• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.45 no.1
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• pp.55-63
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• 2008

Ridge orientations of fingerprint image are crucial informations in many parts of fingerprint recognition such as enhancement, matching and classification. Therefore it is essential to extract the ridge orientations of image accurately because it directly affects the performance of the system. The two main properties of ridge orientation are 1) global characteristic(gradual change in whole part of fingerprint) and 2) local characteristic(abrupt change around core and delta points). When we only consider the local characteristic, estimated ridge orientations are well around singular points but not robust to noise. When the global characteristic is only considered, to estimate ridge orientation is robust to noise but cannot represent the orientation around singular points. In this paper, we propose a novel method for estimating ridge orientation which represents local characteristic specifically as well as be robust to noise. We reduce the noise caused by scar using iterative outlier rejection. We apply adaptive measurement resolution in each fingerprint area to estimate the ridge orientation around singular points accurately. We evaluate the performance of proposed method using synthetic fingerprint and FVC 2002 DB. We compare the accuracy of ridge orientation. The performance of fingerprint authentication system is evaluated using FVC 2002 DB.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2011.04a
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• pp.397-400
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• 2011

MDO Optimization for a low pressure axial compressor rotor has been carried out to improve aerodynamic performance and structural stability. Global optimized solution was obtained from an artificial neural network model with genetic algorithm. Optimized rotor model has a high blade loading near hub and near zero incidence flow angle near tip region to reduce the incidence loss and flow separation at trailing edge region. Also the rotor shape is converged to a trapezoid shape to reduce the maximum stress occurred at the root of the blade. Numerical simulation results show that rotor has 87.6% rotor efficiency and safety factor over than 3.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2023.05a
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• pp.351-351
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• 2023

강우 자료는 수문 모델링에서 중요한 입력 요소 중 하나이다. 강우의 공간적 가변성은 모델링 불확실성의 중요한 원인으로 알려져 있다. 강우 관측자료는 많은 경우 유역을 대표하는 평균 면적강수량 (Mean Areal Precipitation, MAP)을 계산하여 수문모형에 입력된다. 선행 연구에서는MAP 예측 결과의 신뢰도를 개선하기 위하여 다양한 보간 방법이 개발되었다. 하지만, 강우특성의 동질성를 고려한 대표 기상 관측소 선정이 MAP 예측과 유출량 모의 결과에 미치는 연구는 아직 미흡한 실정이다. 본 연구에서는 유역의 MAP 예측에 있어 강우특성의 동실성을 고려한 강우 관측소 선정이 수문 모델링 성능 개선에 미치는 영향을 평가하고자 한다. 본 연구에서는 종관 기상관측(ASOS) 74개 지점과 방재기상관측(AWS) 400여개 지점에서 2003~2022년 기간에 대한 일강수량 자료를 수집하였고 강우특성이 동질한 지역을 구분하였다. 또한, 강우특성 동질성의 고려 유무에 따른 MAP를 계산하였다. 이후, 5개의 매개변수로 이루어진 개념적 강우-유출 모형FPHM을 사용하여 우리나라 전역 41개 유역을 대상으로 MAP 계산 결과가 모형 성능에 미치는 민감도를 조사하였다. 분석 결과, 강우특성의 동질성을 고려한 강우 관측소의 선택은 MAP 보간 방법 이상으로 중요한 요소임을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.11D no.1
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• pp.83-94
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• 2004

Recent researches which purport to Integrate distributed information have been concentrated on developing efficient mediator systems that not only provide a high degree of autonomy for local users but also support the flexible integration of required functions for global users. However, there has been little attention on how to evaluate a global query in a mediator. A global query is transformed into a set of its sub-queries and each sub-query is the unit of evaluation in a remote server. Therefore, it is possible to speed up the execution of a global query if the previous results of frequently evaluated sub-queries are materialized in a mediator. Since the Integration schema of a mediator can be incrementally modified and the evaluation frequency of a global query can also be continuously varied, query usage should be carefully monitored to determine the optimized set of materialized sub-queries. Furthermore, as the number of sub-queries increases, the optimization process itself may take too long, so that the optimized set Identified by a long optimization process nay become obsolete due to the recent change of query usage. This paper proposes the adaptive selection of materialized sub-queries such that available storage in a mediator can be highly utilized at any time. In order to differentiate the recent usage of a query from the past, the accumulated usage frequency of a query decays as time goes by.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 1999.10b
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• pp.353-355
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• 1999

