• Journal of IKEEE
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.762-765
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• 2021

In this paper, an automotive ECU (electronic control unit) with Kalman filter accelerator is designed and implemented. RISC-V is exploited as a processor core. Accelerator for Kalman filter matrix operation, CAN (controller area network) controller for in-vehicle network, and LIN (local interconnect network) controller are designed and embedded. Kalman filter operation consists of time update process and measurement update process. Current state variable and its error covariance are estimated in time update process. Final values are corrected from input measurement data and Kalman gain in measurement update process. Usually floating-point multiplication is exploited in software implementation, but fixed-point multiplier considering accuracy analysis is exploited in this paper to reduce hardware area. In 28nm silicon fabrication, its operating frequency, area, and gate counts are 100MHz, 0.37mm², and 760k gates, respectively.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.171-174
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• 2008

컴퓨터 시뮬레이션을 통한 자연스러운 가상 성형은 컴퓨터 그래픽스와 애니메이션 분야의 오래된 연구 주제이다. 본 논문은 2D 가상 성형 시스템 용도의 가변 워핑 마스크를 이용한 시그모이드 블렌딩 방법을 제안함으로써 가상 성형의 품질 만족도와 편의성 및 실용성을 제고함에 그 목적이 있다. 제안된 2D 가상 성형 시스템은 마우스로 스머지 필터를 조작하여 얼굴 구성 요소의 윤곽 형상을 원하는 형태로 변형할 수 있는 직관적인 사용자 인터페이스를 제공한다. 얼굴 구성 요소의 스머징 전후의 윤곽선을 대상으로 다각형 근사화에 기반한 계층적 제어선 매핑을 통해 획득한 제어선 쌍들을 이용하여 반자동 필드 워핑을 수행함으로써 소스 제어선으로부터 목표 제어선까지 점진적으로 변해가는 다수의 중간 프레임들을 생성한다. 또한 이 반자동 필드 워핑을 수행할 시, 성형 부위의 변형을 따라 단계적으로 모양이 변하는 가변 워핑 마스크를 사용함으로써 변형 부위 이외의 얼굴 구성 요소들에 대해서는 왜곡을 최소화하는 지역적 변형 특성을 제고하고, 이렇게 생성된 성형 부위를 가변 모핑 마스크의 경계 영역에서 시그모이드 함수에 기반한 블렌딩을 수행하는 것이 특징이다. 제안된 2D 가상 성형 시스템은 직관적이고 편리한 사용자 인터페이스를 제공할 수 있기 때문에 시간이 적게 소요되고 작업 피로도가 낮아 실용성이 높다. 특히 짧은 시간 내에 성형의와 고객이 만족하는 직관적인 상담을 가능케 하는 것이 장점이다.

• Journal of the Korea Society of Computer and Information
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• v.10 no.4 s.36
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• pp.47-56
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• 2005

With the development of wearable(ubiquitous) computers, those traditional interfaces between human and computers gradually become uncomfortable to use, which directly leads to a requirement for new one. In this paper, we study on a new interface in which computers try to recognize the gesture of human through a digital camera. Because the method of recognizing hand gesture through camera is affected by the surrounding environment such as lighting and so on, the detector should be a little sensitive. Recently, Viola's detector shows a favorable result in face detection. where Adaboost learning algorithm is used with the Haar features from the integral image. We apply this method to hand area detection and carry out comparative experiments with the classic method using skin color. Experimental results show Viola's detector is more robust than the detection method using skin color in the environment that degradation may occur by surroundings like effect of lighting.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.60 no.2
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• pp.282-288
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• 2022

Facial masks have become indispensable in daily life to prevent infection and spread through respiratory droplets in the era of the corona pandemic. To understand how effective two different types of masks (i.e., KF-94 mask and dental mask) are in blocking respiratory droplets, i) we preferentially analyze wettability characteristics (e.g., contact angle and contact angle hysteresis) of filters consisting of each mask, and ii) subsequently observe the dynamic behaviors of microdroplets impacting at high velocities on the filter surfaces. Different wetting properties (i.e., hydrophobicity and hydrophilicity) are found to exhibit depending on the constituent materials and pore sizes of each filter. In addition, the pneumatic conditions for stably and uniformly dispensing microdroplets with a certain volume and impacting behaviors associated with the impacting velocity and filter type change are systematically explored. Three distinctive dynamics (i.e., no penetration, capture, and penetration) after droplet impacting are observed depending on the type of filter constituting the masks and droplet impact velocity. The present experimental results not only provide very useful information in designing of face masks for prevention of transmission of infectious respiratory diseases, but also are helpful for academic researches on droplet impacts on various porous surfaces.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.5
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• pp.56-66
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• 2022

