• The Journal of Korean Institute of Information Technology
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• v.17 no.4
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• pp.131-136
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• 2019

People with compromised visual ability suffer from many inconveniences in daily life, such as distinguishing colors, identifying currency notes and realizing the atmospheric temperature. Therefore, to assist the visually impaired people, we propose a system by utilizing optical and infrared cameras. In the proposed system, an optical camera is used to collect features related to colors and currency notes while an infrared camera is utilized to get temperature information. The user is enabled to select the desired service by pushing the button and the appreciate voice information are provided through the speaker. The device can distinguish 16 kinds of colors, four different currency notes, and temperature information in four steps and the current accuracy is around 90%. It can be improved further through block-wise input image, machine learning, and a higher version of the infrared camera. In addition, it will be attached to the stick for easy carrying and to use it more conveniently.

• Journal of the Korea institute for structural maintenance and inspection
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• v.13 no.5 s.57
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• pp.169-179
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• 2009

The purpose of this paper is to find an efficient heat source to amplify the surface temperature of damaged concrete structures for infrared thermography. we compare two different heat sources of far-infrared lamp and halogen lamp each other for their efficiency. The two heat sources were applied to the concrete specimens. Two different concrete specimens were used: one was the concrete containing internal void and the other was wrapped with partially unbonded fiber reinforced polymer sheet. it was found that the far-infrared lamp was more efficient than the halogen lamp. In addition, we propose a new algorithm to make the damage zone displayed clear in the image obtained from the thermographic operation. The algorithm is a combination of Gauss filtering process and the Prewitt mask operation.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.4
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• pp.621-628
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• 2021

This paper proposes a method to calibrate a thermal camera with three different perspectives. In particular, the intrinsic parameters of the camera and re-projection errors were provided to quantify the accuracy of the calibration result. Three lenses of the camera capture the same image, but they are not overlapped, and the image resolution is worse than the one captured by the RGB camera. In computer vision, camera calibration is one of the most important and fundamental tasks to calculate the distance between camera (s) and a target object or the three-dimensional (3D) coordinates of a point in a 3D object. Once calibration is complete, the intrinsic and the extrinsic parameters of the camera(s) are provided. The intrinsic parameters are composed of the focal length, skewness factor, and principal points, and the extrinsic parameters are composed of the relative rotation and translation of the camera(s). This study estimated the intrinsic parameters of thermal cameras that have three lenses of different perspectives. In particular, image enhancement based on a deep learning algorithm was carried out to improve the quality of the calibration results. Experimental results are provided to substantiate the proposed method.

• Composites Research
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• v.16 no.6
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• pp.33-40
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• 2003

The initial thermal degradation of polymer matrix composite is not observed easily. At the beginning of thermal degradation of polymer matrix composites, phase transformation such as chain scission, oxidation occur, and then micro delamination is produced in matrix and interface between matrix and fiber before blistering. Initial heat damage deteriorate mechanical properties of composites. We presented the detection method of the initial heat damage of composites conveniently using ultrasonic technique. Absorption coefficient and material velocity was measured with thermal degradation and degree of cure. The more thermal degradation was progressed, the more absorption coefficient was increased. When the cure temperature is more high, the absorption coefficient of cured composite is increased and material velocity is decreased. We concluded that cure temperature is more high, the defects such as void is increased and molecular structure cured at high temperature has cross-linking structure which is more absorb the ultrasonic waves.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Nondestructive Testing
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.321-327
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• 2007

In lock-in thermography, a phase difference between the defect area and the healthy area indicates the qualitative location and size of the defect. To accurately estimate these parameters, the shearing-phase technique has been employed which gives the shearing-phase distribution. The shearing-phase distribution has maximum, minimum, and zero points that help determine quantitatively the size and location of the subsurface defect. In experiment, the proposed technique is verified with artificial specimen and these related factors are analyzed.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Broadcast Engineers Conference
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• 2019.06a
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• pp.71-72
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• 2019