본 논문에서는 영상의 flexible subblock을 이용하여 영상내에 물체의 이동이나, 빛의 변화, 시각점(view-point)의 변화등에 덜 민감한 영상 검색을 방법을 제안한다. 특징 값으로는 Ohta 컬러 공간으로부터 1, 2, 3차 central 모멘트 값을 추출해 내고, 쌍직교 웨이블릿 변환을 통해 고주파 영역으로부터 수직-수평 방향 성분을 추출하여 인덱스화 시킴으로써 인덱스를 위한 저장 공간을 줄이고 계산 시간을 향상시킬 수 있었다. 아울러, 2개의 특징 값을 다단계(multi-step) K-NN 방법에 적용시킴으로서 사용자가 검색하고자 하는 가장 유사한 k 개의 영상만을 사용자에게 보여 주도록 설계하였다. 본 논문에서는 제안하는 알고리즘의 우수성을 증명하기 위해 RGB 색상 공간을 그대로 적용하여 실험한 결과를 비교해 보았다. 추가적으로, 영상의 전역적인 유사성뿐만 아니라, 각 블록의 독립적인 특징 값을 이용하여 특정 블록에 대한 검색 환경도 제공하여 보다 의미있는 검색 환경을 제공하고 있다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2008.06a
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• pp.775-776
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• 2008

본 논문은 WLAN 환경에서 웨이블릿과 신경망을 사용한 실내 위치인식 방법을 제안한다. 제안한 방법의 기본적인 아이디어는 경제적이면서 효율적인 방법으로써 실내에 설치된 무선 AP들로부터 수신된 신호들의 수신세기로부터 비교적 정확하게 위치를 추정하는 연구이다. 일반적으로 무선 신호는 주위 환경 및 건물 구조적 요인에 의해 수신세기가 더해지거나 감해지는 현상이 발생함으로써 수신된 각 신호세기로부터 신호 잡음과 오류에 강인하고 시간과 주파수 도메인의 정보 표현이 가능하며 각 신호세기들간의 구별성을 갖는 특징값 획득이 필요하다. 제안 방법에서는 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 수신된 신호로부터 중복 데이터와 잡음에 민감하게 반응하지 않는 특징값을 획득하고, 수신신호 전역 및 지역적 특징의 표현이 가능한 신경망을 사용하여 실내위치인식 방법은 제안한다. 실험 결과 실내위치 인식률이 94 % 이상 제시하였다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.29 no.8
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• pp.521-528
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• 2002

We propose a new approach to the feature selection for the classification of handwritten characters using two-dimensional(2D) wavelet packet bases. To extract key features of an image data, for the dimension reduction Principal Component Analysis(PCA) has been most frequently used. However PCA relies on the eigenvalue system, it is not only sensitive to outliers and perturbations, but has a tendency to select only global features. Since the important features for the image data are often characterized by local information such as edges and spikes, PCA does not provide good solutions to such problems. Also solving an eigenvalue system usually requires high cost in its computation. In this paper, the original data is transformed with 2D wavelet packet bases and the best discriminant basis is searched, from which relevant features are selected. In contrast to PCA solutions, the fast selection of detailed features as well as global features is possible by virtue of the good properties of wavelets. Experiment results on the recognition rates of PCA and our approach are compared to show the performance of the proposed method.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.37 no.8
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• pp.629-640
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• 2010

The exemplar-based inpainting model is widely used to remove objects from natural images and to restore a damaged region. This paper presents a method which improves the performance of the conventional exemplar-based inpainting model by modifying three major parts in the model: data term, confidence term and patch selection. While the conventional data term is calculated using the local gradient, the proposed method uses 16 compass masks to get the global gradient to make the method robust to noise. To overcome the problem that the confidence term gets negligible in the inside of the eliminated region, a method is proposed which makes the confidence term decrease slowly in the eliminated region. The patch selection procedure is modified so that the closer patch has higher weight. Experiments showed that the proposed method produced more natural images and lower reconstruction error than the conventional exemplar-based inpainting.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.3-12
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• 2005

This paper introduces a 3D perceptual model based on JND(Just Noticeable Difference) and proposes a video watermarking scheme which is perceptual approach of adaptive embedding in 3D-DCT domain. Videos are composed of consecutive frames with many similar adjacent frames. If a watermark is embedded in the period of similar frames with little motion, it can be easily noticed by human eyes. Therefore, for the transparency the watermark should be embedded into some places where motions exist and for the robustness its magnitude needs to be adjusted properly. For the transparency and the robustness, watermark based on 3D perceptual model is utilized. That is. the sensitivities from the 3D-DCT quantization are derived based on 3D perceptual model, and the sensitivities of the regions having more local motion than global motion are adjusted. Then the watermark is embedded into visually significant coefficients in proportion to the strength of motion in 3D-DCT domain. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme improves the robustness to MPEG compression and temporal attacks by about $3{\sim}9\%$, compared to the existing 3D-DCT based method. In terms of PSNR, the proposed method is similar to the existing method, but JND guarantees the transparency of watermark.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.99-100
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• 2015

Digital image blur occurs due to various environmental conditions at the time of shooting. Blur produces the low-frequency component in the image. This problem worsens the quality of the digital image. To address this issue, contrast improvement methods has been widely studied. 2D filter to enhance the edges is a simple structure with a fast processing speed. However, the sensitivity of the human visual system is different depending on the surrounding brightness locally. Thus, in this paper, we proposed feature-based contrast enhancement method for the digital image using 2D filter to enhance the edges and JND(Just Noticeable Difference) according to the surrounding brightness. We confirmed the result image of proposed method and identified that the contrast is improved.