• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.301-304
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• 2002

그레이 스케일 영상의 객체 분할시 경계면의 모호함이 발생하여 정확하게 객체를 분할.검출 할 수 없으며 또한 영상 레벨에 따라 결과에 많은 영향을 미치게 된다 본 논문에서는 그 경계 부분을 정확하게 분할 . 검출하는 방법으로 적응적 형상학을 웨이브렛 알고리즘에 적용한후 최적의 영상을 찾는 알고리즘을 구현하였다. 본 논문은 입력 영상의 임계값에 따른 적응적 형태학을 이용하여 영상의 경계면을 레벨 업 시킨 후, 이를 웨이브렛에 적용하여 최적의 에지를 검출하였다. 또한, 기존의 영상 에지 검출알고리즘인 Sobel 에지 검출과 다른 웨이브렛 기저 계수를 적용한 에지 검출 방법과 비교하고, 제안된 알고리즘이 기존의 다른 에지 검출보다 우수함을 확인하였다. 특히 에지와 에지의 부분이 가까울 때 정확한 에지를 검출하였으며, 완만한 곡선을 가지고 있는 부분에서 더 우수한 결과 에지를 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.6
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• pp.195-202
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• 2005

An adaptive segmentation algorithm is used to efficiently target decisions in local non-stationary images. Until now, several adaptive approaches have been proposed as a method of segmentation. However, they can't be directly used for radar target detection because a radar signal has different characteristics from general images. Generally, a histogram of radar signal shows that targets have a relatively small number of frequency functions compared to the background and distribution of background, which have several shapes as the environment changes. In this paper, we propose an adaptive segmentation algorithm using a histogram chord which is a right-down line from maximum pick of frequency function. The proposed method provides thresholds which are optimum for several radar environments because the used chord for threshold search is not significantly effected by interference conditions. Simulation results show that the proposed method is superior to the traditional algorithms, global threshold method and distribution median method, with respect to detection performance.

• Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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• 2003.11a
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• pp.220-223
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• 2003

이진 출력 기기에서 연속 계조의 영상을 받아들여 이진값으로 출력하는 이진화 알고리즘 중한 예로 마스킹(masking) 방법이 있으며, 마스크 방식의 단점을 보완하였다. 동일한 마스크의 반복적인 사용으로 인하여 영상의 부분적인 특성을 잘 표현해 주지 못하는 마스크들의 단정을 보완하기 위해서 국부 적응 임계값과 테이블 방식의 적응 파라메타를 제안하였으며, 결과적으로 시각적으로 중요한 경계성분을 강조와 국부 처리시 계조 표현력이 부족한 배경영역도 충분히 표현할 수 있었다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.318-322
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 한정된 전원으로 구동되는 센서 네트워크 환경 하에서 물체의 이동을 검출하고 예측을 통해 효과적인 추적을 가능케 함으로써 missing-rate를 최소로 하는 새로운 형태의 알고리즘을 제안하고 시뮬레이션을 통해 제안된 방법의 유용성을 입증하고자 한다. 제안된 기법에서는 물체의 이동과 관련된 센서 노드들로부터의 정보 및 이를 기반으로 센서 노드에 장착된 A/D변환기의 임계값을 적응적으로 변화시킴으로써 물체의 missing-rate를 최소화 시키고자 하였다.

• Journal of rehabilitation welfare engineering & assistive technology
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• v.9 no.3
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• pp.245-250
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• 2015

Portable devices, such as smart phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) play an important role in our everyday life. In this paper, we propose a step count algorithm based on SVM(signal vector magnitude) and a adaptive threshold processing to monitor the physical activity. The algorithm measures a user's step counts using the smart phone's inbuilt accelerometer and g sensor. Experiment results showed the proposed algorithm has good performance in accuracy and adaptability than the app on your smart phone.

• The Journal of the Acoustical Society of Korea
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• v.29 no.1
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• pp.62-68
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• 2010

This paper proposes a new masking threshold adjustment strategy to improve the performance for speech signals in low bit-rate audio coding. After determining formant regions, the masking threshold is adjusted by using the energy ratio of each sub-band to the average energy of each formant. More quantization noises are added to the bands that have relatively large energy, but less distortion is allowed in spectral valley regions by allocating more bits, which reflects the concept of perceptual weighting widely used in speech coding. From the results of objective speech quality measure, we verified that the proposed method improves quality for the speech input signals compared to the conventional one.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.8
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• pp.253-260
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• 2008

The research for a 3-axial accelerometer sensor has increased dramatically in the fields of cellular phone, PDA, etc. In this paper, we develop a human walking detection algorithm using 3-axial accelerometer sensor and a user interface system to show the activity expenditure in real-time. To measure a walking number more correctly in a variety of walking activities including walking, walking in place, running, slow walking, we propose a new walking number detection algorithm using adaptive threshold value. In addition, we calculate the activity expenditure base on counted walking number and display calculated activity expenditure on UI in real-time. From the experimental results, we could obtain that the detection rate of proposal algorithm is higher than that of existing algorithm using a fixed threshold value about $5{\sim}10%$. Especially, it could be found out high detection rate in walking in place.

