• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2011.10a
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• pp.204-207
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• 2011

본 논문에서는 경추 초음파 DICOM 영상에서 개선된 퍼지 시그마 기법을 이용하여 경부심굴곡근을 추출하고 두께를 측정하는 방법을 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 ROI 영역에서 Ends-In Search Stretching을 적용하여 명암 대비를 강조한다. Stretching된 ROI 영역에서 평균 이진화를 적용한 후, Blob 알고리즘을 적용하여 흉쇄유돌근과 경부심굴곡근의 후보 영역을 추출한다. 추출된 경부심굴곡근 후보 영역에서 경추의 위치 정보를 이용하여, 경추의 경계 영역을 검출한 후, Cubic Spline 보간법 알고리즘을 적용하여 스플라인 곡선을 추출한다. 스플라인 곡선 영상에서 상/하 탐색 알고리즘을 적용하여, 최대/최소 범위 영역을 설정한다. Stretching된 ROI 영역에서 최대/최소 범위에 해당하는 영역에 대해 개선된 퍼지 시그마 이진화를 적용한다. 적용된 영역을 Blob 알고리즘을 이용하여 잡음을 제거하고 Morphology 알고리즘을 이용하여 초음파 영상의 첫 번째 경추 기준점의 좌표 정보를 추출한다. 경추 기준점을 기준으로 두께 측정에 필요한 경부심굴곡근 후보 영역을 추출하고 개선된 퍼지 시그마 이진화 알고리즘을 적용한다. 개선된 퍼지 시그마 이진화 알고리즘이 적용된 영상에서 근막의 위치 정보를 이용하여 경부심굴곡근상단 경계선을 추출한다. 추출된 각 경추 객체에 DDA(Digital Differential Analyzer) 알고리즘과 Cubic Spline 보간법 알고리즘을 적용하여 경부심굴곡근의 하단 경계선을 추출한다. 추출된 경부심 굴곡근의 상/하단 경계선의 위치 정보를 이용하여, 측정에 필요한 경부심굴곡근을 추출한다. 제안된 방법을 경추 초음파 영상에 적용하여 경부심굴곡근을 추출한 결과, 기존의 경부심굴곡근추출 방법보다 효율적으로 경부심굴곡근을 추출하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.4 no.10
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• pp.2485-2492
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• 1997

Nowadays the traffic conditions have been getting worse due to continuous increase in the number of vehicles. So it has become more important to manage traffic signal lights efficiently. Recently fuzzy logic is introduced to control the cycle time of traffic lights adaptively. Conventional fuzzy logic controller adjusts the extension time of current green phase by using the fuzzy input variables such as the number of entering vehicles at the green light and the number of waiting vehicle during the red light. However this scheme is inadequate for an intersection with variable traffic densities. In this paper, a new FLC with asymmetric membership functions that reflects more exactly traffic flows than other FLCs with symmetric ones regardless of few control rules is propsed. The effectiveness of the proposed method was shown through simulation of a single intersection. The experimental results yielded the superior performance of the proposed FLC in terms of the average delay time, the number of passed vehicles, and the degree of saturation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.26 no.11
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• pp.1630-1636
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• 2022

The results of current method of traffic sign detection gets hindered by environmental conditions and the traffic sign's condition as well. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a method of improving detection performance of damaged traffic signs by utilizing Hopfield Network and Fuzzy Max-Min Neural Network. In this proposed method, the characteristics of damaged traffic signs are analyzed and those characteristics are configured as the training pattern to be used by Fuzzy Max-Min Neural Network to initially classify the characteristics of the traffic signs. The images with initial characteristics that has been classified are restored by using Hopfield Network. The images restored with Hopfield Network are classified by the Fuzzy Max-Min Neural Network onces again to finally classify and detect the damaged traffic signs. 8 traffic signs with varying degrees of damage are used to evaluate the performance of the proposed method which resulted with an average of 38.76% improvement on classification performance than the Fuzzy Max-Min Neural Network.

• International Journal of Highway Engineering
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• v.8 no.3 s.29
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• pp.63-76
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• 2006

For a private toll road project, deciding optimal toll is an important element of economic analysis for the project and a challengeable work. In this study, the optimal toll of a private toll bridge, Geoga Bridge which connects Geoje Island of Gyeongnam Province and Gaduk Island of Busan was estimated using Stated Preference (SP) data. The SP data were collected by interviewing the passenger car drivers travelling on the National Road 14. They are latent users of the bridge. A fuzzy approximate reasoning model to estimate the optimal toll was built using the SP data. For the input variable of the model, the saved travel time and toll level were employed and the diversion rate to the bridge was employed for the output variable. The diversion rates for each toll level and saved travel time were estimated and the toll level which had maximized the toll revenue was decided as optimal toll. The optimal toll was tested by comparing with the average pay rate of passenger car drivers. Since the optimal toll for passenger cars at one hour saving, the 6,250 won is about 50 % of the average pay rate of passenger car divers, the toll was evaluated not to be high. The technique employed in this study may be used for the estimation of the optimal tolls for other kinds of vehicles.

