• Korean Journal of Cognitive Science
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.11-21
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• 2002

Parke and Waters' model［1］ of muscle-based face deformation was used to develop a system that can synthesize facial expressions when the pleasure-displeasure and arousal-sleep coordinate values of internal states are specified. Facial expressions sampled from a database developed by Chung, Oh, Lee and Byun ［2］ and its underlying model of internal states were used to find rules for face deformation. The internal - state model included dimensional and categorical values of the sampled facial expressions. To find out deformation rules for each of the expressions, changes in the lengths of 21 facial muscles were measured. Then, a set of multiple regression analyses was performed to find out the relationship between the muscle lengths and internal states. The deformation rules obtained from the process turned out to produce natural-looking expressions when the internal states were specified by the pleasure-displeasure and arousal-sleep coordinate values. Such a result implies that the rules derived from a large scale database and regression analyses capturing the variations of individual muscles can be served as a useful and powerful tool for synthesizing facial expressions.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea SP
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• v.42 no.4 s.304
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• pp.103-110
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• 2005

Speech Database is one of the most important part of Text-to-speech(TTS) system Especially, the embedded TTS system needs more small size of database than that of the server TTS system So, the compression and statistical reduction or database is a very important factor in the embedded TTS system But this compression and statistical reduction of database always rise a loss of quality of the synthesised speech. In this paper, we propose a method of constructing database for high quality embedded TTS system and verify the quality of synthesised speech with MOS(Mean Opinion Score) test.

• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2002.11a
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• pp.209-213
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• 2002

This paper describes the reduction of DB without degradation of speech quality in Corpus-based Speech synthesizer of Korean language. In this paper, it is proposed that the frequency of every unit in reduced DB should reflect the frequency of units in Korean language. So, the target population of every unit is set to be proportional to their frequency in Korean large corpus(780K sentences, 45Mega phonemes). Second, the frequent instances during synthesis should be also maintained in reduced DB. To the last, it is proposed that frequency of every instance should be reflected in clustering criterion and used as criterion for selection of representative instances. The evaluation result with proposed methods reveals better quality than using conventional methods.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Simulation Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.126-126
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• 2001

국방 시뮬레이션 유형은 워게임 모형으로 분류되는 Constructive 시뮬레이션, 실 기동에 의한 Live 시뮬레이션, 그리고 가상현실을 적용한 Virtual 시뮬레이션 등 3가지로 분류될 수 있다. 워게임 시뮬레이션은 일반적으로 대부대 훈련에 적합하지만 많은 가정사항을 내포하게 됨으로써 현실감이 떨어지고 실 기동 시뮬레이션은 실전적인 훈련이 가능하지만 전구급 수준의 대부대 훈련에의 적용이 곤란한 단점이 있다. 또한 이들 시뮬레이션 유형들은 개별적으로 운용됨으로써 각 유형들이 가지고 있는 취약점이 노출되고 있는 현실이다. STOW(합성전장 훈련체계, Synthetic Theater of War)는 실제훈련이 가능한 분야는 실 기동으로, 실 훈련이 불가능한 전장상황은 시뮬레이션 기법을 활용하여 상호결합 시킴으로써 각 시뮬레이션 유형들의 제한사항을 상호 보완하여 실제와 유사한 전장을 조성하여 훈련하는 종합적이고 체계적인 훈련체계로써 21세기에 예상되는 전쟁이외의 작전(OOTW), 비대칭전, 정밀타격 및 C4I를 모의할 수 있는 엔티티 수준의 합성전장이다. 본 고는 STOW의 구성요소(합성부대, 합성환경, 시뮬레이션 네트워크, 지형 DB 개발도구, C4I 인터페이스, 기반체계 등)를 국내기술 능력과 비교, 분석함으로써 우리의 여건에 적합한 STOW 체계 구축방안을 제시하고자 한다.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.30 no.11
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• pp.1037-1043
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• 2003

This paper describes a speech synthesis technique using a diphone as an unit phoneme. Speech synthesis is basically accomplished by concatenating unit phonemes, and it's major problem is discontinuity at the connection part between unit phonemes. To solve this problem, this paper proposes a new spectral smoothing technique which reflects not only formant trajectories but also distribution characteristics of spectrum and human's acoustic characteristics. That is, the proposed technique decides the quantity and extent of smoothing by considering human's acoustic characteristics at the connection part of unit phonemes, and then performs spectral smoothing using weights calculated along a time axis at the border of two diphones. The proposed technique reduces the discontinuity and minimizes the distortion which is caused by spectral smoothing. For the purpose of performance evaluation, we tested on five hundred diphones which are extracted from twenty sentences using ETRI Voice DB samples and individually self-recorded samples.

• Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine
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• v.27 no.2
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• pp.183-188
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• 2013

Ultraviolet (UV) B irradiation induces the production of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), which are responsible for the degradation or synthesis inhibition of collagenous extracellular matrix in connective tissues, causing skin photoaging. In this study, we examined the inhibitory effect of MMP-1 expression of yam extract in tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-${\alpha}$)-stimulated human dermal fibroblast neonatal (HDFn) cell and preventive effect of UVB-induced damage in hairless mice skin. The synthesis of procollagen and the release of MMP-1 in HDFn cells were measured by EIA kit and MMP-1 assay kit, respectively. UVB radiation was applied to the backs of the mice three times a week for 8 weeks. Mice were randomly divided into three groups, and were topical application with the Dioscorea batatas (DB, 6%) or vehicle. Reduction of TNF-${\alpha}$-induced procollagen synthesis was increased by DB (50 ug/ml), which was higher than positive control group (TGF-${\beta}$). Also, pre-treatment of HDFn cells with DB inhibited TNF-${\alpha}$-induced release of MMP-1. In vivo study, we found that preventive effect of DB against UV-induced epidermal thickness. DB suppressed the expression of MMP-3 and MMP-13 induced by UVB irradiation. Our results show that DB have preventive effect of UV-induced skin damage in hairless mice.

• Proceedings of the Acoustical Society of Korea Conference
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• autumn
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• pp.105-108
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• 1999

TTS(Text-To-Speech) 시스템 합성음성의 자연감을 개선하기 위해 하나의 언어에 대해 존재하는 운율 법칙을 정확히 구현해야 한다. 존재하는 운율 법칙을 추출하기 위해서는 방대한 분량의 언어 자료 구축이 필요하다. 그러나 이 방법은 존재하는 운율 현상이 포함된 언어자료에 대해 완벽한 운율을 파악할 수 없으므로 합성음성의 질을 좋게 할 수 없다. 본 논문은 한국어 음성의 운율을 학습하기 위해 2개의 인공 신경망을 제안한다. 하나의 신경망으로 문장의 각 음소에 대한 피치 변화를 학습시키는 것이며, 다른 하나는 에너지 변화를 학습하도록 하였다. 신경망은 BP 신경망을 이용하며 11개의 음소를 나타내기 위해 11개의 입력과, 중간 음소의 피치와 에너지 변화곡선을 근사하는 다항식 계수를 출력하도록 하였다. 신경망시스템의 학습과 평가에 앞서, 음성학적 균형잡힌 고립단어를 기반으로 의미있는 문장을 구성하였다. 문장을 남자 화자로 하여금 읽게 하고 녹음하여 음성 DB를 구축하였다. 음성 DB에 대해 각 음소의 운율 정보를 수집하여 신경망에 맞는 목표 패턴과 훈련 패턴을 작성하였다. 이 목표 패턴은 회귀분석을 통한 추세선을 이용해 피치와 에너지에 대한 2차 다항식계수로 구성하였다. 본 논문은 목표패턴에 맞는 신경망을 학습시켜 좋은 결과를 얻었다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.16 no.6 s.73
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• pp.725-736
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• 2004

A new type of girder, called steel-confined prestressed concrete girder (SCP girder), has been developed, which maximizes the structural advantages of concrete, steel, and PS tendon, and improves on the shortcomings of steel plate girder, PSC I-girder, and preflex girder bridge for use in the construction of middle- or long-span bridges. To verify the propriety of design, structural safety, and applicability of this girder, a static load test was carried out (Kim et al.., 2002). Since the main damage typically sustained by steel bridges results from the fatigue caused by the repetition of traffic loads, fatigue safety must therefore be guaranteed in applying the SCP girder in the construction of real bridges. In this study, a fatigue test was carried out to investigate fatigue behavior and provide basic data for fatigue design. Based on the fatigue test, the fatigue safety of the girder was estimated. For the fatigue test, 10-m specimens were designed for a standard-design truckload (DB-24). A static load test was also performed before the fatigue test to analyze the structural behavior of the specimens. After the fatigue test, outer steel plates were removed to observe the condition of the concrete in the girder.

• Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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• v.57 no.6
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• pp.781-789
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• 2019

There are frequent accidents by chemicals during laboratory experiments and pilot plant and reactor operations. It is necessary to find and comprehend relevant information to prevent accidents before starting synthesis experiments. In the process design stage, reaction information is also necessary to prevent runaway reactions. Although there are various sources available for synthesis information, including the Internet, it takes long time to search and is difficult to choose the right path because the substances used in each synthesis method are different. In order to solve these problems, we propose an intelligent synthetic path search system to help researchers shorten the search time for synthetic paths and identify hazardous intermediates that may exist on paths. The system proposed in this study automatically updates the database by collecting information existing on the Internet through Web scraping and crawling using Selenium, a Python package. Based on the depth-first search, the path search performs searches based on the target substance, distinguishes hazardous chemical grades and yields, etc., and suggests all synthetic paths within a defined limit of path steps. For the benefit of each research institution, researchers can register their private data and expand the database according to the format type. The system is being released as open source for free use. The system is expected to find a safer way and help prevent accidents by supporting researchers referring to the suggested paths.

• The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences
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• v.29 no.8C
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• pp.1142-1148
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• 2004

A binaural filtering method using HRTF DB is generally used to make the headphone-based 3D sound. But it can make some confusion between front and back directions or between up and down directions due to the non-individual HRTF depending on each listener. To reduce the confusion of sound image localization, we propose a new method to boost the spectral cue by modifying HRTF spectra with spectrum difference between front and back directions. Informal listening tests show that the proposed method improves the front-back sound localization characteristics much better than the conventional methods