• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea CI
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• v.43 no.5 s.311
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• pp.29-37
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• 2006

Thresholding is a fundamental approach to segmentation that utilizes a significant degree of pixel popularity or intensity. Otsu's thresholding employed the normalized histogram as a discrete probability density function. Also it utilized a criterion that minimizes the between-class variance of pixel intensity to choose a threshold value for segmentation. However, the Otsu's method has a disadvantage of repeatedly searching optimal thresholds for the entire range. In this paper, a simple but fast multi-level thresholding approach is proposed by means of extending the Otsu's method. Rather than invoke the Otsu's method for the entire gray range, we advocate that the gray-level range of an image be first divided into smaller sub-ranges, and that the multi-level thresholds be achieved by iteratively invoking this dividing process. Initially, in the proposed method, the gray range of the object image is divided into 2 classes with a threshold value. Here, the threshold value for segmentation is selected by invoking the Otsu's method for the entire range. Following this, the two classes are divided into 4 classes again by applying the Otsu's method to each of the divided sub-ranges. This process is repeatedly performed until the required number of thresholds is obtained. Our experimental results for three benchmark images and fifty faces show a possibility that the proposed method could be used efficiently for pattern matching and face recognition.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2006.04a
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• pp.126-128
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• 2006

For pattern matching, an object image should be segmented and analyzed for the first time. Thresholding is a fundamental approach to segmentation that utilizes a significant degree of pixel popularity or intensity. Otsu's thresholding is one of the most veil-known methods proposed in the literature. However, the method has a disadvantage of repeatedly searching the optimal thresholds for the entire region. To overcome this problem, a number of methods have been proposed. In this paper, we propose a simple and fast thresholding method of finding multi-level threshold values by extending the Otsu's method. Our experimental results for the benchmak images show a possibility that the proposed method could be used efficiently for pattern matching.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.7 no.1
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• pp.15-32
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• 1997

본 논문에서는 스트림 암호 시스템에서 사용이 되는 LFSR 을 이용한 이진 수열 발생기중 하나인 Threshold 발생기에 대한 광학적 구현 방법을 새로이 제안하였다. 광학적 구현을 위하여 LCD를 이용하므로서 LFSR 및 Mod 덧셈 연산을 위한 각 비트 값을 표현, 2차원 처리가 가능하게 하였다. Thredshold 발생기의 LFSR기능은 Shdow Casting 기법을 이용하여, 또한 XOR 연산 및 내적 계산을 위한 MOD덧셈 연산은 LCD 가 갖고 있는 편광 특성을 이용하여 광학적으로 구현하였다. 특히 본 논문에서는 Mod 2 덧셈 연산을 위한 새로운 광학적 구현 방법인 RSPM 을 제안하므로서 연산 결과 값 측정과 LCD 상의 데이타 값 표현 과정을 제외한 전 부분을 완전한 광학적 방법으로 처리가 가능하게 하였다. 본 논문에서 제안한 광 Threshold 암호 시스템은 기존의 전자적인 H/W 구현 방법에서 문제가 되어오던 Tapping Point의 개수에 대한 한계성을 극복할 수 있는 장점을 지니고 있으며, 또한 2차원 데이타인 영상용 암호화 시스템의 광학적 구현에 그 응용이 가능하다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SD
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• v.43 no.12 s.354
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• pp.81-88
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• 2006

This paper describes a new linear operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). To improve the linearity of the OTA, we employ a mobility compensation circuit that combines the transistor paths operating at the triode and subthreshold regions. The common-mode control schemes consist of a common-mode feedback (CMFB) and common-mode feedforward (CMFF). The circuit enhances linearity of the transconductance (Gm) under the wide input voltage swing range. The proposed OTA shows ${\pm}1%$ Gm variation and the total harmonic distortion (THD) of below -73dB under the input voltage swing range of ${\pm}1.1V$. The OTA is implemented using a $0.35{\mu}m$ n-well CMOS process under 3.3V supply.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.7 no.2
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• pp.67-75
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• 2008

The electrostatic charging/discharging mechanism and its effects, and the system design considerations in the space plasma environment are studied in this paper. The electrostatic discharge (ESD) effects are carefully taken into account for a design of the satellite system at the early stage of the development. Generally, the electrical design requirements are specified to protect the satellite system from the ESD effects in the electromagnetic compatibility specifications. Those requirements are included the grounding, the bonding, the shielding, the conductive coating, the electric interfacing and so on. The space charging is caused by the increasing of the voltage difference between the each locations on the satellite surface. If the space charging is continued up to threshold, it may be occurred the system failure. This phenomenon is depended on the mission of system, electrical and mechanical configuration, system operation, and orbit condition. Therefore the related requirements are properly tailored and concentrated into the safety design.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.20 no.3
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• pp.389-397
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• 2022

As increasing the growth of the Internet in medical area, a new technology to transmit effectively massive medical data is required. In optical internet, all OBS nodes have fiber delay lines, hardware components. These components are calculated under some optimal traffic conditions, and this means that if the conditions change, then the components should be altered. Therefore, in this article a new service differentiation algorithm using the previously installed components is proposed, which is used although the conditions vary. When traffic conditions change, the algorithm dynamically recalculates the threshold value used to decide the length of data bursts. By doing so, irrelevant to changes, the algorithm can maintain the service differentiation between classes without replacing any fiber delay lines. With the algorithm, loss sensitive medical data can be transferred well.