• Journal of the Korean Society of Marine Environment & Safety
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• v.12 no.2 s.25
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• pp.151-155
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• 2006

In these days, welding is the most commonly used metallic connection technology and also is the fundamental production technology of the modem industrial, which is used in various areas of the industrial fields, such as shipbuilding, automobiles, airplanes and plant facilities. However welding process produces strong light, electric currents, and fume gases etc., and the welding automation is not so easy compared to the other works of manufacturing industries which produce the standardized products in large quantities. So it is difficult to weld and detect the all kinds of seams automatically by a specific sensor. In this paper the sensor applying strain gauges is used to detect the seams of triangular wave form. With the auto carriage having the sensor we proposed the experiment to weld and track the seam automatically.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.447-452
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• 2013

In this paper, the leakage current detection and auto shut-off module for a concent has been developed. Existing leakage current detection modules are detecting resistive leakage current, using a resistive leakage current detection chip but the proposed leakage current detection module separates and detects resistive leakage current in the synthesis leakage current by only programming in a power processor MCU(MSP430). The module implemented by proposed method has early detection and auto shut-off feature at more than resistive leakage current 5mA, and has the advantage of easily adjusting resistive leakage current less or more than 5mA, because of resistive leakage current detection function being implemented by a program in MCU.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartB
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• v.13B no.4 s.107
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• pp.377-382
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• 2006

In this paper, two methods based on the use of morphology and pattern matching prior to detect classified defects automatically on the back light unit which is a part of display equipments are proposed. One is the template check method which detects small size defects by using closing and opening method, and the other is the block matching method which detects big size defects by comparing with four regions of uniform blocks. The TC algorithm also can detect defects on the non-uniform pattern of BLU by using revised Otsu method. The proposed method has been implemented on the automatic defect detection system we developed and has been tested image data of BLU captured by the system.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.11 no.1 s.38
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• pp.1-11
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• 1999

The aim of this study is to construct a machine vision monitoring system for an automatic visual inspection of weld joint in steel structure. An image processing algorithm for a visual weld defects detection on weld bead is developed using the intensity image. An optic system for getting four intensity images was set as a fixed camera position and four different illumination directions. The input images were thresholded and segmented after a suitable preprocessing and the features of each region were defined and calculated. The features were used in the detection and the classification of the visual weld defects. It is confirmed that the developed algorithm can detect weld defects that could not be detected by previously developed techniques. The recognized results were evaluated and compared to expert inspectors' results.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.944-951
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• 2009

In this paper, we use image processing algorithms to detect the defects existed on a welding area automatically. It is difficult to detect the welding defects because it is sensitive to lights and has irregular patterns. For this reason, images are captured with 2 kinds of illumination condition, and are processed by 2 different algorithms for each image. The first algorithm separates some ROI's from the captured image and compares the similarity of intensity between each divided region. The second algorithm extracts boundary information from the processed image by the first algorithm, and calculates the length of boundary, curvature and base line area based on boundary information. The proposed method showed high performance in detection and classification of defects.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea TE
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• v.39 no.4
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• pp.379-388
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• 2002

In this paper, the real-time algorithm is proposed for automatic detection of the face and facial features. In the face region, we extracted eyes, nose, mouth and so forth. There are two methods to extract them; one is the method of using the location information of them, other is the method of using Gaussian second derivatives filters. This system have high speed and accuracy because the facial feature extraction is processed only by detected face region, not by whole image. There are some kinds of good experimental result for the proposed algorithm; high face detection rate of 95%, high speed of lower than 1sec. the reduction of illumination effect, and the compensation of face tilt.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.580-585
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• 2009

This paper introduces GP(Genetic Programming) based corner detectors for an image processing. Various empirical algorithms have been studied to improve computational speed and accuracy including typical approaches, such as Harris and SUSAN. The these techniques are highly efficient, because properties of corner points are inspected and reflected into the algorithms. However these approaches are limited in discovering an innovative algorithm. In this study, we try to discover a more efficient technique by creating corner detector automatically using evolution of GP. The proposed method is compared to the existing corner detectors for test images.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2012.06c
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• pp.415-417
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• 2012

본 논문에서는 산업용 CT 영상에서 다중 해상도 기반의 밝기값 정보와 형태 정보를 이용하여 내부 기공결함을 정확하고 빠르게 검출하는 기법을 제안한다. 첫째, 대용량 CT 데이터에서 계산량을 줄이기 위하여 1/2 해상도로 변환 후 관심영역을 자동 산정하고, 링 또는 금속 인공물 등의 잡음을 제거하기 위해 비등방성 확산 필터링을 수행한다. 둘째, 기공 결함 후보군을 검출하기 위해 밝기값 기반의 결함 검출 기법을 제안한다. 셋째, 결함 검출의 민감도를 향상시키기 위해 형태 정보를 이용한 기공 결함 검출 기법을 제안한다. 넷째, 수행시간 가속화를 위하여 다중 해상도 영상 처리 및 Open MP를 적용한다. 제안방법의 평가를 위하여 육안평가와 정확성 평가, 수행시간을 측정하였다. 정확성 평가는 실제 기공 결함과 제안방법 적용 후 결함 간 중복 픽셀 수로 측정하였다. 실험 결과 평균 중복 픽셀 비율은 91%로 측정되었고, 가장 큰 비율은 99%, 가장 작은 비율은 80%로 측정되었다. 다중 해상도 기법 및 Open MP를 적용함으로써 해상도 데이터 수행시간보다 90% 가속화되었다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.11
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• pp.101-106
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• 2014

This paper presents a wide dynamic range radio-frequency (RF) root-mean-square (RMS) power detector using an automatic gain control (AGC) loop. The AGC loop consists of a variable gain amplifier (VGA), RMS conversion block and gain control block. The VGA exploits dB-linear gain characteristic of the cascade VGA. The proposed circuit utilizes full-wave squaring and generates a DC voltage proportional to the RMS of an input RF signal. The proposed RMS power detector operates from 500MHz to 5GHz. The detecting input signal range is from 0 dBm to -70 dBm or more with a conversion gain of -4.53 mV/dBm. The proposed RMS power detector is designed in a 65-nm 1.2-V CMOS process, and dissipates a power of 5 mW. The total active area is $0.0097mm^2$.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.12
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• pp.2547-2554
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a face detection algorithm and a hardware implementation method for ROI(Region Of Interest) of AF(Auto Focusing). We used face features in skin regions of YCbCr color space for face detection. The face features are the number of skin pixels in face regions, edge pixels in eye regions, and shadow pixels in lip regions. The each feature was statistically selected by 2,000 sample pictures of face. The proposed algorithm detects two faces that are closer center of the image for considering the effectiveness of hardware resource. The detected faces are displayed by rectangle for ROI of AF, and the rectangles are represented by positions in the image about starting point and ending point of the rectangles. The proposed face detection method was verified by using FPGA boards and mobile phone camera sensor.