• Sleep Medicine and Psychophysiology
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.61-67
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• 2016

Objectives: We aimed to evaluate the effects of mattress type on both objective and subjective sleep quality in healthy good sleepers. Methods: Fifteen healthy good sleepers with a mean age of 30.8 years participated in this study. A randomized crossover trial was carried out using two different mattress types: a standard mattress and a contour coil mattress. After a night of adaptation, all participants were randomized to either a standard mattress or a contour coil mattress. Then, nocturnal polysomnography was conducted for two consecutive nights. Subjective evaluations were obtained using a self-report questionnaire before and after the polysomnographic recording sessions. Results: The polysomnographic showed no differences in total sleep time, sleep stage, or wake time after sleep onset between the two mattress conditions. Of the polysomnographic variables, only sleep onset latency was significantly reduced for the contour coil mattress. Additionally, participants reported better subjective sleep quality when sleeping on the contour coil mattress, according to the questionnaires. Conclusion: The type of mattress might affect not only subjective, but also objective sleep quality, including sleep onset latency.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.16 no.2
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• pp.235-244
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• 2015

This study proposes a leaf modeling method that uses feature-based warping for efficient generation of various digital leaves. The proposed method uses warping method, one of image processing application techniques that can control various shapes of leaves in an easy, intuitive way, and generate natural patterns of veins efficiently. First, information on approximated contour is detected from a leaf blade image to identify the shape of a blade. Based on this, control line is automatically calculated to be used for feature-based warping. Then, control line-based warping is conducted to modify forms of leaf blade images in an intuitive way, automatically generating leaves of various shapes. And natural vein patterns are generated by applying a contour-based venation growth algorithm from contour information of the modified leaf blade images. This study performs experiments to verify whether various shape of leaves that comprise plants can be efficiently generated using a sample binary image of a blade. Also, we demonstrate that express the natural growth of leaves by applying warping to the growth of the leaf blade.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• 1998.08a
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• pp.396-400
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• 1998

문장 독립형 화자인식 시스템에 운율정보 사용을 제안한다. 스펙트럴 특징패턴만을 주로 사용하고 있는 기존의 화자인식 시스템은 채널왜곡이나 기타 잡음환경에서 성능이 크게 저하된다. 그러나 화자의 speaking style을 반영하는 운율정보는 주위환경에 강인한 특성을 갖는다. 적합한 코드북 크기와 피치 컨투어 특징 벡터의 길이를 실험 치로 구하여 자동차 소음과 백색 가우시안 소음이 섞인 음성에 대하여 화자인식 실험을 하였다. 실험 결과 소음 환경에서 운율 정보를 이용한 화자 dsltlr 시스템이 스펙트럴 모델보다 인식율이 높음을 보였다.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2003.07e
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• pp.1992-1995
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• 2003

An adaptive active contour algorithm which shows stable object tracking performance under the moving or deformable environments, is proposed. In order to cope with local deformation of the object, an energy map is generated from the difference of the consecutive images and a new energy function based on the energy map is presented. The algorithm is evaluated on a set of artificial and real images to verify the efficiencies and test results show the stable tracking performance for the moving objects.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2002.10d
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• pp.472-474
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• 2002

본 논문에서는 복잡한 영상에서 얼굴 영역의 윤곽선을 검출하는 방법을 제안하였다. 이를 위하여 얼굴의 칼라 정보에 기반한 액티브 컨투어 모델을 이용하였다. 얼굴의 칼라 정보는 색채칼라 공간(chromatic color space)에서 2D-Gaussian모델로 나타내어지는 스킨 칼로 모델로 표현 되었다. 실험결과 제안된 방법은 복잡한 영상뿐 아니라 잡음이 많은 영상에서 하나 또는 여러 개의 얼굴 영역을 추출할 수 있었다.

• 한국전산유체공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2003.08a
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• pp.82-87
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• 2003

Post-processing programs play an important role in the CFD data visualization and analysis. A variety of post-processing softwares have been developed and are being used in the CFD community. Developing a good quality of post-processing program requires dedication and efforts. In this paper an experience obtained through previous studies and developing post-processing programs are introduced which includes data structure and visualization algorithms.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Electromagnetic Engineering and Science
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.255-258
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• 2014

Imaging in bistatic radar has been known a more difficult task than that in monostatic radar. It is because the behavior of the bistatic range and the bistatic Doppler due to the motion of a transmitter and a receiver is so random that the compensation procedure, which we call an imaging algorithm, is quite complicated. This paper presents a bistatic radar imaging algorithm that can be used in some specific bistatic radar geometry. We show this geometry can present rectangular-like resolution cell on isorange-isoDoppler contours map. We also present the associated resolution and simulation results.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.79-84
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• 2019

Video image based technology is being used in various fields with continuous development. The demand for vision system technology that analyzes and discriminates image objects acquired through cameras is rapidly increasing. Image processing is one of the core technologies of vision systems, and is used for defect inspection in the semiconductor manufacturing field, object recognition inspection such as the number of tire surfaces and symbols. In addition, research into license plate recognition is ongoing, and it is necessary to recognize objects quickly and accurately. In this paper, propose a recognition model through the rotational alignment of objects after checking the angle value of the tilt of the object in the input video image for the recognition of inclined objects such as numbers or symbols marked on the surface. The proposed model can perform object recognition of the rotationally sorted image after extracting the object region and calculating the angle of the object based on the contour algorithm. The proposed model extracts the object region based on the contour algorithm, calculates the angle of the object, and then performs object recognition on the rotationally aligned image. In future research, it is necessary to study template matching through machine learning.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.48 no.3
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• pp.99-105
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• 2011

In this paper, we proposed a method for estimating an accurate gamut based on segment maxima method. According to the number of segments in the segment maxima, a local concavity is generated in the vicinity of lightness axis or a gamut is reduced in high chroma region. It induces artifacts or deterioration of the image quality. To remove these artifacts, the number of segment is determined according to the number of samples. and a local concavity is modified by extending a detected concave point to the line connecting two adjacent boundary points. Experimental results show that the contours in a uniform color region and speckle artifacts from the conventional segment maxima algorithm are removed.

• Journal of Korea Game Society
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.97-106
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• 2014

This study proposes an efficient method to model various and diverse leaves required to express digital plants such as flowers and trees in virtual landscape easily and intuitively. The proposed procedural method divides a leaf mainly into a blade and vein thereby detecting contours from binary images that correspond to blades and generating leaves by modeling leaf veins procedurally based on the detected contours. First of all, a complicated leaf vein structure is divided into main veins, lateral veins, and tertiary vein while all veins grow procedurally directing from start auxin to destination auxin. Here, to calculate destination auxin required for growth automatically, approximated contours from binary images that correspond to blades are found thereby calculating candidate destination auxin. Finally, natural digital leaves are generated by applying a color combination method. Through the proposed method, natural and various leaves can be generated and whether the proposed method is efficient or not is verified through the experiment.