• Journal of agriculture & life science
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• v.44 no.4
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• pp.69-77
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• 2010

Fuzzy control is widely used for improving temperature control performance as controlling ventilation in greenhouse because the technique can respond more flexibly to the outside air temperature and wind speed. By pre-studied PID and normal fuzzy control this study was performed to obtain the fundamental data that can be established in better greenhouse ventilation control method. The temperature control error by the simple fuzzy control was $1.2^{\circ}C$. The accumulated operating size of the window and the number of operating were 84% and 13, respectively. These showed equivalent control performance with pre-studied result that control error. The accumulated operating size of the window and the number of operating were 75% and 12, respectively. The proposed fuzzy technique was simple control logic method compared with step and PID control methods, but it showed equivalent performance. Therefore, the proposed simple fuzzy control method could be used in micro controller of small programmable memory size and many applications.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 1995.10b
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• pp.366-368
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• 1995

We study likely mean value theorem with respect to integral of real mapping between fuzzy bound. This is the main purpose of this paper, which investigates ideas in Dubois & Prade [2,3,4]

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.31 no.5B
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• pp.405-414
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• 2011

The adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) which had a success for time series prediction and system control was applied for modeling the hourly runoff in the Gapcheon watershed. The ANFIS used the antecedent rainfall and runoff as the input. The ANFIS was trained by varying the various simulation factors such as mean areal rainfall estimation, the number of input variables, the type of membership function and the number of membership function. The root mean square error (RMSE), mean peak runoff error (PE), and mean peak time error (TE) were used for validating the ANFIS simulation. The ANFIS predicted runoff was in good agreement with the measured runoff and the applicability of ANFIS for modelling the hourly runoff appeared to be good. The forecasting ability of ANFIS up to the maximum 8 lead hour was investigated by applying the different input structure to ANFIS model. The accuracy of ANFIS for predicting the hourly runoff was reduced as the forecasting lead hours increased. The long-term predictability of ANFIS for forecasting the hourly runoff at longer lead hours appeared to be limited. The ANFIS might be useful for modeling the hourly runoff and has an advantage over the physically based models because the model construction of ANFIS based on only input and output data is relatively simple.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.2D
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• pp.233-239
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• 2006

Most research for until at now link travel time were research for mean link travel time calculate or estimate which uses the average of the individual vehicle. however, the link travel time distribution is divided caused by with the impact factor which is various traffic condition, signal operation condition and the road conditional etc. preceding study result for link travel time distribution characteristic showed that the patterns of going through traffic were divided up to 2 in the link travel times. therefore, it will be more accurate to divide up the link travel time into the one involving delay and the other without delay, rather than using the average link travel time in terms of assessing the traffic situation. this study is it analyzed transit hour distribution characteristic and a cause using examine to the variables which give an effect at link travel time distribute using simulation program and determinate link travel time distribute ratio estimation model. to assess the distribution of the link travel times, this research develops the regression model and the fuzzy model. the variables that have high level of correlations in both estimation models are the rest time of green ball and the delay vehicles. these variables were used to construct the methods in the estimation models. The comparison of the two estimation models-fuzzy and regression model- showed that fuzzy model out-competed the regression model in terms of reliability and applicability.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.6
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• pp.738-743
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• 2007

In this paper, a muscle motion sensing system and an artificial arm control system are studied. The artificial arm is for the people who lost one's forearm. The muscle motion sensing system detect the intention of motion from the upper arm's muscle. In sensing system we use flex sensors which is electrical resistance type sensor. The sensor is attached on the biceps brachii muscle and coracobrachialis muscle of the upper arm. We propose an algorithm to classify the one's intention of motions from the sensor signal. Using this algorithm, we extract the 4 motions which are flexion and extension of the forearm, pronation and supination of the arm. To verify the validity of the proposed algorithms we made experiments with two d.o.f. artificial arm. To reduce the control errors of the artificial arm we also proposed a fuzzy PID control algorithm which based on the errors and error rate.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.51 no.2
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• pp.124-132
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• 2014

In this paper, we present a novel backlit region detection and contrast enhancement method using fuzzy C-means clustering and adaptively partitioned block based contrast stretching. The proposed method separates an image into both dark backlit and bright background regions using adaptively partitioned blocks based on the optimal threshold value computed by fuzzy logic. The detected block-wise backlit region is refined using the guided filter for removing block artifacts. Contrast stretching algorithm is then applied to adaptively enhance the detected backlit region. Experimental results show that the proposed method can successfully detect the backlit region without a complicated segmentation algorithm and enhance the object information in the backlit region.