• Progress in Medical Physics
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.42-51
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• 2011

Nuclear medicine images (SPECT, PET) were widely used tool for assessment of myocardial viability and perfusion. However it had difficult to define accurate myocardial infarct region. The purpose of this study was to investigate methodological approach for automatic measurement of rat myocardial infarct size using polar map with adaptive threshold. Rat myocardial infarction model was induced by ligation of the left circumflex artery. PET images were obtained after intravenous injection of 37 MBq $^{18}F$-FDG. After 60 min uptake, each animal was scanned for 20 min with ECG gating. PET data were reconstructed using ordered subset expectation maximization (OSEM) 2D. To automatically make the myocardial contour and generate polar map, we used QGS software (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center). The reference infarct size was defined by infarction area percentage of the total left myocardium using TTC staining. We used three threshold methods (predefined threshold, Otsu and Multi Gaussian mixture model; MGMM). Predefined threshold method was commonly used in other studies. We applied threshold value form 10% to 90% in step of 10%. Otsu algorithm calculated threshold with the maximum between class variance. MGMM method estimated the distribution of image intensity using multiple Gaussian mixture models (MGMM2, ${\cdots}$ MGMM5) and calculated adaptive threshold. The infarct size in polar map was calculated as the percentage of lower threshold area in polar map from the total polar map area. The measured infarct size using different threshold methods was evaluated by comparison with reference infarct size. The mean difference between with polar map defect size by predefined thresholds (20%, 30%, and 40%) and reference infarct size were $7.04{\pm}3.44%$, $3.87{\pm}2.09%$ and $2.15{\pm}2.07%$, respectively. Otsu verse reference infarct size was $3.56{\pm}4.16%$. MGMM methods verse reference infarct size was $2.29{\pm}1.94%$. The predefined threshold (30%) showed the smallest mean difference with reference infarct size. However, MGMM was more accurate than predefined threshold in under 10% reference infarct size case (MGMM: 0.006%, predefined threshold: 0.59%). In this study, we was to evaluate myocardial infarct size in polar map using multiple Gaussian mixture model. MGMM method was provide adaptive threshold in each subject and will be a useful for automatic measurement of infarct size.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.25 no.11A
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• pp.1642-1651
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• 2000

위성통신시스템에서의 10GHz이상의 Ku 또는 Ka 대역은 수십 dB의 크기를 갖는 강우에 의한 감쇠 현상이 심각하여 이러한 감쇠는 위성 링크의 심각한 성능 정하를 가져온다. 본 논문은 위성통신 링크 상에서의 강우 감쇠 보상을 위한 알고리즘을 제시하고, Ku 대역의 강우 감쇠 데이터를 사용한 시뮬레이션을 통하여 그 성능을 비교 분석하였다. 예측 기법 측면에서, 적응형 알고리즘을 적용한 기법과 신호 레벨 변화량에 근거한 예측 기법은 거의 동일한 예측 오차를 보였고, 따라서, 급속한 신호레벨 변화에 적응성을 요하지 않은 강우 감쇠 예측의 경우, 알고리즘 측면에서 비교적 간단한 예측 기법으로도 충분한 성능을 얻을 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 제시된 전송 방식 결정 알고리즘은 기존의 임계값 기반 알고리즘에 비해 품질 저하율이 0.6%에서 0.01% 이하로 감소하였고, 거의 동일한 전송 효율을 가지면서 약 5배의 적은 전송 방식 전환을 요구한다.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.43 no.6 s.312
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• pp.57-64
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• 2006

Motion estimation plays an important role for the compression of video signals. The proposed method utilizes an adaptive threshold and characteristics of a distribution of SAD (sum of absolute difference). Generally, the more complex the SAD distribution is, the larger SAD value tends to be. This proposed algorithm tries to reduce the search points in a simple distribution but increase them in a complex distribution to avoid local minima. A macro block is divided into 9 areas. One of them chosen using spatio-temporal correlation is called the primary area and the others are called the secondary area that will be searched to avoid local minima. The proposed algorithm decides if just one area (the primary area or the secondary area) will be enough to be searched or both areas should be searched, using adaptive threshold. Compared with famous motion estimation algorithms, the simulation result shows that the searching points per macro block and MSE decreases about 16.4% and 32.83 respectively on the average.