소리에 민감하게 반응하는 지각과민증, 경증의 보행실조, 발로차기, 동물이나 관리자에 대한 공격적 자세, 그리고 공포자세가 흔히 수반된다. 임상소견은 발병기간 중 일관되게 유지되며, 개체별로는 수주일부터 수개월간 지속된다. 젖소에서는 산유량이 떨어지며, 6개월내지 1년 정도 경과후 100$\%$ 폐사되는 것이 특징이다. 치료시도는 전혀 효과가 없다.