Due to the recent increase in information encountered on social media, algorithm-based recommendation formats selectively provide information based on user information, which often causes a filter bubble effect by an Echo Chamber. Eco-chamber refers to a phenomenon in which beliefs are amplified or strengthened by communication only in an enclosed system, and filter bubbles refer to a phenomenon in which information providers provide customized information according to users' interests, and users encounter only filtered information. The purpose of this study is to propose a method of efficiently selecting information as a way to improve the filter bubble phenomenon by such an echo chamber. The research progress method analyzed recommended algorithms used on YouTube, Facebook and Amazon. In this study, humanities solutions such as training critical thinking skills of social media users and strengthening objective ethical standards according to self-preservation laws, and technical solutions of model-based cooperative filtering or cross-recommendation methods were presented. As a result, recommended algorithms should continue to supplement technology and develop new techniques, and humanities should make efforts to overcome cognitive dissonance and prevent users from falling into confirmation bias through critical thinking training and political communication education.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.43-52
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• 1998

We extract a hand region by using color information, which is an important feature for human vision to distinguish objects. Because pixel values in images are changed according to the luminance and lighting source, it is difficult to extract a hand region exactly without previous knowledge. We generate a hand skin model at learning stage, and extract a hand region from images by using the model. We also use a Kalman filter to consider changes of pixel values in a hand skin model. A Kalman filter restricts a search area for extracting a hand region at next frame also. The validity of the proposed method is proved by implementing the hand-region acquisition module.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10a
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• pp.271-273
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• 2001

웹 로그는 웹 서버를 통해 이루어지는 작업들에 관한 기록으로써, OLAP이나 데이터 마이닝과 같은 비즈니스 인텔리전스 기술로 분석되어 고부가가치 창출에 사용되는 중요한 자료이다. 웹 로그에는 파일 이름과 같은 물리적인 데이터가 저장되는데 이러한 데이터는 분석에 사용되기 전에 정제과정을 통해 의미 있는 데이터로 변환되거나 불필요한 경우에는 삭제된다. 웹 로그 데이터의 분량을 적정선으로 유지하면서 데이터 정제 작업의 일부가 해결되도록 하는 방법으로 웹로그 생성단계에서 시스템이 제공하는 필터를 쓸 수 있다. 그러나, 필터로는 웹 페이지의 내용이 동적으로 변경되는 경우 그 상황을 즉시 반영하기가 쉽지 않다. 본 연구에서는 웹 로그가 ‘지능적 웹 로거’를 통해 생성되도록 하여 이러한 문제를 해결하였다. ‘지능적 웹 로거’를 통해 불필요한 데이터의 생성을 막고, 물리적인 데이터를 신속하게 의미 있는 데이터로 변환하도록 하였다. 웹 페이지의 변경 내용을 웹 로그 생성에 즉시 반영하여 의미 있는 데이터 생성에 이용함으로써, 웹 로그 생성 후에 실행되던 데이터 정제작업 자체를 단순화시켰고, 웹사이트 관리자가 편리한 사용자 인터페이스로 로그 규칙을 만들어 적용할 수 있도록 하였다.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.5-12
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• 2016

The number of visually-impaired people using a smartphone is currently increasing with the help Text-to-Speech(TTS). TTS converts text data in a mobile application into sound data, and it only allows sequential search. For this reason, the location of buttons and contents inside an application should be determined carefully. However, little attention has been made on TTS service environment during the development of mobile newspaper application. This makes visually-impaired people difficult to use these applications. Furthermore, a mobile application interface which also reflects the desire of the low vision is necessary. Therefore, this paper presents a mobile newspaper interface which considers the accessibility and the desire of various visually impaired people. To this end, the proposed interface locates buttons with the consideration of TTS service environment and provides search functionality. The proposed interface also enables visually impaired people to use the application smoothly by filtering out the words that are pronounced improperly and providing the proper explanation for every button. Finally, several functionalities such as increasing font size and color reversal are implemented for the low vision. Simulation results show that the proposed interface achieves better performance than other applications in terms of search speed and usability.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.8 no.9
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• pp.10-18
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• 2008

The most critical element in the real-time operation of RFID application programs that are suitable for the mobile environment is the RFID middleware, made exclusively for mobile handsets, which processes collected data on a real-time basis and sends only the useful information to the application client. In this paper, we intend to design and implement a mobile RFID middleware system that supports the mobile handset environment for real-time based processing of the necessary data in the mobile environment. The proposed mobile RFID middleware system includes a mobile reader interface that collects the tag data, a mobile filtering engine that processes the tag data into more meaningful data that is sent to the application interface, and finally the mobile application interface that supports the m-SOAP application access protocol for interfacing with existing mobile applications. The filtering speed of the newly-developed middleware engine was found to be suitable for the characteristics of mobile handsets.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.17 no.7
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• pp.945-951
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• 2007

Noise cancellation is essential for the devices which use speech as an interface. In real environments, speech quality and recognition rates are degraded by the auditive noises coming near the microphone. In this paper, we propose a noise cancellation algorithm using stereo microphones basically. The advantage of the use of multiple microphones is that the direction information of the target source could be applied. The proposed noise canceller is based on the Wiener filter. To estimate the filter, noise and target speech frequency responses should be known and they are estimated by the spectral classification in the frequency domain. The performance of the proposed algorithm is compared with that of the well-known Frost algorithm and the generalized sidelobe canceller (GSC) with an adaptation mode controller (AMC). As performance measures, the perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ), which is the most widely used among various objective speech quality methods, and speech recognition rates are adopted.