본 논문에서는 계층구조 합성곱 신경망 기반의 고해상도 동영상 프레임 고속 보간 방법을 제안한다. 기존의 고해상도 동영상 프레임 보간 방법은 시간 해상도와 공간 해상도를 분리하여 보간 하기 때문에, 예측된 보간 프레임이 블러(blur) 열화를 갖는 문제를 보인다. 제안하는 방법에서는 이러한 문제를 해결하기 위하여 계층구조 합성곱 신경망 기반의 보간 방법을 이용한다. 제안하는 계층구조 합성곱 신경망은 우선 저해상도의 광학 흐름 추정지도를 생성하고 이를 고해상도로 복원하여 프레임 보간을 수행한다. 이때, 저해상도 광학 흐름 지도를 추정할 때 사용된 특징 정보들을 활용하여 고품질의 고해상도 광학 흐름 지도를 추정한다. 실험을 통하여 제안하는 방법이 고해상도 프레임을 고속으로 보간하며, 동시에 블러 열화에 대한 성능 향상을 가짐을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 1997.07f
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• pp.1957-1960
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• 1997

일반적으로, Thyristor와 같은 반도체 소자는 수명이 반영구적이라고 알려져 왔으나, 실제로는 사용 시간이 지남에 따라 열화 과정을 가지는 것으로 보고되고 있다. 이는 소자 제조 공정상의 결함이나 가공 불량, 소자 접합면에 존재하는 물리적 불균질성 등이 원인이 되는데 이들 원인으로 인해 반도체 소자내에 취약부위가 존재하게 된다. Thyristor 소자 응용 시스템에 있어서, 운용 중 발생되는 전기적 물리적 스트레스는 Thyristor 소자내의 취약부위에 집중되는데, 시간이 지남에 따라 취약부위가 확산되고 열화가 가속되어 갑작스런 소자 파손으로 이어지게 된다. 본 논문에서는 Thyristor 소자의 열화 과정을 이론적인 측면에서 해석하고, 실제 산업현장에서의 Thyristor 열화 발생 사례를 중심으로 대용량 Thyristor의 열화 평가방법에 대하여 고찰한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Precision Engineering
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• v.23 no.10
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• pp.30-35
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• 2006

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.51 no.1
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• pp.68-72
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• 2013

Until a recent day, degradation of PEMFC MEA (membrane and electrode assembly) has been studied, separated with membrane degradation and electrode degradation, respectively. But membrane and electrode were degraded coincidentally at real PEMFC operation condition. During simultaneous degradation, there was interaction between membrane degradation and electrode degradation. The effect of electrode degradation on membrane degradation was studied in this work. We compared membrane degradation after electrode degradation and membrane degradation without electrode degradation. I-V performance, hydrogen crossover current, fluoride emission rate (FER), impedance and TEM were measured after and before degradation of MEA. Electrode degradation reduced active area of Pt catalyst, and then radical/$H_2O_2$ evolution rate decreased on Pt. Decrease of radical/$H_2O_2$ reduced the velocity of membrane degradation.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.53 no.10
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• pp.109-115
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• 2016

In this paper, In this paper, we use two methods to compare the slim speakers. That way, the diaphragm scan using laser and diaphragm photographed using a thermal imaging camera. Slim speaker has the structure of a flat plate type. Break-up mode by this characteristic is displayed in a larger size. Further, since the installation space is narrow, it has limited moving coil cooling. As a result, the break-up mode slim speakers, a significant impact on quality. In this study, try to connect the break-up mode of the diaphragm, the heat transfer mode of the diaphragm. Experiment for comparison, a two-step. The first step is to measure the divided vibration through the vibration plate scan. The second step measures the diaphragm photographed using a thermal imaging camera. Then, compare the results of both of the same frequency. Thus, comparing the heat transfer pattern and the pattern of break-up mode. Tend to be analysis of break-up mode from the pattern comparison, and document for the optimum design.