• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.45 no.1
• /
• pp.11-21
• /
• 2008

In conventional video coding, the complexity of encoder is much higher than that of decoder. However, as more needs arises for extremely simple encoder in environments having constrained energy such as sensor network, much investigation has been carried out for eliminating motion prediction/compensation claiming most complexity and energy in encoder. The Wyner-Ziv coding, one of the representative schemes for the problem, reconstructs video at decoder by correcting noise on side information using channel coding technique such as turbo code. Since the encoder generates only parity bits without performing any type of processes extracting correlation information between frames, it has an extremely simple structure. However, turbo decoding errors occur in noisy side information. When there are high-motion or occlusion between frames, more turbo decoding errors appear in reconstructed frame and look like Salt & Pepper noise. This severely deteriorates subjective video quality even though such noise rarely occurs. In this paper, we propose a computationally extremely light encoder based on symbol-level Wyner-Ziv coding technique and a new corresponding decoder which, based on a decision whether a pixel has error or not, applies median filter selectively in order to minimize loss of texture detail from filtering. The proposed method claims extremely low encoder complexity and shows improvements both in subjective quality and PSNR. Our experiments have verified average PSNR gain of up to 0.8dB.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
• /
• v.39 no.6
• /
• pp.696-708
• /
• 2002

In this paper, a novel transcoding algorithm for the Adaptive Multi Rate(AMR) and the Enhanced Variable Rate Codec(EVRC) vocoders via direct parameter transformation is proposed. In contrast to the conventional tandem transcoding algorithm, the proposed algorithm converts the parameters of one coder to the other without going through the decoding and encoding processes. The proposed algorithm consists of the parameter decoding, frame classification, mode decision, and transcoders for two frame types. The transcoders convert the parameters such as LSP, frame energy, pitch delay for the adaptive codebook, fixed codebook vector, and codebook gains. Evaluation results show that while exhibiting better computational and delay characteristics, the proposed algorithm produces equivalent speech quality to that produced by the tandem transcoding algorithm.

• Korean journal of communication and information
• /
• v.26
• /
• pp.157-208
• /
• 2004

This study explored how television news constructed an issue of the building of a nuclear waste facility on Wido, an issue which displayed a social conflict in the latter half of the year 2003. To do this, this study conducted frame analysis on KBS and MBC main news including national and local ones, broadcasted from 11 July, 2003 to 10 December, 2003. It was found that television news tended to stress violent protests against site designation and social disorder rather than the causes of a conflict and its solutions. Therefore, news reporting excluded fundamental reasons of conflict such as the governmental decision-making process of site designation, geological suitability, safety issue and nuclear energy policy, emphasizing the confrontation and clash between pro and con groups of site designation. This indicates that television news defines an issue of the building of a nuclear waste facility as the local conflict between groups, the police and demonstrators, or neighbors who approve and protest the site designation, not as the national issue of nuclear policy.

• KIISE Transactions on Computing Practices
• /
• v.22 no.12
• /
• pp.663-674
• /
• 2016

Traditional supercomputing services suffer from limited accessibility and low utilization in that users(researchers) may perform computational executions only using terminal-based command line interfaces. To address this problem, in this paper, we provide the design and implementation details of National supercomputing service framework. The proposed framework supports all the fundamental primitive functions such as user management/authentication, heterogeneous computing resource management, HPC (High Performance Computing) job management, etc. so that it enables various 3rd-party applications to be newly built on top of the proposed framework. Our framework also provides Web-based RESTful OpenAPIs and the abstraction interfaces of job schedulers (as well as bundle scheduler plug-ins, for example, LoadLeveler, Open Grid Scheduler, TORQUE) in order to easily integrate the broad spectrum of heterogeneous computing clusters. To show and validate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we describe the best practice scenario of high energy physics Lattice-QCD as an example application.

• Journal of Broadcast Engineering
• /
• v.18 no.2
• /
• pp.185-195
• /
• 2013

In this paper, we propose a video summarization technique on a smartphone, based on spatiotemporal saliency. The proposed technique detects scene changes by computing the difference of the color histogram, which is robust to camera and object motion. Then the similarity between adjacent frames, face region, and frame saliency are computed to analyze the spatiotemporal saliency in a video clip. Over-segmented hierarchical tree is created using scene changes and is updated iteratively using mergence and maintenance energies computed during the analysis procedure. In the updated hierarchical tree, segmented frames are extracted by applying a greedy algorithm on the node with high saliency when it satisfies the reduction ratio and the minimum interval requested by the user. Experimental result shows that the proposed method summaries a 2 minute-length video in about 10 seconds on a commercial smartphone. The summarization quality is superior to the commercial video editing software, Muvee.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
• /
• v.21 no.6
• /
• pp.619-626
• /
• 2009

The use of thin-walled flexural members has proven to be a practical way to achieve the lowest cost in the construction of prefabricated long-span, low-rise building frames in steel. On the other hand, most of these structures are subjected to corrosion due to environmental exposure, which can reduce their carrying capacity. Corrosion damage is a serious problem for these structures as it causes thickness loss. That is, the class of a section (plastic, compact, non-compact, or slender) may change from one to another due to the loss of thickness of the compression flange and web due to corrosion. In this study, the effects of corrosion on thin-walled members in long-span steel frames were evaluated with regard to the moment-rotation curve, initial stiffness, maximum load capacity, stiffness in the post-maximum capacity, and energy absorption.

• The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
• /
• v.14 no.3
• /
• pp.24-30
• /
• 2015

Wi-Fi STAs in power saving mode described in the Wi-Fi specification can deteriorate the system performance such as throughput, time delay when they receive data frames from a Wi-Fi AP. This problem is caused by data frame reception failure due to the channel state, and it increases re-transmissions. In this paper, we propose a modified power saving mode considering fairness of Wi-Fi system in order to solve the problem. By simulation, we showed that data throughput can be increased without time delay degradation if the proposed method restricting the number of packet transmission attempts and HARQ are used.

• Proceedings of the Korean Vacuum Society Conference
• /
• 2013.08a
• /
• pp.168.2-168.2
• /
• 2013

테슬라 코일은 니콜라 테슬라가 고안한 변압기로, 교류 아크 방전을 통한 플라즈마의 발생을 관찰할 수 있는 기기이다. 고전압 트랜스를 사용해 저전압을 고전압으로 변환하고, 변환된 에너지를 콘덴서에 충전시켜 스파크 갭 사이에 절연파괴를 일으켜 아크 방전을 통한 플라즈마를 발생시킨다. 이 때 콘덴서와 1차코일 사이에 폐회로가 형성되고, 1차 코일과 2차 코일 사이에 전자기장이 생긴다. 공진주파수가 맞을 때 만들어진 전자기장으로 에너지가 전달되고, 2차 코일에서 증폭된 에너지는 충전된 탑로드 끝에서 아크 방전을 통하여 플라즈마의 형태로 방출된다. 본 프레젠테이션에서는 한동글로벌 학교 고등학생들이 50시간에 걸쳐 직접 제작한 테슬라 코일의 자세한 스펙, 만든 부품들과 그를 만드는 데 사용한 물품들, 설계도들, 날짜별로 기록한 테슬라 코일의 자세한 제작 과정과 후기, 만든 테슬라 코일의 작동과 이를 이용한 추가적인 실험 내용을 발표하고자 한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2015.10a
• /
• pp.1330-1332
• /
• 2015

최근 지능형 감시 시스템에서 비정상 행동들을 자동으로 감지하는 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있다. 그러나 해결하기 힘든 몇 가지 이슈들이 있는데, 주어진 입력 영상에서 군중들이 중첩될 때 각각의 객체를 인식하는데 어려움이 있다는 점과 비정상 행동을 나타내는 훈련 데이터셋이 제한적이라는 점이다. 이러한 문제들을 해결하기 위해 우리는 군중 영상에서 비정상 행동들을 인식하는 새로운 프레임워크를 제안한다. 제안된 방법은 크게 특징추출모듈과 추출된 특징들을 이용한 행동인식모듈로 구성된다. 중첩문제를 해결하기 위해 움직임 에너지와 고정 에너지를 특성으로 정의하였고 위에 언급한 특징추출모듈에서 두 에너지 값을 계산한다. 그리고 정상/비정상 행동들은 HMM과 최적의 임계값을 도출하는 알고리즘을 사용하는 행동인식모듈에 의해 분류된다. 우리가 제안한 방법은 인공 데이터셋과 실제 비디오 영상 데이터셋을 이용한 실험에 의해 증명한다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
• /
• 2010.11a
• /
• pp.1414-1417
• /
• 2010

고정된 duty-cycle을 갖는 S-MAC 프로토콜은 노드 A에서 B로 메시지를 전송 후, 노드 C는 에너지 효율을 위해 스케줄 된 수면구간 상태이다. 따라서 노드 C는 노드 B로부터의 메시지를 수신 할 수가 없게 된다. 따라서 지연(delay)이 발생하게 된다. 반면 제안하는 프로토콜은 평상시에 Bit정보가 00으로 설정되어 있어, 에너지 효율에 중점을 둔 S-MAC과 비슷한 동작을 하다가 설정한 설정치를 넘길 때마다 Bit정보에 변화를 주어 전송해야 할 메시지의 우선순위가 높다고 판단하여 프레임크기와 활성구간의 크기에 변화를 주어 지연시간을 줄이게 된다. 사용자 입장에서 우선순위가 높은 메시지라 함은 예를 들어 불이 발생 했을 경우 노드에서 감지되는 높은 온도 값이 이에 해당되고 반면 우선순위가 낮은 메시지는 노드에서 감지되는 낮은 온도 값이 이에 해당된다. 사용자 입장에서 감시해야 할 온도, 압력, 수위와 같은 환경변수에 설정치를 설정하여 상황에 따라 지연시간과 에너지 소모를 선택적으로 유연하게 조절하여 지연시간을 개선시키는 MAC 프로토콜을 제안한다.